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MassiveBonk51

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MassiveBonk51··on How Much Are Games Like Factorio Sapping The Intellectual Potential Of Humanity?
Probably less than most ad tech or generic SaaS companies.
MassiveBonk51··on UI frameworks are stuck in the last decade
The point of react is to let you manipulate the DOM with less effort than manually doing it while providing some additional controls through things like hooks. Tailwind is similar, you get standardized css styles that you can use without thinking too hard.
MassiveBonk51··on Microsoft PowerToys: Utilities to Customize Windows
PowerToys run and fancy zones are very useful and people should use them. I wish Microsoft would put more effort into Run though. Compared to something like Raycast on Macos or Krunner it feels more limited.
MassiveBonk51··on Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor
What's the differentiator for this? Tighter integration into their other offerings?
MassiveBonk51··on Cisco Acquires Splunk
Splunk is so expensive and slow. My workplace keeps trying throttle queries and how far back logs are stored. Been spending the last month or so adding ELK stack for tracing to our apps.
MassiveBonk51··on Orion: iPad as an external HDMI display for video game consoles
So all it needs is a USB c to hdmi adapter? Could I use this on an sbc like an Raspberry pi then?
MassiveBonk51··on Rucking is an easy way to fitness
I can see the logic of rucking but is it safe on your joints? I walk a lot of exercise daily and this seems like a good way to make it more efficient.
MassiveBonk51··on AMD’s Phoenix SoC
I want these to come to desktop at some point. I'd really love to have a compact x86 box powered by one.
MassiveBonk51··on Why Fennel?
Well the famous joke is "Emacs is an OS that lacks a decent text editor." (Yes Evil mode exists)

Emacs can do basically anything you write an extension for it to do. It can be your calendar, your email client, your rss reader or even your git gui on top of being an editor. Emacs can do so much that it's daunting to start using.

MassiveBonk51··on LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
Is c# support a deal breaker? I'm not a game dev so I don't really know if there's any games dev specific tooling for c# that people rely on.
MassiveBonk51··on Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public)
I use Obsidian a decent amount daily but I'm confused by what properties are. Are they like tags?
MassiveBonk51··on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
Hmm.. I guess this is what motivates me to try Godot.
MassiveBonk51··on Servo Browser Engine: What's on your mind for its use?
Perhaps a new type of emacs. A "terminal" environment that can load web pages, videos etc and is cross platform seems like it has potential.
MassiveBonk51··on jq 1.7
You're probably right. I just wish there was an easier way to handle json on the command line that didn't turn into its own dsl. The golang scripting seems interesting, might be what motivates me to learn the language.
MassiveBonk51··on jq 1.7
Why does it have to be bash+python? I'm finding myself using node.js scripts glued together by bash ones these days unless I'm working on a lot of data. Doing that means you can work with json natively.
MassiveBonk51··on What’s wrong with billable hours
Less granular time tracking for both parties.
MassiveBonk51··on Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul
Modern java is a fairly good language. If you don't like it, can always opt into scala, kotlin, or clojure. I don't understand what you mean by Java not working on multiple platforms. If you like c#/.net that's fine but why try to put down Java which has been cross platform for a long time?
MassiveBonk51··on Ask HN: Why did Python win?
There's language cores for jupyter for these languages. I can't speak on how good the experience is. Elixir has a first class notebook experience similar to Jupyter in Livebook.

https://livebook.dev/

MassiveBonk51··on VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
Doesn't AWS have its own infrastructure? Why would they run on top of other hosting providers?
MassiveBonk51··on Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
I'll was planning trying this out in a couple weeks. Should I bring my macbook with me as well? I don't know how much I'd actually want to code which seems like the biggest reason to bring it with me.
MassiveBonk51··on Ask HN: Am I Doomed as a Dev?
I have the entry level ones for Azure/AWS. Working associate ones for AWS currently. It's mostly me trying to fill in my knowledge gaps but do these mean anything without production experience?
MassiveBonk51··on Ask HN: Am I Doomed as a Dev?
East Coast USA
MassiveBonk51··on Ask HN: Career in trades for possible ex-programmers
CNC seems like a potential intersection of programming and trades. 3d printing etc might let you carry over some skills.
MassiveBonk51··on Ask HN: Career in trades for possible ex-programmers
How do you get out of the loop? Recruiters seem to want lots of experience for embedded roles for example.
MassiveBonk51··on Mastering Emacs
Emacs is quite alluring as an idea. I wish we had a "higher" level version of it that could support composing in proper browsers etc. Now I realize this is basically a tiling WM, but I guess I want more interoperability between programs and ability to pass data between them programmatically.
MassiveBonk51··on Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
This seems like pretty bad news for all the excel but programatic type startups I've seen floating around. Being able to work locally might be their only hope.
MassiveBonk51··on Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper than usual
This seems great. On a side note, I've been trying to learn powershell lately since I'm stuck on Windows at work. I'm not allowed to download utilities for powershell, and it feels anemic to me compared to a unix shell. An example of this is when I wanted to work with Json using ConvertTo-Json and the output kept getting mangled even though it was changing the right fields. Eventually I gave up and wrote a node script and just called it from my ps script. Is there a solution for making powershell actually enjoyable to use?