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jperry··on Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
Printing seems safest. I wouldn't want to gamble on a pi not corrupting the boot SD card or something of the like.
jperry··on Exgrasia: RPG-style sandbox game where every tile is a player-made contract
Long since dead but I put a lot of time into a browser-based (2D) MMO called Nowhere Else and Beyond back in the day.

You could build islands and they'd be placed somewhere in the world for people to sail to, you could create quests set on your island etc. There was even an object inventor for creating equipment.

jperry··on Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use
He's not a well-poisoner, someone just decided to chug from a bottle clearly marked "do not drink".

If someone spends the time to integrate mystery code without taking the time to check the license allows it then frankly they dug that hole themselves.

jperry··on Show HN: Less Addictive YouTube – a cross-browser plugin
Because it's great for analytics. The formula of "face in thumbnail, big text, bold colours" works and YouTube WANT you to be clickbaited so that you watch the ads.
jperry··on How image search works at Dropbox
RSS is essentially dead, sadly. Can't push ads or gather analytics through it so it's been "optimised out" of the web.

Even those rare sites that DO support RSS quite often only show the first paragraph or even just the title of the page, which I suppose is an acceptable compromise.

jperry··on Why Lichess will always be free
I'm not sure when "hacker" became a synonym for "ruthless capitalist" but it's sad to see, honestly.
jperry··on Is It Pokemon or Big Data?
Somewhat related: I did a similar thing with a periodic table: https://josh-perry.github.io/periodic-table-of-projects/
jperry··on GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Mining Restrictions Have Been Broken
They crippled their Geforce cards in terms of mining while simultaneously launching different, more expensive, dedicated mining cards[0].

[0] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/

jperry··on Just 6% of US adults on Twitter account for 73% of political tweets
You can. Twitter has a fairly robust word muting system in your account settings.
jperry··on I quit social media and now I want a cigarette
Why would you? I see it as more like a news site with a comments section.

I don't consider those to be social media either.

jperry··on ChocoPy: A Programming Language for Compilers Courses
Not knowing anything about this, I thought this would be about C# :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)...

jperry··on Daytripper
He's also playing Broken Reality, a silly game parodying the internet. It's pretty good.
jperry··on I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games
I remember making little Exile "fangames" in Clickteam's The Games Factory as a kid using those assets.
jperry··on The 737-Max Grounding Is So Bad That Airlines Are Leasing 30-Year-Old 737-200s
...and boats? How are international flights going to work on a bus?
jperry··on You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS
It's not an intentional one though, it's just what the tools happen to run on. Sony aren't going to come after you if you run their SDK in a VM or something.

Apple intentionally restrict developers to only use Apple hardware and software to keep the ecosystem contained.

jperry··on You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS
But it's not true.

There's absolutely no restriction on game development machines except that the provided tools (probably) only run on Windows.

jperry··on Firefox Local Files Theft – Not Patched Yet
>Please note, python is not available out of the box on Windows machines as in macOS, most of Linux distros.

It (almost, kind of) is now, actually. Running python on a recent Windows 10 box without python installed will prompt you to install it.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-...

jperry··on CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin​MothersSiblingsDaughter​OrFathersSistersDaughter
This is slightly absurd. It's reporting a very minor bug, not offering to implement a whole feature.

Are you saying that no-one should report anything because it encourages them to let bugs slide into production?

jperry··on Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try
>The museum had previously enlisted the help of experts to crack the code, tried default combinations, and had contacted former hotel employees to see if they could help.

It doesn't sound like it was the default, just a "password1" situation.

jperry··on Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (2017)
This is such an "old man yells at cloud" attitude.

The alternative is, what? Striking up conversation with fellow passengers who definitely don't want to talk to me? Staring mindlessly out the window? Consuming useless content via newspaper instead?

I just don't understand this position.

jperry··on Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
Huh? How is this a solution?

If your password gets leaked I can just: recognise that it's base64, decode it, see your salt and then all of your other passwords are essentially open to me?

Edit: Oh, is the salt different for each site? I don't get why you'd ever do this instead of generating an entirely new password though, you aren't solving the storage problem.

jperry··on Show HN: GoalStream – Visual project planner with Vim-style key bindings
Does it? That's the standard "cheap" SaaS price ime.
jperry··on Slack will never replace email
Try going a day without a mouse plugged in
jperry··on Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
Have you tried scrolling up to look at conversation history? It spends an age loading the messages, even those from just a few minutes ago.
jperry··on More HTML and CSS Features You Didn't Know Existed
Scroll snapping only seems to work on webkit.

It doesn't work for me on Firefox desktop either, but Firefox Focus uses webkit by default afaik.

jperry··on Show HN: Distro.tools - Scripts for lazy Linux users
This spooks me a little. Common sense says you should never, ever run "curl something | sh" (or equivilant), especially not with elevated privileges.
jperry··on Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
Z-Machines aren't compilers, they're virtual machines that can execute the compiled output.

There's no (known) compiler that still exists that can compile ZIL into Z-code.

edit: except for zilf, as mentioned, but it's not functional for even zork 1.

jperry··on Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are Stealing Dragons
Komodo dragons are at risk of extinction, chickens are not.
jperry··on Ask HN: How to work with a developer who avoids reading?
I don't understand the problem at all.

You say that the quality of their work is good so why does it matter if you learn things in differently?

jperry··on Notes on using git-replace to get rid of giant objects
Yes, but it's a lot less painful to git rebase and skip that one commit (assuming there's nothing else in that commit you might need) or git-filter-branch like he said.

All of these require you to fix everyone's local copy though.

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