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369548684892826··on War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history
Because Firefox on iPhone uses the same engine as Safari, not gecko
369548684892826··on 45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC
I use sunshine/moonlight for local streaming
369548684892826··on I coded a shoot 'em up alone at 18 after learning Lua in a single week
Have you seen this 2D game engine called Love? It's for Lua, and I've heard it's very good

https://love2d.org/

369548684892826··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
Great until someone realises you’ve filtered out minority groups from the application process (most developers are men so maybe the LLM decided they’re the best fit, but you’ll never know exactly why it screwed your over) and you suddenly have an expensive lawsuit
369548684892826··on .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types
Rider is very good but this subthread is about the lack of open source dev tooling.
369548684892826··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
Surely they do have the legal basis, that's how the fine got issued. What they're missing is any way to enforce it.
369548684892826··on Ask HN: Developing .NET on Windows but deploying to Linux – common issues?
I guess watch out for different line endings in files "\r\n" in Windows, "\n" in Linux. The best thing to do there if possible is use tools in Windows that preserve Linux line endings so you never see "\r\n" in Linux at runtime.

If you're using classes under the System.Drawing namespace then a lot of functionality is missing in Linux, but I don't know much about that. The 3rd party ImageSharp library fills some of the gap and is just generally awesome.

Other than that, I'm sure there's niche things but nothing is coming to mind!

369548684892826··on Ask HN: Developing .NET on Windows but deploying to Linux – common issues?
To get runtime case-sensitivity problems with filenames I guess you must be doing something like having resource files as part of your project and then loading them from disk at runtime, but the code that loads them is being told the slightly wrong filename. Depending on why you need to load those files, there's not much you can do about that except stop coding the wrong filenames!

There are things that can help with filesystem differences though, if you're not using them already look under the System.IO namespace

Path.Combine will combine path segments using the native directory separator either `/` or `\`.

Path.GetTempFileName will create a temporary file on disk so you don't need to know if that's `/tmp` or `C:\whereverwindowsputsit\`

Mostly everything just works when coding on Windows and deploying to Linux, I think it is only the filesystem differences that ever cause problems and even then it's down to coding mistakes.

369548684892826··on The MacBook Neo
I wouldn't say as a whole. KDE is way ahead of where it was 10 years ago!
369548684892826··on TypeScript 6.0 RC
Just use deno
369548684892826··on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
protip: You can make synctrain sync with an iOS shortcut, with the shortcut being triggered when Obsidian is opened or closed. This means you're always in sync, even if iOS hasn't allowed synctrain to run in the background.
369548684892826··on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
It’s not that it can’t do it, it’s that it’s against the terms of service to use it for video.
369548684892826··on Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
> the most unethical company that ever existed

Maybe in the tech world, but in the real world there are companies such as Nestlé out there competing for this title.

369548684892826··on Fastmail desktop app
I like the idea of using the new app, but in the browser I can use ublock to remove the weird "Inbox Zero!" celebration. Is there any plan to allow that kind of empty inbox configuration in the app?
369548684892826··on Firefox is the best mobile browser
Safari does support ad blocking extensions.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr-2/id1662217862

369548684892826··on What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers
As a dotnet developer all my code these days is run on Linux.
369548684892826··on The biggest sign of an AI bubble is starting to appear – debt
If revenue doesn't catch up with the cost of developing and running these huge LLMs then the only way to avoid an AI winter is to find a way to make them way cheaper to develop.
369548684892826··on JetBrains will start training AI on your code on non-commercial license
That's what he said, you aren't applying this change to your paying customers because you know what a shitty decision it is and only free users will put up with it.
369548684892826··on Ask HN: I got fired from 100k job so I've made a game and it failed
Have you considered some kind of demo level and pay to unlock the full game?
369548684892826··on Ask HN: Do you find ChatGPT 5 to be condescending?
"That’s a really sharp question."
369548684892826··on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
But if Meta believe it's a bubble then why not let the competition continue to waste their money pumping it up? How does popping it early benefit Meta?
369548684892826··on Ask HN: Can you help me decide which type of house investment I should do?
I'm not a Financial Advisor so I'm not qualified to make suggestions. But a lot of people find this [0] flow chart useful. It's UK focussed and you can probably skip to Step 8 (so maybe not that helpful?) but what it says for most people is that they should look at making long term investments in low cost index funds in a tax efficient savings wrapper (e.g. an ISA account in the UK)

Buying individual properties as an investment can be a huge headache, even trying to sell the investment can take a long time. And as the other reply said, it is quite risky to have so much tied up in a single property where anything could happen to it.

0: https://ukpersonal.finance/flowchart/

edit: A better link, Investing 101: https://ukpersonal.finance/investing-101/

369548684892826··on Ask HN: Can you help me decide which type of house investment I should do?
You're trying to solve two problems:

- Want to invest in an asset to keep some wealth outside your bank account.

- Want to have a place you can escape to, but without too much maintenance.

I would think about solving two problems with two solutions.

- Invest some money in funds (e.g. property investment funds if you really want property).

- Use some of the interest to rent fun places to go on holiday to.

369548684892826··on Tokens are getting more expensive
> First of all, do they shoot you in San Francisco, if you use capital letters and punctuation?

Is it done like this just to show it wasn't written by a LLM?

369548684892826··on .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution
Jellyfin / Emby

A lot of the *arr tools like Sonarr

Bitwarden and Keepass

369548684892826··on UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
They've probably let everyone know by SMS, we'll get the message when everything starts working again
369548684892826··on You can now disable all AI features in Zed
There's a forum thread [0] where users share their custom themes.

There's also an importer tool [1] that lets you convert any VS Code theme to a Zed theme. You might still need to compile the importer yourself, but it's all pretty straightforward.

0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/7337

1: https://zed.dev/blog/user-themes-now-in-preview#using-a-vs-c...

369548684892826··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
That's true until it isn't, just like "Don't be evil" was for Google.
369548684892826··on A new PNG spec
A fun fact about PNG, the correct pronunciation is defined in the specification

> PNG is pronounced “ping”

See the end of Section 1 [0]

0: https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png.pdf

369548684892826··on Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague
I don't understand what you mean by "allow it". The ICC are free to do what they like, and the US are free to ignore it (outside any sanctions the international community impose).
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