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by solardev 2y ago
Why is it not as fun? It's just a different kind of game. There are plenty of tactical shooter or sniper games that go through a lot of effort to model the ballistics (like the Sniper and Sniper Elite series), as well as pretty much ev
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by solardev 2y ago
I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty frightened at the thought of having to spend 2000 more weeks being stalked by an infinite horde of Chinese people trying to say hello. It's just not how I'd want to live my life.
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America is not a truth-based society. We don't really have truth in our news, in our advertising, in our politics, in our schools, in our religions, in our marketing... and we have very weak consumer protections. Basically we just beli
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by solardev 2y ago
Lol, CSAM and terrorists? It just reads like a generic form letter. I'm sorry, OP, that you put so much effort into a letter only to be completely ignored. The UK is not known for having good privacy protections, right? Especially afte
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Not here. ElevenLabs can do that.
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I am not affiliated with the strikers, but I think the idea is that, for now, the companies still want to use at least some human voice acting. So if they want to hire them, they either have to negotiate with the guild or try to find an i
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by solardev 2y ago
Guess that's why the video game voice actors are still on strike: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%93present_SAG-AFT... If we as developers are scared of AI taking our jobs, the voice actors have it much
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by solardev 2y ago
I don't think you or a bunch of us small time devs have any hope of beating the multinational megacorps. Probably the best chance we have is the E.U. slapping them on the wrist enough times that they open up a tiny little bit, but I d
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by solardev 2y ago
Seems like you could just use Figma if you want to build a static SVG for export. Konva is more for building interactive apps.
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You can try, but that adds way more complexity and fragility than a simple browser extension. That said, if you build such a product (something that can MITM HTTPS and then inject ad blocking JS on every page or video, or simply rewrite tra
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by solardev 2y ago
A high level simple interactive graphics and shapes library for JS, including a React adapter, that make it much easier to build graphical dashboards, visualizations, charts, simple games, etc. Instead of worrying about pixels you just mix
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Konva-React basically gives you the same ergonomics (declarative shapes as React components) without the performance penalty of SVGs.
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It is much much MUCH faster. SVGs really slow down on some browsers (especially Firefox) after a certain level of complexity and interactivity.
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It's FOSS. And you get rickrolled by the pricing link.
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The underlying shapes are defined by geometries (so vectors) and then rasterized to canvas. So the SVG export could happen before the rasterization. There are other libs that are native SVG though, so why even use Konva? The benefit of Canv
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by solardev 2y ago
Konva is much easier to use for simpler apps, especially combined with React. You basically define some shapes similarly to how you would declare any component, pass props and event handlers to it, and it just magically works. Pixi is lower
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by solardev 2y ago
What was your use case? Konva is a pretty high level abstraction, more like a lightweight interactive geometry & paint engine than a graphics API. It must've taken quite a bit of work to recreate similar functionality using native
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Yeah, especially since Adguard was originally Russian (they moved to Cyprus though). But the web is unusable without ad blocking, IMO. Necessary risk.
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No, it takes way more than that. That's basically what running a Pihole does, which barely blocks anything these days. Good ad blocking requires you to be able to look at decrypted HTTPS traffic and remove content from the DOM, includi
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by solardev 2y ago
This doesn't really work with most sites anymore, does it? It can't run JavaScript (unlike headless browsers with Playwright/Puppeteer, for example), has limited supported for more modern protocols, etc.? Any suggestions for
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by solardev 2y ago
I don't follow your logic here... why would N+1 or N+100 sources necessarily be any better than N? If you start with 5 hand-curated, in-depth reviews picked for quality and then combine them with 100,000 shitty AI-generated ones... you
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There are many companies that will pay people to write positive reviews on behalf of them or some third party (even though it's against the terms of service). Even without that, Amazon itself (via the Vine program: https://e
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How does an AI summary of crappy reviews help? It doesn't make the original data any more trustworthy.
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I wonder if it'd be possible to write an extension that uses the Native messaging API ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... ) to talk to a lightweight shim that uses the ma
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Just the default US English one it came with. Also tried https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/english-us-di... , but it was no better. It's much worse than the macOS or Windows default spell che
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by solardev 2y ago
I found some alternative dictionaries, like this one ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/english-us-di... ), but it doesn't seem any better. Words like "necropsy", "spilt",
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Ask HN: Why is Firefox's spell check so awful? Is there a way to make it better?
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Reminds me of when one exploded on a busy street in Taiwan, scattering blood and guts everywhere and leaving a horrendous odor for days/weeks: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4096586 > The 56-foot-long whale had
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And never mention chmod 666 or fsck...
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> some kind of magnetic board Sounds like a giant Etch-a-sketch? There are these small electric blackboards that you can push a button to reset: https://myboogieboard.com/pages/blackboard-smart I wonder if they make

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