Hacker News: white_dragon88

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Does anyone integrate with their customers' DB directly?"

white_dragon88 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:19:49 +0000

> integrating with internal DBs could allow a startup to onboard and go live with customers much more quickly

The technical debt you'd accrue from this would be MASSIVE, and screw your entire architecture down to its roots. Hard pass from me.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading"

white_dragon88 — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 02:19:26 +0000

5+ year old i7 are potato and would be a massive time waster today. Build times matter.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "The great cousin decline"

white_dragon88 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:18:24 +0000

wtf on???

New comment by white_dragon88 in "OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster"

white_dragon88 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:16:38 +0000

> intelligence to fly away

It's intelligence in the sense that jerking your arm away from a hotplate is intelligence, which is to say it's not cognitive reasoning, just genetically hardwired triggers.

AGI has been defined by OpenAI as something that can do most economically viable activities better than humans can. I like that approach as it strikes at the heart of the danger it really poses, which is an upending of society and destruction of our current way to generate value to each other.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster"

white_dragon88 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:08:08 +0000

Your son is a goddamn genius.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy"

white_dragon88 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 15:30:41 +0000

Still no Mac support... I know the technical reason why so not upset, just sad.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy"

white_dragon88 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 15:22:47 +0000

Noise about macOS died down back in 2018, and seems the linux port is riddled with bugs. This project is basically dead in the water.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "There are 40 quintillion black holes in our Universe"

white_dragon88 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:47:36 +0000

The transformation is complete. This place is the new Reddit.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Cities Skylines 2 runs with 20fps on an Nvidia RTX4090"

white_dragon88 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 02:37:15 +0000

LOL that’s such a disrespectful take… the gameplay design in those games are second to none. That’s something that needs to be fine tuned from scratch each time.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)"

white_dragon88 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 03:41:49 +0000

"Internal folks" who gives a rats ass about what they think? A company's reputation has little to do with how people on the inside perceive it, its actions and track record do the talking.

Stadia was a classic reason I couldn't trust GCP or any Google product aside from Gmail cause I've been using it so long, because unlike you I'm NOT in the know, I just see a bunch of stuff spun out, hyped (calling it 'little stuff' is a highly subjective assertion) and axed without warning. And I won't mention what an absolute mess the android development journey has been, a related symptom of a haphazard, disorganized product strategy. These things are uniquely Google, and it's a terrible look.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization"

white_dragon88 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:22:23 +0000

The first thing I did was start making the word 'FUCK' with the pieces. As soon as others cottoned on and joined in, it was a very heart warming experience.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Microsoft is reportedly losing lots of money per user on GitHub Copilot"

white_dragon88 — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:14:30 +0000

Its another saas product charging per seat per month, doesnt even begin to replace an actual competent developer, it’s glorified autocomplete. If it goes any higher than 20-30 bucks, I’ll have my company drop it.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Show HN: Timbre – An app that finds the best sounds for your sleep"

white_dragon88 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:24:00 +0000

So why bother advertising it now? Seems like you jumped the gun.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser"

white_dragon88 — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 07:28:45 +0000

God I hate XKCD so much. It's a blight on the internet. I just get unreasonably angry whenever I see a link posted. This is just me venting.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "FTX sues Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents"

white_dragon88 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 02:40:18 +0000

And the mother is a legal scholar at Stanford, specialising in… ethics!!!

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes"

white_dragon88 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 03:46:56 +0000

XKCD is super overrated. Cringe at times, banal at others.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

white_dragon88 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 01:13:59 +0000

‘Many’ of us are using iTunes to sync mp3s?

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK"

white_dragon88 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:51:56 +0000

The fact that you need to learn a niche language like dart just to make stuff in flutter seems to me like technical baggage I could do without.

New comment by white_dragon88 in "A video game where you are an operating system"

white_dragon88 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:22:52 +0000

What is the operating system analogy for whacking off? Clearing the cache?

New comment by white_dragon88 in "Chinese Trust Companies on the Brink"

white_dragon88 — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:12:15 +0000

Sycophants