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by whoisyc 1y ago
I haven’t used Facebook in years and I don’t think I will ever pick it up again. But I also don’t think “just quit facebook, bro” is an effective pitch to the average person. Facebook (and other Meta properties) has sadly become the only
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Just like every submission about C/C++ gets a comment about how great Rust is, every submission about Rust gets a comment about how great Zig is. Like a clockwork. Edit: apparently I am replying to the main Zig author? Language evangel
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by whoisyc 1y ago
The entire skin gambling scene is a big reason why I don’t touch the game anymore. It seeps into everything around CS and now you can’t watch a professional match without seeing a sponsorship from a skin casino, can’t watch a YouTube video
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by whoisyc 1y ago
In the past you looking around documentation, SO answers etc would have hopefully helped you learn more about the tools and develop skills required to independently analyze the pros and cons. If you ask an LLM (or a search engine or a colle
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by whoisyc 1y ago
There are countries that believed farming should not be profit oriented and curiously they happen to be the ones to have breadlines. It is no coincidence that America and Japan, the two countries with the most draconian copyright protection
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Not in Tokyo. All but the first two of Tokyo’s subway lines run on overhead wires. In fact they had to build most of the subway lines to suburban rail standards because they planned on operating through services in the beginning.
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Once upon a time you could take a train on the Chicago loop, ride it through the countryside at 90mph, and end up on the streets of Milwaukee like a streetcar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroliner It sounds crazy
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by whoisyc 1y ago
I am not a Nintendo fan (I do have a Switch 1) but this article is the first time I learned Nintendo added HDR graphics the the Switch 2 and this thread is the first time I learned HDR was actually being marketed. I genuinely doubt most Nin
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by whoisyc 1y ago
This is why emoji responses on Slack are so useful. You can ask others to affirmatively confirm that they have read a message and they can make the confirmation without clogging up the channel with tons of text messages. And no “read receip
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Kagi has a little over 50k paying users. Hacker news has 5 million monthly unique users [1]. Given how hacker news constantly complain about google’s decline and the constant virtue signaling on the need to pay for software, you would expec
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Thanks to Australian customer protection laws, Steam has some of the most lenient refund policies among digital software stores. You can usually get a full refund if your play time is less than a few hours. Plus there are frequent sales. Do
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by whoisyc 1y ago
Shinkai is an one trick pony whose one and only plot is teenage longing and whose one and only visual language is coating everything in a shiny glittery glow so he can hide the emptiness of his movies under it. His works are nothing but one
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by whoisyc 1y ago
> webp, jpeg 2000, HEIF, jpeg xl, farbfeld I think you just illustrated how difficult it is to propose a new standard. Webp was not supported by many image related softwares (including the Adobe suite!) for years and earned a bad reputat
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by whoisyc 1y ago
This assumes people training AI are going to put in the efforts to extract metadata from a poorly specified “format” with a barely coherent buzzword ridden README file. Realistically, they will just treat any .meow as opaque binary blobs an
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by whoisyc 1y ago
This. The same drive for betterment that made our species “kill such beautiful minimalism” was the one that lifted billions out of subsistence farming and 50% infant death rate, and will be the one to escape the destruction of planet earth
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by whoisyc 1y ago
1950: cars give you the freedom to go anywhere you want. Artificial fertilizer puts an end to hunger in industrialized world. Yeehaw! 2000: you are a second class citizen who can’t even get a job in many places if you do not have a car. Als
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by whoisyc 1y ago
They exert immense influence over the React ecosystem, even its documentation. Example: https://react.dev/learn/creating-a-react-app If you are new to React and just figuring out how to get it running, you will likely
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by whoisyc 1y ago
It is funny the author chose Denmark as an example because Greenland is technically a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, and with Greenland included the Kingdom of Denmark has a population density of 2.68 per km^2. Does this mean it is no
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by whoisyc 1y ago
There is no answer to the question “what Joyce would have done…”. None. Nil. They are dead and anything done it their name is by definition not what they would have done, but what future generations who are convinced that they know bett
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by whoisyc 1y ago
While I am generally against gambling and would like to see more social and legislative action against it, I would advise against forming opinions based on news pieces like the one you mentioned in the beginning of your post, because news h
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by whoisyc 1y ago
What’s the reason for Need for Speed Underground 2 (2003) to be open world? What’s the need for Forza Horizon (2012) to be open world?
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by whoisyc 1y ago
The complaints are likely coming from heavy gamers who are more exposed to game prices because they buy more games and are also way more vocal online. Nintendo sold 151 million switches but only 1,391 million games [1], meaning on average a
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by whoisyc 1y ago
IMO the best argument for time zones is it keeps calendar days roughly [1] aligned with “natural” days, such that day changes happen when it’s dark outside and most people [2] are asleep and most people won’t be entering a new day durin
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by whoisyc 1y ago
1. I fear you may be underestimating the volume of bot traffic websites are now receiving. I recommend reading this article to get an idea of the scale of the problem: https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attac
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by whoisyc 1y ago
You are proving GP and OP’s point. CS 1.6 was an exceptionally popular game in the GoldSrc days and that is why it survived and was chosen by you as an example. That is an exception not the norm. Plenty of FPSs from the same generation have
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by whoisyc 1y ago
A quick whois lookup of ycombinator.com returned the following: Domain Name: YCOMBINATOR.COM Registry Domain ID: 147225527_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.gandi.net Registrar URL: http://www.gandi.net