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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Off-topic, but this is a brilliant comment, and exactly the type of stuff I come to HN for. Historical insight, and a tip on how to get transcriptions with yt-dlp. I didn't even know it could do that! Thanks for sharing this.
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
The 'Genius' at that Maine Apple Store was absolutely intentional in his behavior. Initially he just returned from the back, plopped my machine on the table, told me I'm all set and quickly took off before I could even inspec
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Only for US citizens. I received communications on the progress of this thing for years, kind of a letdown. I have to assume there isn't a special case for that time I happened to be in the US, booked a Genius bar appointment, and the
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
> A decent LSP makes it trivial to see which function is being called. We're talking about replacing C here. Requiring everyone depend on a hefty LSP to make sense of source code is a big ask. Source code is text. I firmly believe t
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
> This is one of the few pieces of open source hardware that is genuinely better (IMO) than many other larger hardware brands. Is the Framework OSHW? I thought it was just very repairable, but proprietary. Have the PCB schematics and oth
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
The ephemerality of iOS applications is the biggest tragedy in software preservation history. So many memories, so much software history, locked away forever on some Apple internal archive server.
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
> How many more dwarf fortresses could we have if we gave people the safety net to follow their dreams? So, so many. Linux is a good example. Linus has talked about how he was able to spend a lot of time on getting Linux off the ground b
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
My employer pays me to work 37.5 hours a week. An excessive amount of hours beyond that would raise potential legal issues, as there are limits on how much overtime is allowed. And yes, people do things for fun, too, not just for money.
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
https://justforfunnoreally.dev
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Precisely. This pervasive attitude of 'duh, just upgrade your hardware' comes across as elitist, and is very toxic. Not everyone can afford to drop several thousand $ every few years just to maintain a tolerable development enviro
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
I am the proud owner of an 8MB IBM branded DiskOnKey flash drive. Plugging it into my linux system, it throws a lot of errors, but I do have a ext2 filesystem on it. I can mount it and find the little 'hello world' text file I put
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
"It's better to be a pirate than join the navy." - S.J.
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
> EDIT: Turns out the Bedrock Edition modding api was discontinued earlier this year [5]. Embrace, extend, extinguish. Any day now they will announce the eventual deprecation of the original Java-based Minecraft.
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
The settings app is not the problem, it's a symptom of the problem. This current design/engineering culture at Apple that seems to either ignore or not be aware of design guidelines and best practices. The perception of many, myse
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
It's still in rapid development mode. Can be booted on bare metal, but it's not ready for prime time yet.
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
To be fair, so is the original Drift screensaver from Apple. I only briefly used it before realising it was gobbling up tons of power and heating my laptop up.
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Sure, yeah. That and I'm happy to do bug fixes as well, of course.
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Earlier this year I set out to completely rewrite an old project[1] using minimal, battle-tested dependencies to avoid having to constantly patch code rot associated with more modern languages and toolchains. The rewrite[2] is now complete,
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Cosmopolitan/APE binaries can run on bare metal x86 with no operating system, so that column shows syscall coverage for that use case.
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
I couldn't even complete the Microsoft account migration without encountering a data-mining attempt (they wanted my personal phone #). [1] I can no longer justify this kind of privacy invading anti-user behaviour for a silly block game
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
I have a similar experience. I have a 2005 Fujitsu LifeBook S2110 I keep for sentimental purposes. I installed Arch on it in ~2015, and I've been upgrading it ever since. I've had 2-3 breakages over the years, but every time I&#x2
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Even after the pairing hassle, every time I play music on my Apple AirPod Pros (that cost over 200€, btw (!!)) the first second or so of songs consistently sound like garbage. Evidently whatever transport they are using can't handle su
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
The word ‘data’ is plural, so it might be more correct to say “Do my data fit in RAM?”
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
I purchased in 2010 during the Alpha stage, I believe version 1.1.2_01. Sure feels like DRM now!
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Microsoft banned me from playing Minecraft until I provide personal info(twitter.com)
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Curious to hear the HN take on this. Some people I talked to seemed to think this is a small hill to die on. Am I just weird that I find this uncomfortable? The stated purpose is spam prevention, but CAPTCHA exists for that purpose. I'
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
No calibrator, sorry, but from a totally layman perspective, the panel is very nice and has good colors and viewing angles. Wouldn't say it's quite comparable to a P3 gamut panel, but I switched to this from a 2018 MacBook Pro, an
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Yeah, the SoC and RAM are on a replaceable board, and upgrades are in the works. The connector is also fully documented, so other parties can also design SoMs for it. I'd also really like to see OpenGL ES 3 myself!
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
Since I recently received my MNT Reform laptop, I feel like it's appropriate to shill it here. Built like a tank, to be upgradeable for a long time. Also comes with more sustainable LiFePO4 batteries! I love mine, and will be using it
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by vkoskiv 4y ago
I think you expressed my feelings as well quite accurately. Dumbing down + adding more (unfortunately somewhat necessary on a mainstream platform) annoyances and hoops. I used OS X exclusively from 2008 onward, and I switched fully to linux

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