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by on_and_off 2y ago
"to just show text" is such a tell that you know nothing about UI. Displaying text is extremely complex. This is only 8000 lines because skiaa does the brunt of the job. Also, who gives a shit about TextView? Just use BasicText,
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by on_and_off 6y ago
stopping using youtube altogether I would actually understand
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by on_and_off 6y ago
meh, still feel very hypocritical. You have found a way not to pay for something, good for you, but brandishing it as some kind of "perfectly fine solution" is just laughable.
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by on_and_off 6y ago
and you also don't contribute to the creators incomes. I can understand people vouching for using youtube premium or nebula instead, but not this.
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by on_and_off 6y ago
or just paying for youtube premium ...
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by on_and_off 6y ago
I am always stunned that many (most/all) of these high tech gadgets lack a LOT of safety features. I would pay extra for a drone with such safeguards. just the prospect of less chances of ruining it would be enough. Similarly, eskates
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by on_and_off 6y ago
interesting, I will have to give it a look at one of these days ? I heard about it but haven't played it. Looks like it was made from the same team as Ground Control, so this would be a tactics game (maybe a bit of a pedantic point to
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by on_and_off 6y ago
They had some sweet ideas. I just watched a retrospective on 20 years of Double Fine. Tim had some interesting comments in there about how BL came to be. They were avoiding very hard to make or market the game as an RTS because the genre al
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by on_and_off 6y ago
happy to hear that this is still going on ! I lost interest in FA around the time when FAF was in its first betas. Planetary Annihilation is more or less a successor but I could not get into it. I like its idea but in practice the micro was
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by on_and_off 6y ago
oups indeed I meant micro not macro RTS without macro would make no sense
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by on_and_off 6y ago
my hot take on RTS : I like the genre (or rather used to like, the last one I loved was SupCom) but I wish somebody would make an RTS with no/minimal macro. Controlling the builder/peons units is a chore at best and I would love t
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by on_and_off 6y ago
I live without a car in SF, partly because I used to do the same in European cities : - it is amazing to be able to walk / use public transport to go everywhere you need to - I just don't like driving in cities. It is just a chore
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by on_and_off 6y ago
ah the old "I don't know anything about this implementation and why things are made this way but I would have made it 10 times better with half the resources". give me a break
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by on_and_off 6y ago
Honestly it is almost funny how Google has been mostly unable to successfully launch new products while they have the capacity to promote them to virtually all of the global north. In particular with Play Music .. not going to complain, I d
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by on_and_off 6y ago
that's a bit of a false dichotomy though. it is not like these 2 products were identical except for sideloading. They don't have the same hardware, Apple has an unlimited ad budget, if you want to chat with somebody using iMessage
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by on_and_off 6y ago
It does not look like you can edit your uploads unlike with Play Music. Admittedly that's very probably a feature used by few people (although I know that for all of the people that use it, it is because of some very obscure track they
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by on_and_off 6y ago
Well, I guess it is back to local storage for me. I tried youtube music but it is not for me. You can leave it to google to fuck up the same product under 10 different names. At some point, they had a great service with Play Music. That was
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by on_and_off 6y ago
I wonder how much of an advantage it is practice ? It is one such toolkit among others, like React or Compose. It is different from making the whole OS open source. I guess that since the benefit would be to make third party devs job easie
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by on_and_off 6y ago
stupid question : but is there any specific reason why swiftui is not open source ? I am working with jetpack compose these days and it is both open source and documented. I am not sure how I would work with it without that, it is quite a b
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by on_and_off 6y ago
I distinctly remember a tweet from 4 years ago, "this presidency will be a test of our institutions and counter powers". Well, this did not go _well_. I wish a lot of luck to the Biden administration, there is a lot to rebuild. I
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by on_and_off 6y ago
wow, it went from almost impossible to just improbable, everything is great then.
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by on_and_off 6y ago
unpopular opinion it seems : in personals 1:1 calls, I love seeing the UI disappear and just have a full screen video of my SO/family member.
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by on_and_off 6y ago
let's be honest, the fact that allowing flash would also allow webapps not controlled by apple to go on the platform was a huge factor.
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by on_and_off 6y ago
I mean : why are they allowed to make it an auction ? If the goal is to break their stronghold on Android, it sounds like it should be mandated as free ?
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by on_and_off 6y ago
I wonder why you are getting downvoted so much. I don't know how common bi-men are (probably more than bi erasure makes us believe) but it feels like a least a portion of them are not ready to come out as bi.
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by on_and_off 6y ago
It took me 3 reads to dismiss the idea this was about Google Music (which is getting the axe anyway :(. Somebody should get fired over failing to build an audience for this great service)
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by on_and_off 6y ago
Google is also very bad at making its different divisions work together. Which is pretty neat when you work on a competing product (and way better than having them use their dominant position to help prop up a new product). I worked on a mu
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by on_and_off 6y ago
Is there some context explaining why this is based on an auction ? If the goal is to prevent Google from using its Android dominance to also dominate search engines, a random sort of the most popular search engines in a given country sounds
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by on_and_off 6y ago
I really need to try open-xcom. I know that there are also some total conversion like Piratez XCOM. I tried to love the firaxis XCOMs. They kind of scratch the same itch and I appreciate not to have to manage bullets in the inventory but so
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by on_and_off 6y ago
Site doesn't open. I wonder how this would work ? Google can for sure remove an app from the play store and maybe even remove it from play services enabled phones. If I am European and travel (in some hypothetic future where it is poss

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