bargle0's comments

On: The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire

[bargle0]

How else are they going to roll damage for the great axe?

On: AWS’s anti-competitive move hidden in plain sight

[bargle0]

I’ve heard it called the Hotel California pattern.

On: Libgsqlite: A SQLite extension which loads a Googl...

[bargle0]

Improv brought me joy. There isn’t anything like it.

[recuter → bargle0]

I read this many times on HN. As far as I can tell Excel copied most of it about a decade later with pivot tables.

[geocar → recuter]

Sort of. Improv lets you work in the pivot though, like that's the main view, and the ramifications of that are huge.

- You don't have to make your sum/avg/analytic rows because Improv does that automatically. Yes, Excel does this on the pivot tables, but because you can't work there, a lot of people make a SUM(B2:B999) or something to make summary data more accessible.

- Your formulas look simple like ConversionRate=Total:Closes/Total:Leads instead of =SUM(A2:A99)/SUM(B2:B99) and sure I know there's a way to make Excel do something like that, but nobody does, which is one thing that makes it hard to mix stuff between multiple documents in Excel -- someone moves the lead count on the lead sheet and it blows everything up back at headquarters. In Improv if someone renamed Leads to Pipe or something it'd break and you'd see that right away with much less chaos.

And so on

On: DDRamDisk: RAM disk, a disk based on RAM memory ch...

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Didn’t UUnet do something like this 25-30 years ago for Usenet indices, or something like that?

On: Epic Games to pay $245M for tricking users into ma...

[bargle0]

Don’t play games from developers and publishers that don’t respect you.

On: Intel Publishes Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, 10~1...

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Careful. The monkey’s paw curls …

On: Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs ...

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There are also FFRDCs and other similar organizations outside of the DOE. For example, JPL is a NASA FFRDC.

On: An Update on the Open Game License (OGL)

[bargle0]

We don’t need WotC or Hasbro.

On: Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in compu...

[bargle0]

Not sound, but visual: The moment the video stream goes from blurry to crisp.

[rjh29 → bargle0]

"This was back when chatbots weren't actually intelligent and used to spout out random nonsense"

On: Moiré no more (2021)

[bargle0]

A certain YouTube creator wears striped shirts on camera a lot, but I feel like he should probably know better. I wonder if it’s an intentional, subtle troll?

[aargh_aargh → bargle0]

What's the point of your comment without naming him?