hooby

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by hooby 3y ago
Nice open clone of the "Escape Velocity" series of games. Fun to play, but sadly the main story imho isn't quite as good as in the originals. It's way better in terms of playability on modern systems though.
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by hooby 3y ago
Ooh, I love this. They sixtyforgan is just the kind of nerdy project that never fails to totally amaze me!
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by hooby 3y ago
"All crypto is 100% scam" is an exaggeration. There are legit use cases - but you've no way of ever being sure - and due to lack of regulation, you don't get any protection either. And there's about enough scam goin
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by hooby 3y ago
I did some work for online journals where papers got published even IF the peer review was bad and rejections were exceptionally rare. The review score of the abstract was only used to decide on the best topics to invite for a presentation
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by hooby 3y ago
Currently BOTH is being used - peer review is the first pass, reproduction the second. Peer review might (or might not) weed out a few papers before they ever get to being reproduced - and that a paper "passed" peer review often m
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by hooby 3y ago
This isn't going to be very helpful to you, so sorry for that... But for me, the hardest parts of getting started as a self-taught programmer, was copying TurboPascal onto floppy discs without the teacher noticing, and retyping code-li
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by hooby 3y ago
Twitter truly wants to become our X social media network. Maybe we should just stop calling it.
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by hooby 3y ago
I can't speak for anyone else besides myself, so I can't answer the question "what is HNs obsession". But I can share my thoughts on NoScript: An ad-blocker acts as a blacklist of sites/domains which are not allowed
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by hooby 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that most medieval laborers were not aware of that scientific literature ;)
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by hooby 3y ago
Seems more than just a bit ironic to block the web from being used on the very same open source that it actually runs on...
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by hooby 3y ago
Life was harsh, lots of work was physically taxing (no machines to do the heavy lifting), and there was not much in terms of relief for any sort of chronic or recurring pain, like back pain, tooth aches etc. Alcohol helps endure, as it made
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by hooby 3y ago
> Backwards compatibility is one of Microsoft's strengths but with IE it became a weakness for them. I know that Microsoft in general puts a lot of thought and resources into backwards compatibility. But the thing is, with IE, I nev
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by hooby 3y ago
I know there's more history to webkit, but that didn't really seem relevant to the rise and decline of IE... I glossed over it for the sake of brevity. (And yes I know, I still failed to keep it brief, despite that). As for the de
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by hooby 3y ago
"still the *same* render engine" is poor wording on my part. Of course they overhauled/reworked things, dropped support for ActiveX and a lot of backwards compatibility stuff. So it probably would be more accurate to say it&#
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by hooby 3y ago
There's many company-intern intranet applications still in use out there, which rely on old IE features like ActiveX and whatnot. Afaik, older versions of .NET came with features that required IE. Also Asia always was and to my knowled
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by hooby 3y ago
It would be really bad if everyone used Firefox - just as it would be very bad if everyone used Chrome (or even any other browser based on the same rendering engine). We all absolutely do benefit greatly from having multiple competing b
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by hooby 3y ago
Afaik you still cannot uninstall: * Internet Explorer * Edge Legacy * New Edge so, yes there's now effectively three browsers that you can't get rid off. You can install a different browser, and make that other browser your defaul
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by hooby 3y ago
There's nothing I can't find with Google. If I do scroll through the search results, select a few promising ones, wait for the page to load (slowed down by multiple fat ads), click away the cookie warnings, reject the GDPR consent
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by hooby 3y ago
You are totally right. Google makes billions from advertisers - the companies who pay for ads, the companies who create those SEO-optimized marketing-pages. Those are the target audience, that Google wants to make happy. Why would they care
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by hooby 3y ago
I feel that Google search has been slowly dying for many years now. Where in the past I could find documentation, forum-posts, wikis - concise information - these days I find SEO-optimised marketing fluff, link-farms, clickbait, long-form a
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by hooby 3y ago
In my previous company we had - back in the day - a newly hired junior developer that fully subscribed to that particular XML hype. We had our uses for XML - we liked it especially for API endpoints and import/export files we exchanged
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by hooby 3y ago
The issue was, that a small font sizes and default print quality settings, the caching mechanism would consider some digits like 0 and 8 to be similar enough, to use the cache - which would end up switching numbers around. This finding did
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by hooby 3y ago
> MS-EdgeExplorer I propose the name: "Internet Edgeplorer" ;)
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by hooby 3y ago
Well, most people would not accept the generous offer from the African prince, just because he wrote them an email. And not everyone would buy everything some market crier advertises to them - or order anything that's hyped on some sho
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by hooby 3y ago
But would your parents switch to Edge/Bing on their own - or would they ask for your help, to do that for them? Is that really the sort of audience that would actually switch to Edge, if whoever maintains their computer for them has se
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by hooby 3y ago
I lack the psychology knowledge to know for sure - but isn't it quite normal psychological behavior to go into full rejection-mode, if someone tries to push something down your throat too hard? Nobody likes being manipulated - and if t
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by hooby 3y ago
To me personally, Jira was the best tool I've used so far (used a few of them, but not very many). But I still was not too happy with it back when I used it - main reasons being extremely slow load times (we had the cloud version, not
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by hooby 3y ago
It really gripes me, that everyone is saying THE metaverse. It's not THE metaverse, when there are multiple competing metaverses - it's just A metaverse then. Facebook/Meta is trying/failing to build A metaverse
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by hooby 3y ago
> It’s just the word metaverse that has become toxic. So why are we still using it? Phrases like virtual worlds or immersive worlds convey the same meaning but lack the stigma of the original term. > And these are arguably better des
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by hooby 3y ago
A law of physics or nature, is something that HAS to be that way, and could not be different.

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