Xirdus

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by Xirdus 2mo ago
There are several Polish dishes that boil down to throwing whatever is edible into a single pot and boiling for hours. Bigos is mostly cabbage, gulasz is like very thin gravy, leczo has lots of red pepper and zucchini, jarzynowa (literally
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Third unpopular take: this geographical restriction was a good thing.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Now I feel stupid for writing my comment, because complaining about your use of "no one" would make me a hypocrite.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Unfortunately, the Trump presidency has conclusively proved the "imagine if your opponent was in power" argument doesn't work. Everybody says Trump should be impeached, nobody says the office of the president should be depriv
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Why do you expect politicians to be suboptimal at the job of a politician (gaining support)? This kind of "trust me bro" video is exactly what a perfectly spherical politician in a vacuum should be coming up with. If you don'
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
The actual problem is not that Amazon breaks any rules, but that the rules are so soft that even Amazon doesn't break them. But explaining it to an average worker doesn't work. Blaming specific companies and specific billionaires
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
In original Google, "appearing on a list of 10 links" was peak democracy. You needed people to vote for your website by linking to it. The more votes you get, the higher you are. Sure, like every democracy, it had some unfixable f
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Looking just at 2006-2012, 15 of the 20 games I listed are available for PC - and from what I remember at least 10 of them ran great on PCs of the time. So that drought wasn't particularly dry if you ask me. But I'm not here to ar
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
What do you mean "and cheap"? Video games at the top range have very consistent pricing throughout history, about $80 adjusted for inflation. That era in gaming had many releases that are still considered among the best games of a
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
There's a reason I said 20 years and not 30-40. I'm not going to defend a point I didn't make.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Subjectively, video games did get both worse and more expensive over the last 20 years. But putting that aside, the ratio isn't 1:1. I'd expect the ratio to be at least 20:1 - you can name at most 1 thing that got better/chea
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
The "R" in URL is a misnomer. Designers of the early internet really wanted internet to be made of documents. It turned out the internet is actually made of interactive apps and services. Hence the impedance mismatch between terms
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
> I don't think society worked that way until the web made it possible for society to work that way. I very much do think so - moreover, it's literally how it worked for decades, if not centuries. Before the internet, there was
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
If the hardcoded domain name changes, then the app needs to be recompiled with new domain name and that's it. The service is instantly restored and no data needs to be updated to reflect the change. In fact, the server side doesn'
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
"Most" includes standard issue corporate hardware for office drones, bottom of the barrel laptops bought as gifts to children, and ultra cheap Android phones in developing countries.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Out of curiosity, how did you measure mouse roundtrip with sub-12ms precision?
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
It's mostly due to OS-level USB stacks being quite terrible for latency for the most part, especially on Windows. Though I might've misremembered the exact numbers.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
The causation is correct. In countries with socialized healthcare, promoting healthy lifestyle is a cost cutting measure. So the government does it a lot, through various public campaigns and annoying laws like banning free drink refills or
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
To me, "my server is now..." implies there was some server, it used to do server things, but now it has been repurposed to do something else. When I read the title, I literally thought "wow, I've seen a lot of people mak
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
> A 'robust' healthcare system that the government runs is a pipe dream. That "pipe dream" has already been achieved by most EU countries decades ago. Sure, you might argue it's worse in quality than American hea
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
It is literally impossible to respond to input in 10ms on most platforms, for various reasons. The USB input lag of 12-30ms and the 60Hz refresh rate of most monitors being just the first two.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
The real world operates on single sources of truth. The software merely models the real world - as it should. Saying we should move away from this pattern is synonymous with saying we should fundamentally change how are society works. Hint:
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
I'm saying the opposite - security is so much of a problem that even the most popular browser in the world can't get it 100% right after 20 years of trying to get it right. Subtract popularity, subtract 20 years, subtract FAANG -
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
I guess the whole idea of "scrolling presentation design" is broken? I certainly wouldn't mind if it stopped being a thing. It feels like 90% of websites that I find annoying as of late are of this type. This page has some el
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Yes I understand the complaint. It's just that "royal we" means something else.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Very much so. It's one of the worst cases (but not the worst, not even the worst this week) I've seen around here.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
I don't refuse to enable JS. I do, however, refuse to use website with broken scrolling. It makes me physically sick.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Never did iOS development. I always assumed it requires active USB connection with a dev machine or an emulator.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
I just want to point out this is not a royal "we". It's a regular "we". Royal "we" is when you say "we" but mean a singular person, yourself. Here, the author does actually mean multiple people b
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Kind reminder that in 2026 USA, a millionaire is somebody who paid off their house mortgage and has 12 months of salary in savings but not much else.

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