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RobRivera

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Deez mudkips.

So good

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RobRivera··on Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
Listen, nobody wants to admit they ate 12 cans of chef boyardi
RobRivera··on Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

But honestly these sentiments reflect my experience. When I bulk for muscle I will still get 5 miles of walking in daily on top of a cardio/strength workout and manage to still grow.

I've yet to hit a hiking season and gain weight tho, and those are the more interesting data points. Imagine eating 4k calories daily and still losing weight. 8 hours of trotting through mountain passes is a vibe

RobRivera··on The hand-drawn hits that Hollywood isn't making
I find my favorite YT animators to be SO INSPIRING specifically because they get pretty darn good and their impetus is their passion. They are fueled by merch and patreon these days, so I am happy to see they can make it work, however when industry trends to a race to the bottom, to the point where many layers of contracting lead to illegal North Korean labor being part of the process (the whole INVINCIBLE affair) it leaves a vacuum for upstarts and its awesome.

THE BALANCE!

RobRivera··on Enrollment at trade schools is expected to grow
>ignore hyp and build something interesting

AND don't be afraid to start small!

Making a discord or twitch chat bot, quake mod, a silly sound board of all ypur favorite Groot quotes.

RobRivera··on Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators
> returned to creditors/customers/employees

I appreciate the sentiment, however it should really be clarified, for the purposes of productive dialogue, that employees and customers do not own a business. Businesses are for-profit and have a balance sheet just like everyone else, and creditors and minority shareholders have a responsibility in the ecosystem.

A creditor has a due-diligence obligation to determine credit worthiness, and a recent change in ownership could be part of that. Noone forces a creditor to give a loan.

In any non-public share ownership of a company, the shareholder has agency to manage their holdings in the company, and if they are bearish, they should sell.

Now the real grift is PE use of regulatory capture of a consumer. Consumers do not have much choice in the world of healthcare/hospice care.

In that sense, the government has the power of the pen to adjust the law.

I dont find any value in echoing a false entitlement to customers amd employees.

RobRivera··on Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
Great! No more expectation of privacy and an entitlement to my computation data.
RobRivera··on Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?
1) wire 2Tb Hdd or 1Tb ssd

2) copy-paste

3) remove, place tape and write label on drive

I've shelf-suitable boxxy memes, top quality

RobRivera··on Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?
Based Bluestacks
RobRivera··on How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method
I personally resonate with this take, being a high achiever student in early life and ambitious career seeker into adulthood. While I had my own 'meta' for how to mine certain decades for value (skill buffing, exploration, etc) it is still both scary and liberating to take a step off the planned path knowing deep in your bones it is for the better.
RobRivera··on 9 Years of "Learning to Code" and I Still Couldn't Build a To-Do App
I get this aversion to action from time to time. I'm a big fan of slapping the earbuds in and just cranking up an album I know by heart. Gets the groove goin
RobRivera··on 9 Years of "Learning to Code" and I Still Couldn't Build a To-Do App
> I always jokingly say that every codebase looks like crap after 2 months, because it is true. You see your own mistakes after what you've learned _through implementing it_

I am on the tail end of making a game from scratch, and while I am quite proud of the feature/performance set, every 2 weeks I stop pulling from the feature queue and just enter 'editor-in-chief' mode where I find any new ways of doing the same thing and extend it to the rest of the code base. Often its leveraging templating, or other generalizing techniques that reduce code-bloat.

RobRivera··on Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)
The opposite of something with a large spectrum...

I just can't sorry

RobRivera··on A gentle introduction to anchor positioning
Anchor post
RobRivera··on Hire People Who Care (2020)
I missed this clause in

checks notes

Literally my entire career.

RobRivera··on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy
HEH

I'm letting my imagination fill in the color on the specifics here and I'm working up a little grin.

A hat tip to you

RobRivera··on Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest paths
That's what I have found to be the case: time is in short supply
RobRivera··on We shouldn't have needed lockfiles
> I even remember the playlists I used to listen to when I was doing that work (:

Im a big fan of anything Aphex Twin for these type of sessions.

RobRivera··on Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest paths
Gamedevs -I find at least- are so obsessively deep at SOLVING their problem at hand that their headspace is indexed on shipping the game, the project, deadlines, and what to eat for the next meal (probably pizza).

Rather than the academia.

Just a hunch tho

RobRivera··on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
Just wow
RobRivera··on Why CI/CD Still Doesn't Include Continuous Documentation?
Thanks for the callout, my brain was going 'CI/CD is a concept not a product'.
RobRivera··on I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave
>10 ms

Do not shame this dojo.

RobRivera··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
The missile knows where it is...
RobRivera··on Show HN: TechBro Generator – Generate Satirical TechBro Posts
So it is not a generator, it's an rng pulling from a catalogue.

A genuinely fun exercise would be to build a from scratch probabiltiy distribution for token generation based on a corpus of real posts that then fuels a techbro generator.

RobRivera··on A fast 3D collision detection algorithm
Im reading 'Primer on 3D Math for Graphics Programmers"

I highly recommend it to you.

RobRivera··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Still working on my video game.

I didnt realize how much overhead an sfml window draw call has, granted I have yet to target optimizing that yet.

Seems like my first candidate for multithreading; also I think the scheme I implemented for how to manage texture/sprite switching is advised against and may need to slightly refactor how I store and swap based on object state.

Yeet

RobRivera··on Getting by on the Generosity of Strangers in Japan
Kek
RobRivera··on Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone
Oh oh oh, alternative title, Monty Pythons Exploding Circus!
RobRivera··on What happens when clergy take psilocybin
Yea I was wondering if there was some UI issue on mobile bc I kept scrolling down expecting more.

I stopped and read the whole thing to be disappointed.

A blurb about [thing i am interested in].

I now feel like yelling at some clouds.

RobRivera··on It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)
> cannot all be sold because they would flood the market and decrease their own value. So Bob Ross, Inc. is cleverly keeping them under lock and key and letting the scarcity drive prices up.

Personal pet-peeve.

And yes, I know it doesn't really matter to most people.

Still urks me.

"CANT OR WONT!?"

RobRivera··on A masochist's guide to web development
Yellow bus syndrom in action for me today.

Last week I never heard of Emscripten.

Integrating SDL for a project, there were CMake callouta for APPLE, MSVC, and EMSCRIPTEN.

And here we are seeing it again on hn in a few days.

I should put an afternoon aside for some deep diving on it for context.

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