alexchantavy

Dumb question but what's the difference between headphones and over the ears? I looked it up but I'm still confused

Does AutoRune still work on there with auto catcher when PKing? The concept of "having catch" on another player based on player ID was just crazy. All these weird bugs that ended up being core mechanics of PKing.

I love tech hype cycles haha, I remember when you got laughed at for using jquery and now it seems everyone’s burned out and happy to go back to a simpler time

I didn't do IRC until early 2000s but I felt a lot of curiosity about being online with other people: were they from an opposite corner of the world? What was life like there? How interesting that we can talk to each other!

Just the act of getting online to seek out others was super niche, so I feel like it was a bit of a "finding your own tribe" experience for me.

https://www.yourhtmlsource.com is my favorite resource from the early 2000s on how to make a website and I'm so happy it's still around. It could be modernized to teach things like viewport and whatever but I found it super simple to understand as a teenager.

> You seem to be falsely equating private schools with "the wealthy" and public schools with "the working class"

Agree. Plenty of non-wealthy get to attend private schools through scholarships and financial aid

Are you still in China? If so how are you finding the work life? Should blog on it esp as a YC alum that’s a cool perspective

Haa don’t get me started about BART. Though maybe that’s just me problem not having Verizon.

lmao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%27s_model

This is such a great story

This is still my way of doing things!!

What have you moved on to?

Grandia II's battle system was really great but the story and voice acting was so rough haha, I ended up not caring about any of the characters and skipping all that I could to get to the combat

> they mimic common misconceptions found on the internet (e.g. "chameleons change color for camouflage")

Wait what, what do chameleons actually change color for then?? TIL.

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So if I understand correctly, you take existing models, do fancy adjustments to them so that they behave better, and then sell access to that?

> These are both applications where Fortune 500 companies have utilized our technology to improve subpar performance from existing models, and we want to bring this capability to more people.

Can you share more examples on how your product (IIUC, a policy layer for models) is used?

Not really unfortunately. This video goes a bit into why (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t37idOfvk), but the short version is the skill floor (or ceiling?) was too high, making it unwelcoming for people to just pick up, unlike a COD-like shooter.

I think the tone of of UT2004 was slightly sillier than UT99 and the guns felt .. fatter? I'm definitely looking at this with some nostalgia but UT99 will always be my favorite shooter

> So, while it’s clearly possible to have a career in a lucrative field you dislike, it’s (a) going to be harder for you than for people who like it and (b) maybe you should consider a field that you do like?

> You gotta want it. Do you want it enough to go through the tremendous amount of effort it takes to learn it? Maybe you hate programming, but you want the money enough. Maybe you don’t care about the money, but you want to program every second of the day.

> Just make sure you have the drive to make it happen.

Man this is so true

> its like going to the zoo

This is a hilarious way of putting it, thank you

Small plug for my open source project: you can use Cartography [https://github.com/cartography-cncf/cartography], to map your infra and then run this query (https://gist.github.com/achantavy/2cc7cc49919a8f761fea5e2d75...) to see if you're affected

Been a decade since I've seen a Half Life 3 joke on the internet, thanks for this

> I know HN doesn't love YC companies

I've always wondered why this is (after all HN is basically YC) and I feel like it wasn't this way before but don't have evidence. HN leans skeptical and critical so maybe the AI wave brings that out in spades

Need $150 a month to add SSO though

Dang, I've never heard of anyone who actually _wanted_ that behavior haha, I've had so much wasted time in school projects where I thought something was running but it wasn't because I had selected text in cmd.exe haha.

As an open source maintainer, I don't have an issue with AI; I have an issue with low quality slop whether it comes from a machine or from a human.

The responsibility then is for an open source project to not be shy on calling out low quality/low effort work, have good integ tests and linters, and have guidance like AGENTS.md files that tell coding robots how to be successful in the repo.

At least they did a s/—/-/ in the copy

newgrounds.com in its heyday was so fun.

Also anyone else remember when websites used to make Flash intros that you'd have to skip to get to the content?

Wow that's a great idea thanks for sharing

Off topic completely but I really like the font used in this blog

> What moved the needle: Query Generation

What does query generation mean in this context, it’s probably not SQL queries right?

I miss when Facebook Messenger let you connect to it with XMPP back in the day so you could have it together with your other msging services on Adium/Pidgin

> no need to ask permission to anyone, ownership of your resources, etc

In a large enough org that experience doesn’t happen though - you have to go through and understand how the org’s infra-as-code repo works, where to make your change, and get approval for that.

Around 5 years ago the metagame was to make everything horizontally scalable.

Now it seems things are swinging back the other direction and articles like "Use One Big Server" are getting re-discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45085029