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Drew_··on React v18.0
Refactored a web app with traditional Redux logic to use Redux Toolkit and it really does make the logic much more pleasurable to read and maintain. I wasn't in love with the createAsyncThunk + builder.addCase pattern but it worked well enough in practice and isn't very hard to follow.
Drew_··on Killed by Microsoft
Mixer shutdown before their major contracts with Shroud and Ninja even expired (less than a year after).
Drew_··on Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
This is such an odd conspiracy theory.

This new effort is a response to regulation in markets around the world like South Korea [1] and the Netherlands [2]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/4/22763040/google-in-app-pu....

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/24/22852966/apple-netherlan...

Drew_··on Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display
High res isn't very clear when the image is frequently blurry because of slow pixel response times. Higher performance monitors end up more immersive in practice because of their low latency and fast pixel response times. Gaming with high performance displays, even casually, is a much more fun experience.
Drew_··on Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display
Xbox Series X and PS5 support high refresh gaming with lots of support in current titles. iPhones ship with high refresh displays as do iPad Pro's. High refresh rate displays are here in force in the mainstream.
Drew_··on Vanced has been discontinued
YouTube Premium offers a number of features on top of ad-free viewing including access to an entire music streaming service. It's actually a marvel that only 45% covers this.
Drew_··on f.lux
The comment you replied to made no mention of blue light, only "ultra high brightness screens" which the research you linked does not disagree with.
Drew_··on Things you don't need JavaScript for
Did you read these links?

The first is a complaint about a browser context menu not the web page and the second is about a GNOME theme which obviously has no affect on CSS in browsers.

Drew_··on Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android
Creators presumably receive more from YouTube Premium viewers though I haven't seen any specific details on the revenue split. Either way, lets not pretend that any ad block user tips every single YouTuber they view.
Drew_··on Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK
I'd wager these sentiments have more to do with performance/responsiveness than they do with whether or not UI elements and animations are system defaults. Pretty much every wildly popular application in the market has a totally custom UI.
Drew_··on Passwordle
This is begging for a hard mode option
Drew_··on Google Search Is Dying
Have you considered that there may not actually be any good results for the exact phrase "gulp admzip"? Especially considering "admzip" is a misspelling as you admit?
Drew_··on Webapp for comparing weather forcast providers
In addition to this the forecast for the day could be "Rain" but the hourly forecasts often reveal it is unlikely to rain for most if not the entire day.
Drew_··on This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system
Pretty sure in MacOS you just need to flip a toggle once and it'll never prompt you about sideloading again.
Drew_··on Thank You, Valve
While there are convincing looking proof of concepts for computer vision based cheats, I haven't seen anything to suggest that this approach is used meaningfully anywhere. And considering the millions of cheat bans that get processed in mainstream games to this day, I think its safe to assume most cheaters aren't using anything sophisticated.
Drew_··on Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
Agreed but as evident in this post's discussion, developers only have the desire to do so once for <insert-favorite-web-framework> and then the need to do so again for any other framework is understood as the other being clearly terrible and immature.
Drew_··on Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)
The case was primarily an effort of the FBI to weaken device security to make their job easier.
Drew_··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
The difference is that Sony was the original publisher behind many of the studios they have acquired. Presumably these studios wouldn't have gotten traction without Sony backing to begin with.
Drew_··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
Nintendo and mobile are the only real options for party games. Xbox and Playstation are for AAA enthusiast games.
Drew_··on Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)
Your experience with other payment processors on an iPhone are indeed not as good simply because they aren't allowed to be as good. Every single one of your experiences with these alternative payment processors was forced through a Safari browser.
Drew_··on Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)
Apple Pay isn't the only payment processor that's convenient like this. But of course, Apple has created a market where their processor is the only one allowed.
Drew_··on Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green text bubble
No one is asking Apple to replace iMessage with RCS.
Drew_··on Search engines and SEO spam
This doesn't work because all of the "good" content has ads and affiliate links too.
Drew_··on An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)
Be honest: a candidate that works through a seemingly novel problem correctly is getting a much better review than another candidate that admitted they've done the question before and breezes through it. And this is assuming your interview round doesn't get thrown out entirely to begin with.
Drew_··on Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
Google maps measures the wingspan at ~170 ft which is about 4-5 school buses.
Drew_··on I started a paper website business
"You can build this trivially" is a fair criticism once you build your own products and realize how rampant IP theft is. Aside from that, the infamous dropbox comment you linked doesn't at all say "you can build this trivially".
Drew_··on Up all night with a Twitch millionaire
I haven't seen any evidence to suggest 30 years is a number of much importance for this. Most Esports scenes also aren't old enough to have older players as well.

The only ones that I know of are Quake and Street Fighter. In Quake currently only 1 or 2 of the best mechanically gifted players in the world are under 30. In Street Fighter, there's a wide range of ages including younger players as well as players as old as 40+. The "god of execution" Sakonoko is 42 years old and is still winning major tournaments every once in a while.

In Formula 1, Lewis Hamilton is likely on his way to yet another world championship at 36, edging it out over his 10 years younger contender.

Drew_··on Up all night with a Twitch millionaire
People like to be bitter about others finding success in spaces they don't they don't like or don't take very seriously.
Drew_··on YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
I too have watched Numberphile. Rest assured, there's little to no risk of their extremely popular videos being bad.

> No, it's actually cumbersome and wastes extra time to determine if many how-to videos are bad quality without a dislike count.

If this is such a hassle, why participate here on Hacker News, a website providing nothing but informational content with no visible downvote ratings? Could it be possible that this inconvenience is not as bad as you're making it seem? There's plenty of low effort and low quality content reaching the front page every day. Whatever method you use to filter through the content here can also be applied to any other website with similar rules.

Drew_··on YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
Disabled comments is a very strong signal in its own right. Ratings can also be disabled and usually are as well. Either way, it is still very easy to discern whether the video you are about to watch is controversial.
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