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isthiseasymode··on The Linux desktop is self-destructive
The person you replied to said nothing about kernels. Those random things still do stop working.
isthiseasymode··on Serialization for C# Games
Naive question: is there a reason why SQLite wouldn’t work for something like this?
isthiseasymode··on “I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022)
I wonder how apples latest iPhone gaming reveal affects these plans. If the iPhone can play raytraced games, then why would someone want to stream the game in the first place?

It’s probably still too little too late, but apples latest metal conversion tool and iPhone event have me hopeful about gaming on apple devices.

isthiseasymode··on Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC
Comments like these make me wonder if they’re Meta employees that held onto their RSUs too long.
isthiseasymode··on Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC
Well, that won’t go well since they agreed to a settlement.
isthiseasymode··on Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
Yeah, but walking out of the room while the video is playing still gets them money from the sponsor. Skipping or blocking the ad does not.
isthiseasymode··on iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone
Hot take: that’s how it should be. After fixing laptops for less technical people, I don’t think the average person can be trusted to protect themselves against malware.
isthiseasymode··on iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone
I predict that this will probably be irrelevant to the majority of users.

There’s no way apple makes side loading easy enough for anyone outside of HN to use.

isthiseasymode··on Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003)
People generally use spring when it comes to java.

Spring is just a few annotations away from creating an endpoint.

https://start.spring.io/

Of course with spring, there’s a lot of stuff that isn’t java that you have to know.

isthiseasymode··on New macOS malware steals info, including a user's entire Keychain database
I know I’ll ruffle some feathers on HN, but macOs is fine and probably the best OS for Mac (especially m1) hardware.

No reason to make your life harder unless you’re doing it for your own enjoyment.

isthiseasymode··on Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up
That explanation makes me think of blockchain.

I do think AI is already more useful that block chain has ever been, however.

isthiseasymode··on Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
In my experience, FAANG leetcode questions are generally pretty easy. Once in a while, one of the interviewers just tries to flex on the interviewee and just throw out a trick question that may be easy in the right mindset, but not really a good question.

I’ll call out Google specifically for this. They seemed to just make up their own questions. Difficultly ranged from basic coding to a math brain teaser with a lot of easy graph questions in between.

For context: this was last November.

Edit: lost the point in my rant - 2% approval is probably the result of flexing.

isthiseasymode··on EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)
Green bubbles are limited in terms of contents too. iMessage allows uncompressed video and images whereas the regular messages are limited to smaller compressed videos and images.

Making iMessage available to android would be nice, but there’s no way Apple would make it convenient.

isthiseasymode··on Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control
I write Unity games on my Mac. What do you mean?
isthiseasymode··on Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control
I believe they mean that the user base is mostly on windows. All of the major game engines already work with Linux and even MacOS.

If they want to make money, they need to develop and test on windows.

isthiseasymode··on The Samsung Galaxy S23’s bloated Android build somehow uses 60GB of storage
> Samsung hardware is top-notch, but the software bloat is ridiculous.

Their self developed UIs are also garbage. My Samsung tv remote has no source button and source menu is hidden in home all the way to the left. If I make the mistake of clicking on an unrecognized device, it spends forever trying to detect it.

I may just be complaining about smart tvs in general, but my old TCL was not this much of a pain to use.

isthiseasymode··on Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search
> I'm starting to understand why there are so many people on HN claiming that "Google has started to give me bad results in recent years".

I thought I was going crazy. Googles been working fine for me and I was wondering if I was just being delusional or in denial.

isthiseasymode··on Tesla devs at Twitter misunderstand Slack privacy; leak fire lists based on LOC
A simple IDE assisted refactor could inflate your line count by a few thousands.

You can also just write a ton and not actually need it if you’re trying to game the system or if you’re inexperienced.

Commit count would be a little more accurate, but that also is just an analog for who saves the most. It doesn’t really tell you who made any impact with or without code.

Finally, a lot of senior work is just convincing other teams to allow you to do what you’re trying to do. Most code features are trivial to write, but a nightmare to get approved.