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by tcldr 2mo ago
Ban distillation of our outputs, but our distillation of the sum-total of civilisation's intellectual output – proprietary or otherwise – is fair use? Either everyone licenses, or nobody does. And if you can't enforce licensing
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by tcldr 7mo ago
The price increases for dedicated servers are reflected in the higher setup costs. For example, I believe AX102 setup was EUR 39.00 now EUR 269.00.
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by tcldr 7mo ago
Price would be a bit more bearable if their reserved instance discounts were more generous
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by tcldr 8mo ago
Agreed. If the CFC (controlled foreign corporation) rules still apply for founders in EU-member states, it will fail. I’m hoping they can be creative and find a way to distribute revenues to member states in a way that works for everyone. F
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by tcldr 8mo ago
> Of all the challenges you face as a startup, the legal entity you choose is possibly the least consequential. The amount of founders who choose to domicile their company in Estonia because the ticket rates and ease look attractive and
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by tcldr 8mo ago
Totally agree. If I don’t understand the code as if I’d written it myself, then I haven’t reviewed it properly. And during that review I’m often trimming and moving things around to simplify and clarify as much as possible. This helps both
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by tcldr 10mo ago
Fairly subjective, but personally I find all apps being within the browser quite constrictive. I'd much rather have my apps unencumbered by browser chrome and unintended keystrokes, persisting their window size/position and all ki
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by tcldr 1y ago
No. In Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic style – pretty much a bible amongst typographers – he states: We should “[u]se spaced en dashes – rather than close-set em dashes or spaced hyphens – to set off phrases.” Bringhur
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by tcldr 1y ago
With a warrant from a judge people should be compelled to provide access to their encrypted files or be in contempt of court with all that entails. Anything else is overreach.
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by tcldr 1y ago
Scaleway has a broad range of services, but their price competitiveness/reserved instance discount is a bit lacking.
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by tcldr 1y ago
Hetzner's great, and I'm a customer, but we're missing lots of stuff there – and some of the stuff that is there isn't reliable. For example: * Object storage: lots of horror stories out there regarding flakey performanc
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by tcldr 1y ago
Maybe not possible with today's SOTA AI but I have no doubt it's within reach.
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by tcldr 1y ago
Just because we're unable to compensate many millions, perhaps billions of people, for using their work without a) permission, or b) remuneration, doesn't justify giving a blanket license to use it without some form of *serious* c
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by tcldr 1y ago
Exactly. This is the argument that I find lacking from today's discourse: AI companies are already extracting generations worth of human intellectual data into their models. If they want to argue that this is 'fair use' then
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by tcldr 1y ago
I think the audience who can appreciate handcrafted code will be vastly smaller than the audience who appreciates hand carved wood.
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by tcldr 1y ago
You're right. When I first watched it, I was under no doubt they lived and breathed that philosophy. It matched my perception of their output 100%. Watching it again now, I'm reminded of how I used to feel and how much things have
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by tcldr 1y ago
It's crazy that marketing hasn't worked out that quality and reliability can be spun as a feature. In fact, I remember with OS X, that was the baseline word-of-mouth feature when the comparison was made with Windows at the time.
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by tcldr 2y ago
Hetzner is great value, but their networking has a few issues: 1) Networking is mostly limited to 1Gbps. Even private networking. You can request a 10Gbps NIC, but it has to be housed in the correct data center and adds a $48 monthly fee. 2
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by tcldr 2y ago
It will be fascinating to see if the protectionist foreign policy that's been adopted by the US will lead to an improvement in the quality of services available elsewhere. Previously, the friction of using a service with slightly rough
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by tcldr 2y ago
Thanks, I’ve seen bits from their engineering blog that have been really insightful, so that’s what got me to wondering if there’s more literature buried away on YouTube or elsewhere.
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Ask HN: Figma web/desktop app architecture
12 points by tcldr 2y ago|3 comments
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by tcldr 2y ago
Try Decibel Meter Ultra ( https://www.decibelmeterultra.com/ ) if you have an iOS device. It will give you a graph over time and you can leave it running over night. Free version is limited to 2 min duration but has a 7-day f
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by tcldr 2y ago
> and happens a lot more frequently on Airbus models to the point that Airbus modified the door latch. So you’re saying Airbus resolved this issue? Why hasn’t Boeing?
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by tcldr 3y ago
Actually, it's used pretty heavily by SwiftUI. The DSL for SwiftUI relies pretty heavily on n-element tuples that were previously limited to something like 10 children. So you'd have something like: VStack { ViewA() Vi
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by tcldr 3y ago
Beyond reading old code samples, knowing obj-c provides diminishing returns these days. All relevant obj-c libraries provide an auto-generated native swift interface, and you can even ‘import objc’ if you fancy doing some obj-c runtime stuf
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by tcldr 3y ago
Dear Google, we were only adding ‘site:reddit.com’ or ‘site:news.ycombinator.com’ to search queries so we could get to opinions that weren’t being manipulated by SEO fiddlers. What’s our alternative now?
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by tcldr 3y ago
I’m aware. But when you’re trying to set a tiny brand mark over a photo in the corner of some social media thumbnail, a screen’s fidelity is not the limiting factor, it’s the human eye.
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by tcldr 3y ago
Sure, a restricted subset of serifs and typically when you’re reading a run of text i.e body copy. But the typical neoclassical serifs used in high fashion (think the Vogue logo) with their hairline serifs will look awful scaled to the size
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by tcldr 3y ago
Q: Why do everyone’s logo fonts look the same? A: Because they need to be legible on a mobile device. It’s no coincidence this trend started in the 2010s with the arrival of the smartphone. Brands need a consistent look that work across med
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by tcldr 3y ago
The 'Happy Meal' strategy. a.k.a Get 'em while they're young. What you learn on today, is what you'll mass produce on tomorrow.

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