HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

skhr0680

1,559 karma · joined May 11, 2021

submissionscomments
skhr0680··on 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
I did this and considered it the easy way of installing an OS on a Mac circa 2011 vs. DVD then messing around updating that ...

> Plug USB stick into target Mac, copy installer to desktop, run it

Apple has a whole page on making a bootable USB, it can save you a step: https://support.apple.com/en-us/101578

skhr0680··on Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
Being good at driving doesn’t fix the huge blind spot you have behind your car
skhr0680··on Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
Valve updates HL1 every few years so it runs on contemporary platforms. DOS was ancient history by the time HL came out, you might be getting it mixed up with Quake1
skhr0680··on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
a lot of the changes and updates to articles since Sheldon Brown died are controversial, I recommend checking out an old version on the Wayback machine
skhr0680··on General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer
It’s not too shabby for an abandoned 20+ year old game

The source code release changes everything, but they used to play on a mod (GenTool) with the ruleset from the final retail release.

The current meta is almost balanced so most attempts to improve it generally fail

skhr0680··on General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer
> Also happy to see this classic RTS is still being played and even developed by the community. I'd be curious to know what the age of people this invested into the game is, if it's all 30+ year old boomers with nostalgia and knee pain

There's enough of a community to support a yearly World Series with $25K cash awards in 2025!

skhr0680··on PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
It was just called the Half-Life engine then. It was developed in parallel with Q2, and in general has feature parity with Q2, with a few huge features that they were able to add because of the extra year of development like skeletal animation.
skhr0680··on Rebecca Heineman has died
Commonly known as the Su-Fami!

Compare Nintendo 64 = Roku-Yon (Six-Four) and PlayStation = Pure-Sute

skhr0680··on A modern 35mm film scanner for home
Please don’t be patronizing. Are you involved with this project? Your comment is hostile and involves digging through my post history etc.

What I meant was “every lab I’ve ever had my film developed at cut and sleeved film by default because there were plenty of reasons to do so and not many reasons to not”

> Price is 999 euro.

It says on the site it will retail for 1599 EUR

skhr0680··on 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
I’m sure they are really hard to find for free on the internet
skhr0680··on A modern 35mm film scanner for home
1. I had never even heard of an uncut developed roll of film before, so I guess it's useful for that.

2. Time is money, but who is honestly shooting that much 135 film that it's worth 1600 Euros to buy a faster scanner for it? I don't think a museum wants to feed degraded film through a fast scanner, and surely pros who still shoot film would use a larger format, since that's where it has some differences / advantages compared to digital?

skhr0680··on A modern 35mm film scanner for home
Scanning 135 format at home is pretty much a solved problem right? The home made solution to this costs $0 if you own any DSLR and some other basic photography gear.

I think the product would be more compelling and worth it or even a good deal at the price they are offering if it offered drum scan-quality for larger formats.

skhr0680··on An informational website about why I went to prison
Yes, it is a wonderful surprise seeing an informational website that is actually informative and to the point.
skhr0680··on iPhone Air
This, especially nowadays that Mac OS has an ARM target, and there’s essentially (literally?) no difference between an iPad and MacBook hardware
skhr0680··on Why is Japan still investing in custom floating point accelerators?
There’s no citation, because why would there be?

But: if you consider the amount of nuclear generating capacity has (4th in the world, more than Russia), and its advanced space program, “within one year” probably means closer to “weeks or months” than “three hundred and sixty four days”.

skhr0680··on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
I'm a semi-retired pro and acting like Fujifilm are "hype" is really ignorant. They are a smart company who have a long history of making great pro-grade cameras and lenses.
skhr0680··on The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)
I had to dust off a useless memory, but it looks exactly like Doom2 Map06 with Quake2 lighting added by the source port Doom Legacy
skhr0680··on The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)
If you hear that, it’s too late for you, I’m afraid.

It’s time to go when your guide says: “It’s inexcusable and I’m very sorry for the inconvenience, but the control room has informed me that we should make our way towards the emergency exit five minutes to the south west of the left of the 7-11. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.”

skhr0680··on Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg
> now-unpopular legacy of deregulating and wrecking the Japanese postal service

Unpopular with who? In hindsight, the post office was a bandaid that needed to be ripped off before it became the next JNR. If he didn't do that, the tax payer would be on the hook for its final implosion, which is happening right now.

skhr0680··on Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg
> Is rice a significant percentage of food cost in Japan?

At the height of rice prices, rice cost about the same per kg as domestic chicken thighs. That's a problem when rice is meant to be an affordable staple food.

skhr0680··on Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg
> The fact the average Japanese person won't even consider trying imported Japonica rice from Australia or USA is madness if budget is a consideration.

Domestic rice is a national security concern, not a financial one. Being fed by another country, even an ally, can turn pear-shaped very quickly. Is it that hard to imagine Trump threatening to starve Japan if they don't bow to his demands?*

> But also, the average Japanese eats around 1kg of uncooked rice per week. That's ¥800 at the rates in the article (~USD$300/year). Japan's cost of living is generally pretty low, but I doubt +/- $100/year is effecting many people.

Why the doubt? The average price of rice literally doubled YoY. For families that can be hundreds of dollars per month (yen equivalent) that they have to pull out of thin air, and that's in a country where the median wage is half of Australia.

* Yes, Japan already imports over half of its food, but rice is where the government decided to draw the line in the sand.

skhr0680··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
The comment you’re replying to probably means “a shader that is a fine approximation of ray tracing (for cheap)”
skhr0680··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Translucency being a main feature of Mac OS X is decades old at this point. I remember a magazine article touting it as an advantage over the upcoming release of Windows XP!
skhr0680··on The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps
I get what he means. The gold standards for professional “bokeh” portraits, a 85mm f/1.4 prime, is typically a $1000-2000 lens.
skhr0680··on Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)
It’s real, there are photos from a real tour of a Typhoon submarine
skhr0680··on Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town
“Middle-aged” is a wrong in this case translation of “ojisan”, lit “uncle” but colloquially can mean “old man” in an endearing or mean way depending on context
skhr0680··on WWI's 'Dazzle' Camouflage Seemed Effective Due to Unexpected Optical Trick
That's really interesting. The times I've seen Toyota street testing pre-release cars, they were not disguised whatsoever, and had unmissable "factory" number plates
skhr0680··on Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
> Ottoman architecture

Constantinople wasn't captured by the Ottomans until almost 1,000 years after the events depicted in the quiz

skhr0680··on Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
> 1960s technology

Still photography has gotten more convenient since then, but in the agreeable lighting and atmospheric conditions one would encounter while taking a vacation snap outside at noon Cynthian time, image quality now isn't better than then*

*Unless you're willing to spend $10,000+

skhr0680··on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
> 95%

I feel like the naysayers have a point too. 95% done? Only 95% left to go!

← PreviousPage 2 of 17Next →