Hacker News: wly_cdgr

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Dramatic drop in marijuana use among U.S. youth over a decade"

wly_cdgr — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:00:52 +0000

Well yeah, legal things aren't cool. I'm sure they'll find something else that's still illegal to use/abuse/do instead

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced?"

wly_cdgr — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:59:56 +0000

After 6831 (give or take) hours, I'm pretty sure the answer is "no"

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Optimizing the Ion compiler back end"

wly_cdgr — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:50:30 +0000

Nice, that might make it almost as fast as Chrome!

Jokes aside, this is garbage clickbait - the reality as stated in the linked post is much more mundane: "Some processing tasks are now more than 75 times faster in Firefox"

New comment by wly_cdgr in "AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux"

wly_cdgr — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:15:56 +0000

Ok, but why would a hardcore Linux person want to play games that embody everything they hate about Windows in their mode of production, data gathering practices, politics, etc?

New comment by wly_cdgr in "California bans legacy admissions at private universities"

wly_cdgr — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:29:53 +0000

While I agree that banning legacy preference is good policy, how do you prove a violation exactly? And who is gonna do the proving?

If you want to make this work, and you should, you need to do something like total application anonymization, which means identity can't be deducible from any application materials. This is doable with standardized tests, which are a good approach to solving the admissions problem anyway.

So, college admissions should be based solely on standardized test scores.

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive"

wly_cdgr — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:30:52 +0000

You misassume my meaning. When I say I games are not art, I don't mean they are not as good / important than art. I just mean they are different. In fact, if anything, I think they are much more important than art.

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive"

wly_cdgr — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:29:27 +0000

You need quantifiable outcomes / performance metrics.

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive"

wly_cdgr — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:19:22 +0000

I'm a fan, but I wouldn't really call his stuff games. More like art that uses game tropes as a tool of expression.

New comment by wly_cdgr in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

wly_cdgr — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:01:47 +0000

It's because Windows is a mature, professional-grade operating system developed and maintained by extremely competent people with a lot to lose.

New comment by wly_cdgr in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

wly_cdgr — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:40:16 +0000

Why did it take them over a year and a half to disclose this?

New comment by wly_cdgr in "NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job"

wly_cdgr — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:12:38 +0000

Fucking LEGENDS. My first show. I don't even like them that much but what a run.

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)"

wly_cdgr — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:40:04 +0000

Haha, fair point. Anyway, I reckon that for Steve Jobs that attitude was at least as much a branding strategy as a sincere personal conviction. Though then again, it's not so easy to say where Steve Jobs ends and the iPod begins.

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)"

wly_cdgr — Sun, 12 May 2024 22:18:41 +0000

There's a reason everyone knows who Steve Jobs is and no one knows or cares who the vast majority of these corner-cutting "professionals" are

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants"

wly_cdgr — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:24:49 +0000

Very cool, thank you.

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software"

wly_cdgr — Sat, 04 May 2024 14:27:58 +0000

This is Tylenol, not an antibiotic. There are two solutions: * develop confidence, competence, courage, and communication/political skills so that you enjoy collaborating with others more (by virtue of being better at it) * find a way to steer your actual career towards something where you have greater/total creative control

Actually, these solutions are just two different ways of working toward the same goal: absolute power

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Cheating Site Ashley Madison Is Overflowing with Sextortionists"

wly_cdgr — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:20:44 +0000

Isn't that just too darn bad ~

New comment by wly_cdgr in "MFJ is ceasing its on-site production"

wly_cdgr — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 02:07:27 +0000

Thanks all!

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)"

wly_cdgr — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 02:02:20 +0000

Google is hot trash, but the saddest part is that there's not even anything that's less bad.

New comment by wly_cdgr in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

wly_cdgr — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 07:30:31 +0000

Congrats on the game launch. Funny way to promote it. Good luck, hope you get some sales!

New comment by wly_cdgr in "MFJ is ceasing its on-site production"

wly_cdgr — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:23:18 +0000

I saw that he signed off with that in the letter. What does it mean? Founding year? Callsign? Channel?