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by j_4 5y ago
My cynical impression has been that Firefox keeps moving stuff around to keep some UX manager occupied (sorry, "for clarity") and dropping power user options bit by bit. I've grown frustrated. If they no longer want to cater
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by j_4 5y ago
I don't own a car because I inhabit a walkable, dense city instead of enormous urban sprawl, not because I'm destitute.
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by j_4 5y ago
It is a very valid argument against data collection for the sake of data collection, which is closely related. Can't find the exact source, but there was this story about some French (?) town keeping a list of Jews in their documents,
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by j_4 5y ago
This is a really damaging take. In any area imaginable, a low barrier to entry has been proven to breed more people on the high end of skill and commitment. There's nothing wrong with folks who don't want to deal with dehumanizing
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The Future of Internet Shopping Might Not Be Home Delivery(forbes.com)
1 points by j_4 5y ago|0 comments
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by j_4 5y ago
E.g. the last update removed right click -> open image, which I used all the time to view images in full screen. Now there's only an option to open the image in a new tab, which requires additional clicks to achieve the same thing.
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by j_4 5y ago
One fairly cheap bedroom addition I can't recommend enough is blackout curtains. Took me 25 years to discover that they're a thing, and the improvement in quality of sleep has been immense for me.
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by j_4 6y ago
Great UX, great tool. I wish "shuffle" truly randomized the settings, rather than cycled through a dozen presets. Maybe separate button to shuffle just the patterns and not the colors? Color shuffling is where most of the ugly out
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by j_4 6y ago
Unlike English though, the pronunciation is almost always straightforward and non-ambiguous. The spelling for some sounds can be confusing at first, but once you internalize it, it'll work 99% of the time.
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by j_4 6y ago
Commenting so I can find this later. There was talk.gg which is exactly what you're looking for, but I see it's been down for a few years now.
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by j_4 6y ago
It's already pretty popular in what I'd call loosely 4chan-adjacent meme culture. https://www.google.com/search?q=spurdo+fug :DD
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by j_4 6y ago
>Some great roguelikes have found their way to Steam (Caves of Qud, for example), but finding them amongst the 100s of games that get the "roguelike" tag is difficult. Not a huge issue, of course, but it's why it matters t
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by j_4 6y ago
A single hog being killed for 150000 kcal of sustenance is a lot more morally acceptable than 50 minks being killed for a single luxury coat. It's not cognitive dissonance to think this. (numbers from quick, non-exhaustive googling)
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by j_4 6y ago
> Her personal website is one of the best I've ever seen. FWIW I found it borderline unusable on desktop. It feels like 95% hero banners and confusing multi column layouts with at least 5 different font sizes/weights. Actively
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by j_4 6y ago
There are a lot of extremely complex, demanding, and unique systems-based indie games which are very successful. I think you have it backwards - At the Gates is a case of a game simply not being up to bar despite the recognizable name behin
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by j_4 6y ago
>without the racist connotations I wouldn't know whether black or white list was the 'good' one. Please. Humans are diurnal animals, and we depend on sight as our main sense. The idea of light good, dark bad is present in
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by j_4 6y ago
>not going out of your way to hire people with some specific skin colours is racist. Sorry to be painfully cliche but this is some straight up war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength stuff.
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by j_4 6y ago
That's very different from my experience. You can't hide "trends", "who to follow", or "topics", and they make it pretty much impossible to do with simple cosmetic filtering, which I certainly don&#x2
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by j_4 6y ago
I'm a solo indie developer in the late stages of developing a small 2D game for PC and mobile. [1] Unity enables you to double dip on your engine knowledge to work on anything from simple 2D games for WebGL or mobile devices, to large
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by j_4 6y ago
Haha, great job. There's also something to be said for the grim humour of how technology led us to this point. Sadly, I'd also be extremely wary of sending the kind of documents that I need to print out and sign through some serve
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by j_4 7y ago
Oh! That's true. I think you have it a bit mixed up though. - ANSI is the same thing as US, it's the one with a long left Shift and single row Return - ISO is the one with a short left Shift, two row Return, and the [| \] key in t
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by j_4 7y ago
>in Germany/Europe Wow, I honestly didn't know how widespread non-QWERTY keyboards are in Europe. Wikipedia has a nice map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ I live in Poland and we pretty much exclusiv
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by j_4 7y ago
"A push on the git repo" is not something I would think trivial for a non-tech person. However, netlify also supports just drag-and-dropping a zip onto the dashboard. That's probably as easy as it gets.
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by j_4 7y ago
"You can build such a system quite trivially", etc. Turning a long numeric sequence into a memorable phrase easy to input with both text and speech solves a real problem.
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by j_4 7y ago
I would argue the exact opposite. Tumblr is pretty agnostic when it comes to the way your content is presented, you can even hide all social features without a problem. I roll my eyes when I see a serious company using Medium as its blog pl
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by j_4 7y ago
On the old layout there's a "parent" link under every comment. If you're not logged in, you can just add "old." at the start of the url.
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Show HN: Pawnbarian, a chess-deckbuilding-roguelike game I made for 7DRL gamejam(j4nw.itch.io)
4 points by j_4 8y ago|0 comments
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by j_4 8y ago
This is about serious business security wargaming.
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by j_4 8y ago
Large parts of Unity (everything C#) are source-available as well.
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by j_4 8y ago
In my experience it's mostly just the novelty of figuring out new starting conditions, and crafting a small system that you can know intimately without too much mental burden. We like figuring out challenges, but starting from scratch

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