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Jowsey··on Sodium 0.5.0
Sodium is a mod for Minecraft that dramatically optimises the rendering stack, making the game playable on lower-end systems, even moreso with this update.
Jowsey··on You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky
> I disabled JavaScript on your site that conceptually requires JavaScript to function and now it doesn't work as expected
Jowsey··on Styling Flowcharts Using CSS
This site got me through college, made making flowcharts bearable for me :)
Jowsey··on Android Games on PC
On the surface level this seems good. The current Android-on-PC landscape is pretty bleak; your choices boil down to spyware/adware emulators (Mumu, Bluestacks, LDPlayer etc) or Windows Subsystem for Android, which forced me to either use the Amazon Appstore or sideload through the terminal last I tried it.

Looks like my account isn't eligible for the beta yet, presumably it's a slow rollout.

Jowsey··on UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal
Presumably by banning them from business in the UK if they go through with it
Jowsey··on This Is Not Word
You can also use Ctrl+A and backspace to do the same thing with spaces
Jowsey··on maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
I've also been using earth.google.com etc for many years, can confirm not new at all
Jowsey··on Looped Square Or ⌘
First thing I thought of too lol
Jowsey··on Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
As someone who moved from Brave to Firefox recently and also missed PWA support, the first thing I did was install that extension and it's not bad!

A little tedious to setup, especially as the PWAs all get new profiles with their own extensions, themes, etc. But other than that, it works fine.

Jowsey··on Wikipedia Speedruns
We definitely had this too haha
Jowsey··on Flip the Switch for 5.5 Seconds
Haha, 5.525 here, I'll take that and leave before I get too hooked
Jowsey··on Twitter Appears to Be Down
I find it very funny that the site scrapes Twitter to detect user complaints of downtime, so when Twitter is down there's going to be less downtime reports than usual
Jowsey··on The GPU shortage is over
> nobody wants/can play games instead of life anymore.

Steam alone is still peaking at 25,000,000 concurrent logged-in users https://steamdb.info/graph/

Jowsey··on There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask
Really awesome feat.

As a side note, not sure if it's just me, but I feel a sort of "tip jar effect" with projects that have no open PRs/issues. I feel like I'd be far less willing to submit one if there's no others there. Like all eyes would be on me if I were to do so. Something about adding your issue to the pile just feels a little more welcoming. Just me?

Jowsey··on Silly Lossy Text Compression Idea
The entire English dictionary (being very generous on what a "word" is) is around 4MB - nothing nowadays.

Not to mention of course that your computer probably already has 50 copies of it somewhere if you really don't want to bundle it

Jowsey··on Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships
Rust-free? That doesn't sound very safe
Jowsey··on Ask HN: Teach me something new
Oh, and most code editors I'm aware of will switch out the whole-word functionality of Ctrl/Double-click with whole-syntax-element, if that's more your thing
Jowsey··on Ask HN: Teach me something new
Shift+Arrow keys can be used to select text as you navigate through it

Ctrl+Arrow keys navigates through whole words at a time

Ctrl+Shift+Arrow keys can be combined to select whole words

Ctrl+Backspace can be used to delete whole words

Jowsey··on We lost 54k GitHub stars
Could just make them inactive for a while, but still registered.

Stop sending notifications to watchers, and replace the repo in the stargazer's starred list with a "The following starred repos are currently private and cannot be viewed:" and make the stars be remove-only for a while.

Jowsey··on Ask HN: What do you listen to/watch/do during coding?
I love this so much
Jowsey··on Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B
From what I very briefly read, apparently their server hardware broke and they didn't have the funds to repair everything at once? Was quite shocked when I first saw it was down.
Jowsey··on YouTube ranks “wholesome and funny” comments higher?
It's a whole thing. People buy verified channels, rebrand into some easy-to-recognise username/avatar, and take advantage of this phenomenon (?) to boost their numbers with so much attention due to posting wholesome comments and always being at the top of the comments list. MrBeast's comments sections are a great example of this. Nothing but verified accounts with short names posting copy/pasted compliments with too many likes.
Jowsey··on Ask HN: Should I accept the free Windows 11 upgrade?
The strangest part about this is that it can still be moved with a Registry edit. So the functionality's still there, Microsoft just removed the toggle button for it. Very odd
Jowsey··on Is Reddit going all in on Web3?
Same. I couldn't imagine using the official app or new site consistently. Everything Reddit has created in the last 5 years or so has, without fail, been a huge downgrade from whatever it replaced.
Jowsey··on Learn X in Y Minutes
To add to this, it'd be nice to have each page with multiple Ys, so you could choose how in-depth you want to go. That's a big ask, though, and it's more of a hypothetical than an actual request
Jowsey··on Ask HN: Why doesn't any of the HN APKs work when using a private DNS on Android?
THAT'S why they don't work? I've been having issues with Harmonic recently, and recently started using a mobile VPN. Will have to test this, just assumed the HN API was being dumb
Jowsey··on Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any other game
Not only attractive girls, but attractive guys too! The majority of my Genshin-playing friends are female, for what it's worth. I'm sure that's definitely helped them, as many similar games are solely marketed towards teen guys. Big gap in the market, and they took it.
Jowsey··on Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
I wonder if there'd then be a worse penalty if police were to discover you were doing this, were the wipe timer not to trigger, and if that'd be worth the risk. Definitely an interesting idea, though
Jowsey··on Waterfox Browser
Its big thing originally was being a 64-bit port of Firefox. I assume it's still based on Firefox in some way, based on the name, but not really sure what it brings to the table anymore, besides some minor stuff you can already get with extensions.
Jowsey··on Logitech G Hub takes almost 890 MB on the hard drive
Why not look through the files and see what you find?
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