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by zkldi 5y ago
> There was a movie where a guy got out of prison after a lengthy sentence and his words seem to ring more true to me each and every day: "The world got itself in a damn hurry and it seems there is no place now for a feeble old man
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by zkldi 5y ago
> To say the biggest source is Gmail might be technically wrong though - I suspect there's a large volume of spam that Migadu (my provider) is dropping before it even reaches my inbox, i.e. emails that it is 100% sure are spam and i
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by zkldi 5y ago
This has to be one of the most overdone comments on this site -- Not everything even slightly critical of a product is like the dropbox reply.
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by zkldi 5y ago
The benefit of no store commissions is immediately negated by gas fees. Public Metrics on usage is already possible without the blockchain, you can do this with a centralised database and an API. If your retort to this is "what if stea
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by zkldi 5y ago
> Yes? Why wouldn't that work? Because videogames are different? There's absolutely no logic connecting items in one game to another in almost all cases. As such, the set of items the developers would actually want to implement
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by zkldi 5y ago
Do people on HN not play videogames at all? Shovel Knight didn't get popular because it was crossed over into so many games, Shovel Knight got incredibly popular for being one of the best platformers of the decade that kept releasing h
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by zkldi 5y ago
This idea doesn't work at all. For your dota skin to work in world of warcraft, the developers of WoW would have to acknowledge that 0x1fab... corresponds with $ITEM in $GAME and then spend the time actually implementing that item
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by zkldi 5y ago
Did you even read the OP?
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by zkldi 5y ago
Reminds me of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
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by zkldi 5y ago
OP of the issue here - I literally talk about this in the thread. Easter eggs are cool, but obfuscated payloads in critical code is not. > Hi, While I appreciate easter eggs (and think others have it a bit too much out for them), the fac
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by zkldi 5y ago
Couldn't find the year this was posted, but it isn't recent. If anyone knows, let me know so I can fix the title.
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Ten Thousand Mistakes(thecodelesscode.com)
4 points by zkldi 5y ago|1 comments
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by zkldi 5y ago
Out of genuine interest, what is your opinion on the OP?
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by zkldi 5y ago
Same in the UK.
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by zkldi 5y ago
> If it turns out that Types really are the way forward, then these will eventually be included in the JS core. Not necessarily? TypeScript could easily continue being its own thing as it is now, and ECMAScript have shown absolutely 0 in
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by zkldi 5y ago
Ethereum has been moving to proof of stake for the past 4 years. Everytime these threads come up people bring up that ETH is *just about* to move to PoS, but it never happens.
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by zkldi 5y ago
JSON5 keeps coming up in these discussions, and I've personally had a great time with it. Hopefully some larger projects pick it up and it eventually becomes a common occurance, or something.
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by zkldi 5y ago
If I had asked them what they wanted, they would've said faster filesystems.
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Why You Should Like Dislikes (2019)(youtube.com)
29 points by zkldi 5y ago|1 comments
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by zkldi 5y ago
> "hide the like bar, and nobody watches my videos because most people who hide their like bar are asshats." Why do you think that is the case? It's probably because the actual cases of people being dislike mobbed are *way
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by zkldi 5y ago
Nonsense, Creators have been able to hide their likes and dislikes for years. This is a global change that cannot be opted out of.
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by zkldi 5y ago
> I know people that play games to sell their gold for real money, against the platform blessing, risking getting banned. Why would game developers ever implement a system that lets you circumvent the rules? > Also the same NFT can be
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by zkldi 5y ago
So it's not free speech?
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by zkldi 5y ago
What happens if someone uploads child pornography? Does it just stay there and everyone has to deal with looking at it?
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by zkldi 5y ago
> Zuck makes your pentouse smaller you are going to be pissed. And what the hell are you going to do about it? How is this any different to the arguments against centralisation that they could ban you/remove your belongings at any t
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by zkldi 5y ago
And who determines who can distribute those NFTs? Can I mint my own land ownership token? Obviously not, which means there's still a centralised authority on who owns what. The game client could just change how it interprets address
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by zkldi 5y ago
What?
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by zkldi 5y ago
The fact that other games can refer to other <items> on the blockchain doesn't implicitly mean that they'll work in every game though? The amount of effort it would take to support every item for every single game in every s
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by zkldi 5y ago
You would have to check your third party data sources anyway? I fail to see how this is a knock against typescript. Setting the type of unknown data to `unknown` forces you to validate it.
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by zkldi 5y ago
Like?

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