JohnBooty

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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I find both of them equally (un)reliable. I feel like they both work(ed) about 80% of the time. The most annoying failure case for FaceID for me is using it in bed. I'm a side sleeper so half of my face is mushed into the pillow. I rea
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I'm not sure that "PIN + hardware dongle that requires continuous skin contact" is meaningfully less secure than a fingerprint sensor, but at least Apple puts you in the driver's seat to choose the level you're most
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
The only sane way to judge "professional excellence" would be holistically, not by asking "has this person or team ever shipped a bug?" If you disagree, then I hope you are judged the same way during your next review. In
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
The Apple Watch knows that it's you, or at least somebody that knows your PIN. It's tied to your iPhone and Apple account during initial setup. Each time you put the Apple Watch on, you have to enter your PIN to unlock it. It can
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
Well, then I'd like to work where you work. Hard to find shops that take performance seriously. You hiring? In my experience it's always been quite a battle to spend time on perf. I'll happily take a demotion if I make a 10x
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
premature optimization One of those absolutely true statements that can obscure a bigger reality. It's certainly true that a lot of optimization can and should be done after a software project is largely complete. You can s
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I do not think the initial decision-making process was "hey, screw working-class people... let's have a 120GB install size on PC." My best recollection is that the PC install size was a lot more reasonable at launch. It just
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
FWIW, the PC install size was reasonable at launch. It just crept up slowly over time. But this means that before they blindly trusted some stats without actually testing how their game performed with and without it? Mayb
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
Are you a working software engineer? I'm sure that whatever project you're assigned to has a lot of optimization stuff in the backlog that you'd love to work on but haven't had a chance to visit because bugfixes, new fea
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I expect better from HN, where most of us are engineers or engineer-adjacent. It's fair to question Arrowhead's priorities but... too lazy Really? I think the PC install size probably should have been addressed sooner too
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I expect it's a story that'll never get told in enough detail to satisfy curiosity, but it certainly seems strange from the outside for this optimisation to be both possible and acceptable. From a technica
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
the optimal amount to spend on software optimization is at least a substantial fraction of your hardware budget. This has been a banging-head-against-wall sort of struggle every place I've worked on software, without AI
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
You can spend $100B on a assets but it doesn't mean you'll turn a profit. Capitalism certainly favors those with the most... capital, but there are quite a few other factors. Market fit, efficiency, etc. The Dutch East India Compa
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
It's an interesting question and is, more or less, what the linked article is about. I enjoyed the read. (While written by a woman, it comes down decisively on the side of "hey - you don't need anybody's permission to fi
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
Flickr doesn't break down views, so, for all I know it could have been bots doing image recognition or a single guy in his bedroom clicking on certain pictures 100x a day. But yeah.... "links shared on forums" was always my l
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I.... enjoyed looking at that! The confusing ones in my account were sooooo much tamer though. The chests were not even remotely the focus of the photos. It was subtle enough that it took me a while to even figure out the trend.
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I feel as though my post didn't really connect. Let me give an example, sort of: This stock image is roughly the level of thing I'm talking about, except even with women who are less obviously chesty: https://www.gettyi
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
videos in the "woman with large breasts not wearing a bra does something mundane" genre with multiple millions of views. Anecdata: even if they're wearing bras and not dressed in a revealing way and it&#x2
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
As somebody currently navigating the brutal job market, I'm scared shitless about that too. I have to tell you though, that the historical success rate of railing against "technologies that make labor more efficient" is curr
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
we need to create a culture that values craftmanship and dignifies work done by developers. I don't think that is at ALL at odds with using AI as a coding assistant! I am not going to tell you I am a coding god, but I h
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
This was very insightful. It made me think about how "hacker culture" has changed. I'm middle-aged. 30 years ago, hacker culture as I experienced it was about making cool stuff. It was also about the identity -- hackers wer
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
I don't think any of us has enough data to judge this. The vast majority of code exists strictly behind closed doors in companies' various internal systems. And for the commercial and open source code you do see, how do you know i
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
Firefox performs poorly on Google properties (Gmail is fine, YouTube, gsuite, admin consoles are pretty bad) I switch between FF and Chrome pretty frequently, and I've never felt any issues with YT or Gsuite. Haven&
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
I talked to a guy who used to run a grocery store. There were low-income housing apartment buildings nearby. People would walk to the store, buy groceries, and then just roll the damn carts back to their buildings down the street. Sounds te
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
When there are large parking lots, there are multiple cart return areas scattered throughout the lot. Otherwise things would be really inefficient, to an even more nightmarish (and money-costing) degree. Not sure if you're from the U
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
Wow. Can you give some more geographical context on where this happened and where the girl is from? (Obviously, not revealing personal details) I have known some rich snobs in my life, but I have never been someplace where a even the rich s
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
That makes sense, but sometimes it's even more confusing than that! When I lived in Philadelphia here in the USA, it would vary street by street and block by block even when there were no ethnic or economic divides. One block would hav
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
people, on average don't return the shopping cart Perhaps I'm reading this too literally, but "on average?" This is a very flawed society, but I don't think I've ever seen the rando stranded carts equ
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
"Legend" barely begins to describe. She is up there with the Carmacks et al. She was probably the first programmer I knew by name as a kid, following the games industry as a kid.
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by JohnBooty 11mo ago
It is truly a marker of good vs bad people as far as it comes to participating in a high trust society. Here's an even better test, if you ask me. Do you ever grab one of those "stranded" shopping carts on

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