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by bsimpson 8mo ago
That's effectively what I do. I have my dev branch, and then I make separate branches for each PR with just the commit in it. Works well enough so long as the commits are independent, but it's still a pain in the ass to manage.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
It's funny to see this all go full circle. messenger.com was spun out of facebook.com to try to build a new platform. They promised interoperability with Instagram and WhatsApp accounts, although they never did a good enough job that
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Wild to see such fragmentation in such a niche space. It's an aftermarket Linux flash for smartwatches, and there are companion apps for SailfishOS and Ubuntu Touch, which are extremely niche flavors of the already very niche mobile L
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
I use GitHub because that's where PRs go, but I've never liked their PR model. I much prefer the Phabricator/Gerrit ability to consider each commit independently (that is, have a personal branch 5 commits ahead of HEAD, and
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
This partially feels like an intentional pendulum swing from Twitter/Facebook cancel culture and other forms of policing. I'm thinking in particular about the rise of platforms like Discord where being opaque to search/archiv
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Honest question: has he done anything you think warrants good press? I too quickly grew tired of the constant doomerism in his first term, but this one seems to be unmitigatedly terrible.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
I can say that to a certain degree about Hacker News too. Still often good comments here, but certain topics devolve into a bad subreddit quickly. The ethos of the rules hasn't scaled with the site.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Wirecutter was a good premise, but now it and everyone copying it are untrustworthy. It feels like the human version of AI hallucination: saying what they think is convincing without regard for if it's sincere. And because it mimics t
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Apple presumes you have a multitouch pointing device. You can three-finger-swipe between spaces. I know there's a keyboard equivalent, but you'd have to look it up.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Years ago, they changed the behavior of the green button to be "fullscreen into a separate space." As someone who never uses spaces, this is never what I want. You can escape it by moving your cursor to the top edge of the screen
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
How was that distinct from 8? I thought 9 was just 8 running in a VM on X.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
I didn't think a window could span two screens - I thought it only appeared on the one that had most of the window.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
This feels untrue. Granted I haven't tracked it closely, but the Adwaita design system and the GNOME HIG feel like relatively recent developments.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
I forgot all about Reason…
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
one of my pet peeves of computing in this millennium has been images that make your screen arbitrarily go dark. i presume this is a defect in how macs display HDR content embedded in an SDR container.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
What's the Business Source License? The attached file doesn't have terms, and references an undefined "change date."
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Isn't this a C++ app that authors UI in Dart? I don't see anything about a browser.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
There was an article the other day called something like "How is Google helping the investigation?" It said she didn't have a cloud subscription, but that there are data pipelines that make these sort of devices work. (Imagi
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
It is interesting to see players other than Google invest in it. Makes me wonder if you might eventually see the OG Flutter team move to a shop like Toyota, the same way the original React team moved to Vercel. It's nice to see open s
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
It does look like Filament has a web target: https://github.com/google/filament but if they're targeting embedded systems, maybe they haven't prioritized a public web demo yet. If the bulk of the project is
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Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter(fluorite.game)
536 points by bsimpson 8mo ago|304 comments
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
If you're reading Hacker News comments about pinball, then that series may be among the best 3 hours you'll ever spend on YouTube. I opened the comments to make sure to share it if someone hadn't already. It's absolutel
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
There's also the implicit xenophobia/offshoring angle that people in a call center in the Philippines must be doing low quality work and/or being exploited.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
"I let an iPad raise my kid and now she sucks" is a wild lawsuit premise.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Do they have their own model? I thought Copilot was a frontend for Clause et. al..
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Sounds like when Netflix reneged on family accounts. I cancelled my account in protest, but their financials say they made money on the change (and thus all the execs are happy with it).
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
That's putting weight on the other end of the scale. Why would you want to stake your reputation on an internet stranger based on a few PRs?
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
In Italy, you can walk into a shop and buy as many contacts as you like. In the US, if you haven't paid your annual tithing to get a hall pass from an optometrist, the FDA won't let you.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
This has been on HN a lot recently. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767668
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
That's actually more recently than I would have guessed. He had already departed by the time I discovered bike building in the early 2010s. Time is strange.

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