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calsy··on Ethereum Has Issues
Saying insane a lot, pretty confident, and cherry picking some text to 'literally' dismiss the entire blog post with a single sentence that just serves to validate your flimsy reasoning doesn't make a good argument.
calsy··on A Gripe about the Los Angeles Metro Bike App
What makes app developers so special? The only extra requirement is that you don't break the rules of Apple/Google's sandbox play area, else you can release whatever garbage you want.
calsy··on Inside the longest Atlassian outage
It's the exact opposite, any coder who blindly believes that a piece of software is flawless is kidding themselves.

It's delusional to think software can be flawless in the real world when it's used by an untold amount of people, on all manner of devices, possibly running different OS's with different versions on networks that can be configured all sorts of ways. Thats not to mention all the dependencies involved in creating high level software, from the third party libraries to external services like cloud storage.

You anticipate there will be problems and make sure there are processes in place to manage them when they inevitably occur. Thats the exact opposite of laziness.

calsy··on Book Review: The Programmer's Brain
What is bro-science?
calsy··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
So how does someone remain elected if they don't listen to their constituents?
calsy··on Ask HN: Third Party Elements from Improving.duckduckgo.com
The fact client data is being sent is enough reason to believe they are using it, regardless of unknown internal workings of the business. I don't think benefit of the doubt should apply to privacy or security with companies operating on the net. We know how they make their money and offer 'free services'.
calsy··on Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia
Crikey, every residential home in Australia has one of these. The golden orb weaver which is a close relative of Joro I believe. As an Australian citizen it is my duty to remind the rest of the world that we have the most deadliest snakes and spiders in the world, which makes us tough I guess...

Anyway we don't "burn them with fire" or "have heart attacks", we just leave them alone. This strategy has worked out well with humans and spiders co-existing in relative peace.

calsy··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
You paid $1000s for a GTX 3080 but bought the game on PS5 and claim it is some low res, pop-in, shimmering graphics on console but yet its the best version although you never played it on other platforms.

You can differentiate texture resolutions and polygon counts across platforms. You claim everyone agrees that the PC version is horrible port and has some major performance problems and crashes, but strangely enough it's currently the most played game on Steam.

You say for many many people it's one of the most buggiest games they've experienced at release, yet it hasn't been taken down for sale like Cyberpunk or had its player base disappear like BF2042 or New World.

You continue to make generalised statements like 'many many people', 'all critics', 'everyone agrees' and name random social sites giving the misleadingly impression that everyone agrees with you.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that it looks better then Demon Souls remastered from a PS3 game with reused upscaled textures. Everyone agrees so it's true.

...Sorry but I don't think anything you say is genuine, so there is no point continuing the argument.

calsy··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
Conspiracy, give me a break. Show me a new release AAA game on PC which ran flawlessly for 700,000+ people day 1.

People have issues, but everyone saying the PC port is a mess is not true. I have the game on PC and its runs better than most new release games I've played and I've player more than enough of them.

The critic reviews stating PS5 version is the best is baseless, I could say the critic review state the PC version is the best.

Listing some random social site names or pointing out a vocal minority isn't proof of the games graphic quality, I could find 10x more people who would say otherwise.

I recently played Demon souls remake, It doesn't have better graphics.

calsy··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
No your eyes aren't good enough to know the resolution of minute textures or the polygon count on screen on for games on current gen systems. You see low textures while others don't, it's completely subjective without really numbers and your obvious negative bias plays into it.

I asked for details, and now they are provided you can see they are flawed.

And please, stop pretending that you even played the game past 5 minutes and you know what you are talking about.

calsy··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
PS5 is the best experience? Who said that?

What you described sounds bizarre and far removed from most peoples experience (mine included) with the game regardless of platform. How exactly do you know what resolution textures are or how many polygons are rendered.

calsy··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
Why not explain the 'bells and whistles' that are missing, for e.g. "It doesn't support ray-tracing", rather then in general terms that are trollish like "rendering isn't good".

How does that impact the game exactly? If a game does not incorporating the latest features in DX12 or whatever the features Nvidia brings out for its cards, does that compromise the artistic integrity of the game? Does a painstakingly detailed boss with incredible art and fluid animation just not cut it without these graphics settings?

calsy··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
You realise that the hole is deep on purpose to give the impression that it's dangerous. That the dialogue is telling you to let go of your fear and jump down, which begins a tutorial that is completely optional.
calsy··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
Lack of rendering 'bells and whistles'? That statement doesn't mean anything, what bells and whistles?

It looks like a mid-2010s f2p Korean MMO? what planet are you on.

I cant believe I replied to this nonsense.

calsy··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
Are we supposed to pretend you have any idea what you are talking about? Every point you made is stupendously wrong (bugs withstanding). It goes against the consensus of the overwhelming majority of players. Are they just suckers while you know the real truth? Please enlighten us with examples of games that make Elden Ring look like a first attempt at a Unity game.
calsy··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
Yes you are. You claimed I was spreading Russian propaganda. This lead to a long winded discussion about subversive propaganda spreading on HN.

The obvious problem is it’s all based on the negative assumptions that anyway who disagrees with the current path taken must be on ‘their’ side.

calsy··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
Before you let your imagination run wild, how about you do some basic research, like looking at my history. It's not pretty, but to think I'm some propagandist working with Russia is laughable and just demonstrates the point I made. A comment which I deleted because in these absurd times you need to be lock step with the current narrative or be branded a propagandist, conspiracy theorist or traitor. It's pointless trying to discuss the issue.
calsy··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
What are you guys rambling on about? One look at my history clearly shows I'm not who you believe me to be. Im simply someone willing to listen to both sides of an argument. I deleted my comment because the collective madness of patriotism takes hold and your either 'with us or against us'. Any view you express that may run against the current narrative can be used against you.
calsy··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
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calsy··on Against Pair Programming
Despair all you like. Pair programming stinks.

You can pretend it’s a magical experience where all parties are teaching and learning and having a wonderful time.

In the real world it’s an inconvenience where one person invades your personal space, hovers over your shoulder on your desk with no space as you awkwardly work through who knows what and establish a pattern of dominance as one person clearly knows more than the other and will just do the work themselves while the other watches OR question every single thing typed to the bemused person at the keyboard. No personal bonds are formed during this intrusive process.

calsy··on Against Pair Programming
That’s what happens when someone looks over your shoulder.
calsy··on Against Pair Programming
Agile is manager centric analytics tool that attempts to measure the ‘intangibles’ of development. This is done through rigid conformity to process.

Excessive deliberation over design and breaking down of tasks gives the managers the info they need for the ‘higher up’s’ and the ability to better micro manager there subordinates.

It’s brilliantly sold as a way to assist development, while focusing on the concerns of management.

calsy··on Against Pair Programming
Pair programming stinks, always has always will. Its another mindless initiative managers come up with because some person in the organisation who subscribes to the Agile cult (there is always one) wont stop going on about it.

Like most things Agile, it treats the developer as a child who cant be trusted to get things done. It's grade school where teacher tells you it's time for 'pair programming', yeahhhh. Usually it's at the worse possible time, and it's just another distraction in days filled with distractions that stop you doing anything meaningful.

If people need to work together, they'll do it naturally like any ordinary adults who are asked to complete a task.

calsy··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
Pay $100 million dollars for a creator and his content just so you can delete large portions of it after putting it on your service. Smart....
calsy··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
So for you the only people worth paying attention to are those who just have just jumped into well paid meaningful jobs and never had to work their way up from the bottom.

Worked at Mcdonalds.. not worth listening to, took a job as a cleaner out of school... don't waste my time. Only people with prestigious employment histories are worth the time of day.

calsy··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
You understand those things they are buying have value right? That they are not just throwing money into the void. Investing in future growth is what businesses does in a competitive environment. If they don't keep buying stuff their service will fail and they will lose everything they had invested to that point. Thats how you don't make money.
calsy··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
where did you get 3.25 billion? is that a years worth of subscription income? Does game pass blow up after that or something? Have subscriptions just stopped, 18 million and ..... no more growth.
calsy··on Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments
Deserves got nothing to do with it.
calsy··on Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments
Can you explain why he is right, or is just saying he is right good enough?
calsy··on Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments
Why is your individual preference relevant by the way? You are just one of 100s of millions of people who use digital devices.
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