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by bscphil 4y ago
Seems like Cloudflare is having issues, including their DNS service. I actually can't even tell whether cloudflarestatus.com is up or not because 1.1.1.1 is not responding.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I'm inclined to debunk this debunking. To be clear, I do think that Wirecutter has problems. I don't like their practice of affiliate-linking. I think a review company should avoid even the "appearance of evil". But more
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by bscphil 4y ago
Thank you for saying this. Memory suggested that this was the case; I think one problem that happens on this site is that people distrust Google so much that they will trust some completely unknown organization that they've never heard
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by bscphil 4y ago
For what it's worth Gnome also has an HIG: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/ And they have claimed in the past to have done UX testing with actual users.
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by bscphil 4y ago
> This file picker does not have a thumbnail view. It is broken software. Thumbnails are not a cute little extra, they are essential. This is as bad as a file picker that doesn’t list the name of the files, only their creation date, or i
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Of these, he was saying that the most important is the last. If you have no memory of the pain, in some sense it didn't really happen. That strikes me as a very strange thing to think. When I am dead, I will have no memory of anyt
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by bscphil 4y ago
I see those as two basically different phenomena: 1. Is X capable of feeling pain / sentient? 2. Is X capable of having emotions? It seems probable that (1) is a precondition of (2), such that we should not be surprised if there are se
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by bscphil 4y ago
Thanks - it's kind of weird that it screws up the date, though. Edit: actually, I have a guess. Maybe the moderators don't have access to the algorithm and it isn't that flexible, so the way they hack around it is by changing
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by bscphil 4y ago
Something weird is happening with this HN submission. Despite the submission time saying "5 hours ago" and the time on most of the comments saying "2 hours ago" or less, I clearly remember seeing both this submission and
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by bscphil 4y ago
Just to spell out what this means to those who are unfamiliar: since software decoding involves general purpose software, decoders are available that can handle mostly any valid h264 video file. On the other hand, hardware decoders are purp
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by bscphil 4y ago
This strikes me as a very strange take. Isn't it like saying "The 6 day workweek can make a comeback. All employers have to do is..." The issue is that once a particular practice in relations between capital and labor becomes
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by bscphil 4y ago
Uh, that isn't the rule, for exactly that reason. > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by bscphil 4y ago
That certainly seems like a plausible thing that could be happening, but the specific claim of the article is that this is an issue with Airplay, which to my understanding involves devices that are connected to your router / access poi
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by bscphil 4y ago
This is a good question but I don't think any of the other four replies have understood it. Judging by the original article, this problem appears when AirPlay devices are on the same network and the same subnet as you. All that sho
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by bscphil 4y ago
This is a common complaint, but this issue is that Mac users and Linux users basically talk past each other on this point. Just speaking for myself, I find that I accidentally kill a process in the Mac terminal whenever I try to copy anyt
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by bscphil 4y ago
Unfortunately most if not all of the displays I see here don't meet the minimum baseline at any price. I don't see any OLED options, and none of them appears to advertise support for Dolby Vision HDR. HDR probably has no point f
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by bscphil 4y ago
Your speculative explanation is incorrect, as is clear from this user's other comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31559512 https://ne
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by bscphil 4y ago
> E.g. I like to know that [apk X] has no internet As far as I know (please correct if this is wrong), there's no such thing as an app with no Internet permissions. All apps can access the Internet without permission, and only addit
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by bscphil 4y ago
Prior art: [Debian] Package Management Sudoku (2008) https://web.archive.org/web/20081231204643/http://algebraict...
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by bscphil 4y ago
You're correct, although Qt attempts to do fake native widgets on Win / Mac, and given how relatively lightweight it is compared to Electron, it's understandable how it became a obviously point of contrast with the latter, wh
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by bscphil 4y ago
As is unfortunately typical for tutorials like this, the best and most effective PNG compressors like oxipng or ECT [1] are strangely left off. I compressed the original PNG shown on the site with ECT. It took only 6.5 seconds on my old lap
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yes. I have no idea why ECT gets left off of lists so often, because it's almost always within 1% of the best tools on size, and at least several times faster than them on speed. As far as I can tell, pingo isn't cross platform or
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yeah, I think this gets at something important. If the options are homework, reading a book, building something, or playing Fortnight, 90% of kids are going to pick the video game. If most of the time they only have the first three options,
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by bscphil 4y ago
> it all gets nullified and even negated when levels are designed with these factors in mind I have played Celeste 100% multiple times and have probably 250-300 hours in the game total. To the best of my knowledge, there is no movement i
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by bscphil 4y ago
An ordinary library can not scan a copy of a book and allow unlimited downloads of that scan from the web. The DMCA exemption doesn't allow that. Actually, archive.org got in trouble pretty recently because they were accused of doing a
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by bscphil 4y ago
That's completely irrelevant to the question of whether it's a good value for the money.
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by bscphil 4y ago
> you mentally translate "I and also I saw some comments some times" into "90+% of everyone here" First of all I said 90% of people here who are interested in a small Android phone , not 90% of everyone here. Second,
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think this comment is about 3 years out of date. Apple provides plausible value for money now, when it comes to laptops.
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Also, the very premise that more CO2 is existential is contradicted by historical record: 250 million years ago earth was 15 degrees warmer than it is now and CO2 was a lot more abundant. Maybe this is just a joke that sailed over my h
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by bscphil 4y ago
I'm sure there are people like that, but to be clear, I'm not one of them. There are many irritations I have with modern smartphones, but I'm willing to put up with all of them if necessary except 2: must be small enough, m

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