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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Which you will nearly always give permission to do anything useful.
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Deno seems like the next mongo db fiasco waiting to happen. Insecure by default. The fact that it doesn't grant permissions by default is irrelevant, servers need permissions to function (access databases, access files, access the netw
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
This? https://s.hdnux.com/photos/41/20/33/8718076/9/rawImage.jpg
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
interesting choice to be different than all other webpages and user experience for no good reason.
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Maybe I'm mis-understanding the definition of class or object but isn't a "File" in even Haskell an example of a class. Files have state which is either the read head or write head and in most languages you can change th
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
The counter argument is every netflix show and movie, every hbo show, every amazon show, is available via torrent moments after it comes out. And yet Netflix and Amazon are an N and A in FAANG. They're hugely profitable, even though it
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
It is reasonable for a company not do want to deal with people outside their country including payment systems they don't support and laws they don't understand, taxes they have no experience with etc... It is not reasonable for A
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
It could be worse. I could be any other language / dev env. Trying getting a C or C++ open GL app to compile. the first hits are often 20+ years old NeHe tutorials. Every few years the libraries change, the dev environments change, and
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
It's funny the HN crowd complains about the constant distraction of open offices but loves the constant distraction of Slack.
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
If you're on a collaborative whiteboard does undo undo the last collective edit or just your own edits?
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Yes, you can only have your account associated with 1 store. You won't lose the apps you have installed but 1. They won't update until you switch back so you'll likely need to switch 2 to 4 times a year as your bank and/
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
It does depending on what software you want to run. There is no actually good alternative to Photoshop. gIMP is not remotely in the same league. Pixelmator and Affinity Photo are brought up but they're also like nano vs emacs. Photosho
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
If you can't afford $1800/yr you weren't serious anyway.
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
> Building a tool without a target product almost always misses the mark. There is no evidence to back this claim up. There are > 10000 shipping games made with Unity, maybe 100000. And there are many hit games made with it as well.
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I am also curious to know. I have no Unreal experience but some Unity experience. Have only made a few hackathon level games and plugins. Unity seems amazing to me. It's like a game engine editor creation system. Every game needs custo
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Tell that to their atrocious app store situation. Need an banking app for Japan AND one for the USA each only available on that country's store. Apple says F.U!
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I don't see my employer as paying less than the value they get from me. I see my employer as accepting a risk I'm unwilling to accept. If I go do things on my own I have so many things I have to deal with. Assuming you start a bus
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I absolutely don't care about productivity. I care about > Also, it's nice seeing everybody at work, getting lunch, having a coffee break with people, whiteboarding, etc. There is a huge social aspect that is lost with WFH that
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I tried to add that Japan's test on Favipiravir is showing no efficacy for COVID. It's news all over Japan on May 20th. Wikipedia rejected the edit. Google "Avigan" (the brand name for Favipiravir) in news and it will co
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Has apple accounted AV1 support in MacOS and iOS? (sorry if I missed it. That would be great news)
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Ever see a student get scolded for not using a #2 pencil? Can't use a pen. Can't use a marker. Can't use a #9 pencil. Must be a a #2 pencil. Ever fill out a government form that must be done in non erasable black or blue ink.
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I recently had to fix some copy and pasted code across 11 files. So I write a regex something like /(.*?)somefunc$(.*?)$ {\n( *?)return a + b;/$1somefunc($2) {\n$3return a * b;/ And then search and replaced across
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
wish there was more autocomplete in powershell
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
panopticlick is specifically about browser fingerprints. It doesn't include your IP address for example.
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Yes, a drive by web page shouldn't be able to do this but similarly a native app shouldn't be able to do this and yet I suspect some not insignificant percent of native apps, especially on mobile on both OSes are doing this either
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
CORS has nothing to help with here. The site doing the scanning is not able to make connections. Rather it's only able to tell if the port is listening or not. CORS would still be listening so they'd get the same info they're
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
yes, that is too loud for all but one of the 20 or so apartments I've lived in. I once lived in an apartment where the manager told me don't worry about sound including running the washing machine late at night because the walls a
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I have a large collection of movies and ripped them all to Kodi. I was going though marking a bunch as watched and I started to get slightly upset at myself as I marked each one and thought "watched that one 8-10 times, watched that on
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I totally agree with you. I also think we might want to compare. I suspect 150 years ago most people stared a shovel 34 years of their life or a clothes washing bowl etc..
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I'm not sure about home dir but a thing I've needed is a standard place to store app stuff. On Windows it's a mess. There's AppData/Local, AppData/LocalLow, AppData/Remote and many apps store a ton of stuf

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