Uehreka

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by Uehreka 5y ago
So then why not a note? And is there a rule somewhere that a physical thing needs to be minted at all?
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by Uehreka 5y ago
> if were really as bad as it seems, why don’t we do something about it? This sounds like a person in a burning building saying “if it was that bad, wouldn’t I have left the building already? Maybe there’s a reason I’m in here?” Like, ye
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by Uehreka 5y ago
The time constraints of AAA game dev force many entrants to use Unity too ;)
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Oh I _wish_ more debates had people waving around arxiv pre-prints like that, it would be a huge step up. Most people debating on the internet aren’t using scientific sources at all. Sure, there’s been a lot of back-and-forth in the scienti
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by Uehreka 5y ago
> rewriting the entire stack with the latest technology After seeing a couple C# companies do expensive switchovers to .NET Core, this part made me chuckle.
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I’m open to having my mind changed about blockchain/bitcoin’s utility, I could also see a new cryptocurrency changing my mind about all of this, I really _want_ to like this stuff! But whenever I ask people about the environmental impa
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by Uehreka 5y ago
> At Apple? Maybe not. Chris Lattner (inventor of LLVM and Swift) was pretty prominent when he was at Apple. He got stage time during at least one keynote and was well known in the macOS/iOS community. Not to mention that their engi
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by Uehreka 5y ago
…wouldn’t they just seek out a vaccine manufacturer whose vaccine has better longevity? Idk if this applies to Moderna, but even if it did, at this stage in the game there are over a dozen vaccines in production worldwide.
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I mean yeah, I’d love to propose a worldwide carbon tax and solve the root problem here! But that seems unlikely to happen on a short timescale, and without it we’ll see coal plants that were driven out of business by solar’s cheapness re-o
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by Uehreka 5y ago
But if you’re trading bitcoins “off-chain”, doesn’t that mean you’re negating the point of a blockchain-based currency?
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Right now very few people are actually using Bitcoin for everyday transactions, and yet still the carbon footprint rivals many large countries. If this became the world’s primary currency (as many crypto fans seem to want) it would increase
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Yeah, but who knows how many of those are “ghost ships” that were built for local businesses over 5-10 years ago, were never touched since, never got security updates, and now load slowly because there’s a bitcoin miner churning away in a s
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by Uehreka 5y ago
The resource usage required to tank a small startup (that could’ve become a bigger customer later) is probably peanuts to Amazon. I’m not sure how often they do this (or whether they do it at all) but it would make business sense for them t
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by Uehreka 5y ago
If you have to tell people out loud “you’re losing my business!” it usually means they didn’t even notice when they did.
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by Uehreka 5y ago
That sounds fine to me. On another note, I get that the “take as long as it takes! Don’t rush!” thing is a response to companies with short-term thinking who rush unfinished buggy products, but I worry that when applied to indie creators it
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Normally I’d be pretty pissed at a game like this that’s been “coming soon!” for a decade, but I’m not, and here’s why: The developer has not taken people’s money. Unlike things like Star Citizen, whatever decisions are leading to this proj
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by Uehreka 5y ago
If there was a clear alternative that’d be one thing, but there isn’t, and I suspect this creator is one of those high-quality-but-small-audience channels where they don’t have enough pull to bootstrap an alternative themselves. So it seems
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by Uehreka 5y ago
(Raises hand) Bookie I’ll take the other side thanks!
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by Uehreka 5y ago
True, but it’s also the kind of product that’s instantly useful and itch-scratchy. Youtube-dl not working on the video you’re downloading today? Well if you’re a maintainer you can just patch it yourself. (Non-maintainers can too of course,
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Can you find pro-Electron comments? Sure, but if you browse any post about Electron you’ll see a lot of “Electron is a disrespect to your users!” comments, whose top reply is “Yes, and also…(more complaints)”, whose top reply is “Electron i
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I think it’s fair to say that when people say something like “HN says” or “HN thinks”, they are asserting that a large majority of the comments take a particular side of an issue. Sure, there are many readers who don’t comment, but if they
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I legit saw this title and thought “oh is this built on Amazon Braket?”, so I’d disagree that no one could be confused. Quantum Computing may be a while away, but a lot of companies are claiming to have launched “Quantum-ish” things, so whe
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I’m pretty sure mathbox got abandoned when mathbox2 came out (understandably, it’s mostly one guy building it). But then mathbox2 appears to be abandoned now, and last time I tried to use it (a couple years ago) the coffeescript would no lo
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Yeah but GP said this was the time Terry Tao saved mathematics. I’d like to know what he meant by that.
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by Uehreka 5y ago
When I see someone on Facebook/Twitter link to a site like this to demonstrate that the person they’re arguing with is “doing a fallacy”, I just accuse them of Appeal To Authority. I feel like these kinds of sites are often just used t
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Having tried to write an HN client myself, I can assure you most of them scrape instead of using the API. The API is basically read only, is impractical for things like loading a full tree of comments (get ready to make an API call for ever
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by Uehreka 5y ago
People probably should. If the acronym includes Netflix, it definitely needs to include MS, they’re way bigger.
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I’m gonna pull the trigger and do this on a project I’m currently working on by myself (lest anyone respond to my next sentence by calling me coward) but here’s my concern: I don’t check in node_modules for two reasons: 1- It can be fully r
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by Uehreka 5y ago
I’m getting increasingly tired of people taking these sorts of “Al Gore private jet” pot shots as though there aren’t tons of people advocating and actually practicing veganism, low/no trash lifestyles, etc. If you don’t think those li
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by Uehreka 5y ago
Although if you’re on macOS Catalina or higher, the game no longer runs. And since the team abandoned it without open sourcing it[0], it can’t be recompiled for 64-bit. [0] Although they did open source some of their scripts and shaders as

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