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hfkwer··on Going Rogue
That's a completely different kind of game. Roguelikes are single-player games, MUDs are multiplayer games. Roguelikes usually feature permadeath, MUDs rarely do. It's the difference between an RPG and a MMORPG.
hfkwer··on Android Games on PC
Do you think the Firefox plugin for 1password (random example) is a plugin that runs inside 1password and allows you to use Firefox? Does the Linux driver for ext4 allow you to use a Linux kernel from within the driver, or the other way around? WSA is a "Windows subsystem" that allows you to run Android. That's it. But leave it to HN to always have someone make the exact same comment whenever WSL or WSA is mentioned.
hfkwer··on Android Games on PC
Presumably to counter this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/
hfkwer··on Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
Okay, I forgot this was an American website and your fridges are the size of my kitchen. Water/ice dispenser, seriously... Meanwhile I bought mine 300€ and it's still going strong after five years.
hfkwer··on Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
A lot of words in this comment, but the convention says they are liable for damages. You have to prove and quantify damages before you can ask them to pay for damages. You better believe their lawyer isn't going to agree to the extent of the damages. And you'll also have to prove that they didn't take all reasonable measures to avoid the damage. There's a reason everyone thinks that in the US you can go get fucked if you want compensation by an airline: because for all intents and purposes, it's true. This is incomparable to the EU.
hfkwer··on Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
This thread is amazing. I've flown Paris-DC at least ten times over the past three years. (Yes, my carbon footprint is stupid.) Airfrance was systematically the best experience I had. One other company fucked up my connections so bad that the eventually offloaded me to an AF flight. The first company also lost my luggage, and it was airfrance who led the search effort to find it and send it back to me...

As for EU companies being shit, I can only laugh. Customer service might be apparently "friendly" in the USA but fuck you if you expect actual compensation for delays or cancellations. There are just zero regulations, so they don't care. They will however smile and call you buddy while explaining to you that they won't do anything and you better not complain again or they'll charge you extra fees. Which I guess has been dubbed as "customer service excellence" elsewhere in this thread.

hfkwer··on Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
Arbitration.
hfkwer··on Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
There kind of is. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...
hfkwer··on Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
A refrigerator doesn't cost $1000?! This is out of touch.
hfkwer··on After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted
Everything you've listed is either profit for the owners, or ensuring future profit for the owners.
hfkwer··on CJEU declares Meta's GDPR approach illegal
Is this a joke...? I think there would be fewer candidates for the CEO of FB if they risked being shot down by the DEA when they appear in public.

Regardless, your comment isn't really relevant. I'm replying to the idea that FB has to break the law or they go bankrupt. Well, in that case, they should just go bankrupt. We shouldn't change the law to accommodate them.

hfkwer··on Huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway
Venezuela's poverty has as much to do with incompetent leadership as it has with the US embargo.
hfkwer··on Huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway
What else would you expect from a petromonarchy?
hfkwer··on CJEU declares Meta's GDPR approach illegal
If their business model depends on breaking the law, maybe it's not a viable one.
hfkwer··on After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted
> non-profit business

That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. A business is literally an activity that is undertaken for the purpose of profit. There are activities that are entered for reasons other than profit, but they're not businesses.

hfkwer··on UK competition regulator finds Adobe’s purchase of Figma could reduce innovation
You're about a month and a half too late. The request for comments ended on May 18.
hfkwer··on Atom feed format was born 20 years ago
In what format do you think the website you're reading is written in? Sure html is not 100% super duper pure xml, but for all intents and purposes, it's xml.
hfkwer··on Show HN: Serverless VPN, pay as you go, unlimited devices, no subscriptions
The ip space is what's valuable about a vpn service.
hfkwer··on Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
> It is not intended to be v8.

There is already a UUIDv8. It's defined as vendor-specific UUID. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-u...

> Some example situations in which UUIDv8 usage could occur:

> An implementation would like to embed extra information within the UUID other than what is defined in this document.

Isn't that exactly what you are doing?

hfkwer··on Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
This isn't about object types in any particular language.
hfkwer··on Testing the memory safe Rust implementation of Sudo/Su
Is sudo known to be memory _un_safe? Because otherwise, calling this one "the memory safe [Rust] implementation of Sudo" is a bit weird.
hfkwer··on Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them
> there’s usually no benefit to me

Apart from slowing down ever so slightly the oncoming scarcity of resources.

hfkwer··on Liquid metal could turn everyday things like paper into smart objects
Because that's what we need as a society. Paper that needs rare metals to produce, consumes energy to "work", and spies on us.
hfkwer··on Using command line to process CSV files (2022)
> When I tell them to do it in Excel by themselves, they would say Excel couldn't open a CSV larger than 1M rows...

Sure it can. Just use the "Import from Text/CSV" feature instead of directly opening the CSV. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-to-do-if-a-d...

hfkwer··on Using command line to process CSV files (2022)
> And because often also the error handling is incomplete it might be difficult to know that the pipeline is producing garbage output.

The thing is that from the point of view of each individual tool, there isn't even an error! You ask awk to split on commas and give you the second field, it splits on commas and gives you the second field. It opened the file no problem, it didn't run out of memory writing its output to stdout... There were no errors to speak of from what it could see. The "error" is an error in the overall logic of the code.

hfkwer··on Using command line to process CSV files (2022)
These days I just use powershell. It has built-in csv import and then I'm dealing with familiar pwsh/.net objects. I don't miss the days of learning bespoke tools to handle slightly different cases.
hfkwer··on Bootstrapping Atlassian: $10k In Credit Card Debt To $20M In Revenue In 5 years
If you don't want that to happen, then don't release your software as free software. Use a CC-NC license or something similar.
hfkwer··on US vendor accused of violating GDPR by reputation-scoring EU citizens
> Constitutional rights generally refer to what the government can and cannot do to a person.

...no? A constitutional right is one established in the constitution or inferred from the language of the constitution. That's it. Maybe in the US you're focused on the rights in respect to your government, but people have other rights. For example, in my country, I have the constitutional right to go on strike, and my employer is forbidden from retaliating. I also have a right to freedom, property, security, and freedom from oppression. Again, no one, neither the government nor my fellow citizens nor corporations can infringe on these rights.

hfkwer··on Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI
What's the difference between using a pencil to write something and using an LLM to write something? Seriously, I'm asking the question. Why does one produce something copyrighted why the other doesn't?
hfkwer··on Ego and Math [video]
I'm a math professor with about a decade of teaching math. On the list of things that make math intimidating, for undergrads at least, the notation for powers, roots, and log, is very low. The "proposal" also ignores that

1. The kth root of x is often denoted x^(1/k);

2. We have convenient shortcuts for the square root and the natural logarithm;

3. Parentheses become a mess;

4. The notation for squares, cubes, etc. is deeply entrenched; does anyone really think that write "x triangle 2 above" (yup, it's a mess to write in ASCII) instead of x² or x^2 would make mathematics less intimidating to everyday people?

5. Having symbols, subscripts, prescripts, and superscripts above the symbol all strewn together is much more intimidating to anyone.

6. How do you nest them? Try to write down log_a(log_a(x)) to see what I mean.

I enjoy 3B1B's videos in general, but this one really only makes sense if you don't think too much about it.

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