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3371··on Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
Do "we" lose 2mins because we both spent 1 min commenting? That sounds like The Mythical of Man Month thinking... for me time is parallel and does not combine.
3371··on Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
The user hour analogy sounds weird tho, 1s feels 1s regardless how many users you have. It's like the classic Asian teachers' logic of "if you come in 1 min late you are wasting N minutes for all of us in this class." It just does not stack like that.
3371··on How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
Well if you have pay attention this user you would realize he is a very classic example of an educated and proud Chinese. No offense but an unusual amount of Chinese uniformly think and talk like that thanks to the education.
3371··on Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
So... cursor rule file, in folder form?
3371··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
No. No no no. I browse hundreds even thousands of pages every singe days, and I either just close such sites or go the extra mile to write custom css for them when they are disgustingly wide.
3371··on SpacetimeDB
I wish you success! And hopefully you don't end up disappearing like SpatialOS. They tried very hard promoting its capacity for large scale MMO, even published a game (Scavenger IIRC?) made with it.
3371··on Taiwan asks South Korea for help over Chinese ship after subsea cable damaged
There are Chinese patents on "A Drag-Type Submarine Cable Cutting Device and Its Cable Cutting Method" and "A Deep-Sea Optical Cable Submarine Shearing and Salvaging Device"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wing_Kong_Exchange/comments/1h8es3w...

3371··on Elffont: A "Chinese Elvish" Font
In 2021, a Chinese MMO 天諭 (Revelation Online) introduces an "Elvish" in the game as the language of elves[1].

People later discovered that the "language" was actually not a newly constructed language but Chinese in plain Bopomofo (Mandarin Phonetic Symbols).

It is said a Taiwanese member in the development team came up with the idea. The difference of transliteration system between China and Taiwan made it a viable and interesting idea.

As the main remaining user of Bopomofo, many Taiwanese found it amusing thus it went viral and became a meme in Taiwanese internet culture.

Today, justfont, a type design studio in Taiwan, took on the meme and released Elffont, a Bopomofo font which turns Bopomofo symbols into fancy Elvish characters.

This font is free to use without further notice, and can be used for commercial applications. The font itself can not be modified, sold or re-released.

1: https://p2.bahamut.com.tw/B/2KU/41/9b4631794e4b986e0dfe62f74...

3371··on Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox
Because it did not happen after a Firefox update?
3371··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
I was working in a a 2-3 men group, which the manager of the tram directly reports to the big boss for the company.

The so called "tech dev team" are responsible for all sorts of tasks, for example exploring new tech, prototyping, supporting product team with optimization or content production.

We had been supporting system design and development in a new Unity (game) project for half a year, things were fine, and then the project got frozen/archived/cancelled.

And the reason was simple, our big boss wanted to svalr new heights! Something just like the one he made ~20 years ago and still feeding the company. He wanted to concentrate resources on this new ambitious project of his.

So that was it, the end of a 10+ men project, we got assigned to different task then. And then again. Then again.

Sometimes we just experiented techs. Sometimes we worked on projects that is not promising at all from our view. Sometimes we took over a good project and altered it into a abomination.

As my first job in my career, I'd say it certainly harmed my passion. I really really hope I can works on something poilsitively meaningful and impactful/useful to the world or even just certain audience.

I am probably only qualified as junior go/.net developer, but if there's such opportunity please let me know.

3371··on Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot
It doesn't work for me on Firefox, but works on Vivaldi.
3371··on Mail sent to billing@microsoft.com is blocked
So after checking thoroughly on MS account site I confirmed that it tells you go to billing@microsoft.com for these kind of issues and the mail address is not receiving mails.

I will be very surprised if it's not something wrong on my end that the billing support is not accessible for such a big corp.

3371··on Mail sent to billing@microsoft.com is blocked
Unfortunately no info for pc is provided.
3371··on The new jailbreak is so fun
Worked on my end! Very funny.
3371··on Mastodon.technology Shutdown
Oh, you sound like exactly a new fediverse user.
3371··on Mastodon.technology Shutdown
From my very little experience, you can search for anyone in any instance as long as it's federating with the whole network.

The actual problem is... to know the person. There are no more suggestions from algorithms and no more million-followers accounts that you usually heard of, you need to dig to find people you find interesting.

3371··on Mastodon.technology Shutdown
Yes, but why did you ask? I suppose that's exactly one of the reasons why fediverse users want to choose who they trust, isn't it?
3371··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
I've been using Firefox straight for 10+ years and tried all major vertical tabs extensions and now I recommend Sidebery to everyone.
3371··on Show HN: MdSilo – A knowledge silo that runs in your web browser
Hey, this seems really nice.

I've been using Obsidian to keep my Japanese dictionary clip, so I did a quick test.

The import feature is working well, the .md renders perfectly.

But somehow, pasting is not working normally:

- Pasting into empty note is not working at all.

- If I type anything, then select it then paste, I can paste my clipboard into it, but urls are missing.

This is what I paste: https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/nuhavenuge.md

BTW, I'm wondering how well does the graph view performs when there are, like, 1000+ notes?

3371··on An NFT without a blockchain
Hey, no matter how you buy a ticket, it'd have to be verified by the official eventually.

> How often do you actually know who that really is? Let‘s say Beyoncé is coming to the arena closest to you.

Interesting, so you are saying either:

  - Beyoncé official publish nothing about the event
  - We have no way to look up the ticket info
Not likely IMO especially if we are talking stars like Beyoncé.

> Plus, if I have to go to the central entity and check all that data, where is the benefit of going decentralized?

Well, de-centralization is nothing about convenience, and it's not just about ticket-selling.

I totally agree that blockchain & web3 is not mature at all comparing to how it is now, and I don't think it's going to be success unless they find a way to generally interact with real-world technically and legally.

3371··on An NFT without a blockchain
Yeah, I agree it does not have to be blockchain, any "consistently online" and widely adopted thing will do.
3371··on An NFT without a blockchain
Massive global adopted blockchains will indeed provide additional interoperability, thought there's none now.

Just consider it something like decoupling in coding but for the whole internet.

3371··on An NFT without a blockchain
- This is the case only if we put aside web3.

- NFT can have data on the .json file, so the rewarded user can be recorded.

3371··on An NFT without a blockchain
I don't like NFT too but have some knowledge about it.

> If you sell it to me as an NFT, how do I know it‘s not a fake NFT ticket or even a fake event?

This is actually not a problem at all:

  - It's not likely you'd buy ticket for some event that you don't know/not interested.
  - The event official (which you already know) should publish these info for query:
    - The blockchain  
    - The contract address  
    - The NFT token ID
If you bought a proclaimed ticket NFT but it's fake, the only possibility is the official that you trust is a fraud.
3371··on U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general
That does not means the 3% just go "Yeah let's become Chinese".

And this is off-topic. The idea is simple: "China is culturally an ancient agrarian society focused more on defending farmland than conquering nation" does not stand. Conquering happens a lot on that land way before PRC is a thing.

3371··on U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general
No.

>China is culturally an ancient agrarian society focused more on defending farmland

is nonsense just like all the Chinese netizens who keep saying that "We Descendants of Yanhuang have 5000 years of history". Non-sense, PRC happened in 1949, and before that, it's a History of ethnicities from all over the land Conquer, Massacre, Annex and Integrate each other.

EDIT:

> China is not interested in controlling or imposing beliefs

There are 56 ethnic groups in China, they may have different culture even religion, what do you think how China managed to make sure all 55 other then Han stay under control?

3371··on U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general
I'm Taiwanese, I don't agree.
3371··on GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17
Lack of mods is a big problem...
3371··on GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17
Well, Minecraft is notoriously slow, but I guess that's very much nothing to do with Java, but the un-optimized code... Have seen quite some developers criticizing Mojang for this.
3371··on Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?
It makes me sad that $20000 is my annual income and I'm a okay (I guess?) developer!
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