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randomluck040··on Show HN: I made a tool to improve Mission Control on macOS
Is there an option to navigate the windows with the arrow keys with this?
randomluck040··on TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
Good point and as expected, I have no idea. The question is if I have to file the lawsuit in China. My knowledge of law goes towards zero so I can’t even „armchair lawyer“ it. However, the question would be if it was possible to file the lawsuit in a country where TikTok has a headquarter.
randomluck040··on TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
It won’t change if it’s not prosecuted.
randomluck040··on TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
I‘m not so sure about it being laughed out of court unfortunately.
randomluck040··on Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
Thank you, I’ll take a look. I wonder how I never stumbled on this one. Thanks!
randomluck040··on Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
This is so great but unfortunately not available in Germany yet. Looking forward to it.
randomluck040··on Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor?
Sometimes I can find stuff in Vimeo that’s not available anywhere else. There was dailymotion, I don’t know about the state of it but back in the day it looked like it might have been a competitor to YouTube, too.
randomluck040··on Ask HN: Are new ThinkPads still worthy?
Shouldn’t have read the article, it’s gut wrenching. How can people be like that, without any empathy and emotional attachment? I understand that there are more brands involved, what I don’t understand is how no one really talks about the situation. It’s ugly.
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What Are You Up To? (December 2021)
Hey there! Carbon footprints of what?
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
I‘m using DDG most of the time but when I have to use Google hoping the results will be better, I try to specify words that need to be in there. However, the more niche your problems are, the less you will find.
randomluck040··on FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]
I think a fingerprint is easier to get if you’re not willing to cooperate. However, I think if they really, I mean really want your password, they will probably find a way to get it out of you. I think it also depends if it’s the local sheriff asking for your password or someone from the FBI while you’re tied up in a bunker somewhere in Nevada.
randomluck040··on Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?
Tell me about it, man… guess where the „@„ sign on the German keyboard is? On „q“. Guess how often I’m closing applications when I want to type an „@„ haha. Outside of that I think it got a lot better though.
randomluck040··on Show HN: I Made a Final Cut for Windows
Thank you for elaborating! First of all: good job not bloating your website the same as wevideo and invideo did - I just can't bring myself to spend time to compare anything with that services, sorry. Also I want to say that I don't want to talk your app down or something - when I was skimming through the features just now I think it looks great.

When it comes to comparisons, and I only have animoto and single-payment-applications which I personally use to compare to, I think the key difference with animoto is that animoto is web-based. I couldn't find out where the processing happens but if it's on their servers, it (in my opinion) justifies paying for computation time.

I understand that your target audience is different when it comes to the advertised features and I understand that your focus is different. This is heavily subjective and maybe I'm too old to get it but I still fail to see why I, as part of your target audience creating videos for social media, should pay a monthly subscription which I'll be locked into for as long as I want to create media when other applications are a one time payment which do the same things (apparently slower) as far as functionality goes. Again: this is heavily subjective and if the subscription model works for you and enables you to further work on the application rather than a single time payment, definitely keep doing it. At the same time I think Windows might need exactly that: something as "straight forward" (if you can call it that) as FCPX with the same snappiness it offers on the M1 chips.

Either way: I wish you the best of luck and success with the app!

randomluck040··on Show HN: I Made a Final Cut for Windows
Same exact thought. I default to the pricing page of software these days to check if I have to add yet another subscription service. I don’t want to take away from the great software that might have been built but I didn’t even click beyond seeing the subscription. For a video editing app. What does make this worth the subscription in comparison to Resolve or FCPX? If it’s less features, then I don’t get it and the mistake is on the side of Blackmagic/FCPX/… and they should offer something more linear as an option to view the interface at least.
randomluck040··on What are some cool holiday gifts for techies?
What exactly is that? Can you play drums without owning drums? Are they any good? I’d love to play drums but there is no way in life that I can put them somewhere in my current flat.
randomluck040··on Apple stopped sales in Turkey after the lira crashed 15% in a day
A lot of things are getting more expensive but not at the same rate as e.g. electronics
randomluck040··on Ask HN: Possible to pivot into ML research career without a PhD?
Thank you for answering. I‘m currently looking for something like a „sparring partner“ to talk about what they are doing as well as what I am doing since where I work no one does anything related to Deep Learning or Image Segmentation unfortunately. Wish you the best!
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What are the best and worst command-line interfaces you have used?
Watson seems interesting, I’ll take a look at that. Thanks for sharing!
randomluck040··on Show HN: Interactive maps of three historical conflicts
Sorry for answering this late and thanks a lot for the recommendation. I'll definitely take a look at d3js.org since our current solution works on top of a geoserver which has performance issues when we try to load rather large polygons and working with it is a frustrating process overall. The learning curve for the current solutions we have was steep as well so I'm not too scared (yet haha). Thank you!
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What hardware/software do you recommend in a post-Adobe world?
Thanks for answering! How comfortable is dodge & burn and working with layers in Affinity and did you try out frequency separation in one way or another by any chance?
randomluck040··on Ask HN: Possible to pivot into ML research career without a PhD?
Hey there, I’m in Germany too! What domain or area are you working in? Any chance that you have some experience with image segmentation?
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What hardware/software do you recommend in a post-Adobe world?
It might be the “Adobe muscle memory” for me as well but I’ve tried daily driving Affinity for a week and I can’t get used to it. I don’t understand the UI, sometimes it’s slow and laggy (coming from PS this is huge…) and some functions don’t work as they do in PS (as in “don’t produce satisfying outcomes”). Do you do photo editing by any chance?
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What hardware/software do you recommend in a post-Adobe world?
Can you elaborate whether dodge and burn is a straight forward process and if you have ever done something like frequency separation and whether that works or not? I‘m currently looking to get rid of my sub-life…
randomluck040··on Ask HN: How best to prepare for Python interviews starting in 3 months?
I registered at exercism.io as a mentor to help other people. Thank you for sharing!
randomluck040··on Tesla server outage allegedly leaves owners unable to drive their cars
Didn’t this result off of a Reddit post of one person that got his newly bought Tesla parked in front of his door with the cards inside the car who was asked to open the car with the app for the first time and it didn’t work due to some error?
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What extensions/packs of VS Code are must for web/developers to install?
There is a package called „black“ (pip install black) that formats code according to PEP8 (most of the time). You might take a look if you’re interested. I’m using it occasionally and it didn’t do anything royally stupid until now. If the code isn’t syntactically correct it won’t run.
randomluck040··on Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?
For some reason this happens to me with the MacBook laptop keyboards (the new ones). I don’t know what I‘m doing wrong, maybe it’s because I come from a MK with rather deep keys and all? I haven‘t figured it out yet.
randomluck040··on Show HN: Interactive maps of three historical conflicts
Hey there! I really like the interactive maps. Would you mind elaborate on how you did them? I thought of something comparable but have no front end experience, I basically wanted to tell a story by pointing at specific parts of the map.
randomluck040··on I hate password rules
Wait, what? That never happened to me. How do you go and find out your password then? Trial and error?
randomluck040··on Appflowy – open-source Notion Alternative
You have to start somewhere if your own system isn’t ready yet but I agree, I’d change it over to my own application before launch…
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