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quaffapint··on Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)
I've really been enjoying this one person's year long journey in remastering Hit&Run. It's impressive what he's accomplished.

https://www.youtube.com/@elgatodeltejado

quaffapint··on Ask HN: Could you please brutally review my product website?
The tiny screenshots in the bottom of the page should be right at the top and bigger showing what this product can provide. Let your product do the selling.
quaffapint··on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about the tracking in the official app vs third party apps.

I was noticing a LOT of tracker dns queries in my pi-hole. It wasn't an obvious name (like having reddit in it). Speaking to a co-worker they happened to notice the same thing. Searching online allowed me to track it down to the official reddit app. I uninstalled it from my android phone and installed the Infinity app instead and I could still access reddit just fine and no more tracker queries. I will not be installing the official app if Infinity goes away.

quaffapint··on A novel about video games became a surprise best seller
The book was heavily pushed on tiktok because it hit the platforms target demo perfectly with the angsty young characters set in a video game backdrop that the average tiktok age group could understand.

Personally I was hoping it would have been more like the backstory episode of the Mythic Quest TV show and was disappointed. It was an average story at best with characters that never really matured, but that doesn't matter because I'm not the target audience. The target will connect with the characters and come away thinking it was a fantastic story and will gobble up any movie/tv show that comes out of it. Good job, author and marketing.

quaffapint··on OrbStack – Fast, lightweight Docker Desktop and Colima alternative for macOS
I just tried it with my JetBrains Rider setup where we develop against containers. Turned off Docker Desktop, started up Orbstack. All worked the same. Debugging/etc. Started up the docker containers without issue and don't see any CPU issues. I'm on a Mac M1 pro. I'll keep trying it and see if it continues to work well in the long term.
quaffapint··on Ask HN: Why aren’t planes boarded back-to-front?
Associated mythbusters video (clip, so leaves out some details)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss1S3-Kv6R8
quaffapint··on M1 MBP down to 3.5hr battery life when writing code
I use Rider daily on an M1 and easily get through the day. I'm not compiling every second, but using it pretty consistently along with slack/chrome/etc.
quaffapint··on Eggspensive
Cost of living definitely varies in the US. New York being on the higher end.
quaffapint··on Show HN: Lost Pixel Platform – visual regression testing for your front end
One quick comment is I had to go to your github repo's readme to actually see an example in action. You should have a similar graphic showing the scanning right in your landing page head.
quaffapint··on Microsoft to support Windows 11 on M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership
This. We use Rider daily on our M1s. I used to be a big fan of Visual Studio, but really loving Rider and it works as great on the Mac as it does Windows (assuming you're not working with legacy NET Framework). The only bugs we ever really run into is around Docker on the M1s, but with the current releases everything is working fine.
quaffapint··on The Mysteries by Bill Watterson
Could be both the text and art that are generated. Weird. If it was closer to April 1, I think I'd understand better what's going on.
quaffapint··on Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative
Do you have a demo for PhotoStructure? Didn't see anything on the site. I'm really looking more for a Picasa replacement that respects my file structure and displays it as such.
quaffapint··on Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative
We have a computer in the kitchen with the simple default photos screensaver pointing to our years of pictures constantly updating. It's really fun to just see random photos of things you've forgotten about. We've all pulled each other to the kitchen to check out a photo or two.
quaffapint··on Ask HN: What is your replacement for Google search
Another +1... Of all the non-google solutions I've tried Brave's has come the closest for my programming and non-programming searches alike. For the most part the only time I'm going to google is for specific things like local searches. And I'm using it via MS Edge, so don't need Brave.
quaffapint··on I Tried JetBrains' “New UI” and I Liked It
The one thing I didn't see a setting for is what the default windows to show are. For example, I would always like to have the tests window in a tab versus having to tell it to show first. It's a minor thing, but people like personalizing to their workflow.
quaffapint··on What a $1M Retirement Looks Like in America
Long term care is incredibly expensive (much more than those college bills) and medicare doesn't cover all of that. They recently started offering long term care insurance so you can sign up for that when you're younger and get the cheaper rates (of course you have to determine how long you want to save vs how much you'll be saving).
quaffapint··on Amazon confirms corporate staff cuts that could hit 10k employees
Nothing more demoralizing than living in fear and rumorville. I was at a big bank post 2008 and it was months of messages about did you hear so and so got the tap on the shoulder. You never knew when or why, you just didn't know everyday if it was going to be your last. Not exactly how you want to live your life.
quaffapint··on Thirteen Years of Go
I do c# in my day job, and so far Rust has been much easier to pick up than Go. Maybe it just happens to be more similar to c#, but given it can be used as a system level lang like c++ I've been very surprised how quick it can be picked up (at least for basic tasks).
quaffapint··on Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backups online
Just another stat point... Been using it against 1TB storing encrypted to Backblaze B2 for about a year and a half. I've tested restoring and so far it's been very stable.
quaffapint··on Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request
Have you tried the folks at the USMobile subreddit... https://www.reddit.com/r/USMobile/ ...There are employees over there. Also, hopefully your previous service hasn't been cancelled.
quaffapint··on Nord – An Arctic, north-bluish color palette
I've been using gruvbox since moving on from Nord. Nord didn't have enough contrast. The only problem with gruvbox is some of the keywords/etc are redish, so they look like syntax errors in an IDE. I ended up tweaking it to be more orangish.
quaffapint··on Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?
1. I've converted any old media format to digital

2. I back up locally to a drive inside a firebox (w/ built-in usb connector)

3. Backup offsite encrypted to Backblaze b2

quaffapint··on Performance Improvements in .NET 7
.NET Core 3.1 and .NET 6 are LTS (though 3.1 ends this year). Also in general things don't break that much. There are cases like nullable checks whose default changes and so if you go with that default you will have to update, but it's tweaks more than overhauls.
quaffapint··on Blitz.js – Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js
The frontpage still lists a tie only to Next.js, but I believe they are trying to redo blitz to be more generic... https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz/discussions/3075
quaffapint··on Coding as a greybeard
I came from a big bank with lots of graybeards to a small startup were I'm 10 years older than the oldest person (who's the cto). It's been fine here though a little awkward at times with contexts I don't know about. Not a big deal though. Now as I continue to get older, I do worry I'll have to go back to those mega companies when it's time to move on and I start to really look the age.
quaffapint··on SQLite 3.39.2
For something used in so many places for so many reasons it's interesting to read everything they test for their releases... https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
quaffapint··on SQLite 3.39.2
A couple of things come to mind. Scaling, specifically horizontally (though there are some solutions for that) and being write heavy like storing analytics. For many cases though it should work just fine for your average read heavy site.
quaffapint··on Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)
It's been listed here before, but a fun ride that my son and I like to take in our Internet explorations...

https://wilderness.land/

quaffapint··on Ask HN: What do you use to build auth?
Ok, good to know. We've always used our IdP as bare bones as possible and store all user info locally in the DB, so that's why this wouldn't be an issue for our particular setup.
quaffapint··on Ask HN: What do you use to build auth?
What made it a nightmare to use? We're just about finished migrating to Cognito (using our own UI) and it's been the same experience as working with Auth0 but much cheaper. The only goofy part was in order to have a custom password reset email you need to put it in a lambda.
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