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  1. So with 108,000 (60 X 1,800) Bob Ross PPUs (parallel painting units) we should be able to achieve a stable 60FPS!
  2. How about a site which parses your credit card / bank statement to find out where you're spending money and provides tips to save cash based on that spending (which could be sourced from community submissions + voting)

    E.g. I buy supermarket gift cards from a slightly obscure site which sells them at a 5% discount. Super easy way to save a few hundred dollars a year. The hardest thing was discovering that this was an option.

  3. > I'm not understanding why TFA author has such an attitude about this

    To me it reads like an ego trip rather than any kind of righteous vendetta against the author. Implicit in "look at the dumb thing this other person did" is "I'm smarter than them because I noticed the dumb thing".

  4. While I agree with your general sentiment, the 10 key being on the "wrong" side could be good, perhaps, in some cases?

    Historically I've done some heavy spreadsheet work where the resting position of my hands which minimizes movement is right hand on the mouse, left hand on the 10 keys. On a normal keyboard that has the disadvantage of causing a "closed" posture which isn't entirely comfortable.

    Outside of that kind of niche use case though, it definitely feels like a strange choice for developers.

  5. NFC tags in custom "avatars" unique to and customizable by each kid, turning friends into collectables? I would've been all over that in my early teens.
  6. In the spirit of genuine curiosity, who is making you feel like less of a person wrt the choice of main/master, and how are they doing that?

    It sounds like you're saying that git maintainers are intending for you to feel like less of a person because you don't agree with their choice, but I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion.

  7. A train can go from "cruising speed" to letting passengers off to escape a fire in about a minute.

    A plane might take anywhere from five minutes to several hours to be able to safely let passengers out.

    Personally I feel that's a good enough reason to impose more robust restrictions on Things Which May Cause Fire on planes compared to trains. Especially in the case of lithium batteries where they're more or less impossible to extinguish one they're going.

  8. > most people in my life react negatively if I express emotion that what they are doing is upsetting

    Right. I guess they feel accused, as though you're attacking their behaviour rather than sharing how it makes you feel, and instinctively become defensive in response?

    It's wonderful to meet people who don't think this way. My partner is incredible at this, I can tell her "when you X I feel Y" and know without a doubt her reaction will come from a place of trying to work together to understand whether the problem and solution exist in X, Y or both.

  9. The recommended 3 second gap is a much bigger distance than most people recognise, especially at high speed.

    On another note- I feel sad that you could tell your mate "the way you're driving is making me uncomfortable" and be met with basically "your discomfort isn't valid because [technology] so I won't change my behaviour".

  10. MIG is for hobbyists. Real programmers use TIG.
  11. Is this generally true for laptops / phones?

    I've often wondered why I can tell by touch whether a device is charging or not from the slight "vibration" sensation I get when gently touching the case.

  12. > we just didn't care. Upper management seemed happy enough

    This is very relatable. Management want X, engineers recognise X is dumb and deliver something that sorta looks like X, management see something that looks like X and are happy.

  13. Are we sure this guy isn't trolling us? The advice about theming while using a yellow-on-black blog format, the "dark mode" toggle which makes the whole page black except for a spotlight focused on the mouse cursor... I'm not sure.
  14. > Close your eyes (not yet! Finish this sentence first) and try to remember what color your color theme uses for class names? Can you? If the answer for both questions is “no”, then your color theme is not functional.

    I'm sure this varies person-to-person, but for me at least this is not a good test.

    I couldn't list the notes in Clair De Lun, but I'd certainly notice if I heard the wrong note played. In much the same way, I have no idea what color classes are in my theme, but I certainly notice when it's wrong.

  15. Agreed, I had to check a couple of other pages on his site to make sure it wasn't ironically done for just that particular post.
  16. As someone with no understanding of whatever this field is, it reminds me of the Retro Encabulator

    https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w?si=ARMURmLUqvZZ8kd9

  17. It's a "paperclips" situation.

    Someone vibe coded this with the prompt "write a webapp which shows the effects of rising sea level as accurately as possible". The AI decided that the way to determine the outcome as accurately as possible was to simply cause the rising sea level and observe the result.

  18. The "thinking & coding" vs "thinking & fixing" graph is interesting. I've found this to be the case recently as I've been trying out Codex. I expected to spend a lot of time fixing the AI's code. Weirdly that has led to me spending a long time fixing issues which turn out to be nothing to do with the code.

    Most recently I was struggling to get an authentication setup working. I spent at least an hour combing through the code looking for the mistake. The issue turned out to be that the VM I was working on had a broken ipv6 configuration.

  19. Come on, HN. Let's not pretend brador is reading our replies. Who could justify the time at $500/hr?
  20. I said "pivot point", as in the center of rotation. All rotations have a pivot point.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_point

  21. Yes. I clarified that "you" meant something different from the usual meaning in the comment you're replying to.

    Are you making a joke? I feel like I'm being whooshed.

  22. GP is talking about third person perspective games. "You" (the character you're playing) aren't the camera. You are the character the camera points to.

    The camera is hovering somewhere above/behind the player character. To move the field of view left while keeping the player centered in the FOV, the camera has to translate/orbit right.

  23. IIRC Halo had a neat system for setting inversion like this.

    Instead of asking the player "do you want inversion or not", it instructed the player "look up" and observed their input.

  24. If the lever is on your side of the pivot point, you'd have to invert both horizontal and vertical axes. I don't have any data, but I certainly don't know anyone who plays with both axes inverted (in first person games).
  25. > Or that can cut through bread easily without a serrated edge?

    Yes. Absolutely. IME a quality sharpened chefs' knife is far better at cutting bread cleanly than a serrated knife, which by contrast will leave a rough edge and loads of crumbs.

  26. I spent a solid ten minutes researching this and couldn't find any suggestion that there's any problem with the title.

    Could you explain how it's ungrammatical?

  27. I played a lot of DOTA2 in the past and I've often thought that big tech could learn something from Valve's patch notes. Especially in the context of process changes, stuff you should know, etc. Expecting folk to read a series of lengthy emails/blog posts to stay up to date is unrealistic.
  28. Maybe your bowl is bigger than OPs?

    Those microwavable bags generally contain multiple servings.

  29. I recently went to an aquarium in Exmouth, Western Australia, which had a giant wall mounted display with a tablet which allowed kids (of all ages!) to draw a fish and "release" it into the tank.
  30. Pretty sure Japanese toilets support this use case natively.

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