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fbnlsr

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Full stack web developer from France.
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fbnlsr··on The Kate text editor is 20 years old
It looks super interesting and I'm always on the lookout for a replacement for VS Code but I couldn't for the life of me open a directory like I can in vsc.
fbnlsr··on Elon Musk moves to Texas
Definitely thought of Joe Rogan the second I saw the headline.
fbnlsr··on Bootstrap 5 Beta 1
And there's Bootstrap-Vue for the vue folks.

https://bootstrap-vue.org/

fbnlsr··on What is the benefit of having FIPS hardware-level encryption on a USB stick?
I'd love to read about that device of yours and how you managed to get such a certification.
fbnlsr··on TailwindCSS v2.0
That landing page is absolutely insane. It really makes me want to try Tailwind.
fbnlsr··on Ytub.link – prettier YouTube channel URLs for $1
Apart from the fact I doubt Google will let you live with that, I get an SSL error on the ytub.link that's on the main page: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
fbnlsr··on TOML – Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
I discovered TOML a couple of years ago when I started playing with Hugo, as it was Hugo's format of choice for configuration files.

I honestly find TOML harder to read and more complicated to use than YAML. I tried to look into it but frankly I still haven't found a use case where it made more sense to use TOML.

fbnlsr··on Nitrokey
I've had a Yubikey on my main keychain for about 5 years. I dropped it dozens of time and it never broke.
fbnlsr··on JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s morning routine: Wake up 5am and ‘read tons of stuff’
Really interested to read what HN's routine is. While I'm a night owl and can't seem to get a good night sleep and go to bed before 1am for I have a young kid and 9pm - 1am is the only real "me" time, it looks like the road to success is waking up before 6am. Oh well.
fbnlsr··on Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
I don't think it's something to be ashamed about. It's an economical model that works for them. Sims in general are not your traditional game, people buy one plane at a time and they spend hundred and hundred hours in a given plane.

But if you want to get shocked at DLC money, you should look into Train Simulator: https://i.redd.it/3kygja9jie031.png

fbnlsr··on Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
En tant que développeur et Bordelais, je suis très fier de vous les gars. Bravo, et merci pour votre enthousiasme et la qualité de votre travail.

Je serai super intéressé d'avoir un peu de détails sur votre engouement pour l'aviation au fil de ce projet. Je crois avoir lu qu'une grosse partie de l'équipe a passé son PPL ? Comment cette idée est née et quel était le sentiment général de l'équipe quand vous avez entrepris ce challenge ?

fbnlsr··on Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
You can get a Thrustmaster TS16000M for less than $50, which is a great joystick to start flying. There are much more complex and true-to-life systems, which can cost several hundred dollars. It all depends on how much realistic you want your experience to be.
fbnlsr··on Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
They plan to add helicopters and gliders after launch.

Basically the intent behind this release is to support it for at least 10 years.

fbnlsr··on Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
Thanks!
fbnlsr··on Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
I used to sell Garmin car GPS back when I worked in a retail shop. They were really good devices. But yeah I'm with you I thought most of their money came from aviation (it seems like everyone uses Garmin products), but their sports watches sell like crazy.

Actually, I realized their network was down because this morning my watch would not sync after a run. :)

fbnlsr··on Grant Imahara Has Died
4% seems to be a scary high number.

Glad your SO made it fine.

fbnlsr··on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
My Thinkpad comes with a physical lid that works perfectly and is in no way inelegant.
fbnlsr··on Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app
It goes beyond that. Overwatch is now mainly use to train the machine learning algorithm and confirm cases. The whole VACnet thing is automated and cheaters are now either automatically banned or put in a separate queue so they play against each other until the system (or a human) confirms they are indeed cheating.

Same goes for griefers and ragers, they're assigned a low "Trust Factor" so that they play together, leaving other more serious players play together.

fbnlsr··on Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app
I'm not just talking about cheaters. I'm talking about the system not being able to find 10 players of a similar rank to begin a game.
fbnlsr··on Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app
Oh sorry. CS:GO is divided in 18 ranks, from Silver 1 to Global Elite. The rank distribution follows a bell curve, and comes a point where it's really hard to go from one rank to the next. LE is Legendary Eagle, the 15th rank. MGE is Master Gardian Elite, the 13th rank.

Matchmaking is supposed to be done in a way where you should not meet people that are way lower or way higher than your rank. But since it's a team game, it takes into account the average level of the team. I won't go into too much detail but it's definitely not uncommon to meet teams that are a complete mix of random ranks and for some reason a guy that's supposed to be much weaker than the rest top frags everyone.

It's a really complex system, as a few months ago Valve introduced the Trust Factor, an index which, through machine learning, supposedly puts cheaters in an alternate queue. It takes into account multiple elements, such as your account age, how much you've spent, how much you play, with how many people, how many people report you, etc, etc. Sometimes it works wonderfully. I get to play with people that are nice, have great game sense and communication, and I'm having a blast. Then I get queued with ragers, team killers, it's super annoying.

Just last night I played two games. The first one was really good, then we got absolutely obliterated by a guy who had the most perfect angles, timings, speed, you name it. I checked his steam account and saw he was level 4 (you can level your steam account through using the service) and had 450 hours in the game.

Now I'm not saying that I'm the best there is. But I've clocked close to 3,000 hours, and I've played on the three major platforms (Valve MM, Faceit and ESEA) for years. I have a 11 years steam account with 250 games on it, and in 5 years I must have had maybe 3 penalties caused by my internet crashing. So I'm confident my Trust Factor is good. Then again I get queued with and against cheaters constantly. It's just super annoying, especially considering the fact that a game typically lasts 45 minutes to an hour, and with a 3 years old at home, I can crank one, maybe two games a day at most.

fbnlsr··on Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app
I've been playing CS:GO for 5 years, totalling close to 3,000 hours. I can tell you cheaters are still a huge problem, especially at high rank.

Also, the matchmaking system is utterly broken. It's insane that half of my games are plagued with at least one low-level steam account with a player that's totalling 400 hours and dropping 35 kills in a game. Also, being LE and queuing up against MGE that instantly headshot you while jump shooting feels sad.

Considering CS:GO has 500,000 to 800,000 concurrent players at any time, I find it difficult for the system to create such unbalanced and flawed games.

fbnlsr··on I deleted my Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts, and felt great since
> Many people have no trouble having one piece of chocolate and then leaving the rest for later. Many other people are unable to stop themselves from downing the whole 200g block.

This is me. :(

fbnlsr··on Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
That's what I did on my blog [1]. I tried different methods and realized that it should be a simple link that jumps you straight to the top and nothing fancy. The only JavaScript used it to determine when to display the link.

[1] https://www.primative.net/blog/how-to-get-rid-of-the-flash-o...

fbnlsr··on Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
I had to stumble upon your comment to realize that thing made noise. I was wondering how a "scroll to top" function was at the top of HN.
fbnlsr··on Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
This is wrong on SO MANY levels.

I'm glad I've switched back to Firefox when they launched Quantum.

fbnlsr··on Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere
Definitely going to try this. I've been using Datatables with Vue but it's not the most user friendly. Thanks for your work!
fbnlsr··on How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users
Shouldn't Netflix be in the "offline" category?

They started as a mail DVD service, didn't they?

fbnlsr··on MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life
I never said that it prevented me from doing it. It's expensive, that's all.
fbnlsr··on MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life
It's not "prohibitively" expensive. It's expensive. Besides, it's not just the $10k, it's the $150/h every time you want to take the plane. That adds up quickly.
fbnlsr··on MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life
Are there any alternative to Logitech's switch panel and radio? I see people using them but I find it strange that there's no mid-range alternative to these without having to step in the big boy shoes of RealSimGear stuff.
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