Shish2k

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by Shish2k 6y ago
> the operating system does its best to pretend that nothing is wrong, so it takes you as long as possible to realize that you've made a mistake Aka “the PHP design philosophy”?
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by Shish2k 6y ago
“Yes”, but with custom server, custom virtual filesystem layer, and heavily-tweaked client — https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden
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by Shish2k 6y ago
That seems to imply there’s some problem with hg the tool, being big and bloated? In my experience the tool is fine (quite a lot better than git, IMO) - the problem is that distributed version control is all about community, and the communi
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by Shish2k 6y ago
One does not simply avoid Nintendo’s lawyers by following the law :P
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Facebook-the-product doesn’t want to be the arbiter of acceptable speech for the whole world. Facebook’s HR department does want to be the arbiter of acceptable speech for facebook employees communicating with each other inside the compan
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by Shish2k 6y ago
So is the lesson here “the media will destroy any social network that doesn’t feed the clickbait-outrage machine”? :(
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by Shish2k 6y ago
“Should the width of a shape be defined by the inside, outside, or center of its border” is (box-model in HTML terms) is a thing I use all the time in illustrator, but is missing in SVG :(
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I’m pretty sure NetHack works that way (Perhaps the whole genre all the way back to the original Rogue, but nethack is the one that I’ve personally played)
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Sony has the worst app I’ve ever seen[1], to the point where I legitimately don’t know how it passed the app store vetting process. Paragraphs of text have wrapping disabled so that the text goes off screen (important text, like the TOS!).
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by Shish2k 6y ago
If you’re building an app to run on other people’s servers, vanilla PHP is much more widely available :( (Sad because I use Hack in my day job and PHP for my open source projects, and find Hack way more pleasant and productive)
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> Anything but micro transactions and subscriptions. Are you implying that hiking up the base-price of a game will stop companies from wanting post-sale monetisation? That seems optimistic :P
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> blacklist/whitelist are now blocklist/allowlist and so on We did that… and then a week later, got informed that “blocklist” is still racist because it “looks similar to blacklist” and now we need to do a second refactoring to
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> a _reasonable person_ may choose to interpret this Alas, it’s not up to reasonable people to interpret the rules, it’s up to those in power, who can and will interpret it in whatever way benefits them (See also, the Shirley Exception -
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Been using this for a while and loving it - it feels like functional programming for GUIs (“describe what you want the end result to look like, and the framework makes it happen” as opposed to “describe what steps to execute”). I’m pretty s
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I’ve been looking at this for a while and not seen anything better than chromecast :( (For the specific use-case of “streaming from phone / laptop to TV”) I really wish Kodi had a chromecast-server plugin, as Kodi is way better at ever
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> There is a lot of it on some platforms (like Steam and Oculus PC), but most of it isn't very good. On Quest there isn't much to play or experience period. With an appropriate USB-C cable[1], Quest has access to the Steam and
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> US citizens are armed to their teeth With the justification of “We need the power to resist against a government who turns on its citizens” - now that that’s clearly BS, maybe time to tighten the gun laws and de-escalate the whole coun
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> 1984 has a much higher cultural impact and awareness than ATLA My anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise, but I’d love some real data - how are you measuring that?
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I saw something like that one time - the new version had one rarely-used broken API endpoint; clients who hit that would silently retry until eventually hitting an old instance which worked and then they’d be on their way. It was rarely u
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> but doesn't sound like you want a police free lefty utopia In some ways that’s a feature more than a bug - by demanding an insanely extreme solution, you shift the overton window such that a realistic solution looks acceptable by
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> users are supposed to be able to decline cookies and somehow still maintain state GDPR only applies to non-essential tracking & advertising cookies. Login cookies are always allowed, and you don’t need a banner to state that you us
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> The word "master" is overloaded Overloading of words is no longer allowed. See also: people can’t refer to their non-binary gender as “NB” because that means "non-black” in the context of race; polyamarous people can’t r
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> It's hard to see how playing such games with human language can possibly lead to improved discourse The goal isn’t to improve discourse, the goal is for Us to beat Them, even if we do it by redefining the word “beat” :(
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by Shish2k 6y ago
Alas, this is what The People democratically voted for; and with our current voting system, the will of us 49% who don’t want to hear it counts for nothing u_u
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Facebook shareholders try to block encryption plan(bbc.com)
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> DNS doesn't return ports, only IP addresses DNS can return IP:Port pairs, using SRV records instead of A/AAAA records, but for some reason it never took off :( I guess because these days everything uses HTTP as the transpor
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by Shish2k 6y ago
It is indeed :) Looking at the code now, I see so many opportunities for “improvement” like making it run on OSX as well as Linux; but I think that might spoil the magic :P
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by Shish2k 6y ago
> If you're capable of doing stuff you like, being creative, liking that work, and creating that much income, why are you not doing it now? Because it’s a huge risk with no safety net - even if I’m 95% confident that I could support
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by Shish2k 6y ago
When I was ~15 I wrote this: $c=`clear`;for(`tail -c+324 $0|zcat`){if(/^p/){print@l;@l=()}elsif(/^d(.+)/){select$u,$u,$u,$1/10}elsif(/^s(.)/){$s=9;$e=-30;$m=-1;if('o'eq$1){$s=-30;$e=9;$m=1}for($i
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by Shish2k 6y ago
I was in this situation; I went with “salt master exposed to the internet” because it’s the only service on that box - if I’d wrapped it in a VPN, then I’m replacing one exposed service with a different exposed service, and VPNs aren’t immu

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