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by ynx 5mo ago
As someone who was there: nope. This isn't sanewashing. Apple was directly (and IMO arguably illegally) shutting down Facebook teams and products by playing app store chicken on refusing to allow Facebook to publish updates on a week-t
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by ynx 8mo ago
> Docker’s journey reads like a startup trying to find product-market fit, except Docker already had product-market fit - they created the containerization standard that everyone uses. The problem is that Docker the technology became so
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by ynx 10mo ago
Speaking as someone who once worked at a company where these were real issues that came up - it's very often the case that intermediate parties in the contracts have dissolved. Renegotiating the contracts would require lengthy and expe
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by ynx 10mo ago
To be honest, the Microsoft store was the biggest single impediment to success the project ever had. All of the ridiculous UWP requirements or exceptions and friction to install doomed it, start menu tile be damned. And the start menu tile
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by ynx 10mo ago
If you use a Quest Pro and use Steam Link with a WiFi 6E access point, that should accurately represent the experience of using it. It's close to imperceptible in normal usage.
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by ynx 11mo ago
To be fair, assigning the highly competent BDFL of Linux who has listened to a bunch of highly competent maintainers some credibility isn't mindless. Unless you have a specific falsifiable claim that is being challenged or defended, it
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by ynx 1y ago
it's a lot easier to buy additional gadgets when you can assume or when they explicitly declare that they're usable with the pi 5, and the time saved from "oh just install these commands" documentation is easily much gre
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by ynx 1y ago
nope, python can be interpreted!
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by ynx 1y ago
DirectX carried the games industry forward because there weren't alternatives. OpenGL was lagging, and Vulkan didn't exist yet. I hope everyone moves to Vulkan, but DX was ultimately a net positive.
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by ynx 1y ago
JIT is still banned by policy on a LOT of mobile devices, meaning that previous usage of yt-dlp on mobile is now effectively unsupportable.
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by ynx 1y ago
There is a lot to unpack in this. Your #1 is encoding an unexamined assumption that there is a fixed or at least somewhat inflexible amount of violence to be directed anywhere. It also ignores the lightning generation engine, so to speak, t
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by ynx 1y ago
On the contrary, I am a lot more willing to think through the contours of the problems I need to solve because I haven't drained my mental energy writing five repetitive - but slightly different - log lines and tweaking the wording sli
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by ynx 1y ago
The association isn't without merit. Google acquired Metaweb Technologies in 2010, acquiring Freebase with it. Freebase was a semantic web knowledge base and this became deeply integrated into Google's search technology. They did,
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by ynx 1y ago
All iPhones worldwide since iPhone 8, Japanese iPhones starting from iPhone 7. Source: I had an iPhone 7, and was friends with one of the engineers who added FeliCa support to the secure enclave. The Japanese 7 was a one-off until the 8 mad
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by ynx 2y ago
> A significant majority of Americans are medically satisfied with their health insurance provider. Before some life changes that mooted the point, I lived in fear of needing serious medical care, and as far as things go I'm more pr
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by ynx 2y ago
Meridiem seems to only have ARM builds, no Intel builds. Could you perhaps update it to include Intel?
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by ynx 2y ago
That's not an uncomfortable question at all. SWE (and all employees) should be paid to the point that the owners of their company, while well-rewarded, are not sucking up a large percentage of global wealth personally...and that's
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by ynx 2y ago
What's needed to form a contract is an offer, acceptance, and consideration - if an offer was made and accepted and something of value was exchanged, and there wasn't confusion about the terms (after 10 years, there wouldn't
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by ynx 2y ago
something of value* granting API access in excess of the free tier would most likely constitute something of value, but yeah - probably wouldn't bother, it would be expensive to pursue and not worth it.
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by ynx 2y ago
Dismissiveness like this tends to radiate ignorance, not insight. Quests have shipped roughly ~1/2 PS5 sales. Certainly a scale only a handful of technologically advanced product lines outside of phones ever reach. Incidentally, the en
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by ynx 2y ago
+1. Going from FB to $REDACTED to Oculus was a pretty wild ride, there were a lot of different cultures, though I think generally speaking the best qualities filtered through. (also, howdy former teammate)
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by ynx 2y ago
> modern Linux with systemd, Wayland, dbus, and other technologies have deviated greatly from POSIX and other classical Unix technologies Systemd is inspired by/imitating launchd; macOS did it first, to much less fanfare, and theref
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by ynx 2y ago
Objective-C++ does exist, so their paths didn't diverge so much that they didn't remain in each others' ecosystems on a permanent basis (on Apple, which is the only place both regularly intersected)
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by ynx 2y ago
Boneworks-inspired name?
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by ynx 2y ago
Hard not to get all conspiracy theorist about canary removals. If I were to don my tinfoil hat, it seems possible to remove the canary with a boring incident for plausible deniability of a prior incident whose confidentiality is more strict
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by ynx 3y ago
You're only minorly wrong in that they don't sell access to the behavioral data [1] , but you do realize that you sound absolutely unhinged about it, right? Is HN surveilling my post because I typed here and pressed the 'repl
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by ynx 3y ago
I feel like if I said "die slow, motherfuckers" here, that'd be justified grounds for a ban. It's really, really fucking stupid to do this, and even worse as a leader of an influential and impactful organization. Also
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by ynx 3y ago
I worked with a couple of people who worked on the original iPhone and they basically corroborated this: the writing was on the wall but the phone wasn't quite ready for it. They needed an out to ship the phone first and the SDK later.
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by ynx 3y ago
AGPLv3. Nope, not touching that one.
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by ynx 3y ago
tl;dr: - Open-source, portable, updated, default choice: .NET Core 1 2 3, .NET 5/6/7/8 - Included with Windows or Unity, frozen in time: .NET Framework 4 (don't use anything older) - Want to support both: .NET Standard (

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