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samb1729on Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

Or better yet, they could ignore this suggestion entirely!

samb1729on The Strange Afterlife of Pontius Pilate (2016)

Please don’t post this kind of crap here

samb1729on Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf

That could just as easily be attributed to the word Nix being easy to search for. But even if everyone on HN is aware of what it is, that doesn't make it mainstream by any definition I can think of. There are countless examples in the world of things that most people (in a given audience) are aware of, but that almost none of them participate in.

Is Haskell mainstream? What about committing murder?

samb1729on GitHub Outage 2022-03-25

Actions workflows aren't being triggered for my team and I suspect webhook delivery is failing too.

samb1729on Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed

Jon Schlinkert was ahead of his time in this regard :)

samb1729on Google seems to have signed me up for Google Pay without asking

Replace twitter.com with nitter.net to view Twitter without the nagging

samb1729on 95%-ile isn't that good (2020)

A lot of pros aren’t global elite simply because they don’t play matchmaking seriously at all. Absolutely every professional csgo player in a top-20/30/100 team would easily attain that rank if they wanted it.

samb1729on Things that used to be hard and are now easy

Your comment highlights exactly how the GP fits the “things that used to be easy but are now hard list”

samb1729on Oldest buildings in UAE discovered, dating back 8,500 years

https://trimread.org/articles/68313

No JavaScript, no man in the middle

samb1729on Google Search Is Dying

Do you have a stake in this iCabMobile project? You were spamming its name 35 days ago and you're doing so again here.

samb1729on Developing a new app is unreasonable condition that Apple imposes on dating apps

I'd speculate that not paying the 30% Apple Tax is basically the whole point for most businesses that care about it.

samb1729on Discord is a black hole for information

> you can't have a client that has [...] better information density on the screen

A far-from-ideal means of making the client more dense is to zoom with ctrl-{-,=,0}. It's exposed as an settings option too. Rather annoyingly however it doesn't seem to reduce the minimum frame width.

samb1729on Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729

Reading this comment makes me glad I use a different (but still nerdy) pin :)

samb1729on New Book called “What if? 2” by Xkcd creator Randall Munroe

Thanks for ruining the surprise :(

samb1729on Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji

For anyone wanting to see the same shockwave as is linked here in video form, a BBC article[0] has a it embedded. The Himawari viewer works well for stills but makes the effect over time a bit harder to appreciate.

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60007119

samb1729on An Ode to Ruby

Haikus are 5/7/5 syllables, this is 5/7/6

samb1729on Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations

There were barriers to contributing to those efforts which simply don’t exist with this Web3 thing, so this vague implication falls flat if thought about. Orders of magnitude more individuals have the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the advancement of the cryptocurrency space when compared to the early internet, without much (or any) need to wait for hardware innovations or military funding.

What is a good reason that cryptocurrencies have seen practically zero real-world adoption in the same approximate timespan that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, et al managed to integrate deeply into our societies? And of course by adoption I don’t mean HODLing, I mean cryptocurrencies being used as the currencies they are claimed to be.

samb1729on DIY Onewheel – open-source self balancing skateboard

My issue with EUCs is the complete lack of options in the case of power cutting for any reason, whether it be overheating or low battery charge or a resistor burning out.

Leaning back is not an option once the motor stops pushing the wheel towards you - it’ll roll and then tumble to a stop much more quickly than air resistance slows you down, so you’ll fly off the front.

I’d like for there to be a magic solution to this problem since the size of an EUC is very attractive. Rolling to a safe stop on my electric scooter is preferable in the meantime.

samb1729on DuckDuckGo has had 0 search warrants since founding in 2008

Or put it somewhere in the middle of your query! :)

samb1729on Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform

No one responded to your comment asking for these links.

samb1729on Hyper – Sell Memberships to Discord and Telegram

Could you reword this comment please? I have no idea what you are trying to express.

samb1729on Hyper – Sell Memberships to Discord and Telegram

Care to elaborate? Are you also against the notion of paying to enter a concert or sporting event? If no, could you expand on what you believe the difference between these two things to be?

samb1729on Taking part in Y Combinator from Europe: is it worth it?

By HBS do you mean Harvard Business School?

samb1729on The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018)

Would that then make you the same GC who frequented FP WAYWO threads when those forums were still around? If so, nice to bump into you again :)

samb1729on Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store

> Nintendo might be a running joke amongst hardcore gamers but ironically they're the most successful console manufacturer out there.

I don't think sales numbers are the parent comment's point. Rather, that "Xbox or Playstation" is a common enough question to imply there is direct competition (and there are lots of shared titles), whereas the Nintendo consoles exist more or less in a vacuum.

samb1729on Apps Getting Worse

My Prime Video experience on Apple TV in the UK mirrors this. I knew exactly what I wanted to watch but I simply could not figure out how to get the app to show it to me. The search feature returned and endless feed of results, none of which matched.

Let's take a live example tested while writing this comment. I searched for "Stand-up comedy", and I see 9 results on my TV right now:

- The Grand Tour

- The Grand Tour presents: Lochdown

- The Grand Tour (again? must be a different season?)

- The Grand Tour (yes, again)

- The Tomorrow War

- The Office

- The Office (again)

And just for fun, let's list the next 9:

- The Office (again)

- Borat 2

- South Park

- South Park (again)

It's baffling to me that table-stakes features like this can be completely neglected for a product which is obviously a massive capital investment. I do think I understand now why it is that my friend with Prime Video watches The Office almost all of the time...

Edit: Apparently searching for "stand-up comedy live" or simply "comedy live" does show the type of content the search implies. I'd be keen to have someone explain what non-live stand-up comedy looks like to justify the difference in interpretation. Perhaps they could also tell me about how "stand-up" carries zero usable information...

samb1729on Valve Steam Deck

Is that really a way forward for the people who play games most affected by cheating? I can’t imagine CS:GO players flocking to Animal Crossing just because there aren’t aimbots in that game.

samb1729on 80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics

You can do this but please don’t! Respect that users have signalled their intent to not be tracked in this way instead.

samb1729on Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS

Resources on the page at that URL still load from your .com domain - will Cloudflare serve those too?

samb1729on How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)

A series of blog posts could serve as in invaluable resource for us caring but ultimately able-bodied code monkeys to refer to. If you go ahead with those, post them here. :)