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oregontechninja

226 karma · joined January 20, 2017

I'm a small business owner, sysadmin, IT department, and developer. I love all things computer, especially learning new programming languages.
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oregontechninja··on Patent show US/China developing craft eerily similar to UFOs reported by Navy
These patents are old news in the UFO/UAP/USO community. It is widely believed to be part of a misinformation campaign. Why would you patent such secret technology like that? On the other hand, it would be awesome if these are real technology we have.
oregontechninja··on How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
I was an unbeliever, but we got some M1 Mac Mini's and this is the result. They even beat the dedicated workstation many of our people have set up. I get when people say it won't quite match a new ryzen for compute power, but in all of our tests, the M1 beat out all our workstations.
oregontechninja··on Apache Arrow 4.0
It's a binary data format, supporting trees, tables, lists, and even blobs. Never used it, I already have sqlite.
oregontechninja··on Print Debugging Should Go Away
Came to comment this. Print debugging makes me so fast at work. Unless you give me an easier and better tool I so no reason to change. Works in every language, exactly how I'd expect, and is exceedingly easy to explain to others.
oregontechninja··on All C++20 core language features with examples
I've been using conan pretty easily. My biggest issue is that the recommended install method is via Python's pip
oregontechninja··on Ask HN: How do you manage the anxiety of losing good job?
I have PTSD to the extent that it affects my employability. I've been fired/laid off plenty. It's the worst part of all my symptoms. If I could maintain employment, I could get therapy. It's tough every time I guess.
oregontechninja··on Ask HN: Starting and running a boutique software development company
I started and ran my own company that really ended up being boutique software (custom websites/servers, custom software, enterprise software repair), but I had a hard time figuring out how to market myself, especially in a more rural area. I ended up making a decent sum of change.

I lucked out and found somewhere to hire me full time eventually so I don't work for myself anymore, but I like have other people do the hard paperwork.

I'd recommend specifically knowing how educated your clients are, knowing how to effectively communicate on their grounds, and knowing how to get to them with advertising. Of course being good at what you do is important, but you'll still go nowhere if you can't do the above. (Also, I find that being a nice software designer pays dividends; nobody wants to hire the jerk)

oregontechninja··on RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V
It looks like you could have C+GPU cores. I bet you could still split the gpu portion out into its own separate thing if you wished.
oregontechninja··on HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
My favorite is to use sibling element selectors and checkboxes to make no JavaScript single page sites. Not the most useful (except maybe for tabs) but a really cool trick non the less. You can really take advantage of the sibling selectors to make no JavaScript modals and menues as well!
oregontechninja··on Theseus: A modern experimental OS written from scratch in Rust
There is also Redox OS as another rust project. I'll edit with a link later but y'all know how to google.
oregontechninja··on Show HN: Django and React SaaS boilerplate tutorial
This is fine. I think frameworks are more useful for teams where forcing the same style on people helps the interoperability.
oregontechninja··on I lost all my savings in a mistaken Ethereum transaction
Jokes on you, I have no savings! /S
oregontechninja··on Gimp is 25 years old today
I like gimp. I've used it professionaly forever and just use photoshop tutorials to teach myself. I also use "Glimpse" now for work.
oregontechninja··on Neopets Was Sold to Scientologists
Ah my bad, I was under the impression there was no complete ownership or control. I played a bunch of neopets as a kid and had no idea until a few years ago how involved scientology was with the site. I bought a car from a scientologist recently and was blown away by the house they shared with their fellow practitioners. Walls of plastic wrapped Hubbard books, several family units (kids included) living together, dvd strategically left in car for us to watch. My fiance studies religions (she's a mental health worker and doesn't want to be ignorant to other's spirituality) so it was a fun watch and experience for us.
oregontechninja··on Golang game engine v2 released
Looks like the glfw library is built for windows as a DLL and then packed as bytes into a go const and loaded at runtime! Cool beans, wish more people could appreciate how fun that is.
oregontechninja··on Golang game engine v2 released
How do they not need a c compiler on windows. I don't see any immediate explanation, so I'll dig through the source code and report back.
oregontechninja··on Neopets Was Sold to Scientologists
Title isn't wholy accurate, but it is an interesting subject!
oregontechninja··on US may not be back to normal until 2022, Fauci says
I pushed my wedding back to 2021 already, at this point we're probably just going to cut our losses and invest in a house or something. The fact that so many Americans are willing to pick up a gun and lay down their life for this country, but wouldn't wear a simple mask for that very same country is shameful.
oregontechninja··on Are we losing our ability to remember?
My memory is better now than ever before. I find it even knows how to forget things I don't care about! Great feature.
oregontechninja··on Diabolical ironclad beetles inspire tougher joints for engineering applications
This is a meta comment about articles around the subject. Most of them have been laughably bad and lacking in information. But the 'Diabolical Ironclad' beetle makes for a great attention grabbing headline so every major news outlet has put out an article about this. I love the beetle, but actually finding information on it through most of these articles was difficult.
oregontechninja··on I ran a no-code app in production and realised what no-code needs to do
No code is an illusion. You're still structuring logic and procedures for a machine. Knowing how to do that is still important for these systems.
oregontechninja··on Why build another website builder?
I do think we need better website designers for lay-people. I have a couple key points I would want in a web designer.

-Output accessibility (eg for blind users)

-Clean and efficient output html (every square space site I visit is slow as shit)

-No cdn resources. Allows you to pack your own fonts and assets.

Does this do that?

oregontechninja··on The continuous amnesia issue in IT
This comes off as "everybody is an idiot except me" which is always a tempting view. I believe we re-discuss things as a community so often because the world changes so quickly and we have a constant influx of personnel. Noobies will always need to rehash the lessons of the past.
oregontechninja··on 2K under fire for adding unskippable in-game ads to the full-price NBA 2K21
Can't believe people still buy this shit. It's obvious they could release one game per console, then update it yearly. Maybe the yearly update could cost a fraction of full price or you subscribe for player and stat tracking updates. Anything other than the garbage fire coming out here. "AAA" Games have gotten so bad with this shit.
oregontechninja··on Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?
The volatility of the market makes for easy profits. Did an excercise on marketwatch in school one time. I traded random symbols that met my criteria and made a fat virtual profit. I kept it going after the experiment and realized the only reason I did well was because of the variability of that time for the market. I would kill to have some extra cash to invest right now/3 months ago, panicked laymen make investing easy.
oregontechninja··on Errata Security: Yes, we can validate leaked emails
You have a fat spam comment. Good read otherwise.
oregontechninja··on Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon
I don't care if series are short so long as the wrap up and properly end the story. It's like America's version BBC, great shows that run for half a season to short.
oregontechninja··on Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
My current linux distros runs old windows apps better than windows 10 anywho. It easily surpasses Microsoft's threshold for "backwards compatibility"
oregontechninja··on Ask HN: Why do people still use Google Analytics over open source alternatives?
Simple marketing. The lay-people still want google analytics. Not saying it's great, but that's been my experience. When I was still freelancing, I worked really hard to talk people out of analytics. Waste of time for most businesses.
oregontechninja··on Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?
I broke my family's tax computer by trying to install Ubuntu alongside Windows and instead formatting the whole hard drive. I learned more I. The three days attempting to recover that computer than most my life. I thought everybody had these tech skills until I went to work for a real estate agency and ended up making more money fixing everybodies computers. I then made a series of lateral moves and now I'm managing databases, websites, and networks of a printing company full time. I love not freelancing.
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