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bwbw223··on ‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization
Fortnite is free. The lootboxes, as far as I know, are mostly cosmetic and don’t give an advantage.
bwbw223··on How ARKit 2 works, and why Apple is so focused on AR
Just toss a Monero miner in the background :P
bwbw223··on Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user
Vim and Firefox :P
bwbw223··on How the modern containerization trend is exploited by attackers
That’s what they mean by it not being fungible.
bwbw223··on Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model
> is a lie

Or maybe people have different standards/expectations?

bwbw223··on Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
The touchbar isn’t underneath your hands/wrists while using your laptop though.
bwbw223··on Visa Goes Down in the UK, Chaos Ensues, Cash Is Suddenly King
That's mostly a Bitcoin-only issue, luckily.
bwbw223··on Samsung Unveils 32 GB DDR4-2666 SO-DIMMs
32Gbit = 4GB

Pretty sure we have 4GB dimms ;)

bwbw223··on Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Central Washington
They pretty much use Radeon HD 7870s, though...
bwbw223··on If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the world? (2017)
You can make completely unreadable code in most languages- in none of them, except esolangs like BF, would something like that be best practice... That seems a bit unfair...
bwbw223··on The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day
How so? Hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds are all man-made units. It’s the failure of 24 hours not fitting exactly into a day, not the inverse.

Leap years have nothing to do with milliseconds in a day- it’s days that fail to fit into a year; days and years are defined by the orbit and rotation of the earth. Leap seconds, however, are another story...

bwbw223··on A more privacy-friendly blog
Are you sure about that? https://reddit.com/r/unixporn
bwbw223··on Ask HN: Why would you choose Rust over Go or Node?
Sure, but it doesn’t scale well. Static-typing makes code easier to come back to a year later or collaborate on because it’s more self-documenting.

You don’t have to dig through the codebase to figure out that a function should have only accepted a number, because the interpreter/compiler would have screamed at you the moment you try something else.

Scripting languages may be easier to learn, but they aren’t as scalable and efficient. In requiring less scaffolding and structure, they’re not as well suited at creating correct code in large codebases. They’re still great for prototyping, though.

bwbw223··on Ask HN: Why would you choose Rust over Go or Node?
How is dynamic typing easier? It makes it way easier to introduce bugs- Recently I was working on a timer (for speedsolving Rubik's cubes) and I had accidentally had tried to format an already formatted time for user display, so all that was shown was `undefined` for times over a minute. It was hard to uncover, because the calls were in seperate parts of the codebase, and I wasn't able to make the field/formatter only allow numbers because of the nature of Javascript.
bwbw223··on Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook
WebAssembly text format? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst...
bwbw223··on Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Notebook
Some enterprise IT departments have piles of them, if you have connections.
bwbw223··on Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
Sorry- I edited. What I’m saying is that the server represents its owner, so when the server grants someone access in normal operation it’s not intrusion.
bwbw223··on Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
Except they’ve been given access. The server should represent its owners in its sharing of data.
bwbw223··on Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
But there’s a near infinite supply of straws and it didn’t damage the dispenser.
bwbw223··on What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote?
Although if you hit a book with a hammer, it’ll probably fare a bit better...
bwbw223··on AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case
Because most devices are quad-core. After a certain point context-switches create a diminishing return.
bwbw223··on Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70
But they should be the ones to decide, right?
bwbw223··on Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?
Shift key?
bwbw223··on Retro Review: 2009 Mac Pro in 2018
Just duct-tape it to the back of the case /s
bwbw223··on KDE Plasma Voted Best Desktop Environment in Linux Journal Readers Choice Awards
i3 is fun :P
bwbw223··on Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook
The signal app works fine for me (on Mac)...
bwbw223··on Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with practical LISP?
Emacs is probably the way to go- it has its own lisp dialect for scripting the editor. I don’t have any experience using it as I use vim, though :).
bwbw223··on Robots can now solve Rubik’s Cubes in under HALF a SECOND
Only ~35x my pb haha...
bwbw223··on Robots can now solve Rubik’s Cubes in under HALF a SECOND
It probably uses kociemba.
bwbw223··on Planet Shadertoy
Or a minimum of 26fps on iPhone 5S and mostly higher than 40fps.
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