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florbo··on Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game
> the game is so unergonomic that I predict 99.9% of the players bounce before winning a single game on the easiest difficulty

Yup, I like a good puzzle game but the interface is limiting and (despite reading the tutorial numerous times) the battle results aren't intuitive. I'd describe my reaction as "immediate disinterest".

florbo··on UniFi U7 Pro
Well, given how disappointing the rest of their AP lineup performs in real world scenarios (from my anecdotal experience, ofc), it won't need more than 2.5 GbE. Probably barely exceeds 1 Gbps.
florbo··on Please Don't Ask If an Open Source Project Is Dead
That's very polite, with the added bonus of being clear and concise. Not sure why the author took issue with it.
florbo··on Tesla is launching their developer APIs
My own anecdotal contribution, based off the constant bickering of people I know who work for engineering firms that have Tesla as a client, is that they do not have any of their shit organized in a manner which could be remotely described as "together".
florbo··on Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak
Have to agree. I regularly use Windows 11, OS X, and Debian-based desktop distros. Nothing comes close to the built-in functionality of Windows. Such a shame it's subject to advertising and aggressive telemetry.
florbo··on The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
Surprised I haven't seen more mentions of Z-wave here. It seems like something that would be more popular.
florbo··on Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
For me it's the original Motorola Droid and Droid 2. The slide-out keyboards have been the best mobile text editing experience I've had.
florbo··on Google no longer offers new domain registrations
> Cloudflare, but they require that you use their DNS

This has been my only issue with them so far. Realistically it's not likely to cause any problems for either my personal or professional situations since I prefer to use CF DNS. It's simply a missing feature.

If something happens that makes me reconsider their DNS product I'd likely transfer the domains, even if I could change nameservers.

florbo··on Don't fire your illustrator
The post actually goes into a bit of detail on that process.
florbo··on The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained
> So it's a question of whether you believe that theory is correct.

You shouldn't believe in a theory, they simply explain what we think we know, which always changes!

florbo··on Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
Well, the owners win. That's usually who they're referring to when they say "our", "us", etc.
florbo··on Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
Reading in general to more specific configuration directories in order and using the last value read makes the most sense to me. This is usually how I write my own applications.

Anyway, I thoroughly document the order and precedence, but the suggestion from Chris' blog to report more detail about the process is a good one.

florbo··on I wrote my own smart home software
> Especially within a VM (or bare metal) it's a really good experience.

I've been using the Docker container for a couple years without incident. Like you, the only integrations that occasionally broke have been custom components.

While I agree that automations and scripts have been very stable, I've never really been a fan of the new automations and scripts UI, though, so I just stick to editing the YAML definitions manually. Great to have that option.

florbo··on Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
Sometimes a filesystem-based queue like that is all you really need. Recently I used S3 API compatible storage for something similar, as introducing AMQP or pubsub would have been immensely overkill for this low volume component.
florbo··on CodeCompose: A large-scale industrial deployment of AI-assisted code authoring
This echoes my sentiment exactly. My biggest gripe is when type suggestions are replaced with AI suggestions, as I more often just want to auto-complete a method/attribute. I frequently find myself toggling AI suggestions via hotkey.

As for the getting a suggestion by writing comments, an "insert from prompt" action perhaps, or just a separate prompt pane/popup/whatever-you-prefer combined with using good ol' copy+paste would suffice.

florbo··on The teens behind the Mirai botnet
There's an extreme difference in severity between trying to buy a bomb and trying to pay for DDoSaaS. I'd rather people come out of this sort of thing unscathed but wiser, especially if they're simply ignorant of the law, which seems to be the objective of that tactic.

Besides, if something is illegal and there's a significant portion of offenders who are truly ignorant of its illegality, perhaps a new approach to education is needed, which this tactic also covers.

Maybe other organizations will take notes...

florbo··on PyPI Was Subpoenaed
It sounds more like they're addressing the inevitable "why didn't you post as soon as it happened" party.
florbo··on Rising number of lithium battery incidents on airplanes worry crew
I was on a flight where one of the pilots had a heart attack and got to experience weightlessness or close to it for a few seconds. Cool to think about what that felt like now but in moment.. not so much. Anyway, the pilot survived and the delay was surprisingly short given the circumstances.
florbo··on Sam Altman says era of remote work is over
My anecdote is experiencing this same creativity when everyone had pen display and a shared digital whiteboard while on a video call.
florbo··on Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)
Heh, I'm that friend in my circle. I certainly don't bash anyone's music preferences but everyone has to know why a song/artist "just isn't my thing," and I get the "snob" label. Ah well.

But I get where your friend is coming from. When I hear something off pitch, for whatever reason, it's just distracting and pure cacophony.

florbo··on HyperShell: Spawn shells anywhere. Fully peer-to-peer
I guess the lesson here is you don't have to use any of the technologies in the project as part of the project name if you don't want to. Especially if the namespace is already somewhat saturated. For my next project, TCPHTTPHTMLCSSJSLinuxAlpineContainerGCPGKEBlog...
florbo··on 140 Megapixel Picture of the Sun
The photographer is very upfront about the process, too.
florbo··on Fake Samsung 980 Pro SSDs are spreading around
heh, yeah I installed it just for the update and immediately uninstalled it.
florbo··on Fake Samsung 980 Pro SSDs are spreading around
fwiw I have both and both are fine with the latest firmware.
florbo··on Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser
You had to tweak a lot of settings with EAX to make it sound decent, but you could also configure it so you could hear extreme distances, giving you quite the advantage. I bought a Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer card because of that. I had a huge config file that set all sorts of network settings, and even bound PgUp/Dn to cycle through various ex_interp values.. lol
florbo··on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
When are US cities going to ban cars? My guess is 0-2 in the next century.
florbo··on Genders.wtf
Oh, yeah, no disagreement with your assessment on whether or not a service should be asking in the first place. Just noting that biological sex is very relevant for something like disease susceptibility, along with a vast multitude of other things. It all comes down to those chromosomes.
florbo··on Genders.wtf
I know that the differences between sexes is very relevant in a multitude of sciences. I'm not sure what gender identity is relevant to other than behavioral science and psychology, primarily applied to marketing. I would like to know more, though, so please share if you have any insight.
florbo··on Ok, Cloudflare I am leaving
Er, so do you run around and dive in pools when the rule boards posted everywhere explicitly list those as forbidden, then get mad when you get kicked out?
florbo··on Automating heating with Home Assistant
The real win was balancing the boiler and TRVs. Automating the boiler for efficiency is neat. I'd have kept a spare thermostat connected (with a physical switch for it's power) in case all that automation implodes, though.
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