Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
bmicraft
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
26 ms
·
511.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
If I don't put something heavy in my 20L backpack I literally don't think it anymore after a minute or two. Even more so with a jacket underneath.
512.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
I'm pretty sure even on windows there is the option of having the whole cursor be the inverse of the background
513.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
Counting Minecraft as a somehow important use of java in Microsoft is pretty funny when they bought the company that introduced it and then rewrote it from scratch in c++ for w10
514.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
> The "AI" service consumes real resources - it is not free for them to operate, and is a new cost burden that cannot be absorbed by the existing pricing. It makes complete sense for it to be its own cost. Sure is costs money t
515.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
50% would probably be fair. Remember that he'd be keeping 50% _per employee_, which means he still makes 10x compared to them.
516.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
Caching your assets will probably get you about 90% of the way there without having to rewrite everything to be a SPA. Or - as a user - the LocalCDN addon
517.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
But while you can just switch to another fast food chain of your choice, doing so with an operating system and losing years worth of experience + potentially paid software (games) is not something most people will choose to do on their own.
518.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
They have other means of acquiring a user base, namely resetting you default browser every other major windows update.
519.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
I'll believe it when I see it.
520.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
That's not awesome. He's paying his staff about 20% of what they're earning him and keeping the rest.
521.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
You really, REALLY need to stop using big words like "Ceteris paribus". It's not helping you get your point across, (especially) when you don't even care to explain them.
522.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
This formatting is surprisingly (to me) more helpful than I would have though. Alternatively the original was just worse than I realized.
523.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
If this can be done through Google lens, then it would be possible on device. If you share an image with the Google app it opens in lens and can scan codes.
524.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
I really don't get how battery manufacturers have have the better part of a decade of with batteries sold pretty much before they've been manufactured and still haven't scaled up to capture that demand
525.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
Tesla is both a luxury car brand and the single most unreliable brand. The masses need an actually cheap and reliable ev, not whatever this is.
526.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
Wine has almost no overhead, which means a native windows app should be much faster than an equally optimized electron app.
527.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
Guard clauses are considered good practice in many languages, as opposed to nested if's. I'm not saying either approach is generally the right one, but I think it's interesting that best practice can be the polar opposite of
528.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
Web notifications are a thing, and Whatsapp could popout a window without browser chrome from a webpage
529.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
Yup, I really don't get Whatsapps "catching up" mode, which after only like a week takes significantly longer until the ui is usable than linking a new session
530.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
> I think it's fine for apps like Spotify [...] to use Electron Spotify uses a significant amount of power/battery while playing music when my laptop is otherwise idle. I can only image that being due to decrypting their drm&#x
531.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
They were gatekeeping who gets to be "an actual HNer" as only people that know who is being mourned every single time. You seem to be responding to something like "mourning people not everyone knows is gatekeeping", but
532.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
bugs.kde.org :)
533.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
With a smarter system like ETCS you shouldn't need 10 minutes headway
534.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
With your fists for example
535.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
> worker protections are scope creep Never change, America
536.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
The amount of people still thinking about it more than a decade later had to new minimal, surely.
537.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
My dryer too
538.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
Not just millions, apparently they some a billion chips (according to their website)
539.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
Shouldn't the fact that it's WiFi 6 mean it uses much less air time? I thought WiFi 6 was designed for this scenario with many clients. 2.4GHz is a bonus for low bandwidth iot devices where range trumps throughout.
540.
▲
by
bmicraft
3y ago
You can take out your displeasure at someone without physically doing so
More ›