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by phatskat 1y ago
Nice! I’ll be honest, it’s not worth it. I’m just at the point of “if I can’t do it more easily with the remote, I’ll settle with doing it frustratingly with the remote”. I could probably get my Bluetooth keyboard paired up to the tv, but h
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by phatskat 1y ago
I can’t stand TV keyboard input, it’s wildly frustrating. I’d be happy even with “abc” style, T9 would be even better ofc. I can kind of understand how we got here - a fractured system of various vendors, TV makers, and customized android i
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by phatskat 1y ago
I’ve really enjoyed jj and im happy to see the community working together on these kinds of things.
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by phatskat 1y ago
Found it! For reference, I originally heard this in the Some More News episodes about “Uncomplicating the complicated situation in the West Bank”, but I can’t find those episodes at the moment. > As far back as December 2012, Mr. Netanya
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by phatskat 1y ago
Plot twist, OP is Adam Savage and is throwing us off the trail!
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by phatskat 1y ago
Let’s not forget that Benjamin Netanyahu even said once (that I know of from a recording) that the best thing for Israel is a strong Hamas.
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by phatskat 1y ago
We should’ve woken up when GOP reps spent the _4th of July_ in _freaking Russia_. I don’t care much to draw lines between republicans and democrats when it comes to “who’s grifting America today?”, but it baffles me that these politicians r
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by phatskat 1y ago
> did a property developer lobby for this? Maybe not a real one but…surely there’s a way this is a scam, right? Could this be feasible: “we bought all this land for houses but oops did some market research and found out <no one woul
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by phatskat 1y ago
Ah I see, but why that term?
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by phatskat 1y ago
Ricing?
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by phatskat 1y ago
I get the same experience on iOS using the OS web view - my guess is because iOS (and maybe android?) don’t typically play videos in “windowed mode” (for lack of a better term) outside of eg Google video snippets which seem to do some hacky
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by phatskat 1y ago
I loved my TouchPad, was super stoked to get one through a friend of a friend who bought two. It had the feel of “this just needs a little polish”, what I would expect for any new to market device with zero prior ecosystem. I was heads down
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by phatskat 1y ago
I really appreciated my brief experience with a Lumia - snappy UI, built in radio tuner, and a handful of apps. Not only was the UI responsive, it moved and flowed in a way that made it a joy to interact with. I’d say iPhone is the closest
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by phatskat 1y ago
Maybe or maybe not, but someone with nothing better to do than monitor that page out of boredom might “get on the horn” with lots of people to complain if a green check mark turns to a red X.
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by phatskat 1y ago
See also the recent HN discussion about Blowtorch Theory, which has roots in (but doesn’t necessitate) CNS
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by phatskat 1y ago
I remember the days of running WINE, tweaking settings, searching forums, hacking around in kernel modules, yelling at nvidia drivers…kind of miss it lol
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by phatskat 1y ago
Sure, and you could argue that we haven’t actually tried communism, or that US democracy is so gerrymandered and neutered (eg Citizens United), etc about any political system. I don’t think we’d be where we are in the US if we had a “pure”
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by phatskat 1y ago
Funny, I always called it “the GTA effect” as in either Grand Theft Auto 1 or 2, one of the top-down ones, once you got a particular kind of car you would see more of that same car on the road. I don’t know if it was an optimization strateg
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by phatskat 1y ago
> To be fair, I think he thought he could save us. Depends on who “us” is. Musk and his close friends? Sure. The rest of us? Well, in his view, the majority of humanity is a stepping stone to a future for his lineage to live on through s
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by phatskat 1y ago
> The truth of the matter is that the vast majority of software engineers write crap code, as the definition of "crap code" is "something I would have done differently". This is certainly a part of it, but I do wonder
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by phatskat 1y ago
I remember learning XML and XSLT from library books in the late 90’s and found it interesting, but couldn’t find a use for it - I wasn’t really handling data in any meaningful way back then, it was all just hobby learning, but in the decade
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by phatskat 1y ago
Yep, before Apollo I’d occasionally end up on Reddit randomly, and with that app I found myself getting pretty involved in some wonderful communities. But the whole thing was the final nail for me, and now I’m here but not nearly as engross
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by phatskat 1y ago
Wait Digg is back and they have the Apollo dev? I left Reddit over the api mess, Apollo was the only way I liked using their service. Def gonna look into that
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by phatskat 1y ago
Yep, it puts the “F U” in fun! Along the public transit line (ha!), the person primarily in charge of NYC’s road design and public transit planning back in the day made several anti-poor design choices, like ensuring overpasses crossing roa
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by phatskat 1y ago
I like the approach of “if there is no standard, give everyone a week to agree and if they don’t just pick something.” I’ve built too many sheds with “tabs or spaces?”
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by phatskat 1y ago
I get that, and I think it’s a fine check for junior devs especially. In my experience, mostly with PHP mess detector, Cyclomatic Complexity smells typically manifest as nested conditionals. I’m at a point now where I try to keep that mini
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by phatskat 1y ago
I definitely get that. When I did 3D modeling, my start in Blender was very rough. After I got used to it and did some tutorials it got much easier to navigate. That was probably a decade ago, so I’m sure it’s only gotten more complex since
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by phatskat 1y ago
> which absolutely should out the whole swat team in jail Which doesn’t really happen, I mean cops murder innocent people and it’s a struggle to get meaningful consequences for _that_. This is part of what ACAB means - the justice system
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by phatskat 1y ago
If the “Guns in butts” / “my wife is a jar of dirt” songs are any indication, I don’t know how “safe” it will be, at least as far as content goes. I’m similarly hyped and iffy. If you could have a model that listens to a looping segmen
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by phatskat 1y ago
That’s, huh, aww. This is so wonderful! If you have a link to said comment, it wouldn’t mind sharing what you learned, that would be lovely. I can also dig back ~10 years when I’m on my computer tomorrow :)

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