Uehreka

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811.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Agreed. I likewise find analysis/comments that begin with some reference to journalists and clickbait pretty tedious.
812.
by Uehreka 5y ago
In my experience, if the thing I’m working on runs in Safari, it’s buttery smooth. And if it doesn’t run, it completely shits the bed. Stuff like “we don’t support that way of doing shadows in SVG, so rather than simply not implement that p
813.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I’d definitely disagree on that front. Though I do think there’s been a bit of a logarithmic curve, the difference in what was possible in 2000 vs 2022 is pretty huge. Like, listen to Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) or
814.
by Uehreka 5y ago
There were a lot of bands harkening back to an 80’s sound in the 2000’s, and people were saying that the “retro cycle” was therefore 20 years (if it was recurring in the 2020’s that’d be 40 years). But I think someone could make the case th
815.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Github owns npm.
816.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Regarding ES6: Definitely. It used to be that there’d be a new JS framework every week, and the language was rapidly evolving to catch up with over 10 years of programming language innovation. No change to the language as big as ES6 has hap
817.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Until 1998, my middle class American family didn’t have internet. I was a rather tech-curious kid, but until we actually had a second phone line run to our house and a new Gateway computer and a modem, there was this huge barrier to what I
818.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Not me. I have assembly-olfactory synesthesia and x86 code smells like the bad parts of gasoline. Kidding aside, unless you’re looking to play games, most apps have either ported to Apple Silicon, or have a Beta of their port that is releas
819.
by Uehreka 5y ago
What bothers me personally is that they use so much energy _now_, even though they’re still pretty fringe. Sure, a lot of people have a little crypto floating around, but not most people, and almost no one is using it as a medium for exchan
820.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Wouldn’t it be trivial for YouTube to just make a filter that says “If a user marks over 20 videos ‘Not Interesting’ in 24 hours, stop counting their ‘Not Interesting’ marks in our recommendation algorithm”?
821.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I’ve learned over time that many people who make helpful videos are not skilled at how to edit or pace a video at all. But I often need the content and can’t get it elsewhere. 2x is so great for screencast tutorials for things like Blender.
822.
by Uehreka 5y ago
They kind of do have a gun to their head, forcing them to make “YouTube Face” thumbnails. Like, if you’re proud of your work and want it to get seen at all, this is what you have to do. It sucks, but in many cases any trace of “annoying You
823.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I dunno dawg. Whenever I’ve really needed police (when my tires got slashed, when a group of neighborhood kids kicked in my roommate’s windshield within full view of our CCTV, when I got randomly beat up on a bus by a homeless guy, when my
824.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I basically lived this arc in fast motion that week. Monday I was like “huh, interesting”, Tuesday I had some laughs with my Dad (who works in banking) about how crazy it was, then Wednesday I started seeing a lot of my friends who work in
825.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Bill Hwang, revered as a God Of YOLO on WallStreetBets, once lost $20B in two days: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-09/where-is-...
826.
by Uehreka 5y ago
A couple years ago I worked on a piece of EEG software. It was super cool, but also deeply dampened my optimism for BCI tech. If EEG (a very serious and expensive technology with tons of smart people working on it) can’t do much better than
827.
by Uehreka 5y ago
That feels like an argument that could be applied to web2 too though, and it falls apart there too: It’s never been easier to spin up some servers and whip up a basic social media site or search engine or online store, but it’d still be har
828.
by Uehreka 5y ago
But why would it do that though? I’d like to hear a falsifiable theory of how that would happen, because as of right now it’s not happening, and no one seems able to explain what big thing is going to change. If the biggest part of the chan
829.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Yeah, but the public proxy is exactly the thing I’m trying to avoid. If we’re talking about hosting a static site like your personal portfolio, then once you put a proxy in front of it, you might as well just host the site where you’re host
830.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Just looked it up, this looks like a tool to let you and your friends create a “private internet” using a VPN. Which is cool (I could see a bunch of uses for this, like SSHing into my home computer while I’m on the go), but I’m talking abou
831.
by Uehreka 5y ago
You’re going to run into a problem right off the bat: Your home network is likely behind a NAT and has an IP assigned by your ISP that can change at any time. You’ll need to tunnel through a server in the cloud somewhere (or use a tool like
832.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I thought SwiftUI was an abstraction layer on top of Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, etc. so you could reuse code between executables. Is that not the case?
833.
by Uehreka 5y ago
This doesn’t necessarily refute your point about restaurants being fucked, but with tipping, aren’t customers paying the same either way? If I tip $5 on a $20 steak or pay $25 for a steak at a place where tipping isn’t allowed and waiters a
834.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Oh anyone who does stuff like this is almost definitely on the clock. It may have started out with people tinkering with an OS as a hobby, but modern Linux, the fairly reliable multi-platform behemoth kernel we use today, relies on huge com
835.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Millions of people seem to have purchased the Fifty Shades books/movies, and some portion of them did not read/watch Twilight, so…
836.
by Uehreka 5y ago
So tonight I watched a 1080p pirated copy of Spiderman: Far From Home. And I gotta say, it was kinda crap. The sound would randomly cut out, and the compression was absolute ass (it was the perfect artifact to show people when explaining “n
837.
by Uehreka 5y ago
(IANAL, etc.) My understanding is that in legal contexts, the term “unenforceable” doesn’t necessarily refer to things that can’t be physically enforced in reality (like “the undersigned agrees to think about a white elephant once per day”)
838.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Yeah, it’s been said that ffmpeg and vlc could play a vinyl record if you fed it to them. It’s not actually true, but it is story true.
839.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Kelloggs is one of those companies where you might know them from cereal, but they actually own a ton of food companies across a wide variety of verticals and just don’t put their logo on the boxes/cans. Like, if you’re in the US, you’
840.
by Uehreka 5y ago
At least you’re not a sysadmin for Contoso, those folks must have their hands full.

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