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RobotCaleb

1,084 karma · joined February 28, 2012

I'm a programmer. I make things and voice opinions.

If you want to talk to me, gmail -> robotrising

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RobotCaleb··on Who Invented the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich?
That sounds pretty great actually. Do you have a preferred method for pickling your red onions?
RobotCaleb··on Who Invented the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich?
I never understood peanut butter and jelly, but I absolutely love peanut butter and pickle. I'm not sure how I feel about peanut butter and tomato
RobotCaleb··on Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy
: shrug: you compared it to a sandwich
RobotCaleb··on Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server
Everyday someone is born who hasn't seen everything, or anything.
RobotCaleb··on Epic vs. Apple injunction doesn't allow for alternative in-app payment mechanism
I agree but I'm not sure which way you meant
RobotCaleb··on After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high
That looks cool! How do I play it if I don't like giving Facebook any data?
RobotCaleb··on Libertarians built a Bitcoin economy in a New Hampshire town, feds tore it down
I do not. Do you have a link to more information about this?
RobotCaleb··on Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source
To answer your questions, no, I don't intend (or tend, for that matter) to takes modified versions without corresponding source code. It's not about what I do it's about what they say I can and can't do.

I don't know why an author should. I'm not spending any time agonizing over what they should be doing. I don't understand why you threw that second half of the sentence in there as if the two are necessarily linked.

RobotCaleb··on Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source
In my opinion (opinion, so I could be wrong), MIT and friends offer more freedom. I have a strong aversion to the concept of copyleft and usually try to avoid it for fear of "tainting" anything I touch after. In principle, where it makes sense, I rather like the idea of the sort of freedom claimed by GPL advocates but in practice I prefer to allow people to do whatever they want.
RobotCaleb··on Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source
Sure, but on the other hand it's MIT so I'm actually willing to look at the source code.
RobotCaleb··on Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (July 2021)
I've been trying to get into mycology as a hobby. I think it's awesome that you're working in this space. I did want to say, however, that covid is not over. I'm not sure who told you that but they're wrong.
RobotCaleb··on America has a drinking problem
I'm sure that it feels like a real problem, but it really isn't. I haven't drank anything for my 39 years of life and I have found most people to be quite accepting of it and those that aren't aren't worth it.
RobotCaleb··on Unreal Engine 5 Early Access Release Notes
I don't disagree, but the target audience knows exactly what IK means
RobotCaleb··on Three Out of Four Gas Stations Are Dry in Some Southern Cities
https://imgur.com/gallery/YWCCHnf
RobotCaleb··on Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
Right, because the undo buffer is a list of transactions, not a comparison against disk state.
RobotCaleb··on Cesium for Unreal Now Available
I think the biggest wins they get from it are that the actors can see what they're supposed to be standing in front of and that they get realistic lighting on the actors and other props from the environment
RobotCaleb··on Jai Language Primer (2017)
Which moment have you been waiting for? I have also spent a lot of time watching his streams, but I don't believe Jai is a thing anybody can use yet, is it?
RobotCaleb··on Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
Games are very complex interactions of various systems. There are many many ways that things can go wrong. Then you throw in the fact that you're on a significant time crunch and you're building a system that is impossible to test every interaction. They are complex
RobotCaleb··on [dead]
I'm not familiar with who the person is other than the name, so I can't speak to any particular drama around him going over somebody else. But just because a restaurant is open doesn't mean anybody should be going. There is still a pandemic on.
RobotCaleb··on Fooling Around with Foveated Rendering
One of my favorite books. You might be interested in a fan movie launching next week. http://blindsight.space/

https://mailchi.mp/b4c8b26e025d/blindsight-project-update-se...

RobotCaleb··on OBS Studio 26.0
I'm sorry, I don't understand how to parse your first sentence
RobotCaleb··on SoundShader – Yet another sound visualizer with a simple, but interesting idea
This is really cool looking. Thanks for sharing
RobotCaleb··on Install Linux from a running Windows system, without need for a live USB
I mean, that's pretty much exactly the joke that was made. Isn't it?
RobotCaleb··on The Success and Failure of Ninja
I use cmake and ninja with ice cream to distribute across the various machines around my office. I've been quite happy with it.
RobotCaleb··on ‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems
Why do people keep saying it just works? It just works if you install their app, probably. But audio doesn't work at all in Firefox. That's not really just works for me.
RobotCaleb··on The Medieval Invention of Toilet Paper
It's a real revelation to find out that there are people in the world who aren't you.
RobotCaleb··on 7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered
This was an amazing journey. Thank you for doing all the work to post that.
RobotCaleb··on Ask HN: What to do when your side project is more fun than your job?
It plugs his project and adds extra words to be relevant. This happens quite often in hn threads.
RobotCaleb··on ProjectPSX – A C# coded emulator of the original Playstation
I haven't read the code, but you usually don't let the garbage collector get a chance to do anything with projects where it matters.
RobotCaleb··on Kite Plans
I'm curious what you consider on-topic.
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