mywittyname's comments

On: Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'

[mywittyname]

"Keep the bad parts, eliminate the good parts."

- The Authoritarian Cookbook

On: Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'

[mywittyname]

Growing up, my grandpa would joke that "someone tripped over the extension cord" when the power went out.

On: Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'

[mywittyname]

Blocking internet access is pretty simple thing to do, especially compared to something like building and maintaining a bridge.

On: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

[mywittyname]

Location accuracy probably should be sinusoidal where the score is not really effected if the pointer is within ~10-20km of the event.

For dates, I think it needs to take into account how far back something occurred, with recent history being +/-5 years, early modern being +/- 50 years, and ancient history being +/-500 years. That's closer to the resolution we think of events in (decades, centuries, millennia). You could probably even update the UI to have these graduations.

On: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

[mywittyname]

This is a really good game! I thought I did pretty okay, but I was surprised to find that 91% of people did better than I. I'm guessing most people know when and where King Tut's remains were found, I managed to get 4k points on that one and was still in the bottom 10% of players.

This would make for a fun party game in the style of Jackbox.

[samplank2 → mywittyname]

thank you for playing!

On: Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight

[mywittyname]

I traded a bunch of PSX games for a Dreamcast just so I could play Shenmue. My parents were pissed, but what a great game (and great console).

[regus → mywittyname]

Shout out for stilling calling it PSX

On: Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight

[mywittyname]

To me it feels like one of those escapades we go on when we want to focus on doing some "fun" work.

On: 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)

[mywittyname]

AMD overtook Nvidia at times in the gaming space. I'd say that Nvidia has been king of the hill since the introduction of CUDA, since that's what really cemented their position in the tech sector.

[hylaride → mywittyname]

Pre-AMD acquisition ATI also often had better hardware specs than NVIDIA, but their drivers were so often buggy and terrible. By the time they'd been fixed the reviews were long since done on the initial release versions.

AMD seems to run a better software shop, at least.

On: Microsoft is Getting Rusty [video]

[mywittyname]

I worked in the automotive space (CAD/CAE/CAM) and there was tons of code that had commit headers starting in 1996 - the year they moved the previous code base into that particular VCS. Plenty of files had less than 10 commits to them since.

They still had some FORTRAN in the code base. According to my coworker who worked there for 25 years, his first project at the company involved the initiative to replace FORTRAN with C.

So yeah, there's plenty of C code hanging around that's not going anywhere.

[solarkraft → mywittyname]

I wonder whether Rust will stick similarly because that's just how things go, less because now the migration process has been tested and the system is more flexible as a while or more because it's really pretty good enough this time.

On: Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?

[mywittyname]

$80 is a lot of money to a homeless person.

[20after4 → mywittyname]

Yeah, it's probably two full days of collecting and recycling aluminum. (Not trying to belittle the homeless, I only mention this because it is how the homeless people in my old neighborhood would earn a little bit of cash. They don't deserve all the scorn they endure and I help them out every chance I get.)