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qwertywert_on Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room

Sorry but a word for fear of black holes is ridiculous. Black holes are scary period. Anyone not feeling a deep sense of fear during that VR experience is missing something.

qwertywert_on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

It's interesting because i find when I'm less busy/stressed at work is when I spend more time motivated, doing better work, and fixing issues that otherwise would get left behind.

qwertywert_on Google is dead. Where do we go now?

I'm responding to his personal datapoint with my own. I agree with you though..

qwertywert_on Google is dead. Where do we go now?

Are you sure they don't? How would you know? Every intern I've worked with uses discord

qwertywert_on What an unprocessed photo looks like

That's completely unreasonable. Sure the camera processes them heavily. but when you open it up and start editing in photoshop you are changing this area over that one, or highlighting one color over another etc.. or just boosting the brightness way higher than what it looked like that day. It's a perfectly normal question to ask.

qwertywert_on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

Can't get past cringe anime girl

qwertywert_on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

That's exactly my workflow but I use markdown txt file, and use vim + macros for auto inserting a new entry with date or marking things done. Plus some custom syntax highlighting for done tasks.

qwertywert_on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

Most "regular" developers don't actively engage with StackExchange.. I would not believe that statistic at all. And I'm a 7+ years vim user.

qwertywert_on Introducing tmux-rs

You weren't really lying when you said "100% (unsafe) Rust" eh..

qwertywert_on Postgres IDE in VS Code

Isn't PGAdmin good enough? Not hating, but I'm not a database guy either so just curious why create a VSCode extension for GUI stuff.

qwertywert_on FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations

Wasn't this already done for Wi-fi 6e? We have commercial routers already supporting 6GHz channels

qwertywert_on Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray

Open source maintainers get a kit of "clout" and respect, and they can use this experience to get high paying jobs at big companies. I know of a few people who clearly do this.

qwertywert_on Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)

There are lots of reasons why some people don't think about "creating", maybe they had childhood issues or are too stressed, too mentally drained with other areas in life, never got nourished to love creativity or never had an inner self belief that they can create.

Or they simply got "stuck" in something, never to get out and find some passion. What even is creating, some people (unlike many programmers or scientists) create social groups, organisations, humor.

I think your idea that there are special "creators" and "regular people" is way off and honestly just a way to feel special and unique. I know people that finally found passion after they retired.. but they were too bogged down to ever figure it out earlier in life.

qwertywert_on New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics

So to unify the theories they are actually keeping them separate?

qwertywert_on Firefox on the brink?

Those aren't staff.

qwertywert_on Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her

She asked her instagram followers for money via Venmo.. hm.

qwertywert_on EE is working with Qualcomm to add Wi-Fi 7 to consumer broadband hubs

https://mcsindex.com/

1200 is for 2x2 at 80MHz which is the max theoretical an Iphone can get.

Also other comment is wrong about dividing by 4, usually can expect 0.66 of max phy rate. So just under 1Gbps.

qwertywert_on Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages

Open the image and F11 to full screen then just stare at the center.

qwertywert_on Canada's new tech talent strategy

Rental investors, foreign investors, huge population growth supply cannot keep up. A little bit of mortgage fraud[0].

Highest debt to GDP in G7s, meaning a large portion of people bought recently or HELOC'd are leveraged up to secure their place in the market.

Detached housing is at 40% non owner-occupied in BC, I'm sure it is worse in Vancouver metro area. [1]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-mortgage-fraud-...

[1] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=461000...

qwertywert_on Meta developer tools: Working at scale

If Meta acquires a new company codebase, do they just move it into their monorepo immediately?

qwertywert_on Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development

Overdesign is one of the worst things to do. Trying to make something fit perfectly into some obscure pattern with horrible class hierarchies. Look at the linux kernel sources, it does not look "beautiful" to some architects but the actual ideas and patterns are simple, anyone can jump into it if they know C.

qwertywert_on C++17’s useful features for embedded systems

Basic features? This took c++ a long time to get this done. I like c++ but not sure what is the point being negative about other languages would you prefer no one to try new things?

They would accept new proposals for these if you want to contribute, or just continue complaining.

qwertywert_on Show HN: A little web server in C

The amount of written functions/libs for opening c sockets has to be in the 100,000s at this point. And they are all slightly different.

qwertywert_on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

Kind of a spoiler for people trying to play the game fresh.

qwertywert_on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

BOTW did not set a high bar for storyline imo. Gameplay yea.

qwertywert_on The Prime Video microservices to monolith story

This has been posted like 6 times already man.

qwertywert_on Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

How are they coding all this stuff so fast..

qwertywert_on A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust

Lambda calculus is not a required class in my university in either CompEng or CompSci..

Formal theory of computation (finite state automata etc.) was also a higher level elective that depended on your concentration.

qwertywert_on The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)

6GHz is coming thankfully.. wifi channel planning especially across regions is rough.

qwertywert_on 100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth

This is 1 point-to-point link (laser) with direct aim required. No forwarding, no more than 1 user.

I don't see how this relates to the use-case of millions of broadband users that you are talking about where you are routing fiber cables all over the place. We do have 800-gigabit fiber in core networks, we just don't route it to every home b/c why would we. And 5G radiates to 1000s of users simultaneously.. regularly getting multi-gigabit speeds on mmWave as a regular user is pretty amazing to me.