jmarchello
Re:Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis
on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:13PM (#49482381)
Yes, every 2 years I believe is he official cadence now.
Re:Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis
on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:10PM (#49482351)
For casual play you can absolutely use 3d printed models, and the STLs are out there in spades. Heck, you can use cardboard or rocks. But yes, for tournaments the rules are stricter. Big tournaments are the most strict. My local store allows 3d printed models but has a max % that can be printed vs authentic.
Re:Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis
on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:14AM (#49479786)
The barrier of entry is admittedly high for playing the game, but it's tons of fun. You have to pick an army, start collecting models (which aren't cheap), then you have to build them and at least sort of paint them. Honestly the best way is just go on to a local store on they 40k open play night (most have one weekly) and ask around. Folks are extremely kind and generous and will often loan you some models to play against them and try out the game. Some stores even have loaner armies in stock for this purpose.
The "pay to win" feeling is really just in the competitive scene. You can choose to chase the ever-changing meta or just enjoy playing more narrative games.
ps. you can learn the basic mechanics of the game pretty quickly by watching "Battle reports" on youtube. Search for 11th edition specifically as it just came out in June and the rules changed a good bit.
Re:Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:56AM (#47934667)
Localsend is awesome! My team and I use it all the time for safely transmitting vpn configs, ssh keys, etc... It works flawlessly. The auto-generated names are pretty fun too.
Re:So where are all the AI apps?
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @11:10AM (#47503827)
Looking at Python packages, or any developer-facing form of software, is not a good indicator of AI-based production. The key benefit of AI development is that our focus moves up a few layers of abstraction, allowing us to focus on real-world solutions. Instead of measuring Github, you need to measure feature releases, internal tools created, single-user applications built for a single niche use case.
Measuring python packages to indicate AI-based production is like measuring saw production to measure the effectiveness of the steam engine. You need to look at houses and communities being built, not the tools.
Re:Ask HN: What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI des...
on Friday November 21, 2025 @09:46AM (#46005077)
https://pinboard.in
Simple, usable, timeless.
Re:Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:13PM (#45649460)
I fell in love with Insomnia pre-acquisition so I'm thrilled to see it has a spiritual successor. Good on you Greg.
Re:Zoxide: A Better CD Command
on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:44AM (#45347779)
Fair point. I don't disagree. I personally just like to stay as close to default GNU/Linux tooling as is practical. It's a matter of personal taste.
For me, this makes it so my expectations and muscle memory transfer cleanly between my workstation and other servers, devices, etc. I find the default tools are much more powerful than is often understood, and you can replicate most third party functionality fairly easily. That's not always the case mind you, and I happily use those tools.
Re:Zoxide: A Better CD Command
on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:29AM (#45347553)
I love shell tools, and by no means disparage the use of zoxide, z, etc. But I find I get 90% of the usefulness of these tools using the native cd command and adding my most used directories to CDPATH.
This additionally is consistent and works without needing to “train” it first.
Re:Seattle Ultrasonics: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
on Saturday September 20, 2025 @01:56PM (#45315614)
We made it! We’ve finally invented vibroblades!
Re:Teachers Are Not OK
on Monday June 02, 2025 @12:19PM (#44160387)
I think AI is simply exposing problems with academia that have always been there. In my personal experience with both high school and a completed bachelor's degree, 20% of the process is actual learning while 80% is proving what one has learned for the sake of grading and measuring.
As soon as one graduates and enters the real world, the ability to learn is paramount, but the ability to grade said learning is never used again. We need to re-think the system from the ground up so that a student can leverage all available tools, AI included, and still develop a core ability to learn.
What's more, the current focus on grading has been shown to stunt the love of learning, because we're not stupid and we know when we're doing something that does not gain us anything beyond a grade.
If academia responds to this change properly we can eventually see a system that actually serves our students better than what we currently have.
Re:Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago
on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:44AM (#42586608)
Every time I see news about cities discovered in south america I look to see if the dates line up with the Nephite/Lamanite civilizations of the Book of Mormon (roughly 600 BC to 400 AD). This is the closest yet that I've seen. I'm eager to see what they discover in the coming years about their culture and government. Will we find traces of their Judge-based government? Signs that they worshiped Christ and practiced Jewish rituals? It will be interesting to watch this investigation unfold.
Re:A Vanilla Rails Stack Is Plenty
on Thursday December 19, 2024 @11:29AM (#42463051)
They actually just released a new, rubust getting started guide that is an EXCELLENT place to start learning the framework: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html. I highly recommend starting there.
Re:A Vanilla Rails Stack Is Plenty
on Thursday December 19, 2024 @10:52AM (#42462629)
Rails has so much to offer these days, going vanilla really is a viable (and enjoyable) option. Here at Swivel we use the ENTIRE rails stack from Hotwire to Kamal and it is so simple and easy to maintain and deploy. I do think there are use cases where adding a React frontend is good though. But you don't have to, Rails has everything you need so you can focus on creating value for customers instead of plumbing.
A Vanilla Rails Stack Is Plenty
Re:What's New in Ruby 3.4
on Monday December 16, 2024 @09:30AM (#42431266)
> Array#each, Array#map, and Array#select have been rewritten in Ruby.
> A microbenchmark made on Array#each, for instance, shows it is 7x faster.
This is awesome. I can’t wait to see further improvements as they continue to optimize for the JIT.
Ask HN: Rails Shops, how do you deal with Jobs with zero downtime deploys?
We’re deploying with Kamal and want to avoid killing jobs mid-run during deploys. Currently we pause our queues while deploying but with continuous deployment this leads to jobs being paused too often. I’m just curious how other Rails teams are handing this issue.Or maybe we have the wrong approach entirely?
The Last RailsConf
Re:White House urges developers to dump C and C++
on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:06PM (#39529959)
Would Ruby, Java, Go, and other gc’ed languages really be considered memory safe? I’d think you have to re-write the Ruby interpreter and the JVM in rust in order to achieve their stated goal here. Someone with deeper system’s knowledge please correct me if I’m wrong.
Re:Show HN: Don't Do It Bro: porn addiction peer-support
on Thursday February 01, 2024 @08:09AM (#39215549)
Seems like an affective way to keep bots/trolls out.
Re:Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?
on Monday January 15, 2024 @08:03AM (#39000416)
As unfair as this may seem, your problem may be UX, rather than content. There is no focal point and ironically the shear volume of experience makes it hard to get a quick picture of who you are. I’d recommend a punchy executive summary at the top.
In my experience the 1 page constraint is less important so long as it’s easy to get a good picture of you on the first page.
Re:How to get your first ten customers
on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:50AM (#38681063)
> One of the beautiful things about bootstrapping a business is that it's default-alive.
This is such an effective and concise way to explain the difference between bootstrapping and vc funding.
Re:Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @10:09AM (#38628443)
A fair question. For Me I use use of their spaces feature to divide my tabs/bookmarks into different areas of concern. So when I'm working on my day job, I can have a running "session" of bookmarks, such as the webapp I'm building, figma, and chatGPT open. It just _feels_ less cluttered and less distracting. Their 'developer mode' adds a nice little tool bar accross localhost and other sites for which you enable it. It's just the compound effect of many small improvements. This the first real innovation I've seen the chrome of a browser in a long time.
Re:Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:31AM (#38626406)
I’ve been using Arc for a couple days now and love it. It’s been a while since I’ve adopted a tool (besides developer tools) that I felt truly increased my productivity and enjoyment in my day-to-day activities.
Re:Jets: The Ruby Serverless Framework
on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:46PM (#38561594)
Anything that gets more Ruby out in the world is positive in my book. Great looking project!
Re:Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with y...
on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:32AM (#38543004)
This site (and its popularity) are great examples of this. I very much agree.
Re:Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with y...
on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:27AM (#38542960)
I agree with the spirit of this. Though I’d go with Rails/Sqlite :)
Re:Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with y...
on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:26AM (#38542948)
> organizational scalability
I’m also of the opinion that most engineering/product orgs are extremely bloated and could move much faster with higher quality if they were cut 50-90%.
Re:Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with y...
on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:22AM (#38542899)
Yeah redundancy and HA are good practices. My point in spirit is more that we usually don’t need 90% of the complexity.