Solvency

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by Solvency 2y ago
ah bureaucracy! tell me, did one of those guys who wear a ridiculous giant white wig declare the divorce was final?
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by Solvency 2y ago
got it. but now i kind of want a torrent-based dropbox. i have five workstations. would be great to be able to utilize them as my own miniature distributed file system without a corporate server.
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by Solvency 2y ago
so is this like a Dropbox alternative using the bittorrent protocol?
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by Solvency 2y ago
just because this zooms doesn't mean you made a ZUI. the spirit of a ZUI is change of information/density/etc at different levels of zoom. like google maps.
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by Solvency 2y ago
it's wild watching you worship musk relentlessly on him comment after comment. you LOVE him. we get it.
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by Solvency 2y ago
Because: 1. good communication requires an intelligence that most people sadly lack 2. because the type of people who are smart enough to invent transformers have zero incentive to make them easily understandable. most documents are written
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by Solvency 2y ago
but.. why?
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by Solvency 2y ago
forever for the most part. unless you donate blood. frequently.
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by Solvency 2y ago
wrong. somethings are lucky. most things are unlucky.
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by Solvency 2y ago
why did "dead code elimination" come to exist when dead/dying trees have existed for millions of years?
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by Solvency 2y ago
are you a tote manufacturer or something?
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by Solvency 2y ago
dude HN is notorious for this. is a bunch of surly cranky developers who just down vote things for kicks. your comment was great.
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by Solvency 2y ago
....why does the process have to be so shitty?
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by Solvency 2y ago
what Figma plug-in?
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by Solvency 2y ago
it's that plus apple having better "design" aesthetic, so the ads never feel as garishly plastered in as microsoft's.
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by Solvency 2y ago
uh what? the average news site is hacked together by a motley crew of non-programmer marketing interns who apply every possible bloated inefficient awful ad/tracking/targeting/react/javascript spawn of satan into their s
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by Solvency 2y ago
i'm more curious about the future of it because he said he wants to go full-time on it.
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by Solvency 2y ago
there are quite literally at least 20 JavaScript data visualization libraries, many with years of maturity. Are there any particular reasons I should stake my personal usage on your library going forward over any of the others besides the &
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by Solvency 2y ago
"why do octopi have camouflaging capabilities? because of natural incentives!" it's essentially a trite truism/platitude. you can apply it to everything and if you don't want to delve deeper, why say it.
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by Solvency 2y ago
i've never seen the word incentive used more in my life than on hacker news. Is there some famous tech talk by a programming idol that involved the word incentive that's caused it to become such a weird fixture in this community?
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by Solvency 2y ago
We get it. It's been garbage for over 6 years. Possibly edging on a decade. Yes Google is aware and complicit. No they're not going to change it. Why? Because it PRINTS MONEY for them.
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by Solvency 2y ago
people have been crapping on HP printers since at least 2003. On every single ancient forum, on every single message board, on digg, Reddit, etc. it's quite literally on "you" if you're still buying HP printers at this p
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by Solvency 2y ago
can someone explain what this means I can do with it if I know vanilla JavaScript? for example, I used the image upscaling playground on hugging face all the time. But I do it manually here: https://huggingface.co/spaces&#x2
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by Solvency 2y ago
...which is exactly why the mentality i described is endemic
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by Solvency 2y ago
exactly. the exact mentality i described is behind most of the government corruption. "fuck you, i got mine."
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by Solvency 2y ago
were talking about a tiny desktop app that wraps ffmpeg CLI. this is the perfect use case for it, over, say, VISUAL STUDIO CODE.
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by Solvency 2y ago
but anyone can create an electron app these days with total control over the UI polish with way less effort. in fact electron seems like the perfect use case here for a ffmpeg UI wrapper. surprised no one has done it.
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by Solvency 2y ago
how so? you literally select a file, and choose a preset and export. Not happy with one of the presets? Cool, adjust some quality sliders and hit export.
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by Solvency 2y ago
fully empty map on iOS safari for me.
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by Solvency 2y ago
can you explain why would i pay and use this over Handbrake on a Mac?

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