Hamcha

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by Hamcha 4y ago
Far from me to want to put Microsoft on a pedestal, but it always felt like neither liked playing fair. WP eventually got a third party Youtube app that kinda stuck for a while, but it was paid (and actually decent) and AFAIK it never got a
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by Hamcha 4y ago
You have it backward, Amazon and Samsung's own appstores are desperate attempts to get enough traction out of Play Store so that they are not forced to succumb to Google's demands. The issue here isn't Android not being open
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by Hamcha 4y ago
Remember when Google refused to put Youtube on Windows Phone and when Microsoft made their own client, Google forced them to take it off their own store? Truly advocating for more choice. (Press at the time: https://www.theregist
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by Hamcha 4y ago
Competition is great, especially when it breaks oligopolies, I just hope stuff like the Digital Markets Act will manage to stop them from abusing their positions to make their solution a monopoly
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I am by all means not a big client of artists but I commission custom character art all the time and what makes me commission (especially smaller) artists is their signature style. I have never seen an artist grow from doing boring stock ar
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by Hamcha 4y ago
Passwords can be reused and stored on remote servers, if one is compromised, those password are now out there. Passkeys are asymmetric so the actual key is only stored in your keychain and the UX basically prevents reuse
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by Hamcha 4y ago
IANAL but I think the legal ramification is probably that big services won't be allowed to ban third party clients and services, i.e. Whatsapp waged war on unofficial clients for the longest time
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I feel anyone who drives enough traffic to get consistent and valuable ad paychecks could just as well make exclusive paywalled content through Patreon and whatnot. If you can convince 0.1% of your viewership to fork over 1$/mo, wouldn
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by Hamcha 4y ago
People pay for DDOS for the stupidest reasons, one of my favorite game servers have been under constant DDOS attack because they changed their discord icon in support of Ukraine.
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I know I shouldn't ask HN for legal advice, but does anyone know how these laws affects websites not made by americans and not hosted in the US? Could I still be fined for this? Would it be my job or their job to blacklist my websites
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by Hamcha 4y ago
Isn't that the point though? A lot of our UIs use skeumorphism, adapted to work on a single point input device on a flat 2D plane. VR changes both input device and medium, so the analogies should translate as well. If you slap a 2D pla
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by Hamcha 4y ago
If anything, it shows that Rec Room has always had really good art direction and whoever did the UX is a genius. Back when I was active in it (many years ago) I remember seeing them eager to drop the typical UI approaches for stuff that jus
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by Hamcha 4y ago
Zig, the programming language Bun is written on, is currently having some Windows headaches of its own: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12420 I wonder how much of Bun's immaturity is due to Zig&#x2
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by Hamcha 4y ago
Sure: https://github.com/JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches The Readme includes the list of applied patches.
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I beg to differ, the real beauty is how anyone can fork them to follow their own vision e.g. Open TTD has a fork with bundled community patches dating decades that never landed in the main game, or Space Station 13, a game that plays comple
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by Hamcha 4y ago
How is debt not accurate here? You wanna build something? You may over-invest (too much debt), invest just right (manageable debt) or wait until it's too late (the paragon you mention). Debt is a nasty word and it's meant to be bu
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by Hamcha 4y ago
You don't really need DX10 and lower on Windows anymore either, dgVoodoo2[1] is routinely used (along DXVK) on Windows itself because of how better supported DX11/DX12 and Vulkan are by modern drivers. I hope someone will benchmar
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I'm glad Intel has been swallowing their pride on this one, I want them to succeed for once. What really would drive me to support them directly would be (para)virtualization support via SR-IOV/GVT-g. Especially given Microsoft&#x
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I think the big problem is that our regulations are too strict for US companies to comply to without breaking US laws. I have a feeling that if the US had insanely good privacy laws, EU probably wouldn't have too much issue delegating
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by Hamcha 4y ago
A shoutout is very appreciated and putting Zig in the title line definitely is what caught my interest (so yes Zig is being used to promote bun probably more than bun is promoting Zig at this point) but the writing specifically on the websi
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I want to love this so much, kinda sad that Windows support is non-existant outside of WSL (which I try to use as a last resort option). I love the bundling of most tasks in one app, especially in an environment where I had friends refuse t
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I mean it's nowhere as bad, and for legacy stuff usually CORS/SOP helps. New implementations that use websocket as their root (mostly for web browser compatibility) seem to take security more seriously out of the box, I use a coup
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by Hamcha 4y ago
That last statement is so evil, If I wasn't ready to buy something for myself why would I ever tell someone else to do it instead? I don't agree with any of your points. Speculators have never contributed to tech, has crypto/
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by Hamcha 4y ago
To me the really fascinating magic tricks are the ones that use the basics like sleight of hands and misdirection to build a proper story and presentation, this is just blatant cheating, it's fascinating to know how it's done but
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I've used Copilot to help with writing verbose unit tests. It can do it as long as you keep an eye over it (basically like an autocomplete), it definitely cannot produce robust test cases on its own though. If you try to do that, it wo
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I use Deno from time to time, and in my opinion more than a back-end language it's a really powerful scripting language. Being able to reference libraries by URL and the Go-like standard library mixed with Typescript async makes it a b
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by Hamcha 4y ago
40$ can go a long way. In my personal scenario: - Money is worth more to me than the average US dev because I earn less than US developers, and therefore my time is definitely worth less. - I cannot use this for work at my current workplace
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by Hamcha 4y ago
I've been using Copilot non-stop on every hobby project I have ever since they've let me in (2021/07/13) and I am honestly flabbergasted they think it's worth 10$/mo. My experience using it till this day is the
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by Hamcha 4y ago
If you can't enforce your license how is choosing a different license helping you? After a quick glance I thought I might use this for a project of mine but NC-SA definitely killed my interest in this. I'm not a local corporation
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by Hamcha 4y ago
Does this kind of stuff really never backfire? I can see maybe with Bolt or Uber since you're in a hurry you might just cave, but I see this behavior everywhere! In a world where every app tries to exploit "spur of the moment&quot

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