Hacker News: whelming_wave

New comment by whelming_wave in "Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring"

whelming_wave — Thu, 26 May 2022 14:21:19 +0000

Flawless Widescreen and Special K can each do some of the things you’d really want from a top quality port, like ultra wide and >60FPS.

New comment by whelming_wave in "It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan"

whelming_wave — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:53:56 +0000

to be fair, the US still has statues to honor slavers, people continuously downplay what they did, etc. people aren’t a monoculture, though Japan definitely still has its own issues with their past

New comment by whelming_wave in "Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin"

whelming_wave — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:08:06 +0000

your phone already has some tens or hundreds of SQLite databases on it. it requires some care, but many already go through the effort in their apps, so i can imagine web developers going to the same effort if they need it.

though i can also imagine them going through that effort when they don’t, so…

New comment by whelming_wave in "Poll: Did you know that HN allows you to make polls?"

whelming_wave — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:21:27 +0000

if i recall correctly, 500

New comment by whelming_wave in "100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets"

whelming_wave — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:11:42 +0000

An inverted funnel of world coin, it seems.

New comment by whelming_wave in "Ask HN: Why would a city on Mars avoid Armageddon?"

whelming_wave — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:50:48 +0000

What’s the probability that Martian-Terran humans will get frustrated by sending off Earth’s vast and plentiful resources in 100 - 200 years, and they wage open nuclear and biological war on Mars to wipe out all Martian humans?

New comment by whelming_wave in "I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks"

whelming_wave — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 20:59:37 +0000

I mean, on the other hand you could be dealing with an unreliable CGI-served page where errors are eaten and hidden in ajax calls, wishing they’d used a reliable javascript framework[1] instead.

[1]: an oxymoron, I know

New comment by whelming_wave in "A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing"

whelming_wave — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:19:12 +0000

It's interesting that you say "some due diligence is required" and go on to put the burden of that diligence on Cliff, rather than the creator of the marketplace.

New comment by whelming_wave in "User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment"

whelming_wave — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 23:21:46 +0000

For all the captchas on this site you have to check every box, IIRC.

New comment by whelming_wave in "Bash PS1 Generator"

whelming_wave — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:57:55 +0000

`tput sgr0` reads terminfo to find out how to issue a command which resets all currently set colors, text properties, and so on, then resets them. A lot of people will do something like `echo -e '\E[32;46m'`, but that's arguably more opaque and definitely not portable across terminals.

tput is a neat command that I wish got used more! I also use `tput cnorm` to ensure the cursor is visible.

New comment by whelming_wave in "Astro: Ship Less JavaScript"

whelming_wave — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 21:18:18 +0000

How does this compare to Elder.js[1] which released a little while ago? You seem to have similar goals - mostly static site with small amounts of interactivity, minimum JS to achieve that - but Astro supports multiple frameworks, while Elder.js is restricted to Svelte. Are there any other big differences?

[1]: https://elderguide.com/tech/elderjs/

New comment by whelming_wave in "An Unbelievable Demo"

whelming_wave — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:54:27 +0000

Kind of an aside from your question, but binary patches not being much smaller than the full thing might happen more with modern games?

Heresay, but from what I've heard modern games may ship multiple copies of some assets with different levels or features so they can be loaded as a sequential read off the disk. While a block-oriented compression algorithm might sync up more reliably, if you're packing 200MB of assets for a level and they're all compressed to take advantage of the fact they'll be read sequentially could mean a change 25MB in would still ship ~175MB of changes.

New comment by whelming_wave in "MDN Plus"

whelming_wave — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:54:57 +0000

How can I sign up for a subscription, then? I seem to have missed it on the page.

New comment by whelming_wave in "USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops"

whelming_wave — Wed, 26 May 2021 21:13:38 +0000

The Switch cable situation is always going to be a bit finicky, because their port is on the extreme edge of the spec's tolerances - it gets shorted because it's actually possible to cross the power into the wrong terminal, IIRC, with some wiggling. Safest to go with the official stuff, which people haven't reported issues with.

New comment by whelming_wave in "Replit now supports every programming language in Nix"

whelming_wave — Mon, 24 May 2021 20:46:24 +0000

I was just able to set this up by looking at their Nix example and swapping out

    pkgs.nix

for

    pkgs.gfortran

then changing the `.replit` file to compile and run a hello world example I found online. Worked great!

New comment by whelming_wave in "Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes"

whelming_wave — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:51:59 +0000

The data does, really - on an off-hand search I found this[1], though I'm sure many more could be found. The US has trailed the rest of the world for decades on wage growth and income equality.

[1]: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

New comment by whelming_wave in "Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes"

whelming_wave — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:42:01 +0000

that sounds like the general trend of wages in the US to not adjust upwards since Reagan’s presidency

New comment by whelming_wave in "US Pipeline Caused Biggest Spill in Decades, We’re Just Hearing About It"

whelming_wave — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 17:59:35 +0000

imagining them spilling a million gallons a day undetected is so depressing

New comment by whelming_wave in "Bitsquatting Windows.com"

whelming_wave — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:16:23 +0000

I don't remember it on HN, but this is prodding my memory about an article where the specific executable that was corrupted was `bc' on Linux, if that helps any other readers track it down. I think it specifically broke subtraction or something?

New comment by whelming_wave in "Twin sisters worth millions thanks to female gamers"

whelming_wave — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 06:02:00 +0000

Factorio might not be, but that doesn't mean Huniepop is going to win awards for its writing.