Hacker News: usea

New comment by usea in "Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months"

usea — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:46:37 +0000

> It's been kept around because they treat their customers ok, but they absolutely exsanguinate their developers.

This is true, but "treat their customers ok" goes a long way. When everybody else severely abuses their customers, the one company that doesn't generates a lot of goodwill.

New comment by usea in "Uncle Bob: It's Over"

usea — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:47:29 +0000

People routinely overestimate how much can get done in 5 minutes. I ran a live coding challenge at our company's booth at a language conference. 5 simple problems, how many can you do in 5 minutes? We had a PC with IDE open and ready to go, function signatures pre-written with empty bodies, unit tests running to color an icon red/green next to your function. The first problem was return "hello world". They were things covered by the standard library like reverse a list, or filter, or map. Everybody thought it would be too easy.

Nobody could get more than 3 of them. Most people were shocked that 5 minutes was up already. My coworker who did interviews for our company was shaken that he had been judging applicants too harshly after he couldn't finish.

They were trivial problems. But 5 minutes is a very short amount of time.

New comment by usea in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

usea — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:28:14 +0000

That's exactly how I do it. Makes the most sense to me.

New comment by usea in "No Terms. No Conditions"

usea — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:05:39 +0000

It's common for non-lawyers to write terms and conditions, and other contracts.

New comment by usea in "Have a fucking website"

usea — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:57:29 +0000

You can view posts by opening them in a new tab.

New comment by usea in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

usea — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:18:03 +0000

Press releases are lies by default.

New comment by usea in "Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook"

usea — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:33:06 +0000

The parent was talking about different passwords, not different emails. But I'm curious, what does it mean for a company to consolidate accounts? How would that be done to your separate accounts automatically, and what trouble does it cause? And what is the normal case where people have multiple accounts all with the same email?

I just don't understand the circumstance you're describing.

New comment by usea in "NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power"

usea — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:28:47 +0000

I think this comment is referencing the government's recent announcement[0] to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. They do climate research at the Mesa Laboratory there.

It's open to the public for visits. They have a small science museum, offices, a library, etc. I highly recommend anyone with interest and opportunity to visit the mesa lab soon. It may not be open much longer. The view alone is worth the trip, and the building is cool too.

[0]: https://x.com/russvought/status/2001099488774033692

New comment by usea in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

usea — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:17:31 +0000

Retribution for acting out of line with those who have this sanction power.

New comment by usea in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

usea — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:13:35 +0000

Russia.

New comment by usea in "Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure"

usea — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 03:08:24 +0000

In the US, letting your children walk to school is taking a non-negligible risk that you'll be charged with a crime or have your children taken away. Their deaths from a motor vehicle are assumed by all to be a certain eventuality, and parents are more likely to be blamed for it than drivers.

New comment by usea in "Portals and Quake"

usea — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:06:09 +0000

> But certainly the game Portal (2007) hyped using portals for rendering prior to Prey.

They were referring to Prey (2006).

New comment by usea in "OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment"

usea — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:25:54 +0000

Europeans having stronger opinions than others about Russia invading Europe is not evidence of a conspiracy.

New comment by usea in "Banned C++ Contributor Speaks Out [video]"

usea — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:46:39 +0000

I found this context via search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42254608

It's a straightforward recounting of the events.

Punch Out Model Synthesis

usea — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:54:53 +0000

Article URL: https://zzyzek.github.io/PunchOutModelSynthesisPaper/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42230490

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by usea in "NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown"

usea — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:25:40 +0000

That's not how people use it, such as the person I replied to. There was no consent, explicit or otherwise. They use it to mean "I want things to be this way, so people should be obligated to a rule I made up because 'society'".

New comment by usea in "Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies"

usea — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:44:33 +0000

Imagine you have a strong deference to authority and an incredible fear of confrontation. It would be very easy for someone in a position of authority to take advantage of you.

People don't always do what's in their best interest. People talk to the police without a lawyer all the time. People sign away their rights just because they don't want to push back on things. It takes guts to stand up for yourself.

New comment by usea in "NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown"

usea — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 06:13:53 +0000

"Social contract" is a term people use to try and bully people into things they never agreed to. Non-imaginary contracts require acceptance.

The essential elements of a social contract:

- I want it to be true real bad

- Other people are forced to comply with it

- I dictate the terms unilaterally

New comment by usea in "Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid"

usea — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:26:00 +0000

Burning wood in your fireplace is much more certain to harm you than using plastic in your cookware, and the harm is more severe.

New comment by usea in "Quit Social Media (2016)"

usea — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:22:46 +0000

> You have to be a real pos to not get invites to stuff...

The "real pos" is just as often those doing the excluding, as it is those being excluded. Pettiness doesn't disappear at 18 years old. It's hurtful to assume anyone being excluded from something deserved it.