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by brachkow 4mo ago
It is interesting to know how it compares in terms of performance to 500$ Mac Mini with Crossover? Of course Crossover support is worse than Proton, so it will not be viable alternative in real gaming scenarios. But Proton is made by Crosso
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by brachkow 4mo ago
The biggest effect of AirPods was that people stopped asking you to pull out the earphones when they talk to you. At early college age I was dealing with stress that I for some reason had in a crowded city, and my main help was listening to
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by brachkow 4mo ago
> BTC essential is worth $70k solely through the power of memes Like everything else in finance... Saying this is not to defend all sorts of crypto-bros. The economy, especially one overly focused on publicly traded companies like the We
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by brachkow 4mo ago
I'm continuing my work on https://thingstohave.app – a flexible and social wishlist app. Usually, I barely report on this thread once every few months, but this month was highly productive: 1. I changed how lists appeared i
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by brachkow 4mo ago
I don't understand the whole Framework thing (not 12, but in general): 1. For why would everyone want to use their laptop longer than MacBook lifespan? I'm typing this on a 5+ year old MacBook, which I expect will work for 3 more
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by brachkow 5mo ago
Funny that my app already uses custom feature flag solution built on... Cloudlfare Workers
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by brachkow 5mo ago
Here are the things I don't like in React. Keep in mind that React is a framework to draw interactive HTML on screen, not for some crazy programming. 1. Over-reliance on complex concepts and terminology. Let's compare with Vue: `u
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by brachkow 5mo ago
I'm working on requested features for my social wishlist app https://thingstohave.app : image uploading, passkeys and more clear list organization UI. Everything is in polishing stage, and I hope to release these before June
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by brachkow 5mo ago
I believe it is common for governments to do wiki editing as PR strategy. I actively browse Wikipedia in English, Polish and Russian, and see a lot of traces of government efforts. For example in Poland related topics: - Russian articles us
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by brachkow 6mo ago
As many others I had negative (not good as before) feeling about Claude Code lately What I don't understand is these loud "voting with money" comments. What they are canceling is very subsidized plan to buy something that del
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by brachkow 6mo ago
My usual reminder that actually Mozilla has a lot of money (mostly from Google), and, for example, donates six figure numbers to random political organizations not related to browsers and internet (not EFF) Here is a breakdown, which was po
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by brachkow 6mo ago
LittleSnitch for Mac is a good looking app. I always thought that ugly UIs on Linux are because of good designers do not intersect well with programming enthusiasts. But looking how ugly same app looks on Linux, I’m starting to think it cou
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by brachkow 8mo ago
Epic Games partially owned by Tencent and already was caught of including spyware [0][1] in their launcher, but “Tim Sweeney is the anti-corporate robinhood who will dismantle hegemony of Valve and Apple” is very popular narrative on every
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by brachkow 8mo ago
I understand that US has a weird tipping culture which results in such UI. But these UI's are occasionally slipping into a countries where tipping is not expected. This leads to a strange situations like "transaction isn't ap
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by brachkow 9mo ago
So, it was a marketing stunt?
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by brachkow 9mo ago
It is great because game preservation isn't what game industry shareholders usually interested. CD Project makes great games, but gaming industry is all-or-nothing. They already had colossal flop at their previous release. If another f
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by brachkow 10mo ago
Laptops are compared to other laptops availiable on market. Apple sells a entry line of their premium laptops at 1000$. And these are VERY good laptops.
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by brachkow 10mo ago
pdf is just a computer version of laminated paper
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by brachkow 10mo ago
This is very important point, that people from US and EU oversee. I live in EU for many years, but due to my birth country being sanctioned I can't use any financial instruments like investing or even simplest savings deposits. Getting
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by brachkow 11mo ago
I wanted to build something like that. It would be great if I didn’t have to. Any link to follow?
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by brachkow 1y ago
Maybe it's not bad. In post soviet countries elderly already watching government endorsed man-hating gibberish on tv all day long. So I would better prefer them playing three-in-row. I think after some time it even would be possible ea
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by brachkow 1y ago
1) My childhood which coincided with peak of unregulated lootbox-skin markets (around 2013-2015). And I and my CS-playing peers had a happy childhood because of… skins gambling. Most of us were able to earn money to buy a pizza or some addi
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by brachkow 1y ago
I’m still working on turning a wishlist app that I built for my friends into a real product — it’s called https://thingstohave.app . I wrote a comment about it in summer, and these are the updates: 1. I shared the app with the sm
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by brachkow 1y ago
I have tried most of the RSS on the market, and for last three years i'm staying on BazQux. I try to read everything on the internet via my reader so it is important to me that it: 1. can discover not so obvious feeds like youtube or r
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by brachkow 1y ago
I'm making a public wishlist platform — https://thingstohave.app . I started it for my friends, but now have intentions to bring it to public. I procrastinate on my plans to making it into true public-facing product. I can&#
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by brachkow 1y ago
Release starts by aggressively stating that > Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire but they acquired Pocket in 2017 [1] and neither this app was growing (despite market for such apps was in very good shape few ye
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by brachkow 2y ago
Few years ago I wrote a guide about turning Sublime Text into IDE which will be on-par with IDE features of VSCode while retaining performance benefits of ST — https://www.brachkow.com/notes/sublime-text/ . Sadly,
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by brachkow 4y ago
My favorite usecase for ChatGPT right now is generating code in obscure languages like Security Rules in Firebase, bash scripts, ffmpeg and Image Magick manipulations
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Ask HN: What are the proven solutions for jamstack e-commerce?
2 points by brachkow 6y ago|2 comments