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Re:The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:38PM (#35736605)
Got a specific location I can check out on Google maps?
Did they wait to sue until after you had your data ready? Or were they gonna sue regardless?
Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:58AM (#35343146)
In my experience, web push notifications on Android do not show immediately (i.e. with high priority). They only show when your phone wakes. Does anyone know of a workaround for this?
Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:48AM (#35342977)
I've had no issue with Firebase on a personal project just pushing to my android. The big caveat is that the push doesn't wake the phone. So all notifications drop in when I click the screen on.
The more specific the source you draw joy from is, the more precarious you have always been in life. This is not a judgement.
Re:March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:16PM (#35298937)
You won't fire off a quick email nor warn others because there's no bug bounty?
Possibly all of them!
Re:Shields Up on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:00PM (#35263099)
You don't need a Shields Up button to have a little self control on the internet. Seth is energized after a day on the internet. This blog post is about "we" being exhausted aka "you". Not Seth. If you are reading this, you can do it.

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

Re:Shields Up on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @11:49AM (#35262928)
My thoughts and experience as well. Seth does not suffer or get exhausted online. He's had his list of what to avoid internalized for a long time. As do I. Believe it or not, you have some agency when using the internet. Even in the face of "the algorithm" (what that has come to mean).

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

Re:SVB Hall of Shame on Friday March 17, 2023 @06:24PM (#35203680)
It wasn't a prisoner's dilemma. Cooperating gets you almost nothing while defecting gives you benefit. It was nearly the opposite of the prisoner's dilemma. Couldn't another school of thought "blame" those who didn't participate loudly?
Re:The Missing Semester of Your CS Education on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:09PM (#35014393)
Fwiw, your rant did not convince me.

I estimate that astronomers need to know about tradeoffs on a telescopes' settings for the data they are looking at. But I'm unconvinced that they necessarily need to know how to operate it (would depend on the workplace) and I certainly disagree that how they are constructed is absolutely necessary for all astronomers.

More knowledge is always good, so of course learn what you want. But it's not being "ashamed of tools" to say that a CS degree should "do one thing and do it well".

Additionally, we can simultaneously say that a university should encourage tool mastery while also saying that they don't need to teach entire courses on it.

Re:The Missing Semester of Your CS Education on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:05PM (#34939416)
My university had Dijkstra's quote "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes". They made us aware of tools and we were free to use them as little or as much as possible to do the science. I always assumed that software engineering degrees focused on tools more than computer science degrees (among other differences).

  -Meet Markus at a con  
  -Markus best friend now  
  -Play Minecraft for days
  -Write poem
  -Markus says "I ain't reading all that, ship it! We have a deadline!"
  -Take the money and run
  -Enjoy cold hard cash instead of speculating on royalties
  -Trip on shrooms on squatted land
  -Try to squat poem
  -"Dear Microsoft I don't care about laws. Love love love."
  -Love love love
  -Money money money plz
  -Love love love
Was the documentation a failure? Or did the US save untold amounts of money because of the mothballing->documentation? The failure of the 20M attempt doesn't mean the overall strategy was bad nor that the documentation was net negative.
Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:33PM (#33037030)
Interesting that Jack keeps the tracking code on Twitter shared links
Maybe some test mode is getting activated on accident. And those are the sounds a developer recorded long ago and didn't remove.
Re:Good conversations have lots of doorknobs on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:14PM (#32614943)
I was confused for a few sentences when the giver/taker terms were used without explicit definition. I assumed they were used to denote information givers/takers but the definition is more like spotlight giver/takers
Re:An odd discovery on Spotify on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:37PM (#32584667)
One time I made a "Hitler finds out"* meme and uploaded it to youtube. My video immediately got 2 copyright claims on it. One was for the video and was probably by the film rights holders. The other was for the audio and it was this song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlbcRumfwk I assumed that this was some kind of scheme. The audio claim has since been removed (not by me and I don't know when).

* https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitlers-downfall-parodies

Re:Ubisoft about to take away games you bought on Saturday August 06, 2022 @10:25PM (#32373346)
The author is correct about centralized NFTs not being what you expect them to be. They are wrong that NFTs are debunked. A true web3 game will never have the servers shut down. Everyone collectively pays for the server costs. Every time you do something in the game, you pay for your little slice of server time.
Re:I regret my website redesign on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:23PM (#32231733)
Yeah I'm a little surprised he regrets it. I guess he assumes that a freelancer would have done the same work since his takeaway says so. He may have indeed gotten "service normally reserved for large companies despite my limited budget".

Ask HN: Help me find the origin story of Android

I keep finding histories of the OS version changes, but I'm more interested in the context of mobile OSes at the time before Android was created. I thought I had read a blog post story from an Android founder's perspective. It detailed the context of how different manufacturers had their own OSs. It may have even included the context of the sale to Google. Thanks.

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Web3 games will never be shut down (if properly decentralized). The "game server" is effectively pay-as-you-go.

NFTs grafted on to web2 games is a start of player owned gaming, but true web3 games will be wholly player owned.

These shutdowns (along with things like Diablo's Error 37 launch) are why gamers will gravitate to games they can't get rug pulled on.

Re:Ask HN: I'm disabled and out of money. Now what? on Monday July 04, 2022 @10:59PM (#31983854)
>I can't even afford to toss a few bucks into side projects Why do you need money for side projects?
Re:Do Kwon in more trouble on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:33PM (#31706305)
Financial education and common sense are at all time highs at a global, hundred years zoom level. If you are trying to make a claim about your region on a shorter time scale, I could believe it. Same for "people want money more than ever". Could be true for your bubble, country, etc but is not globally/100 year window. But of course this claim is hard to measure.
Re:Ask HN: Viability of an anti-AI social movement? on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:54AM (#31628677)
Imo most people who spend time resisting things like AI and Blockchain will spin their wheels before being lumped in with the Luddites. Make sure tech is used correctly because you aren't stopping it. Even if you "stop" a given tech in your country, many other countries will embrace it and leave you out of the conversation.
"He's making a video game that you can sell used like at GameStop. Or rent like at Blockbuster."

This is the line I tell non-gamers so they can repeat it. Usually people end up reminiscing about Blockbuster .

Re:My students cheated... a lot on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @03:21PM (#31573719)
This is true for so many other aspects of life as well. Things are the way they are for a reason. Not understanding the deep and complex factors that got the system to where it is dooms you to repeat the mistakes of the past. This is why I go for depth on what I complain and ideate on rather than breadth. Dive deep on something you care about instead of having an opinion about everything. Humans have done well with specialization. If you enjoy breadth, go for it. I just don't see it as very effective.

I suppose that complaining without proposing solutions is akin to protesting. You may not necessarily know what you want specifically, but you don't want the current system.

Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:40AM (#31516767)
Not every node has to store every transaction ever. Nodes can prune old state

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