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by jasode 4mo ago
Raymond Chen of Microsoft explained why they go through the effort of coding a lot of special-case compatibility shims for other's misbehaving apps. It's to remove obstacles that prevent customers from upgrading Windows. (The url
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by jasode 4mo ago
The pension plans for many government employees still exist. CalPERS (California Public Employees' Retirement System), Illinois Teachers Pension, etc. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pension_scheme.
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by jasode 5mo ago
>3rd party is dumb and should never ever have been a thing. Before two parties had the secret (or something related to it) and now three parties have it and that's objectively worse There seems to be a misunderstanding of how typi
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by jasode 5mo ago
The Veritasium video is good but their "newscast" style with constant back-and-forth cuts to talking heads can make the presentation a bit disjointed. The more straightforward video of ASML EUV is from Branch Education: https:&#
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by jasode 6mo ago
macOS/iOS Safari and Brave browsers have "Reader mode" . Chrome has a "Reading mode" but it's more cumbersome to use because it's buried in a side menu. For desktop browsers, I also have a bookmarklet on
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by jasode 6mo ago
>"democratization" doesn't mean more people have access to it. > I just don't like it and think it is relatively new usage and a change in the older meaning of the word. People have been using "democrat
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by jasode 6mo ago
>Just use the Ask button on YouTube videos to summarize, For anyone confused because they don't see the "Ask" button between the Share and Bookmark buttons... It looks like you have to be signed-in to Youtube to see it.
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by jasode 6mo ago
>The rule is: If the bank, or paypal, or your landlord, or anyone else really emails you that you have to complete some information to your account or pay the latest bill or whatever, you GO TO THEIR WEBSITE and login normally. Yes, t
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by jasode 6mo ago
>When you get an email from Apple—or, really, anyone telling you to complete a digital security measure—check the URL they’re trying to send you to. Apple Support lives on apple.com and getsupport.apple.com, nowhere else. That advice i
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by jasode 6mo ago
>Why does everything have to make money? People like to built things as a hobby. The gp asked a reasonable question. Your admonition about making money is misplaced because your assumption about it being a hobby is incorrect. The webs
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by jasode 7mo ago
>mpv to achieve a similar effect? Not sure if you can cover a specific part of the image but you sure can crop the video mpv doesn't run on iPad so it's better for my situation to just burn the blackout into a new video. I
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by jasode 7mo ago
drawvg is very useful. Before drawvg, I was always fine using the stable FFmpeg releases such as 8.0.1 but when I saw drawvg added to the master branch[1], I didn't want to wait for the next stable release and immediately re-built ffm
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by jasode 7mo ago
>If I loved King Crimson, I might create a site expressing that love and also host lyrics to their songs. Not to generate ad revenue. Not with any expectation of being reimbursed for hosting costs. I did it because it was fun and becaus
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by jasode 7mo ago
>when it's as easy as just using a small USB-C to 3.5mm audio jack converter to use wired headphones. As someone who uses wired earphones exclusively and must use those USB-C adapters you suggest, it's not quite "just as
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by jasode 7mo ago
>Why is HN centralized, while a phpBB forum is decentralized? There's a spectrum of decentralized <--> centralized for different audiences. For this tech demographic here where installing some type of p2p or federated discus
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by jasode 7mo ago
>, by why would the term private credit bring to mind anything to do with retail specifically? If a layman is unfamiliar that "private credit" is about business debts, and therefore only has intuition via previous exposure to
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by jasode 7mo ago
>, we simply have to make a cultural change where non-technical people do more for themselves. I don't even think it's about technical difficulty (most of the time). I think people just want someone else to take care of their
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by jasode 7mo ago
>, and this article reveals nothing new >Thats what the second chance pool is for >Creating a new URL with effectively the same info but further removed from the primary source is not good HN etiquette. I'm going to respec
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by jasode 7mo ago
>I only wish this was a website. I don’t like the idea of running an executable for something that can perfectly be done as a website. The tool depends on hardware detection. From https://github.com/AlexsJones/l
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by jasode 7mo ago
Not to disagree with anything the article talks about but to add some perspective... The complaint about "code nobody understands" because of accumulating cognitive debt also happened with hand-written code. E.g. some stories: -
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by jasode 7mo ago
>Democracy is about governance, not access. It can be about both meanings. The additional meanings of democratize to describe "more accessible" are documented in Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries: https:/&#x2
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by jasode 8mo ago
>Apple News+ is ~$13 The list of publications included Fyi... Apple News+ subscribers don't get the full subscription to all the participating publications. This means a subset of articles and/or partial articles (teasers
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by jasode 8mo ago
Examples of C++11, C++17, C++20, C++23 that removed features. Some deep links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11#Features_removed_or_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B17#Removed_featu
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by jasode 8mo ago
>How about using forums again, Not sure what forums software you're thinking of but vBulletin, phpBB, Discourse don't have the extra features the author is looking for. He wrote: >Many of these make heavy use of Discord&
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by jasode 8mo ago
>Looks very much like a format that should just have been gzipped JSON. For application file formats that require storing binary blob data such as images, bitmaps, etc , many in the industry have settled on "SQLite db as a file fo
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by jasode 8mo ago
>It starts by not looking into Windows through UNIX developer glasses. People don't need any UNIX biases to just want multiple versions of MSVS to work the way Microsoft advertises. For example, with every new version of Visual S
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by jasode 8mo ago
The "past" link for previous submissions won't work in this case because the title was submitted as "color" instead of the original spelling of "colour". Search with "colour" to see the previo
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by jasode 8mo ago
>Why? If I'm writing a mail receiver, and I'm told there is some unique ID generated by the sender in a loosely specified way, the first thing I'm doing is ignoring that value forever. [...] So at that point the ID has no
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by jasode 8mo ago
, Winamp & VLC were build by less than four people. You only needed 1000s of people because the executive vision is always to add more useless junk into each product. Many types of software have essential complexity and minimal featur
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by jasode 8mo ago
>, the title is incorrect. Differing philosophies of how to interpret titles. Prescriptive vs Descriptive language.[0] There can be different usages of the word "Unix" : #1: Unix is a UNIX(tm) System V descendent. More emp

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