Crespyl

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by Crespyl 10y ago
You're right, of course, but a VPN at least lets you make sure that the service that can snoop on your data doesn't want to snoop on your data, because they know you'll just leave them for another, more privacy conscious,
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by Crespyl 10y ago
I probably buy fewer things through Steam than I do Humble Bundle, GoG, etc., but do all my gaming through Steam anyway just for all the other things it provides, even aside from social things like friends-lists and server joining. To name
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Discord isn't about to replace TS/Mumble for your WoW raiding or large organized clans, but it spread like wildfire among my friends who play League of Legends or Dota 2, and other games with medium-small groups of players. The f
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by Crespyl 10y ago
I tried Allo once, which was enough. It was actually fascinating, because it was among the most viscerally negative reactions I've ever had to a piece of software. It reminded me of that trick where you play back someone's speech
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by Crespyl 10y ago
No, but I do personally test the physical security measures of every car or computer I purchase and bring into my home.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
I'll add that to my list of bad ideas.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the major players are holding back on JS modules until after WASM gets farther along. It could seem like a waste of effort to standardize and implement JS modules (which "everyone already has&qu
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Anecdotally, I share GPs frustration and excitement about erasers. It's pretty neat when they actually work well, which never seems to happen with most pencil erasers.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
When you put it like that, it sort of reminds me of how Mir came about. Maybe that's unfair.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
IIRC Ubuntu Studio (and most (all?) professional linux audio systems) uses JACK rather than ASLA/Pulse like most other versions of Ubuntu. JACK has a reputation for being fiddly to set up, but puts great emphasis on low-latency/re
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Thanks for that link, that finally helped me understand the real benefit of the patch model, this quote in particular: > The difference between what svn does and what darcs does here is, contrary to popular belief, not that darcs make
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by Crespyl 10y ago
It's a bad analogy but I'll try to play along: The tunnels are private property, with a sign saying "Private Property - Do Not Enter", and nothing gives you the inherent right to use them.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Wouldn't using, say, a high performance source code search engine in their backend, be "in connection with rendering the Website and providing the Service"? Isn't there a (theoretical) concern for someone hosting GPL&#x2
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by Crespyl 10y ago
I'm not the best person to ask, and I don't fully understand segwit, but I think it's the Core devs (partial) solution to the problem of scaling up the network without increasing block size. IIUC, segwit makes certain kinds o
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by Crespyl 10y ago
It has to do with the need for increased block sizes. Right now, each block (chunk of validated transactions) can only be 1MB in size. This restricts the total throughput of the network, but keeps the total size of the blockchain down and
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by Crespyl 10y ago
From skimming the thumbnails in the linked site, I don't know that I'd call HN or reddit brutalist designs, maybe "classic" or "skeletal". The emphasis is on dense content with simple links, and there's no
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Think Hari Seldon/psychohistory. Predicting mid to long-term trends and demographic shifts far enough ahead of time to make investments.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
That's really interesting, I hadn't seen his input method stuff before. Reminds a lot of MessagEase, which I use on every touch system that supports it.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted, and I largely agree with the position that in most cases an adblocker will stop most malware from reaching the user. I suspect the remaining cases mostly come from email and social engineeri
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by Crespyl 10y ago
The trick is in what constitutes "combination", particularly re. static vs. dynamic linking. My understanding is that, at least with LGPL, you can have a closed source program distributed with a LGPL shared object/dll (plus l
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by Crespyl 10y ago
It's certainly not perfect, but I discovered just the other day that the "Big Picture" web browser (embedded chromium, IIRC) does work with Netflix. I think maybe you can't get 4k or 5.1 sound unless you're using E
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by Crespyl 10y ago
If you are ever interested in pursuing aesthetic beauty as a developer, you might enjoy generative/procedural art. Tools like Processing[0] are very accessible even to those with minimal programming experience, and can be very powerful
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by Crespyl 10y ago
My problem with HBO GO is that it apparently requires you to have a cable subscription that includes HBO. Fortunately they finally came to their senses and now offer HBO "Now", which is a separate, online-only, offering that doesn
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by Crespyl 10y ago
The incredibly slick ease of use/user onboarding doesn't hurt either.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
There's a difference between end-to-end/client-side encryption and secure/encrypted backend storage. I don't think anyone's commented on the backend security situation (I'd hope they'd have messages encryp
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by Crespyl 10y ago
For what it's worth, FireFox has a similar reader view on Android and desktop.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
For any kind of pointing/aiming/selection task, the SC is hands down the best I've seen (arguably even more comfortable than mouse/kb for some things). Where it fails in comparison to other controllers is button-feel, IM
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Didn't there used to be an LLVM C backend? I think it's long since fallen into disrepair/bitrot, but it could probably be revived if there was enough demand.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Updaters/patchers for some popular games (Blizzard stuff, League of Legends, etc.) use P2P methods to reduce hosting requirements when pushing big updates to hundreds of thousands/millions of players. I'm sure there's ot
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by Crespyl 10y ago
IIRC it tried to be slightly more clever (might've been L4D2) in that it also kept track of the recent history of the game and attempted to balance the pace of the action. If it thought players had had it easy for a while it might thro

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