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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
You appear to have taken offence, at people taking offence, to people taking offence!
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
I mean, we all have things we'd rather not have people reject us for, that doesn't mean it should be illegal to do so. We already have the (legal) right to keep our software preferences private. In general I'd caution again
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
For some reason I thought it was for toddlers to call other toddlers. I think if you were looking for a feature to add, it would be to let kids call their friends. Could lead to some cute moments :)
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
And 3 is worse than 4.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Yeah I'm not exactly sure what the appeal is of a world in which none of us are rewarded for our time and labor...
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
> If some piece of software I'm running is the only reason for you to refuse the connection, then you should be obligated. Obligated how? Like through violence? What happened to freedom of association?
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Depends if you ask someone who gets defrauded of their life savings and work and is financially ruined I suppose.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Is it? I figured it was halloween themed.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Hahahaha right
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Absolutely incredible to see a snarky nit on a project like this. Hackernews never fails haha.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
What are they?
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
I'm far from an AI enthusiast but I really appreciate Simon for his articles and takes on AI. He's enthusiastic and optimistic but that doesn't make him a hype man.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Woah, finally something with actual metrics instead of vibes! > Trial participants saved an average of 56 minutes a working day when using AICAs That feels accurate to me, but again I'm just going on vibes :P
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
I haven't written much Java but I am learning Kotlin and I really appreciate the language and the whole JVM ecosystem. Yeah yeah, Gradle is complicated but it's waaaaay easier to figure out than my adventures with Cmake, and when
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
> Update 7 Oct 2025: Some screen readers have been found not to announce updates to the tag, so explicitly emphasising the role attribute might be worthwhile for now until support improves: <output role="status">. Maybe i
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Have you played it? I haven't so I'm just basing my opinion on some YouTube footage I've seen. BF1 is genuinely gorgeous, I can't lie. I think it's the photogrammetry. Do you think the lighting is better in BF1? I&#
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
It sounds like there is one client and multiple servers, so I assumed that it would be easier to change the single client versus multiple servers. I guess it also depends on what the in-house developers are experienced with. But I'm no
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
idk, battlefield 6 came out today to very positive reviews and it's absolutely gorgeous.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
It's quite cool honestly, well done to the developer. It works, so it's de facto a good solution. > The hard parts weren’t the architectural pattern - they were embedded systems constraints. Tuning buffer sizes and designing co
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Yeah reduced motion would probably toggle opaque backgrounds as well. But you can't really get that glass shader with css anyways so I imagine there wouldn't be many transparent effects, it's more just the layout I'm tal
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
I don't agree with that assessment.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
I like it, but regardless of one's aesthetic opinions I think an important thing people are missing is the move towards UI elements being overlays on top of content instead of sandwiching or interleaving with content. This is very appa
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
No you aren't, I like it too. I did notice some slowdown with my iPhone 14 in low battery mode though, which is a shame but not unexpected.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Yep. At one point it was probably the case that it always caused reflows but browsers have had so much investment into optimizations that it probably realizes those layout changes don't require reflows and skips them.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
If you were an x86 assembly expert would you still feel the same way? (assuming you aren't already)
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Interesting article, I'm generally sceptical of vibe engineering but Simon seems really balanced in his approach to it and in general his experiences line up with mine. AI can generally be outsourced to do two things - replace your thi
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Multithreading in the browser kinda sucks though, it's too slow to share significant data between workers (threads), and if you try it with SharedArrayBuffer you eat the serialisation costs.
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
I actually did that for a campaign. It wasn't extremely overpowered but I did have some abilities that could have been extremely OP if abused. I don't even think it was really legal as far as RAW was concerned. In the end I was
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
Thanks for letting me nerd out a bit
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by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
It might be more useful to think of React as having a very simple reactivity system. In essence it just compares state values by referential equality (===) and if they're different, rerenders the component. And that includes children.

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