Shish2k

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by Shish2k 5y ago
“remote desktop with low-latency, sound, and gamepad support” _feels_ like the sort of well-scoped highly-technical problem that open-source should excel at... I remember wanting that back in the days when VNC was considered state of the ar
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I’ve noticed similar recently - I used to play Overwatch as a form of “snacking” (rounds are ~10 minutes, so it’s easy to use it to fill up any odd quiet moments); decided to take a break due to the Activision drama… and now suddenly I seem
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> I think a lot of people would prefer a Facebook that showed what your friends post in chronological order A lot of people say they want this... but so far every study has come back with the result of “even the people who say they wan
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> The repression is external to their love of each other It’s not very “external” when the police are breaking down your door to force themselves into the middle of your activities. It’s something you need to be constantly aware of - if
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I haven’t visited /. for years so maybe out of date, but IIRC this was largely helped by separating voting from type - so even if a comment gets a lot of upvotes for being funny, my personal settings of “ignore funny comments” means I
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I miss having this attitude - as a teenager, I created a two minute long animation with ~200 bytes of code and ~1700 bytes of data (demoscene-style). Now as a professional software engineer if you asked me to do that, I’d say “it’s impossib
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> I'm surprised that this stuff is audit only These days things are mostly working the way you describe - I need to request permission to view my own service’s logs, and I’m working in backend infra not going anywhere near user data
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by Shish2k 5y ago
This makes sense when you realise Firefox is trying to be a web browser, and Chrome is trying to be an operating system...
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Chrome is no longer “a browser”, it’s more like the new JVM - the “write once, run anywhere” platform for desktop app deployment
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Syncthing requires setup on both ends, and then automatically keeps two complete folders in sync across a network (local or internet), conceptually similar to a network file system. This only requires having the app installed on both ends,
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> why should they pay them differently? tl;dr: because they can. You’re not paid based on how much value you provide - you’re paid the smallest amount possible to stop you from quitting.
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I’m curious, what are they based on, and is there any reason to have a number there beyond “people expect a number”?
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by Shish2k 5y ago
With stable currencies, if I buy $10 of stuff today, then I have $10 of stuff, and at the end of the week my bank account will be $10 (+/-0.01%) lower than where it would have been had I saved the money. I don’t regret this purchase. W
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by Shish2k 5y ago
That’s exactly the problem for me: I’m the kind of person who sees money as “a token to be traded for goods and / or services”, and why would any normal person (ie, not counting crypto investment nerds) want to trade their eth if the m
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I wish more people felt this way. The pressure for all people (and all organisations) to pick a side in all issues doesn’t seem like it’s actually helping to fix very many issues...
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> Is there anything that it does better than any other language/ecosystem? It has the lowest barrier to entry, both as a developer, and a user - as far as I can tell no other language has even tried to compete in this area :(
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> Can we at least be honest about the problems with […], rather than make them the random big baddies in areas that they're not? I feel like this applies to basically everything recently. I don’t know what to do about it :(
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I’m pretty sure people are referring to https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html Tl;dr: trans men are men, trans women are women, non-binary people are fine too; singular “they” is ambiguous and it would
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> This is a lot simpler than migrating to (and getting locked in to) systemd Depends on your perspective - for a developer, “do whatever you want in whatever way you’re comfortable with” is simple. As a sysadmin, I much prefer the simpli
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> encode a potentially large number of discrete channels and their positions in 3D space This does seem like a lot - but at the same time, it doesn’t seem like much compared to the advances in graphics over the past decades? I feel like
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I’m not sure anything has changed - people are just looking at RMS and his writing from every possible angle, since we’re all expected to be picking sides in the “RMS rejoins FSF” drama. Since this is “a thing RMS wrote”, then it’s an oppor
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by Shish2k 6y ago
TBH even as a nonbinary person who goes by singular “they”, even I think that singular-they is ambiguous and I wish that some other non-ambiguous singular-gender-neutral pronoun had taken off instead… (I’m still going by “they” because a
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> None of these things are new to humanity The speed and the scale at which “a random throwaway comment to a friend” can be taken out of context and used to ruin a person’s life are pretty new
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Do you have a link to the video? Lifetime parameters and their placements are the one bit of rust syntax that I still can’t get my head around :P
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by Shish2k 6y ago
In my software engineering work I do a lot more “writing documentation to be as clear as possible” than “social deduction and subtle signalling” ^^;;
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by Shish2k 6y ago
To be double-clear - the problems being discussed are in the freebsd kernel-mode implementation. The freebsd userspace implementation is fine, and implementations on other OSes are fine :)
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I switched to using this because keepass didn’t have a good way of syncing its database with iOS devices, and the official bitwarden server has too many moving parts (including MS-SQL with no support for open source databases??) - aside fro
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by Shish2k 6y ago
The official server is a cluster of microservices including MS-SQL of all things — bitwarden_rs is a single self-contained service which Just Works
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by Shish2k 6y ago
It’s difficult to judge because everything feels simple in retrospect - but going by “number of times I attempted to learn something and gave up” - I made around 6 attempts over 2 years to learn Blender (in the v2.5 era), and each time fail
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by Shish2k 6y ago
“Why are we punishing the guilty and letting the innocent go free? It’s hypocritical to treat different situations differently!” /s Or to try and raise the level of discussion: “The HN community” is thousands of people who rarely agree

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