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by bsimpson 2y ago
Paying contractors to support your free GitHub project is wild. Open source is beautiful and broken at the same time.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Delta flight from Minnesota
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's wild to me that this is at the top of Hacker News, but not even on the Google News front page. I feel like major airline crashes are usually headlines.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
This is a standard feature in the US too. Since the advent of cell phones and free long distance, people tend to keep a single number for longer, but there used to be a trope about getting wrong number calls for someone who had died and had
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by bsimpson 2y ago
My Netflix subscription ends today after 15y. I watched it plenty in the late 00s when it had awesome content, and I was afraid to cancel even if I wasn't actively using it because it had the best recommendations. Since then, they&#x27
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've never seen the SCAD language before - looks surprisingly similar to JavaScript.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
One problem is that the applications themselves are impure. Just running KDE litters a bunch of dotfiles into your user folder, even for settings you didn't adjust. This is true for many applications. If you had an empty home folder a
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's also a thorny political problem. Remember that Dart started as an attempt to evolve web programming past some of the perceived deficiencies of JavaScript. It came out of Google, who also maintains a significant share of the web p
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't understand. You're authoring in TSX and serving JS to browsers, so there's clearly a build step. How is your model different from e.g. vite serve? How does it get deployed? Are the files translated to vanilla JS on
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't subscribe to the FOSS purism you often see in Linux projects. But there's something refreshing about seeing a tool that just gets more useful over time. Contrast that with closed-source software, whose features are driven
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Part of it is hardware too. Only the newest routers do gigabit over wifi. If most of your devices are wireless, you'll need to make sure they all have wifi 6 or newer chips to use their full potential. Even if upgrading your router is
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Verizon Fios sells gigabit in NYC for $80/mo. They're constantly running promotions "get free smartglases/video game systems/etc if you sign up for gigabit." Turns out that gigabit is still way more than most
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've never paid that much attention to retro hardware - I still have a lot of the originals in my parents' garage. I just moved, which gave me an opportunity to give all the old Rock Band instruments that were too loud for my last
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Designing your own boards and writing the emulator is super impressive! I like the clear case too! :) It's a good week for homebrew handhelds. Someone posted a cool one on reddit yesterday built with a Raspberry Pi: https:/&#x
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by bsimpson 2y ago
You can use Steam Link to render a VR environment on one device and project it into another's goggles over wifi. Or you can use Stadia and its compatriots to play 3D-rendered video games over WAN. The amount of low-latency bandwidth m
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's disappointing the degree to which a bulk of the Linux community seems to be chasing whatever paradigms they learned on whatever Windows machines they were first to exposed to (or pay no consideration to UX at all). It seems that t
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by bsimpson 2y ago
You just reminded me of the 60s Batman-style steel bomb icon that dominated the Macs of my childhood… It was the 90s equivalent of a kernel panic - you'd get a dialog that basically went "the computer is about to explode. click h
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by bsimpson 2y ago
So you can add Nix packages as non-Steam games and use Nix to setup persistent systemd rules/daemons, even though this isn't NixOS?
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> you can either run NixOS (which isn’t ideal on a Steam Deck) I've actually been using NixOS on my Legion Go to give me the SteamOS experience while I wait for the official image from Valve [1]. I knew that Valve had whitelisted &#
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by bsimpson 2y ago
For context, Determinate is a startup made of the Nix guy and some of the senior community members. They explicitly support the Steam Deck (and used it as a test case to create their installer). https://determinate.systems/
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's disappointing that Steam doesn't have a free publishing option for open source apps. The $100 publishing fee can be enough to relegate a game to GitHub rather than Steam, and I'd much rather install from Steam than figu
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Adobe was trying to figure out how to position Flash in the aftermath of the iPhone. I will forever remember one of their concepts was using a variety of devices to share one experience, like your example of a board game that uses different
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by bsimpson 2y ago
FWIW, I have submitted a couple small patches to get the display and gamepad for my Lenovo Legion Go recognized correctly - probably similar levels of complexity to your change. One was to input and one was to display quirks. They did take
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> We do not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any such notices Cloaking mass privacy violations under "operational matters" is the most doublespeak bullshit I've e
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Twenty years later, I still remember the images of making a cottonball float like a cloud, and piloting a pneumatic tube of toilet paper rolls.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's such a scandal that even though the original Mickey Mouse cartoons are finally in the public domain, the Mickey Mouse Protection Act is still preventing anything created in our lifetimes from ever joining the public domain during
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Now do Coyote v. ACME! (It was a Roger Rabbit-style live action + cartoon character blend, based on an awesome newspaper parody, that was completely created, received rave reviews, and then shitcanned by the befuddling new accounting practi
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I work at Google, and I didn't even know that there are good movies you can watch for free with a YT Premium subscription until I saw this article: https://www.youtube.com/feed/storefront Includes Roger Rabbit, Bi
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I think it's a passion project for the founder, who built his career on JS and is offended that Oracle (a company famous for deploying lawyers instead of technological expertise) claims to control it.

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