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asattarmd··on Steam Machine launches today
They need to do that because, in some sense, they're competing with Gaming PCs, not really with Gaming consoles. Gaming consoles sell their consoles at a discounted price because they can recoup a lot of it when selling games. Steam can't have a markup on games because they share their marketplace with other PCs.
asattarmd··on Stop Using JWTs
JWTs are secure in the sense that they are tamper-proof. And that's all you need for a session token (plus the revocation list). There's nothing inherently insecure about JWTs.
asattarmd··on Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN
By laying off people.
asattarmd··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
This entire list is Slack alternatives, not Discord alternatives. Discord is first-and-foremost a gaming voice chat platform. Teamspeak is the OG in that space and should've been the top of this list.
asattarmd··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
> And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month.

Then step aside as the maintainer of the project then and better yet, make something like Tailwind-foundation etc. which is truly open source. Go spend your time building your business, but you can't become the bottleneck and not do anything for something that has become so foundational for Web Dev.

asattarmd··on Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder
There are videos by Welch labs that go into detail about what he did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phscjl0u6TI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MprJN5teQxc

asattarmd··on Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you
What's the fundamental limitation to context size here? Why can't a model be fine-tuned per codebase, taking the entire code into context (and be continuously trained as it's updated)?

Forgive my naivety, I don't now anything about LLMs.

asattarmd··on Ask HN: How do you find developers for open source bug bounties?
Igalia is a consultancy that specializes in fixing bugs/building features in Browsers. My company uses them regularly
asattarmd··on Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob
I'd remove the else if blocks since we're returning.

    private String generateGuessSentence(char candidate, int count) {
      if (count === 0) return "There are no " + candidate + "s";
      if (count === 1) return "There is 1 " + candidate;

      return "There are " + count + " " + candidate + "s";
    }
asattarmd··on Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data
Google having so many private photos in Google Photos must be a goldmine for them.
asattarmd··on Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)
One advantage of GET is I can just copy the URL and share it. The article makes no mention of that.

While I love the proposal (apart from the name, I can see the SEARCH verb being used for something that's not search), they should also address the URL share-ablity aspect.

Something like https://google.com/search<some-special-character><query> where query can be arbitrarily large (>2000 URL length restriction) and the browser is smart enough to treat only https://google.com/search as the URL and anything after that as the body. The complete "URL" can be big and shared anywhere else.

asattarmd··on Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?
Eh, don't worry about it. As long as the job you're working at is paying you enough to live and save enough, change as many hobbies as you want and change as many jobs as you want.
asattarmd··on Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
As someone who has just heard the name Web3 over and over again, is there anything tangible that I can try? I have tried IPFS, but I don't know if it's "web3".
asattarmd··on Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
I believe so as well. Compose is very similar to Electron. Jetbrains Toolbox (which uses compose) uses 500mb memory which is on par with what Electron would use for such a simple app.
asattarmd··on How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
The worst: pressing Enter to rename a file in finder. Command + Down arrow to open it. WTF!
asattarmd··on Screw it, I’ll host it myself
I found a solution: Use Photos (iCloud photos) along with Google Photos since I already use an iPhone. Thanks for the comments, but I believe this is the easiest.
asattarmd··on Screw it, I’ll host it myself
The most valuable thing for me is my photo library. All of them are currently in Google Photos. Is there any easy way to backup just that? I don’t care about my personal email, tasks, calendar etc. It’s just the thought of losing my photos scares me.
asattarmd··on Breakthrough for ‘massless’ energy storage
Since everyone is highly skeptical of this, is there an alternative to Lithium ion batteries that is close to production currently?
asattarmd··on Comparing Svelte and React
It's "just javascript" because if you want to modify anything and have it re-render, it's `let counter = 0; counter++`, not `const [counter, setCounter] = useState(0); setCounter(counter + 1); `. Of course there's template and all, but for regular logic, you don't have to fiddle around abstractions.
asattarmd··on Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
Why is it Electron based when it’s not cross platform?
asattarmd··on Esbuild 0.9
React was released in 2013, that’s 8 years.
asattarmd··on Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?
At what revenue would it start calling a full company rather than just a side-project?

It's a little different for Gumroad because they started as a company with an office and became this, but for many side projects, they start out without meetings, without offices and remain that way earning a couple of thousand USD per month.

asattarmd··on Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
Why are you being an asshole? Seems Inconsiderate.

You can remove those "Seems Inconsiderate" and still give feedback.

asattarmd··on Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
What year did reaction happen? I spent my entire life taking it for granted, not realizing that it indeed is a little interpreted language in print statements.
asattarmd··on The costly collateral damage from Elon Musk's Starlink satellite fleet
> Elon Musk claimed that thanks to Starlink, anybody "will be able to watch high-def movies, play video games and do all the things they want to do without noticing speed". Thus, Musk explicitly underlines his wish to reinforce already massively energy-guzzling digital activities, such as video streaming and online video games.

WTF? Is this a real problem that climate change activists talk about?

asattarmd··on Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
I just don't want them to stagnate it like they stagnated Heroku. Heroku and Slack were revolutionary. But Heroku has stalled for many years.
asattarmd··on Launch HN: Jika (YC S20) – Price A/B Testing for Shopify
That's probably a good problem to have! Nonetheless, customers are still buying from the same store, so, it's a win-win. Breaking customer trust is probably the only thing that's bad here.
asattarmd··on Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?
That’s a statement
asattarmd··on Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
Doesn't Hasura or Postgraphile do this better? They give a GraphQL API over Postgres with support for subscriptions, along with authentication, authorization etc.
asattarmd··on “We Don't Need a Project Manager”
There is “Project management” work, like estimating how long the entire project will take, how much they will charge, tackling dependencies, holding clients accountable etc. that needs to be done. If you don’t have a Project Manager to do this, you’re probably using engineers to do it.
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