MattDL's comments

MattDL | 12 years ago | on: Hikikomori: Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms?

Trust me, laziness is a real thing; even when everything in the world points towards doing the work being the best thing for you, you just can't be bothered.

MattDL | 12 years ago | on: Source SDK 2013

This is just the mod SDK, it isn't the Source engine code.

MattDL | 12 years ago | on: Windows 8.1 Preview

In one of the articles I read on this (sorry no link) I'm pretty sure it mentioned their new philosophy, for hardware and software, was rapid iteration.

MattDL | 12 years ago | on: Firefox 22 released

They're implementing it at the moment, release channel FF doesn't have the capability yet.

MattDL | 12 years ago | on: Firefox 22 released

Looking nice, hope they continue to improve performance and stability too.

Having a huge amount of issues with the flash plugin at the moment, not sure if that's their fault or Adobe's though.

MattDL | 12 years ago | on: Adblock Plus “typo correction” feature adds affiliate IDs to links

Isn't it possible to just check the source code of FireFox addons?

Would be good if somebody could confirm if that is the case.

MattDL | 12 years ago | on: Ecuador has received asylum request from NSA leaker Snowden

Didn't they have to lure him away from the UK to be in a position to abduct him in the first place though?

So really it depends where you are and what you're willing to do.

MattDL | 12 years ago | on: ASUS Launches Monitor with 3840 x 2160 IGZO Display

Honestly I think my next monitor will have to be a 120Hz 4k screen.

I'm not sure I could take the step back down to 60Hz after getting used to it, for me it's a much bigger deal than resolution.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: Creaky Voice: Another Example of Young Women's Linguistic Ingenuity

I'd like to point out that as far as I'm aware modern French speakers rarely use ne pas and favour simply using pas to indicate a negative.

Not to mean that says anything about double negatives, but French probably shouldn't be used as an example of them.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux

I think the weirdest thing is that id Software have all their games ported for Linux (Excluding Rage) but haven't released them yet.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies, aged 87

This is the sanest discussion of this topic I've seen so far, having this here adds something.

This place isn't just for tech news anymore, whether that's a good thing I'm sure people will disagree over.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies, aged 87

She was one of those people who manage to inspire emotion in others.

A lot of bad, but she garnered (and still does somewhat) a huge amount of respect.

For someone who has so much public hatred around her, you have to remember she still managed to win elections while all this was far more raw and happening around her.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: John Carmack: Latency Mitigation Strategies

Honestly I think the vast majority of people (even on HN) feel fairly stupid when you read something like that.

It's an utter blessing that there are people such as Carmack in the industry.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: A simple Motion Blur demo using WebGL

This is a very good point, depending upon speed there's really no upper limit to the frame rate necessary for 'smooth' motion.

Also it's very, very annoying that Firefox is limited to 60Hz, that's very short sighted in my opinion.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: LibreOffice hits 4.0

I actually really like their website; I don't like that it has such a small fixed width, but I'm quite drawn to the simple design.

More than that it's very usable to, to each their own I guess.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps

I used to have this effect watching video game streams in 60FPS, and I have absolutely no conception of how this works at all (I mean games run at that FPS anyway, I cannot figure it out at all).

It goes away after a while and then it just seems smoother, it is very disorienting at first though I admit.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps

From personal experience that is far too low, I'd like to see the source for this.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: Study: Home air conditioning cut premature deaths on hot days 80% since 1960

It's not really too bad honestly, it's an acclimatisation thing.

Spent a few holidays in places where it was regularly 35+ degrees and only really struggled for a day or two, I can't imagine it being worse for you if you live there full time since you'd be much more used to the weather.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: Windows 8 Sales Disappoint in Shaky PC Market

Isn't the faster booting thing just exactly the same as only using hibernate on Windows 7?

Granted I haven't looked into it fully but I doubt the actual cold boot speeds vary wildly between the two.

MattDL | 13 years ago | on: The Hobbit, the Uncanny Valley, and what it means for 3D

The 60fps myth should be wearing thin by now, and I'm sad to see it repeated so often on HN.

I don't have the relevant links available to me currently, but suffice to say the eye can pick up on far, far more than 60 fps.

The fast forward look is just an adjustment period, you experience the same watching videos of games at 60fps (even though they're played in 60fps normally, it's a very odd thing).