solardev

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by solardev 3y ago
There's Uservoice and Mechanical Turk too, if you want a more general audience
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by solardev 3y ago
> To me it sounded like there was a group within Apple that wants to create an emulation layer (and did essentially) but that leadership hates the idea and in its current state it is a compromise that it even exists at all. Heh, I hadn&#
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by solardev 3y ago
I tried a Steam Deck but ended up selling it. Coming from high-end PC gaming from my younger days, the Deck just wasn't quite enough, between the low-medium graphics and the lack of mouse/keyboard + big monitor (yes, you can dock
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by solardev 3y ago
Not Dalian Wanda, I don't think? They started in Chinese real estate and now own much of Hollywood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Group Edit: Actually, I don't think DJI and Haier were Amazon brands eith
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by solardev 3y ago
Maybe if you look them up, but I bet the average person has no idea what Lenovo, Asus, Volvo, Nintendo, Samsung, and IKEA mean. Even more modern company names are kinda like that... Anker, DJI, Haier, Dalian Wanda, Kagi, Vercel, Nexon, Plex
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by solardev 3y ago
Is it really that different from Nokia, Nintendo, Siemens, Lenovo, Asus, Samsung, Ikea, Ferrari, Volvo, etc.? None of those sound reputable by themselves, they had to build up a reputation. Hell, I'd probably buy a Zolimo Barbertron ju
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by solardev 3y ago
Digital items too?
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by solardev 3y ago
I hear ya. Here I'm hoping that with Apple Silicon and GPT, maybe some devs will take it upon themselves to port games even if Apple and Valve don't. Gaming on Mac is definitely not my first choice, but I don't have the time,
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by solardev 3y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation!
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by solardev 3y ago
This is fascinating. It's such a common (mistaken) usage in the tech world, Dictionary says it's derived from the premise of a building deed, so it's not completely off. I wonder if there's a term, similar to "backr
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by solardev 3y ago
Best of luck! It's a cool skillset to have, from someone whose physics background comprises mostly of tossing enemies off cliffs in Baldur's Gate 3.
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by solardev 3y ago
Do you think Mac gamers would ever see similar love, like Game Porting Toolkit integrated into Steam?
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by solardev 3y ago
Looking at the screenshots, it reminds me of Guitar Hero / ROCK Band on like ultra hard mode, maybe?
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by solardev 3y ago
Can you measure a wifi signal between two phones? https://www.makeuseof.com/wifinanscan-measure-distance-phone... Or if you can limit it to newer iphones, I think their special UWB antenna lets them accurately sense directi
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by solardev 3y ago
> Please come join us and help make it better! :-) Huh. Interesting idea. What language are the frontend and backend in?
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by solardev 3y ago
You ever thought about working in games? Engine code, physics, enemy AI, shaders, that sort of thing? Also, not sure why your post was flagged and dead. I vouched for it and hopefully it'll get resurrected?
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by solardev 3y ago
I like the domain rankings, seeing which domains get raised or lowered by people ( https://kagi.com/settings?p=rule_leaderboard ) I'd love to see a upvote/downvote system per query/result, as another ranking me
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by solardev 3y ago
Your Google Workspace has ads...? Oh, do you mean if you do a Google Search even though your company pays for Workspace?
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by solardev 3y ago
Why does that site even need JS? It looks just like an article.
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by solardev 3y ago
Oh, like a copyleft/sharealike license? I didn't realize that. Thanks!
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by solardev 3y ago
(Too late to edit my other response) To be clear, I think the stop signs and stoplights in Google Maps are a total anti-feature, a distraction that should be disabled. As soon as I saw them I wanted to turn them off (you can't), especi
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by solardev 3y ago
How so? Do you mean Google's or OSM's legal department?
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by solardev 3y ago
Lol it's true, and why I'm glad there's human moderators. Still, at more than 500 contributions and 7 million views (it tracks them) and one act of sabotage... eh... I don't feel too bad :) The community had a good laugh
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by solardev 3y ago
I think having a human in the loop is essential, if only for catching things like my petty vandalism or honest mistakes. Wikipedia has humans in the loop too but doesn't take forever. It's more a matter of transparency and trackin
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by solardev 3y ago
Responded to a similar sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598699 But in regards to: > What you describe are not community features, but rather "user-sourced one-way value creation," ie. you
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by solardev 3y ago
Can I ask what your day to day looks like? Are you configuring services? Writing code and tests? Like what are the things you do for reliability? (I've never been in a company big enough to have one of these, so I'm just trying to
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by solardev 3y ago
I think OSM is a great project and I do contribute from time to time. At a previous job where I was doing some GIS and web mapping, I went out of my way to get permission to open source my work and publish it to OSM. We did. But in my day t
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by solardev 3y ago
That stop sign feature is relatively new. I had to glance at the phone (mounted to the dash) to know where to turn, and saw the new stop sign and was like "wtf". It's a steep hill that probably COULD use one, but in the momen
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by solardev 3y ago
Yes, absolutely. When that feature first came out (showing stop signs), it caught me by surprise. I was going downhill in an area with poor visibility and I was alarmed that I missed a stop sign and braked. No accident, thankfully, but I ne
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by solardev 3y ago
What exactly does an SRE do (Software Reliability Engineer, right?)? I've heard the title before but don't quite understand it.

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