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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming on Thursday June 02, 2022 @07:52PM (#31602171)
I'm in the same boat, I spend a bit of my working day writing in Rust .. it's a great language but it's very cumbersome and I find it suffers form poor ergonomics, like it's annoying to type
sitting with a headset on for 8hrs a day seems worse than being in a cube
Re:I got hacked and Facebook banned me on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:53PM (#31577866)
yeah for auth is a blockchain even required? it's pretty much just asymmetric crypto at that point isn't it?

I think the 'web3' way would make it worse wouldn't it? like metamask relying on centeralized service to query the blockchain

I guess a real benifit I could see would be being able to use a blockchain to revoke your keys somehow but that's not how metamask and web3 stuff seems to work right now

pretty much
suicidal plan, by the time it works the nation will be overrun with violence and crime
Re:How the Apple of the Midwest fell apart on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:43PM (#31512846)
I wanted one because of the cool cow boxes
Re:How the Apple of the Midwest fell apart on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:42PM (#31512842)
I always considered Motorola to be more of the Apple of the midwest tbh
they are just waiting a little bit, the software's been written and it's not like you have a choice lol

as far as I know the delays are more about giving apple's friends in hollywood some time to cleanup than caving to libertarian outrage

It's true to a extent, but then there's things like this https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/05/11/texas-teen-goes-t...
Re:The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Art on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:30PM (#31126009)
searching the same phrases on google images returns more interesting "pre-generated" results
Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:36PM (#31125112)
It's pretty bad/awkward on macos, I've found that the client works miles better on windows and linux

the other problems are personal preferences that aren't universal

Re:My take on Elon's offer for Twitter on Saturday April 16, 2022 @02:52AM (#31050196)
minsk and minsk ii were designed to fail, there's no way either the russian supported separatists or ukraine would abide by them not to mention that russia didn't uphold it's end of the frameworks anyway

the russian idea of 'ukrainian neutrality' would require the US to formally reject the idea of a nations right to self-determination to satisfy the demands of a state that isn't even a peer or on good terms which isn't going to fly it weakens the united states and europe

the rest is minutia, blowback, corruption and handwaving at the end of day this is the stupid game russian leadership setup and wanted to play

I do think something like twitter longterm could a big play at something like authenticity verification in the world of deep fakes, similar to what keybase was trying to do but they already have traction with public figures
I don't know why google needs to lead in any of these spaces
Well yeah, now you can't turn it off
Re:Am I too old to become a professional programmer? on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:13PM (#30982250)
I have once a long time ago, but it was the mixture of age + experience and not expecting that the person would actually be interested in staying shit-show of a company I was working in at the time ( it folded 6 months later anyway)
you mean snap packages? I think the calculator is written in vala was pretty performant when I've used it the past
Re:Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:12PM (#30925744)
yeah, hard pass

edit: no windows or linux support ???

Re:The tech interview prep industry on Monday April 04, 2022 @02:07AM (#30903724)
there are a lot of ways to make money
Re:The tech interview prep industry on Sunday April 03, 2022 @09:25PM (#30902502)
is it really?
Re:CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health on Sunday April 03, 2022 @07:44PM (#30901905)
they likely achieve their goals though, taking the east and crippling the country to a point it's not extremely relevant

there's the whole 'western unity' thing but it won't last very long and doesn't severely change the equation

Re:CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health on Sunday April 03, 2022 @07:36PM (#30901865)
It's no joke, I know people in their early-mid thirties ( they were somewhat late bloomers from career growth being stunted from the recession) who decided just to not have kids all together as a result of the lockdown/drama it's kind of sad
Re:Ubiquiti vs. Krebs on Thursday March 31, 2022 @06:06PM (#30872740)
did you read the muckraking tweets ?
IRS is currently in the MVP phase, waiting on buy in from the steakholders on UX improvements
you don't really go to prison unless you're going out of you way to do something really nefarious

it's also super easy to setup a payment plan online now if you really mess things up

Re:I hate what video games have become on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:02PM (#30826674)
I'm not 50/50 on ubisoft, they sell level boosts and stat upgrades in a singleplayer games (assassins creed) it's hilarious
Re:What made the NES so interesting? on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:21PM (#30816880)
thanks for the rec, I'll check it out the article was a fun read
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? on Thursday March 24, 2022 @01:34PM (#30792993)
there are still a ton being developed in specialty domains (even searching qt c++ on job boards returns a decent amount) not much that's consumer focused a lot of those users have moved to mobile and web

a lot of spaces are totally dominated by entrenched players (office)

Re:Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM? on Sunday March 20, 2022 @03:53PM (#30746014)
Is this opinion or backed with something?