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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
- Making the service look like a legit library instead of clearly saying it's a repository of stolen books. Was confused myself for a while when I first stumbled on it, had to infer from it being too good to be true and doing some due
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
They used various dark pattern marketing techniques to try and convince people to pay and make the site look like a legit library, so clearly some commercial intent even if it was always possible to download for free (maybe to provide some
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Why not? It's top bandwidth consumer for a retail ISP and surely any reasonable amount of rack space is worth the savings in interconnect bandwidth.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Obvious YC startup idea here: build an AI model that analyses app store rejections and automatically modifies and resubmits the app. Fight fire with fire.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Or just because it looks at SMS. Few non-malicious apps have a reason to look at SMS and it's very high value data for malicious ones, no surprise the AI model misclassifies the one app with a perfectly legitimate use. It should be whi
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Nothing? Autosave + undo supercedes "save". The "save" operation needed to be explicit on 1980s computers because nursing the floppy controller was a stop the world operation -- a long solved problem.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Seems a weird mix of async and callbacks spaghetti. I´d expect an async UI to be in "immediate UI" style, e.g.: async fn give_em_cookies(window:Win) { win.title("Cookies!"); win.columnwise(); win.label(&q
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
The point is the private key is on the USB gadget and stays there. It's not a dumb USB drive.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Just compile Firefox or chromium to WebAssembly and run it inside Edge. :-)
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Normal staggered layout also matches that the operator's hands are at an angle to the keyboard in a normal position. It's an ergonomic version of the ortholinear layout lol. (Maybe that's less relevant on a tiny device?)
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Rectangle with capacitive screen is just that. Well designed apps should be robust to improved screen resolution, faster processors or network connectivity.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
A lot of miners are probably still in the denial phase thinking they'll mine a PoW fork of ETH or the remaining GPU-friendly proof-of-work coins like ETC or monero. It's easy to fall for it: if they look at what their mining power
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Reputation? Folks will stop sending them their TX if they never come out in blocks, but competing copy TX with someone else's address systematically do. So that they do their job is, to a degree, verifiable. It's a small community
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
It's white-label banking, allows non-bank businesses to have a bank account product with their name on it, confusing everybody in the process. It's naff but not nefarious.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
LOL I had to change bank accounts because of a neobank that managed to get clumsy barely working IT taped together systems and pathetic app worse than any "traditional" bank. They achieved in 2 years the same crap it took the incu
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
"modern web practices" may be more to blame than the browser. It's possible to make lean fast things running on browsers (within reason), but the culture is nobody gets fired for bloat. It's ubiquitous, same for mobile a
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Only works on congested networks, or those that burn fees: in original bitcoin style, without congestion, generating dummy transactions is free for miners (the fees come back in block reward).
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Yeah same, more a collage generator than an architect. It's less convincing than the other projects like this, wonder if it's a uniquely hard problem or a weakness of this particular implementation.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Sure, it's tongue in cheek, but there is a tragedy of the commons in there: whatever massive waste devs and their employers inflict on society goes unpunished because there is no incentive to change that behaviour. Was suggesting some
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Maybe the bootleg page could be a source of inspiration? It has a garbage/content ratio of 32 (the browser downloads 32 bytes for every byte of content) while the original page has a 400 ratio (the browser downloads 400 bytes for every
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
I find Gnome has been doing quite nicely with design (despite the haters).
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Isn't the point that legal crypto-fiat gateways will do (some of) the job for them, and ban stuff like that (beyond explicit Treasury bans) voluntarily?
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Coinbase solves this. (Custodial wallets can keep track of bad stuff received since account inception and allow spend of the clean amount only, no fee for on-chain burn required.) Whole farce is hilarious.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Can't have an APL family post without mentioning Klong! http://t3x.org/klong/
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
twitter.com is essentially that. They're doing okay.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Where is the irony? HN does not expose scheme to the user. Don't think the parent was saying that it's impossible to write a good program in scheme/lisp, more that scheme as user interface for a software system is a hard sell
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
"done" has downloads?
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Might be a blessing in disguise? The libre computing movement got lazy. We got used to care about free software and just accept free-riding on non-free hardware because "hardware too hard" and frankly we got it easy with x86 CPU a
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
There is no enforcement authority, all the blackmailing is done by private rogue lawyers.
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Are these benefits not eroding? Pressure on subscription models comes from both the public getting herd immunity against the underlying dark pattern and competitors chasing a diminishing supply of people to trick as world + dog has adopted

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