HidyBush

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by HidyBush 4y ago
ah yes, '.lk' for 'sri LanKa"
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by HidyBush 4y ago
You might want to read my post again, I specifically talked about AR and VR applications
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by HidyBush 4y ago
Making GUIs with game engines is the future not because they are easy to develop with, but because the moment AR and VR become common we already have tools to make 3D interfaces
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by HidyBush 4y ago
Seems strange to me that this wasn't what Pine and Librem chose to start their mobile endeavors with. You simply can't yet compete with 15 years of smartphone developements by the biggest tech companies ever. Having a completely o
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by HidyBush 4y ago
We will finally able to re-use old smartphones if open source drivers will be written for their hardware. There is literally no fundamental smartphone functionality that has been lacking from 2012 onwards, and as such there is absolutely no
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by HidyBush 4y ago
>U.S. Soccer is a joke U.S. male Soccer is a joke* I urge anyone curious about this topic to go and look how the US female soccer team performs globally, it truly speaks about how the US has a bad soccer team simply because all the talen
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by HidyBush 4y ago
Why is nobody talking about how many situations will arise where one person sends a voice message with a certain tone only to be completely misrepresented by someone using this context-killing feature?
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by HidyBush 4y ago
This consciousness business is making a lot of people behave like religious fanatics. A couple of years ago I had the displeasure of attending a conference by Federico Faggin (the creator of the Intel 4004 and 8080) that after a historical
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by HidyBush 4y ago
>but it rankles me a bit when the term "epidemic" is used to describe widespread conditions that are not communicable/infectuous but short sightedness caused by lack of sunlight exposure is infectuous. why do you think k
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by HidyBush 4y ago
Biology is never touted as something that will be helpful in the workplace. But if you learn what viruses and bacteria are and internalize the fact that we are all made of cells and are immersed in a world of micro organisms, maybe when som
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by HidyBush 4y ago
I mean, I would suppose people who want IRC on their phone must be pretty senior. They can't spare 2 dollars per year to pay for the developers to keep the app afloat?
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by HidyBush 4y ago
I think an MLM business can be described as a business model that is mathematically proven to not work and is intentionally employed to make the founders rich off the money of other people. A business that simply needs to reach a certain sc
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by HidyBush 4y ago
FOSS on Apple products that only have an app store is doomed because it costs money to have a developer account. FOSS activists always claim that it's free as in free speech and not free beer, but somehow these FOSS apps everyone claim
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by HidyBush 4y ago
I expected a treatise about how different video codecs perform when dealing with 4k video, not a very good title imho
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by HidyBush 4y ago
Another day, another unknown Apple feature buried down in menus that has just made me uninstall a dedicated app
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by HidyBush 4y ago
Chinese people are happy to trade their privacy and freedoms if it means guaranteed prosperity and security. As long as they and their children are certain to get a job that pays for basic life and a few amenities for them and their family
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by HidyBush 4y ago
damn, that æsthetic is pristine. those pics almost look like handmade pixel art
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by HidyBush 4y ago
This is what happens when a for profit company LARPs as an ethical one. On one hand they talk about diversity and on the other they desperately hire people they can pay less from areas of the world where "diversity is our strength&quot
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by HidyBush 4y ago
I mean, go and look who were the most famous authors 200 years ago and you will not recognize one name. The amount of legendary writers we have lost to time and moldy paper is huge
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by HidyBush 4y ago
you are implicitly arguing for browsers to become operating systems
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by HidyBush 4y ago
could you please explain to me then what the purpose if the web is? to do everything?
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by HidyBush 4y ago
Why would a scientist need to publish images and plots on the web? Just write a blog post which is basically an abstract of your article and then simply put a link to a gorgeous PDF containing the full article filled with gorgeous visualiza
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by HidyBush 4y ago
I wonder how futuristic that looked to the people at the time
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by HidyBush 4y ago
the level of effort is determined by how deep in the stack you are. if you make a new JS framework every single browser will run it, if you make a new web scripting language good luck getting support from even one browser
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by HidyBush 4y ago
The old saying goes like this: "if you want freedom on one layer you need stability on the layer below" My guess is that since frontend web development is at the top of the stack it has an incredible amount of freedom so everythi
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by HidyBush 4y ago
I might be extremely old fashioned, but this is not the web I would want to be revived. This inaccessible mess of "artsy" html and css, images and gifs and sound bits. The web I want back is the original one: hyperlinked text docu
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by HidyBush 4y ago
If you don't care enough about a certain art form then you'll never search deep enough (and most of the times it's not even that deep) to find the good stuff. This guy spent a few of his points talking about music. What does
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by HidyBush 4y ago
Are we sure YouTube doesn't already do this? Often I have searched for a video while only remembering a certain phrase or even a certain comment left under it, and YouTube was able to actually find it
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by HidyBush 4y ago
I don't understand your reply. Are you implying that Dropbox is so advanced that it couldn't be implemented on a simpler device? Are you seriously telling me you need Android to send encrypted blobs over the internet?
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by HidyBush 4y ago
I know about matrix bridges, but I'm sorry to say they're a pipe dream. First of all I would have to manage them myself, which is a pain and costs money. Secondly, anything could break at any time: the vps provider, the domain pro

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