Lol, you just listed things you don't like from a very privileged urban (my assumption) living space.
So what actual problem do NFT artists work to solve?
Readit Newsexecutesorder66 commented on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday campedersen.com/singulari... · Posted by u/ecto
Graphics and animation should no longer move in the direction of perfecting the representation of real world. It is actually necessary for the graphics to scream that they are graphics and not real photos or real video. The distinction should be very obvious. This is the need of the day.
Why?
executesorder66 commented on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright bbc.com/news/articles/c1j... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne
As someone who continues to mask in public shared-air settings for my own health, I am entirely unsurprised by that response and get it all the time.
Recently heard from a friend that also continues to mask when sharing air, they had arranged car pooling for one of their children. And just this morning the other parent texted saying "your child wearing a mask makes me uncomfortable so we can no longer car pool".
So … yeah. Entirely unsurprised by that attitude. "Every person for themselves but also not if it's something I personally dislike."
> "your child wearing a mask makes me uncomfortable"
What about that could possibly make someone uncomfortable. How does it have any effect on the other parent?
executesorder66 commented on Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/speckx
but why? For fun?
So that cloudflare can now MITM their HTTPS encryption. /s
I don't want this feature. I have LaTeX documents on my computer containing my personal thoughts. Some of them I want to keep to myself. And some of them contain my own ideas that I find embarrassing. I don't want to hand those documents over to Microsoft servers, nor do I want them used for AI training. I want them to know that these deeply personal thoughts are mine.
Lol, then don't use Windows. Why anyone trusts their personal data to closed source software, and especially closed source software by an empirically hostile corporation like Microsoft is beyond me.
I don't think it was designed to handle the volume of traffic that HN generates.
A Cloudflare fronted website can't handle HN frontpage levels of traffic?
Then why does anybody use cloudflare?
executesorder66 commented on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? · Posted by u/ofalkaed
Wow, so you're saying "Windows but with even less reliability and more security problems plus tech debt"?
I don't think the world really needs that. :)
>"Windows but with even less reliability and more security problems plus tech debt"
To me that just sound like it will make ReactOS much more Windows-like. So it's probably a win for the project. \s
executesorder66 commented on Rating 26 years of Java changes neilmadden.blog/2025/09/1... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
My read is that it's easy to be quite negative on Java features when you're not the person they were designed for. For example, the main "customer" of the module system is the JDK itself. The main customer of NIO/2 is the low-level libraries like Netty.
I highly recommend the Growing the Java Language talk by Brian Goetz to anyone who's interested in the philosophy behind evolving the modern Java language [1]. And Don’t be misled by the title, it’s not just about Java, it’s about software design.
>For example, the main "customer" of the module system is the JDK itself
As mentioned in TFA, "The general advice seems to be that modules are (should be) an internal detail of the JRE and best ignored in application code"
So yeah, why expose it to those who are not the "main customer"?
I'd be careful with extrapolating based on the creator of Linux and Git. His life and activities are not in line with those of more typical programmers.
> His life and activities are not in line with those of more typical programmers.
Okay sure.
I'll use myself as another example then. When I was a dev I used to write a lot of code. Now I'm a tech team lead, and I write less code, but review significantly more code than I used to previously.
I feel more confident, comfortable, and competent in my coding abilities now than ever before even though I'm coding less.
I feel like this is because I am exposed to a lot more code, and not in a passive way (reading legacy code) but an active way (making sure a patch set will correctly implement feature X, without breaking anything existing)
I feel like this principal applies to any programmer. Same thing with e.g. writers. Good writers read _a lot_ and it makes them better writers.
This is my opinion and not based on any kind of research. So if you disagree, that's fine with me. But so far I haven't seen anything to convince me of the opposite.
For example, here's an active bot that posted 30 mins ago (as of this comment):
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=aplomb1026
Examine the last two detailed comments it made and you'll see the timestamps show they were posted < 30 seconds apart:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155655
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155648
If it wasn't for them misconfiguring their bot and having it post so quickly, these would go by undetected and most people would engage with them. The comments themselves seem "normal" at first glance.
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Other bots:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dirtytoken7
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fdefitte
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170066