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dtjohnnymonkey commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

zedascouves · 7 days ago

I Started with actionquake (aq2). check it out.

Minh “Gooseman” Le, one of CS’s creators, was a fan of AQ2. Counter-Strike (first released in June 1999 as a Half-Life mod) built on AQ2’s ideas but refined them with better hitboxes, buy menus, maps, and more tactical pacing.

AQ2 is often described as “the bridge between Quake and Counter-Strike”.

dtjohnnymonkey · 7 days ago

AQ2 was such a fun mod. It's been a while since I played, but if I recall you could some real John-Woo style moves as if you are in an action movie.

The article says that Le created it though:

    Two years later he created Action Quake 2, a fast-paced game inspired by “Die Hard”

dtjohnnymonkey commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes

bonaldi · 8 days ago

I could really really use something that would OCR and classify all the screenshots I take of stuff to remember. Have an enormous folder of the damn things.

dtjohnnymonkey · 7 days ago

I think that it’s probably doable in DEVONthink. There are flows to automatically OCR and to organize files into folders based on content.

dtjohnnymonkey commented on Animated Factorization (2012) datapointed.net/visualiza... · Posted by u/miniBill

dtjohnnymonkey · 3 months ago

After some time I find myself waiting for highly composite numbers rather than primes.

dtjohnnymonkey commented on Turner, Bird, Eratosthenes: An eternal burning thread cambridge.org/core/journa... · Posted by u/matt_d

nozzlegear · 7 months ago

I love the name of this paper. It's a play on Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach

dtjohnnymonkey · 7 months ago

Came here to see if I was just imagining things. Thanks for confirming!

dtjohnnymonkey commented on Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD? · Posted by u/hackerbabz

dtjohnnymonkey · 8 months ago

I have a .in domain email address and there have been occasions where it is rejected by some email address validation logic.

dtjohnnymonkey commented on Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'you've got mail' alert, has died nytimes.com/2024/11/07/te... · Posted by u/tysone

dtjohnnymonkey · 10 months ago

If I'm running a command in the background, and want to be notified when it's done, I usually run it like

  cmd; say 'files done'

I wish I could use his voice though! These were sounds of my childhood.

dtjohnnymonkey commented on Programming languages that blew my mind (2023) yoric.github.io/post/prog... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Claudus · 10 months ago

I remember learning Prolog, it was tricky to wrap my mind around it, it wasn’t like any other language. The day I finally “got it” I was very happy, until I realized all the other languages I had previously learned, no longer made any sense.

dtjohnnymonkey · 10 months ago

I remember taking a PL class in undergrad, learning Prolog as one of a handful of languages. During that section my brain started to want to "bind" variables to things as I was going about my day, it was very weird.

dtjohnnymonkey commented on A new JSON data type for ClickHouse clickhouse.com/blog/a-new... · Posted by u/markhneedham

maccard · 10 months ago

I've heard wonderful things about ClickHouse, but every time I try to use it, I get stuck on "how do I get data into it reliably". I search around, and inevitably end up with "by combining clickhouse and Kafka", at which point my desire to keep going drops to zero.

Are there any setups for reliable data ingestion into Clickhouse that don't involve spinning up Kafka & Zookeeper?

dtjohnnymonkey · 10 months ago

Where is your data coming from? I’m curious what prevents you from inserting the data into Clickhouse without Kafka.

dtjohnnymonkey commented on A new JSON data type for ClickHouse clickhouse.com/blog/a-new... · Posted by u/markhneedham

amanj41 · 10 months ago

Not sure if ClickHouse needs ZK but FWIW Kafka has a raft implementation which now obviates need for ZK

dtjohnnymonkey · 10 months ago

ClickHouse does need ZK but they have their own implementation.

dtjohnnymonkey commented on The Lego Great Ball Contraption kottke.org/24/09/the-lego... · Posted by u/mhb

dtjohnnymonkey · a year ago

There was one at BrickCon in Bellevue, WA last week! It’s my favorite part of the show. Always reminds me of queueing theory and distributed systems.

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