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son_of_gloin··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
I think the U.S. needs to finally adopt the ERA into its constitution. Many people don’t realize that women still don’t have equal protection under the constitution in the U.S. It’s absurd in my opinion.
son_of_gloin··on Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation
But there are other suns :)
son_of_gloin··on Programming, Evolved: Lessons and Observations
Literate Programming would also probably help coding assistants understand the code better and generate better output. Or is that the point you are trying to make?
son_of_gloin··on [dead]
Are you disputing the veracity of any of the quotes on that page? Alex Jones doesn't provide citations or is interested in facts.
son_of_gloin··on Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
In the "bad old days", tables were abused to build page layouts. There were all sorts of problems with this due to weird rendering rules within table cells and the table itself. Some people piled onto the "omg tables are so bad" fever without properly acknowledging that they are still the best way to display tabular data - their original purpose.
son_of_gloin··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
I'm working on a WebGL-based timeline that covers the entire history of our Universe and let's you zoom in to see more detail. After I finish this 2D version, I plan to create a 3D VR timeline that you can "walk" through, complete with animated dinosaurs, etc. A while back I had started on the VR version using Unity but unfortunately lost all the code when I made a mistake migrating from Google Drive to iCloud :( https://youtu.be/Jj0tfwX3JVE?si=3WDYUzYjQUnsLU7E
son_of_gloin··on What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)
I love reading this for the eloquent, antiquated style of the prose. The part where he writes about experimentally detecting four dimensional space by the behavior of matter was interesting - I’ve never read anything like that before.
son_of_gloin··on Google agrees to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states
Corporations aren't democratic organizations though so every individual in the group doesn't really have an equal access to these rights.
son_of_gloin··on Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM
Thanks, yep - I had lunch with Dan last week. I understand, I have a half-dozen coding projects that I’ve got in various stages of (in-)completion.
son_of_gloin··on Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM
Hey Doug, it’s Avi Eisner - long time no see! Dan told me you’re working on your own game engine - would love to see it some time and catch up!
son_of_gloin··on IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system
Free tax filing through the government? Why that’s basically communism!! Free enterprise is the best option for everything!! /s
son_of_gloin··on The WFH future is destroying bosses' brains (2021)
I’ve worked at many places from ~5-10 employee startups or design studios to mega-corporations with thousands of employees. I’ve only had one boss that I would consider “bad”. And I think that was mostly due to the culture of the company he worked at previously- Amazon. I do think businesses of all sizes are too hierarchical. I would like to try working for a co-op or cooperative or staring my own one day.
son_of_gloin··on Tech Coops List
If I ever need to look for a new job, I think I would consider joining a tech coop. Anyone have experience working in one?
son_of_gloin··on D3wasm 0.4 – Doom 3 in WASM
Half-Life 2 came out around the same time and I think had better graphics, story, and realistic physics.
son_of_gloin··on Learning Is Remembering
The name is first and foremost a way to attach that deeper knowledge of the bird to a symbol so it can be communicated to others. The name is necessary, but usually tells you very little about the thing it refers to.
son_of_gloin··on Quantity yields quality in creativity: brain and behavioral test equal-odds rule
That's a good question. My job is in web development where some analytical creativity is needed. I also like to draw and paint in my free time. Both activities feel similar in that I can get into that "flow" state in each one, but I don't know how much of the sources of creativity is common to both.
son_of_gloin··on Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
Damn you, I just wasted like 20 minutes on this! :)