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dejaime··on RISC-V on the Verge of Broad Adoption
Yes, the architecture is proprietary, and anyone who uses it needs a proprietary license, what sometimes involve flat payments or royalties. Check this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings#Licensees

dejaime··on RISC-V on the Verge of Broad Adoption
I suppose that's true, it'll probably get adopted on those "embedded yet invisible" uses.

Still, I believe that does bode well for more general adoption, once it starts replacing ARM on the OEM side of things, by having a positive effect on its hardware price.

dejaime··on Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
being good
dejaime··on You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and Feel Better
Scientists: #########################################

"Yeah, let's get 34 males that did not regularly workout and then prove that they can get stronger even with 13 minutes of a good workout routine!

All we need to do is get non-lifters and put the 70 minute group with a shitty lazy routine. That ensures the "year one effect" where everyone gains a lot of strength in the beginning and gives a good advantage to the 13 minutes group!

In the end we'll prove that for a beginner a good yet short workout routine is superior to the lazy yet long one!"

Journalist: #########################################

"That's not going to get any clicks! I'll just say that 'we don't need to exercise for hours a week to look and feel better' based on a research that doesn't even mention 'look and feel better'.

And now we pretend that this also applies to experienced lifters, that's important!"

That's science journalism for you.

dejaime··on Unity's response to Improbable’s blog post
Looks like the dispute is over, Unity is doing some damage control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAvhij2_70Y

dejaime··on Marie Kondo's Advice Praised by Scientists: “Clutter Is Not a Good Thing”
got to love that intrusive fullpage ad that needs to be scrolled down to be closed. It was probably not worth reading anyway.
dejaime··on The LaTeX fetish (2016)
Not only that. How many times has my one machine, with one single version of ms word installed, broken the formatting of my hundreds of pages document...

In the point where you learn how to create all the custom formats needed, and then you make sure to always mark all paragraphs/words/stuff you need to be in such custom formats without any indication other than the dropdown on the top (what is really hard and awkward) and then all you do is going into every single one of the custom formats to fake-edit them and reapply... that's hours wasted... possibly multiple times every week...

Latex is hard, and a piece of crap, but after the learning curve you don't have that kind of problem. The tech doesn't generates rework all by itself just because you went to bed and turned off the computer.

Do I think Latex is good? No; but it's definitely a better solution than word processors for this type of work. It is a bad solution to a hard problem. While word processors is a trivial solution to the same hard problem, one that doesn't really solve it in the end.

Honestly though, I'd love to see something more like Markdown in use here, but no flavor I know currently cuts it. Or maybe a word processor that -actually- supported paper|article|thesis|book|w/e templates and complex constructs...

dejaime··on SQLer – Turn Your SQL queries into RESTful APIs without any programming language
Don't know why exactly, but I'm not sure if that headline is for a new piece of tech or a new security flaw.
dejaime··on Announcing unlimited free private repos
And now that is a good move. I completely moved my repos to BitBucket due to that simple yet game-changing feature (and then to GitLab for not so simple ones).

I don't think I ever would have, if github had this. Not coming back though.

dejaime··on Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
Complaints or tickets? I would bet that in this game's case what is happening is Linux gamers are techy and will properly file tickets and try and be helpful. While windows players will simply do as I do on windows games and leave a negative review.

Looking at the game's reviews, first two negative ones:

> "wont fit my screen. no setting to scale it correctly... Looks like i have to go buy a new monitor to play this game to its full extent"

> "Constant crashing. When it wasent crashing there were so many bugs involved it wasent funny. The classic one was way better and im happy I still have it so I can play. I will change my review if they fix the game and get it so people can play it, but fornow its just contant crashes. Beware! "

dejaime··on Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
I agree with you that it is definitely not commercially worth it. But I guess you missed his point. He is not saying that "it was worth it for this game if well implemented", but that this game is actually a really bad example of how gaming on Linux is. It is like analyzing PC gaming by looking at Devil May Cry 3 or Resident Evil 4...
dejaime··on Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
I was one of those who for every problem I had I would go out of my way to reliably reproduce the problem, then I would create a detailed description of it, with full system specs, terminal output (on both Windows and Linux) and all log files I could find.

Today, I still do that on Linux. But if it excludes Linux as a platform, it must be rock solid on windows, right? If it isn't, all it gets is a negative review going about the "crashes all the time", "glitchy" and "is unplayable". That saved me a lot of time.

Being an indie GameDev myself, I personally love well written tickets. But the passive aggressive responses I often receive from big devs makes me wonder if I'm actually the only one.

dejaime··on Slack terminated an account because they thought it originated in Iran
++Mattermost
dejaime··on Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
The title implies that we should have handled the Web over to another company. We should not, to any company.
dejaime··on Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)
Oh, wait, did he actually use C++ with exceptions enabled? Who th does that?
dejaime··on Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)
You should have written it in Rust. Why? Because ... idk
dejaime··on Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
I love how people can do this type of stuff. Whenever I get out the soldering iron to fix any problems, I face a 50% chance of success against 50% chance of fucking it beyond repair. Well, I guess it fixes it in both cases...
dejaime··on The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software
I pretty much believe that all we have are bad solutions. OOP is a bad solution that is acceptable at a set of problems. Data oriented designs is an also bad solution that is acceptable at a set of problems. Anyone who has ever used any paradigm for big projects can do a write-up about how bad that paradigm is.

The problem of OOP is not OOP, but actually knowing only OOP. That creates a lot of hammer and nail problems. The same would be true if data-oriented had the same popularity, and everything was data oriented.

So, unless you ARE going to give me a __good__ solution, a silver bullet, it is silly to state that a whole paradigm is an absolute inferior. Especially when all you can give me is examples of bad paradigm-tech-problem matches or snippets of incompetent usage.

dejaime··on Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
They did not welcome, protect, support nor engage in child pornography.
dejaime··on Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
Yeah, and if his skin is dark and he has a hoodie, he's probably a criminal. This "if I think they are guilty it means they are" will never work.

That's the problem with prejudices, the people who have them can never see beyond them.

dejaime··on Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
Here you go https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/21/hacker-erases-65...

This adds speculation and sensationalism on top of an ill informed article. They even defined it as a 0-day vulnerability, when it is obviously not the case as explained by the article itself. Can't simply trust the quality of the information in there.

dejaime··on Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
They were not hosting any CP. That is not proven. As it stands, this is a simple service takedown. Actually, this is speculation added by the sensationalist https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com website, the original source doesn't even mention it.

I mean, they even believe this is a zero day attack, I can't simply trust the quality of any information there.

Edit: they updated the link, here's the old link - https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/21/hacker-erases-65...

dejaime··on Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
They changed the link. It was pointing to another one that cited this one as the source and added -even more- speculation on top of it.
dejaime··on Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
Exactly, all they have is some questionable data about onion links. Onion links is one way of using deep web, one of many.
dejaime··on Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
This looks like a good old "Kill the problem and frame him later" type of a take down. The owners (or some users) angered the wrong people, and now they are even the biggest pedos of the whole wide world...
dejaime··on Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
That 30% is clearly a gross estimation, and certainly a wrong one with no data to back it up. Still, even though it is definitely counter productive to host on a widely known host, it still does not expose any users, and that is the main point, not really protecting the host.
dejaime··on Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
"30% of the dark web was erased." More like "what was loosely estimated to be 30%"
dejaime··on This JavaScript can snoop on other browser tabs to work out what you're visiting
Well, anyone using Tor won't have JavaScript enabled anyway.
dejaime··on The Fax Is Not Yet Obsolete
And I bet they use Microsoft Windows.
dejaime··on Ask HN: Is Google Compute down?
Well, my instance seems to be working
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