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by bamfly 3y ago
> Because it seems to be another Apple device separating producers and consumers just like iPad and iPhone. The persistent framing of i-devices this way on HN, after all these years, is baffling to me. Tons of creation happens on them, o
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by bamfly 3y ago
> I used to report it to the site admins, but among the few that responded, almost none knew how to fix it. I no longer bother, so I suspect that the less clueless admins have no idea how many visitors Cloudflare has driven away. It&#x27
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by bamfly 3y ago
From what I can tell, they'll all be riding it out in New Zealand, to minimize the climate effects they personally experience and keep themselves nice and far away from any political instability (or consequences...) It's the goldi
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by bamfly 3y ago
> We need an operating system that is already hardened, preconfigured with secure defaults, and can be a daily driver. It should not need the user “harden” it. It'll look like macOS does out-of-the-box. I think everybody here who&#x
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah, I've considered slapping something together in Django or what have you—libraries exist to make a lot of this not that hard—but... kids. And the new Zelda, for that matter :-)
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by bamfly 3y ago
If you do much mobile dev, you'll see companies burn so very much money making their app harder to use, possibly less accessible, and slower to develop, in the name of chasing some "on-brand" look, rather than just using bu
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by bamfly 3y ago
Big (and small) companies routinely make "data-driven decisions" based on obviously-faulty data collection, bad models, or misapplication of statistics. It rarely takes some crack scientific mind to spot it, either. But they want
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by bamfly 3y ago
Main thing I want to self-host for friends, that's not served by any of a hundred chat apps: A place to share media reviews and recommendations. Wiki-like is OK, as long as table support is great. Difficulty: it should be able to helpf
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Everyone learns to write in school. Check out studies of adult functional literacy. It's, uh, not great .
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Also IIRC right around the same time they totally abandoned "don't be evil" and started doing ads inline with search results, basing much of their future revenue on tricking unwary users. [EDIT] They might also have switched
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by bamfly 3y ago
There are hi-res texture packs & mesh improvements that are pure wins, even for a first time player, IMO. They don't change the art much, they just make it look way better on a modern screen. And I'd recommend a mod to make pl
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by bamfly 3y ago
The fast travel's not actually that limited, you just have to work for some of it. Like if you don't learn the mark, recall, and the two intervention spells pretty early on, yeah, it's painful. Otherwise, it's barely l
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by bamfly 3y ago
'07 was the height of Google's cat-and-mouse game with webspammers. It'd degrade to near-uselessness for a month or two, suddenly get a ton better, repeat. This went on though the whole of the middle years of the '00s. &
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by bamfly 3y ago
Depending on how bad & frequent you want outages to be and whether you want the whole thing to go down for scheduled maintenance, it can get quite a bit more complicated. A pair of servers with some level of RAID is probably the minim
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by bamfly 3y ago
Not just Wikipedia—often, the rest of the Web doesn't have much more than Wikipedia does (sometimes less , when Wikipedia sources heavily from books), unless you count ebooks. And sometimes the book you need is print-only, even if i
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Thousands of articles that only barely scratch the surface on the topic. Same as the Web. My experience has been that more often than not I hit "buy/pirate a book" surprisingly quickly when I start to dig past what'
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by bamfly 3y ago
I remember reading somewhere that there was a single writer behind most of the distinctive, weird setting of Morrowind (and I think the first two Elder Scrolls, too?) and he didn't work on IV and V. The person or people who replaced hi
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by bamfly 3y ago
Oh man, does it have a way to set the fog to different density in different areas? Vanilla's max draw distance seems way too low in the relatively-nice parts of the island, especially the South, West, and coastal East, but if you set O
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by bamfly 3y ago
One of the things I really like about the new Zelda game is that, while it has quest markers and all that for many of the quests (but not all! Some will just mark where you need to return when it's done, and the rest is up to you!) you
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah, high enough to see most of Fort Ebon from Vivec and vice-versa is roughly the sweet spot, IMO. (Or is it Ebonheart? That sounds right.)
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by bamfly 3y ago
I can't remember which ones I used. Texture mods IIRC worked fine, pretty sure I had hi-res replacement mods for most of the textures in the game. I did some loading art replacer thing so they'd be widescreen and hi-res, but that
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by bamfly 3y ago
1 - Having an open engine allows for enhancements. 2 - Having an open engine means opportunities to fix defects (OpenMW crashes far less than the original, even in its final version) 3 - You can recompile it for other architectures and op
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by bamfly 3y ago
I played the main quest, a high fraction of the sidequests & major faction quest trees, one of the expansions, and most of the other one, in OpenMW something like 18-24 months ago. With a few mods, and draw distance cranked up fairly hi
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Slightly tangential question: Is there a distro that has a stable "core" (kernel, maybe some userspace libraries) but uses rolling releases for everything else? Ideally, that would probably give you the best of both worlds fo
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by bamfly 3y ago
A Debian base with something like Homebrew on top, so all the user-facing applications are always up-to-date, would be basically perfect. Which, I know there's a Homebrew port for Linux, but it and its packages seemed rather more bug-r
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by bamfly 3y ago
They can advertise without tracking people. Maybe on websites the readers of which are a good fit for their products. One wonders how any product launched or small business survived prior to the current millennium.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Other than the mega corps, noone is benefitting from this privacy enhancement. Just more work to adapt. One time I was talking to a real estate agent, shortly after some of the post-'08-meltdown regulations had gone into effect. S
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by bamfly 3y ago
Nah. This is like popup blocking: it should be standard and on by default in every browser, with an option to turn it off if you don't want it.
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You'd get examples sometimes, and (infamously) contrived word problems, but not enough and most of it wasn't at all relatable. Some whole topics were totally lacking in anything but horribly-contrived motivations, including coveri
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by bamfly 3y ago
Right, but I was addressing the post I was responding to, not this stuff. All I needed to do for that was to demonstrate that building software products remotely with pretty damn good efficiency and effectiveness isn't actually all tha

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