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tommy92

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tommy92··on Process Explorer for macOS
The theme is applied so poorly in their screenshot.
tommy92··on Six Math Essentials
Basic knowledge resources are very common in HN in front page. And such resource from someone known to write very well will be helpful for newbies even from lesser known personalities. Shared here all the time so why pretend its not common.
tommy92··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
Yes its the typical attitude than gives HN users a bad name. And this particular comment doesn't seem to have done beyond surface level research either on his investment works. Maybe not even surface level. Too much confidence too little works just empty words.
tommy92··on Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]
Lots of negative stereotypical assumption there. If you have some source backing all this, share your claims otherwise personal attacks without any serious base isn't a good reflection.
tommy92··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
Except, this complexity isn't saving time and resources. This complexity admiration culture has resulted in slower code thats harder to understand, debug and maintain too. What should be used only for small amount of time is used from get go like complex architecture and deep abstraction. Fetishizing simplicity is bad too for sure but a blip on a radar and not such a trend and far less of an issue compared to fetishizing complexity thats rampant. Not a game dev or even a gamer, I'm defending attack on simplicity not blow or muratori.
tommy92··on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
Yeah my go to for youtube still. Working as good as ever for that so far.
tommy92··on Marta File Manager: Back on Track
A year or two ago when I first read about it, I saw in the software faq, or maybe it was a post by its creator on HN itself or reddit, that they will make it paid once it reaches stable version(version 1?).
tommy92··on OCaml Canvas
Whats the best book/resource to learn OCaml for someone new to FP?
tommy92··on Google is shutting down Stadia
I started learning dart/flutter a few days ago. Now I'm having second thoughts.
tommy92··on uBlock Origin Lite: Description
Outright killing adblocking will reduce Chrome's market share significantly. Enough that Chrome may lose its position as the top browser. Its a terrible business decision that can kill Chrome or atleast give a chance for someone else to take their position. Why would they do that?

Crippling enough that most people won't notice is a viable business decision. Introducing a security benefit, inserting a self interest(crippling adblocks while providing vastly inferior alternative) which won't be noticed by most people but they are being secretly compromised behind the scenes since less ads are blocked and are being tracked more effectively is a profitable business tactic. Bringing a benefit along with a profit tactic compromising customers and pretending the said compromise is as big of a detriment to the consumer, which it is not, is whats going on. Is this so hard to see? Its not a FUD but the profiting parties trying to sway the opinions.