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The reason is of course money. The profit per user on the Apple garden is light years beyond any other platform. I've seen the exact same app make 100 times as much money on iOS than on Android with half as many users.

When you're big enough, there's a chance that the boss's boss at Apple uses your app and will come talk to you and save you from The Process.

Also, if everyone uses your app, when it breaks then people will not necessarily complain to you, but to Apple instead since people can't tell the difference between the phone and the app, so to avoid the idea that your phone breaks, Apple will let you update your app instantly.

You can follow his own advice and deface any of his pieces you're forced to see until he stops doing it to you, morally. I wouldn't touch the legality of it with a 10 foot pole though.

I use Discord for remote work and it has something called Krisp noise cancelling that works as incredibly, if you're interested in other clients.

What would you people suggest is the most Windows-like Linux distro to switch over? I'm thinking in terms of visual similarity, UX, key bindings, and such for everyday usage.

If you want to take that cheating to the logical extreme, check out this project made by a friend. It's explicit in the title that it's just streaming, but pretty fun nonetheless!

https://github.com/rodri042/gba-remote-play

This has been the reality in countries like Argentina for literal decades. It's created a ridiculous disparity since wages are shrinking so fast, and many people don't realize it, that there's desperate attempts to freeze the price of essential goods just so people can afford them. Conversely, tourists have never had better exchange rates. You can have an extremely fine meal for two at a very fine restaurant for $10-$20 bucks. Subway/bus trips cost about $0.10. It leaves visitors dumbfounded.

It's a good case study to find out what things are going to be like if left unchecked.

Yeah I'm talking about Argentina.

It's not so much a day to day living with crypto kind of situation but rather a being able to save one. Say you have a salary that's getting devalued by the month yet doesn't raise at the same rate.

If you're lucky enough to be able to save say 10% of it, you want to stabilize it's value somehow. I don't even mean invest at a profit, I mean have a way to save that money so when you do need to spend it down the line (say to buy a 100k USD no-bedroom apartment to live in), you wouldn't have lost most of your savings' value due to inflation.

You can't hold value in land since there's no credit, cars are 10x as expensive due to the economy being so protectionist, and you likely don't have space to hold a stock of long-lasting food that you might be able to sell. Crypto, particularly stable coins, is then a very attractive option in such a situation. You could buy 50 DAI a month for example and then have a good shot that when you need it a few years later, it'll still be as valuable as it was when you bought it.

A lot of old people who trusted cash and didn't realize how bad things are getting and didn't invest in a solid keeper of value, are only now realizing that their whole life savings are worth about as much as a TV, and even less every month.

Nowadays, even kids need to learn about exchange rates to keep up.

It's a lifesaver in countries with rampant inflation where they forbid you to buy currencies from other countries. Literally in some cases.

My username has been my name which has an accented character and has broken countless Windows apps every year since forever, so I just keep a C:/Programs folder where I run stuff. You should never not fear filenames.

The difference is how they manipulate you psychologically to not realize how much you're spending. You can't just buy the thing, you need to buy a particular currency, and possibly do some in-game work, and also gamble with loot boxes where you're not very aware of the odds.

By the time you realize the thing you wanted was actually $600 (which you wouldn't have spent upfront) but you've already spent $500 without getting it, it feels unavoidable to go and spend another hundred. And then the cycle happens again and again, making you feel very much like you have a sickness.

Many people can effectively avoid all of this and be very happy not spending a dime and not feel any pressure at all, but the problem is the large, very large, sometimes underage, base of vulnerable people who are spending money they can't really afford on these games.

Now I want to post a Nikon quote. You're in the butter zone now, baby!

I usually just use https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

Any chance this could be made not to rely on Twitter?

I was first introduced to programming with Pascal, can't believe I forgot about it until I saw your list.

I think Tailwind really shines alongside a tool like React where you don't abstract out a class of Tailwind classes, but a whole component with minimal to no functionality. If you end up with too many of those then maybe it's a sign your design language is getting too complex?

The second one.

One way people have of affording these fees is by working for people outside the country who can pay a salary that would cover the fees alongside being a living wage. After building enough wealth in crypto, they can choose to leave the regime in better terms than as a refugee. This has happened many many times already, this is the most valuable use case for crypto in practice.

> god I love tumblr. it's one of the best social networks on the internet because it's just a complete fractal dumpster fire

Couldn't agree more. Everything is just so awful I can't even imagine the staff turning it into some boring Twitter like dumpster fire all about sucking up to celebrities. They have chronological post order by default, that makes it instantly better than nearly all other social networks.

It's unsalvageable and due to that, an accidental refuge from the current mess of the Internet.

I suggest Thursday!

One nitpick that kind of bothered me - on a large desktop monitor, the results page was like 70% whitespace margins with the results squished in the middle like a portrait cellphone. Hopefully it's easy to fix, I like to research at home and this website could help a lot!

I'm mostly referring to what comments like this[1] one sound like. They may be lies or they may be isolated cases in specific states or counties, but it's not at all the first time I've read such accounts. Grain of salt since it's the internet of course.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28497547

I can't possibly imagine how trauma, torture and debt can at all help with suicidal ideation. It sounds barbaric.

The worst part is even if you disable automatic backups, which you should, the app will nevertheless force the creation of a backup every day at 2am. And keep 7 days worth of backups at a time. Of every single thing it can gets its hands on. The amount of storage and processing that globally occurs daily due to this, that people neither want nor need, is probably jaw dropping.

Many non-tech people I know that are not aware of this have just come to terms with the fact that phone storage just runs out quicker than it did before, and old phones just lag at 2am for mysterious reasons.

In another time it might read "These new 'cars' could cost the horse business billions per year"

I wish I knew the answer as well. I believe many managers trained in the art of building software without knowing how to build software are too married to doing processes in a very specific way that's very tightly coupled to Jira, and feel safe and at home with the added complexity it provides, so they vouch for it. But that's just a theory from personal experience.

They coupled the OS to cloud stuff so tightly they break together? That's so absolutely bonkers, even if it's a boiled frog situation, I'm speechless. I'll start dual booting Linux to get used to it because this is finally unacceptable.

That definition of interest is basically what Reddit does, and in the end I believe the kind of manual curation the HN mods do ends up fostering a healthier and more interesting community. Neural networks fed by votes, views and comments tend to lean to promote outraging content.

For 2D specifically, if you feel at home with GM and are already productive, stick with it. Otherwise, do try it out as it's incredibly good and the learning curve is not steep. For 3D, stick with Unreal.

I once saw the kind of support emails a friend got while working CS for an encrypted media storage service. Every single day, someone new was demanding, many times threatening legal action, that the company recovered their encrypted media. It was set up so only the user had the keys, and there was literally no way for the company to recover data without them - something that was a particular selling point of the service, constantly made explicit in many different ways and places. I wouldn't have believed that things were this bad had I not seen it first hand.

Digital cash funded roulette is such a predatory practice. I believe it should just be banned altogether, there's no good to come of it.