Hacker News: waldothedog

New comment by waldothedog in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

waldothedog — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:33:13 +0000

Curious if this page is weirdly cropped on the sides for anyone else?

New comment by waldothedog in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"

waldothedog — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:13:41 +0000

Like sumo, but love minneola!

New comment by waldothedog in "Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)"

waldothedog — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:48:02 +0000

There was a lot of this that was over my head (no pun intended) but I really enjoyed reading the whole thing. Sounds like a great job, and def a good read.

New comment by waldothedog in "Busy Is the New Stupid"

waldothedog — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:18:49 +0000

It looks like a sort of serial number or categorization. The first block they are T1. The second block they are T2. So each category (access, persistence, etc) is a T w a leading number and the issues/“tactics” inside of that have a 001, 002 etc, as a reference to that specific instance (meeting overload)

Edited for typos

New comment by waldothedog in "The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized"

waldothedog — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:12:39 +0000

The placements and counts tends to vary issue to issue, but in general is much lower volume than many publications. But agreed, the ads do tend to be almost comically high end (for me)

New comment by waldothedog in "A giant ball will help this man survive a year on an iceberg"

waldothedog — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:08:58 +0000

Foolproof*

New comment by waldothedog in "A giant ball will help this man survive a year on an iceberg"

waldothedog — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:08:14 +0000

Not saying it’s full-proof but I believe it is a cage inside a ball w rollers so that the outside spins while the inside is at least somewhat stable. Nonetheless, they do mention that a full inversion is a worst case scenario due to the suddenness

New comment by waldothedog in "Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued"

waldothedog — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:21:35 +0000

But how much did they teach you about insects?

New comment by waldothedog in "My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4"

waldothedog — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:24:16 +0000

I also was matte in 06, and had that machine for 9 years (until it was stolen :/). Only option was glossy for my replacement, I was devastated. A few machines later now, I can’t imagine going back.

New comment by waldothedog in "Element: setHTML() method"

waldothedog — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:53:59 +0000

Working well for me on mobile!

New comment by waldothedog in "Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”"

waldothedog — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:37:15 +0000

I get the ref, but not the link to anti-fragile or NNT. Help me out?

New comment by waldothedog in "Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music"

waldothedog — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 03:27:00 +0000

I found Lumenate +headphones to be very helpful for a period of time to get me mentally ready to end the day and try going to sleep.

Finding a lay down on an accu-pressure mat very helpful these days (tho a bit steeper adoption curve tbqh)

New comment by waldothedog in "How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's"

waldothedog — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:40:19 +0000

I’d suggest cafe seating as a positive externality. The people eating are paying for the food, and table. But passersby and neighbors are gaining eyes on the street, the prospective social interactions, etc. The foot traffic might also be enough for another small business to consider open, and thus begin maintaining the store front and street. These things have utility to people who are not paying to eat or drink at the cafe.

New comment by waldothedog in "Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster"

waldothedog — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:25:54 +0000

This type of phrasing is strange to me. I guess it depends on what you consider to be, and not to be, “information”.

Reading a bullet point summary of Moby Dick certainly would compress the time required to understand the plot.

Isn’t the prose or phrasing part of the transmission?

New comment by waldothedog in "Steam-powered piston system sparks nuclear fusion plasma in Canada"

waldothedog — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 04:16:27 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by waldothedog in "Steam-powered piston system sparks nuclear fusion plasma in Canada"

waldothedog — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:12:38 +0000

Looking for someone with more background here to help me contextualize the significance of this. The linked site quality seems somewhat low and I didn’t quite grok what exactly GF has accomplished here.

New comment by waldothedog in "Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?"

waldothedog — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:06:11 +0000

Ludumdare! Thank you, I could not remember the name of this

New comment by waldothedog in "Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?"

waldothedog — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:05:21 +0000

Hey, congrats! Spent a good chunk of time fiddling with indie games… as some others have mentioned Jesse Schell is cool, also Ralph Koster. I know you’re looking for communities/resources, been there! But the best thing to do, is make games repeatedly. Apologies in advance for the length, but this is a part of my life I genuinely wish I could reset and retry w/ hindsight bc it feels so obvious now!

I found trying to make demos of individual mechanics pretty critical. Like any design process: high volume, low(er) fidelity until you find a meaningful direction (best case: lots of play testing from folks who are not the creators)

Even really abstract approaches for balancing XP a character, or moving on screen in a unique/tricky way can be useful to look for a signal of enjoyability (which option do folks want to replay, which do they seem less interested in… and why?)

I often try to think about the “play” part (pure delight/fun) vs the “game” part (winning conditions, confounding advantages, etc) separately

Last, I enjoyed talking to people (including myself) and trying to dissect WHY they like the games they like. There are genres and typologies that can be interesting creative inspiration (a game with a sudden-death condition mixed with the thrill of a race)

Try to make COMPLETE demos (beginning, advancement, winning conditions) and also honestly concept art (tell the visual story, we eat w our eyes first)

And just have fun! Man I am jealous, no time for games these days :/

Ask HN: Visual Map Tile Search

waldothedog — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:47:37 +0000

Wondering if folks know of utilities or apps for searching map tiles for visual similarity? Example: looking to find tiles featuring swimming pools? Bit of a lark but figured I'd AskHN. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42964691

Points: 1

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New comment by waldothedog in "Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief"

waldothedog — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:54:01 +0000

> The medium asks you to use it to create an experience, an environment. Streaming doesn't care, so long as you're Consuming Content.

I think you’re being a bit too charitable with the record industry IMHO. Buying records is “Consuming Content”, the experience is of your own creation.