xpaulbettsx

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by xpaulbettsx 7y ago
As someone who wrote Indie Windows software, it's not only the problem of supply vs. demand (I'd actually argue that there are a fair amount of people who are happy to pay Coda-levels of money for software), the biggest problem is
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by xpaulbettsx 7y ago
> This is what makes Stack Overflow so helpful, the accompanying natural language description of intentionality or special cases, even if the code that is found isn’t precisely what’s needed, it demonstrates directionally what to do. You
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by xpaulbettsx 7y ago
UNICODE_STRING too - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/ff564879
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by xpaulbettsx 7y ago
> Around the same time that Grace’s cancer recurred and we began chemo anew, my former partners informed me they believe I cannot devote the time necessary to care for Grace while being a valuable contributor to Bolt Wow. What a short-si
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
Was this person in their late teens / early 20s? Many people who have latent schizophrenia end up initially triggering it around this age via LSD - these people would have most likely triggered it eventually through stress.
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
At the end of the day, Notepad++ can't get a "Notepad++" cert because "Notepad++" is not a Legal Entity (i.e. a corporation or living person). At least from a policy perspective, Microsoft will only consider Legal E
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
This boilerplate exists in literally every site that hosts user-created content in some form and displays it to other people. If it didn't exist, the site would immediately be violating your copyright if they showed your content to any
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
To an extent - many laptops and nearly all desktops don't have Thunderbolt at all. TB external GPUs are probably the main use-case for the technology today (people indeed do use them for rendering)
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
Check out Streamlabs OBS (SLOBS), its interface is much more streamlined than regular OBS, though they still have some difficulty walking the line between flexibility and simplicity.
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
I'm not disagreeing that it looks nicer, but trading FPS for clarity is definitely a good idea for live coding. I edited my previous comment, Twitch seems to have improved on this front
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
There's zero reason to run 60FPS for a text editor, turn it down to 15FPS and take that extra bandwidth and put it into quality - if you're worried about the YouTube quality after-the-fact, you can run two encoding jobs though it&
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
I like it but having to fiddle with dependencies makes it harder to get started, maybe submodule them?
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
I think that the more likely reason is that many corporate security standards (think PCI compliance etc etc) are starting to blanket ban SHA-1, and it was cheaper to switch away from it than continue having to carve out policy exceptions wi
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
I'd personally be super interested in that code, even if it wasn't usable out of the box (i.e. just dump what you have)
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
Facebook has a limited amount of mitigation that they can do because of the nature of WhatsApp. Trying to suppress Fake News is hard when you can't even read the content
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
They don't though. They get lured in by news of the "NSA spying on them", install this app, and later find out all of the caveats after they're committed and end up losing data. It sucks.
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
That's Unfortunate, on Android you can restore your messages in Signal
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
But no actual content. Normal people don't care about this nonsense, they just want to talk to their friends, and I get to explain to them why the only way they can read their old messages is via a zip file full of TXT documents.
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
Threema is a nightmare, if you switch from iOS to Android or vice-versa there is literally no way to migrate your data, and this fact is extremely obfuscated by the help docs which mention "export" but surprise! There's no im
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
Yes they can, though one problems is that because NT paths are less restrictive than Win32 paths, you can create files / directories that you then have trouble doing things with using standard tools
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
I wouldn't advocate going to a 100% cash-only system either in 2018, and neither would any other reasonable individual
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
It's bananas that people are downmodding you on this point. A financial system or security / commodity that literally has no recourse in the face of crime or even simple clerical error, is an unusable financial system . Can you i
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
I don't find disk space worth optimizing for in 2018. For $2 you can buy a USB Thumbdrive that will hold every Electron app you'll ever use.
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
You're literally comparing two completely different apps. If you want to compare Apples to Apples, host 5 teams in Slack, in both Chromium and WKWebView
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
This is a useless comparison. Once you're hosting an actual app, the content matters way more.
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
People excited about X submit articles about X, is this surprising? > Articles like these bring nothing to the table and look out of place for HN. This is a reasonable technical article on how one framework implements rendering and manag
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
https://portal.facebook.com for one
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
It's Perf Review time, gotta get that Impact without affecting production
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
"It's just as easy as SSH!" and "Ok, set up your iptables rules...." do not go together. Wireguard might be easier than OpenVPN, but it's still prohibitively difficult to set up, and especially to use in a clie
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by xpaulbettsx 8y ago
He's my old boss :)

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