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by bsimpson 2y ago
It makes me really happy to see old games getting remastered. I was a Mac kid. There were a whole bunch of games that I wanted to play but didn't have access to. (At least we had Marathon!) American McGee's Alice was at the top
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's also a $60 purchase that requires a beefy Windows machine in addition to the headset. VR is a small market to begin with, and most VR people can't play Alyx without buying a whole new computer.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I suspect being spun out of Twitter, developed by Dan Abramov, and not owned by Mark Zuckerberg are all inputs that make Blue Sky feel like the blessed continuation of what used to be Twitter (at least for people in the hacker sphere).
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Decentralization feels like it's driven more than idealism/zealotry than pragmatism. In theory, I understand the appeal of owning your data. In practice, systems churn. I haven't had a portfolio in years, because I used Ap
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by bsimpson 2y ago
For the longest time, I didn't get the appeal of Twitter. I started using it a bit more when I was still in the habit of using social feeds, and Facebook's was getting actively bad. I haven't used Twitter much lately since i
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Passwords also work this way.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
My lease is with "Foreign Investor c/o Local Broker." I think the reason it was listed as a "no fee" apartment is because the brokerage is the de facto landlady. As the person who told me about this grift explained,
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I live in a building primarily owned by offshore investors. NYC is a place where it's expected you'll always be on a lease - it's not common to go month-to-month after you fulfill your initial obligation (as it is in other ci
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's funny, because as someone who never got into delivery apps, they all blur together in my mind (complete with the constant choice of an orange color palette from a myriad of different companies).
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by bsimpson 2y ago
According to the article, they also own Blue Apron. Feels like they might be buying clout in the industry by buying business that already exist in it.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Those weird ghost kitchen things have more than half a billion dollars to spend on acquisitions?! I wonder how this came to be - did they already have that big of a war chest, or did they hear they could buy a name brand and go back to thei
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I live between stations. One is a nicer walk; the other is a shorter walk. I check the next train when I leave to see which station to walk to. Would be useful if I could teach this to your app.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I was at SXSW in ~2009. Got a free ticket to the interactive track. Was my first conference, and I was mostly disappointed that it just seemed to be a way for adults with salaries to get paid to go on a trip and party. I do remember stumb
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Same. I just searched through my texts to find the last song a friend sent me: https://open.spotify.com/track/5qFL2uwfnGU8FccwLMgPNQ?si=b-a... https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/?id=b3Blbi5zcG90aWZ5LmNv
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Is it? They already have a system that works exactly how they want it. They already rebased from Debian to Arch to get it there. They have enough Linux staff on contract to build and maintain that system. Maybe Bazzite is closer to their go
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by bsimpson 2y ago
As someone who was on Reddit when we got the influx of Digg users, it's wild that "Digg moment" is now an anachronistic culture reference like "Betamax" or "jumping the shark" was for me when I was younger
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by bsimpson 2y ago
As noted in a sibling comment, Valve has released an open-source compositor (`gamescope`), which is what presents Steam as a console-esque UI on the Steam Deck. Using gamescope to present Steam, you can make an arbitrary Linux feel indisti
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The link you referenced just says that the Debian packages are irrelevant to the current codebase, as used on the Steam Deck. It doesn't say anything about the Steam Deck being the only hardware that will ever run it. Some of the rece
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by bsimpson 2y ago
As a civilian, I would have expected that if there's anywhere where you're supposed to follow protocol even if it means expensive mistakes happen, it's the Marines. My mental model of the military, and especially the Marines
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by bsimpson 2y ago
ResEdit was awesome! For those unfamiliar, Mac files of the era had two sections: a resource fork, and a data fork. Resources were structured chunks of information, like icons. You could open ResEdit and mod any app you liked. I missed res
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> Just to clarify, I initially received $200 for doing the AOL phrases. Perhaps in my attempts to preserve confidentially, I have given the impression that AOL is cheap..but that is not the case! will only state that my relationship with
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by bsimpson 2y ago
They've also been pioneers in datavis. Mike Bostock (D3/Observable) had a long stint there, and I think Rich Harris (Svelte/Rollup) still is.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It'll be curious to see what the ramifications are of sending a kid to daycare basically straight away, vs rearing him at home until he's ~5. The costs in cities like NY and SF are so high that many kids end up in care as soon as
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by bsimpson 2y ago
This feels like less of a problem in recent years, with Vite having won the bundler space in the same way that VHS/Blu-ray won home video. There might be future evolution of course, but it feels like Vite is the default for new/re
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Babel and Webpack got popular because people wanted to try JSX, but build tools were not common in for web developers at the time. Pete Hunt gave a talk I found somewhere online about Webpack, and then I gave a talk about it at the first R
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Mint + Bella Dental near Washington Square in NYC has a gorgeous, modern office _and_ will tell you what to watch out for without prescribing expensive treatments. They're so nice, honest, and when I've been there I've felt l
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by bsimpson 2y ago
New York is probably the only place in the US where most of the drivers did not learn to drive here. It's the most international city in the US, and a disproportionate number of people who use the roads (taxis, delivery drivers, etc) g
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by bsimpson 2y ago
They also bought that indie email app that was a peer of Inbox. Neither exists anymore.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
"Killed by Google" has a similar problem. Google has killed products that could be entire companies if they weren't attached to the Search Ads firehose. A $100 dinner could be an annual splurge if you're making minimum w
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by bsimpson 2y ago
According to https://tools.rodrigopolo.com/display_calc/ , a 65" 8K like the one in the article is retina at a 26" viewing distance (136 PPI). For reference, a 27" 4K screen has 163 PPI, and is retina at

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