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by flixic 6y ago
Same in Japan.
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by flixic 6y ago
If this PR would have come from a sufficiently anonymous user (no location / profile picture), I'm sure it would have gone through. I'm certain maintainers don't check identity and nationality of every contributor.
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by flixic 6y ago
The popularity of “pure black” themes for apps on OLED screens is the biggest counterpoint. When designing dark mode for mobile, please use #000.
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by flixic 6y ago
Go to comments, Cmd + F, "Subnautica", yup, exact same thoughts. Even the way "SeaMoth" docks.
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by flixic 6y ago
Proof of Work, chain of blocks.
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by flixic 6y ago
It's the game to teach people what technical debt and refactoring is. When you start building your factory, you think about how to get first steps just done (ship it!). Over time complexity and scope of your factory increases, but old
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by flixic 6y ago
This was the main inspiration! Also, the fact that I couldn't find anyone going through EVERY step of QR code generation manually (even if CPU-assisted) and in detail.
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by flixic 6y ago
During quarantine I designed a paper-based system for making QR codes by hand. Everything is very papery and bureaucratic, but also fun. Tables to look up bytes, long forms for calculating Reed-Solomon, and even transparent sheets of paper
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by flixic 6y ago
That's a very wild assumption to make. I used boon. and didn't know they are a Wirecard brand.
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by flixic 6y ago
They are not optimizing for plausibility, but for “think of the children!!”
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by flixic 6y ago
Particularly for code-related products, not having a dark mode is disrupting. If you run most of your apps in dark themes (IDE, terminal, StackOverflow, etc), having something be light themed can be blinding.
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by flixic 6y ago
In case you are interested in Dark Mode, it's not on this roadmap.
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by flixic 6y ago
Inter is almost as good as Apple's SF, and with a much more permissive license. It's my default when designing apps for the web. I used to default to "system font stack", but that was always because SF is such a great fo
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by flixic 6y ago
That's the key insight. It's not Facebook's or Twitter's decisions that have lead to a divisive discourse. It's that given an option to express themselves on social media, people like expressing strong tribalism the
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by flixic 6y ago
I got this: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/3046.... Even simpler. Blank canvas.
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by flixic 6y ago
> Why? It could be that the scientists are simply smarter; most physicists could, if necessary, make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in physics. T
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by flixic 6y ago
Also, World Barista Champion 2007.
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by flixic 6y ago
From what I can remember, Apple.com never had a carousel. Microsoft.com has two on the homepage right now.
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by flixic 6y ago
In high school I made a little game with a similar feel. It showed a tower of stones, same for everyone online. To add a stone you needed to hold mouse for about 7 seconds. There was also a massive red button to collapse the tower. The rec
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by flixic 6y ago
If you can rely on audience being quite technical, IPFS is a pretty good, very censorship-resistant approach. There are some IPFS bridges that make viewing content easier. If IPFS is out of the question, I'd look for hosting services t
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by flixic 6y ago
Updated. I wish HN had proper blockquote formatting.
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by flixic 6y ago
> In our technical work we use ‘allowlist’ and ‘blocklist’ instead of ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist.’ That’s because of the origin of these terms, with white being seen as ‘good’ and black being seen as ‘bad.’ This is one of these times whe
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by flixic 6y ago
Using this strategy docking is much, much easier than trying to follow hexagons.
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by flixic 6y ago
You can try docking yourself at https://iss-sim.spacex.com
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by flixic 6y ago
I never knew about this github feature. Nice!
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by flixic 6y ago
KYC is unavoidable for financial products.
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by flixic 6y ago
It's rebranding of Calibra, the website still shows Libra name proudly. Perhaps FB wants to create even more distance between their project Novi and "not" their project Libra.
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by flixic 6y ago
It's interesting how in open-source projects, BDFL (Benevolent Dictator for Life) is usually not seen in a negative light, and the Wikipedia article does not list any "problems": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by flixic 6y ago
Interesting to explore how this can be used. You still need to develop a game with an actual engine first, to generate all the samples for training the AI how to generate frames without an engine. But maybe if training sample size can be co
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by flixic 6y ago
It’s much more primitive. No silence skipping, no voice boost, and most importantly, show notes are hidden and don’t really support HTML. Spotify is hurting podcasting and a lot of what is good about the open ecosystem with diverse clients.

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