Hacker News: xgkickt

New comment by xgkickt in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

xgkickt — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:11:01 +0000

I have been in the situation of standing outside an after-hours pick-up only window at a McDonald’s in the UK, able to talk to the staff, but unable to order because they only accepted app orders and I only had access to the Canadian app.

New comment by xgkickt in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

xgkickt — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:56:19 +0000

Or pasta as a cereal, in a bowl with milk.

New comment by xgkickt in "AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was"

xgkickt — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:05:06 +0000

In space, no-one can ... serve you warrants.

New comment by xgkickt in "Our approach to age prediction"

xgkickt — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:26:51 +0000

How long before a phrase is found that causes a predicted birthdate of 1970/01/01 ?

New comment by xgkickt in "Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans"

xgkickt — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:52:16 +0000

I'd imagine that at most [e: of their] stores the loss from theft is less than that of spoiled goods.

New comment by xgkickt in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

xgkickt — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:40:32 +0000

Can PowerToys remap it?

New comment by xgkickt in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

xgkickt — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:12:28 +0000

Sometimes it does seem like they’re just showing off how much data they’ve gathered on you.

New comment by xgkickt in "How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?"

xgkickt — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:25:36 +0000

It was a smash & grab.

New comment by xgkickt in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

xgkickt — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:44:18 +0000

Wikipedia doesn't list any honours awarded by the French Government. Nor do I see anything from ACM. Definitely overdue some official recognition.

New comment by xgkickt in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

xgkickt — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:01:33 +0000

Then your social media & newsfeeds are buzzing about salted coffee, and your work has mandated salt in the coffee, insisting that it increases productivity, and if you’re not partaking you might fail your next performance review.

New comment by xgkickt in "The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies"

xgkickt — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:30:24 +0000

100 fuses for $1, awesome! ;-)

New comment by xgkickt in "How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly"

xgkickt — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:20:03 +0000

For me MIPS is the best ISA for “stream of consciousness” assembly, you can just write it then tidy up the register usage and pipelining after.

New comment by xgkickt in "PlayStation 3 Architecture (2021)"

xgkickt — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:44:42 +0000

That would be the PS2’s VUs which had an upper and lower pipe and it was easier to write instructions for each in separate columns. Then in one SDK we received program called vcl which took a single list of instructions, doing all the pipelining for you, as well as optimizing loops and assigning registers automatically. It was a godsend.

New comment by xgkickt in "Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy"

xgkickt — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:28:18 +0000

I certainly miss having COP2 instructions.

New comment by xgkickt in "OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals"

xgkickt — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:53:52 +0000

They'd just pitch for using the same GPUs to run the digital dollar ledger, and begin the cycle again, maybe.

New comment by xgkickt in "OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals"

xgkickt — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:43:32 +0000

Where does that leave AMD, considering OAI are taking a 10% stake?

New comment by xgkickt in "California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing"

xgkickt — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:10:00 +0000

How about everyone gets a cut each time their data is sold?

New comment by xgkickt in "The role of Amazon fires in the record atmospheric CO₂ growth in 2024"

xgkickt — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:02:33 +0000

Recent collective decisions around the world suggest an impairment may occur at concentrations already exceeded.

New comment by xgkickt in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

xgkickt — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:12:02 +0000

At least Apple still allows the user to reposition the dock/taskbar.

New comment by xgkickt in "Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20"

xgkickt — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:37:22 +0000

I thought those came from the automotive sector.