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by WD-42 8mo ago
Literally explained in the post, that’s why you read first.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
So you didn’t even get to the final boss, purchasing a sub. While I played it I always had this dirty feeling imagining what the backend code must look like. Sends chills down my spine.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Anyone who has attempted to play Final Fantasy XIV beyond the free trial has experienced this. Their subscription management web app is so incredibly bad it takes a significant amount of time and effort just to purchase a subscription. I
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Is anyone forcing you to rewrite anything in rust?
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by WD-42 8mo ago
I hope so. I fancy myself pretty decent at reading. I see the Japanese sites and marvel at the amount of information they have available at a glance. I’m so sick of having to scroll 5 page lengths on western sites just to get to any meaning
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by WD-42 8mo ago
This is a huge ask. Most of us are just nerds that find the technical aspects interesting, a hobby during our spare time.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Why do people get so mad that other people enjoy a language? If I’m more likely to rewrite some tooling because of the existence of a programming language and it’s more performant, isn’t that good for everyone? We are programmers we are sup
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Because Rust makes developers excited in a way that C/C++ just doesn't.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
This is meta so sorry about not actually responding, but thank you for a very well written comment. In this time of slop and rage it's really refreshing to see someone take the time to write (long form for a comment) about something th
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Bluesky proved no such thing. Merge bluesky with truth social and you’d be back to the same thing again. Both platforms are just full of people retreating into smaller bubbles, the underlying issues are still there just less common.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Question: how many people do you think would watch your short form ai videos if they had to actually seek them out and choose to watch them? The reason why the format is problematic is because it feeds off the dopamine hit of scrolling to t
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by WD-42 8mo ago
This. If people are looking for freedom, the thing to do is to stop using TikTok or anything like it, not to make a federated version of it.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Seems pretty readable to me. The information density is high, there are slight box shadows in interactive elements. We need more like this.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
How so? If coding is largely solved and we are on the cusp of not even needing to learn to code, then the statement that they use electron because it’s what most of their engineers are familiar with seems a little contradictory.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=We7BZVKbCVw within the first few seconds.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Why does it need to be cross platform? If code was free there would be a native app for each platform using its respective toolkit, not QT.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Didn’t you say coding is a solved problem? So why are you still reaching for the lowest common denominator tech stack?
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by WD-42 8mo ago
This is just a slopped version of https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx This stuff shouldn’t be on HN.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
I talked to an apple engineer at a bar years ago and he said they aren’t allowed to work on _anything_ including side projects without getting approval first. Seemed like a total wtf moment to me.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
So we make excuses for apple because that’s how it used to be back in the bad old days? This is flawed logic. As for alternatives, there are many.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
They are aware. They are also aware of the designs sitting in the cabinet right next to them in Cupertino that would make all the reverse engineering instantly unnecessary. Such a monumentally Sisyphean waste of effort in behalf of the Asah
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Here's one for Risc-V that's a little more fleshed out, also in Zig: https://github.com/Fingel/aeros-v/blob/main/src/kernel.zig
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by WD-42 8mo ago
I've thought about this and wondered if this current moment is actually peak AI usefulness: the snr is high but once training data becomes polluted with it's own slop things could start getting worse, not better.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
"one-man companies" and "open-protocols" doesn't make a lot of sense. I mean maybe there's a super small chance that one person vibe codes an outstanding protocol definition that the rest of the developer commu
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by WD-42 8mo ago
There is another thread about self hosting an XMPP server today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034801
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Have you used Fractal? It's not perfect, but it's a Linux client that works better than any other client I've used on mobile.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
I've been using fluffychat for over a year. It's a nice interface and the client I used to convince less technical friends and family to give Matrix a try. Unfortunately major functionality like being able to send images becomes b
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by WD-42 8mo ago
It wasn’t popular? I remember using pidgin to talk to friends on google chat, facebook and my work contacts. It was glorious. I haven’t had a reason to use an xmpp client in over a decade.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
I’ve been running a matrix server for about 2 years for family. It’s… ok. Clients are bad. Right now nobody on iOS can send images because there is a bug in fluffychat preventing it. Kinda defeats the purpose of a chat for sharing baby pict
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by WD-42 8mo ago
It runs off solar.

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