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shortrounddev2··on Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
Compulsory attendance used to be far less common in colleges, but teenagers in America mature far more slowly than they used to and undergrads are still effectively children. Universities need to babysit them or they'll wreck the dropout rate
shortrounddev2··on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
No its like saying you should buy a new battery after your battery dies. Yeah, its nice to have a spare battery around i guess but its not like your battery dying will significantly ruin your finances
shortrounddev2··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
When I'm debugging something, I'm not usually looking for the solution to the problem; I'm looking for sufficient evidence that I didn't cause the problem. Once I have that, the velocity at which I work slows down
shortrounddev2··on Building a Simple Search Engine That Works
idk if that argument really makes sense. A lot of AI chatbot companies have terrible or broken webapps and backend servers because it's not what they really care about. They put billions into their AI models, not their search features. I think the shittiness of their search features is symptomatic of the company's incentives, not necessarily the difficulty of the problem.
shortrounddev2··on Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong
Im happy with it. I have filters which will try to find search results from before 2022, which has greatly improved the quality of results for me
shortrounddev2··on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change
For anyone who devs C++ on Windows because they still prefer visual studio over having to manage cmake on Linux, I've found meson to be a much friendlier build system and has really good integration with VSCode.

And if you're like me and hate bourne-like shells (sh, bash, zsh), powershell works on linux and mac and there's also nushell and fish, which have nicer syntax but I've had compatibility issues in the past

shortrounddev2··on Seed. LINE's Custom Typeface
Even if they didn't want to go that route, What I've seen google do in the past is render every frame to a texture atlas, and write a CSS animation which updates the background-position property at 60 frames a second, so at least you don't have to load 150 images at a time
shortrounddev2··on Seed. LINE's Custom Typeface
I just inspected it to see how they did the animations for those. Something in javascript is updating the img src attribute at 60fps, which is an absolutely insane way to code that IMO
shortrounddev2··on .NET 10
If youre intent on writing everything on the frontend in javascript then you can just have a frontend app and use webapi MVC on the backend. Personally, in my personal projects, I find I iterate faster if I dont't write any javascript. Every page is just static HTML and any interaction is done via CSS (which you can do perfectly well in razor pages) or html forms. Managing page state is a huge time sink and IMO not worth it, but it's what pays the bills lol
shortrounddev2··on Windows president says platform is evolving into an agentic OS
No it's not lol, this bubble will be over within 2 years
shortrounddev2··on .NET 10
Just stick with the classic frameworks. Razor works great as does MVC WebAPI
shortrounddev2··on Visual Studio 2026 now available, 4 years since last release
Not really sure how I feel about it. It has some neat UI features (like CLI arguments in the toolbar) but I dislike the Windows 11 UI design and this is just... more of that. Plus it breaks existing themes
shortrounddev2··on How cops can get your private online data
> In other words, if a search warrant would be required to enter a house, unless invited, why would this not apply to online data stored somewhere?

The government has long considered the 4th amendment to be a major hindrance. The only reason that they even seek a warrant to search your home or belongings is because the 4th amendment explicitly says

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated

I don't know the legal justification for excluding things like email metadata, but I imagine it goes like this:

> Your emails are not in your house, on your person, or are papers or effects. They are numbers stored in someone else's computer, and we only need the consent of someone else to get that information, which they will provide because they don't want to get on our bad side.

But the realistic reasoning is: the 4th amendment is a pain in the ass to law enforcement and they'd much rather it was never written at all, so they will cast whatever legal incantations are required to put a wall between your rights and your data

shortrounddev2··on Show HN: What Is Hacker News Working On?
Will you provide any way for users to request their comments be removed from your site?
shortrounddev2··on Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control
I don't mind doing some of these tasks but if I could go my entire life without speaking to another customer, or even their engineering team, I would die happy
shortrounddev2··on Sued by Nintendo
> April 2024

>Nintendo related content removed from the GMOD Steam Workshop

>Nintendo sent out a DMCA notice to Facepunch, forcing Garry to remove years of user-created addons related to Nintendo from the Steam Workshop.

Should have just kept addons as files you drag and drop into your gmod folder

shortrounddev2··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
a 3D Graphics framework and a c++ library for parsing valve .map files
shortrounddev2··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
Automation of manual labor has annihilated some communities in the united states
shortrounddev2··on Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
Seems like a lazy way to write a law. Basically just gives any governor whose party controls the supreme court a blank check. The law should qualify what public safety means
shortrounddev2··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
I think the value of the internet has proven to be pretty dubious. It seems to have only made things worse
shortrounddev2··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
Because if you replace all of humans with machines, what jobs will be left?
shortrounddev2··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
If it can displace all of knowledge work the way that machines displaced manual labor, then the economy is pretty much fucked, right?
shortrounddev2··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
Why do we even want AGI so badly? It seems like a cataclysmic technology. Like after we invent it, market cap and stocks and money wont mean anything anymore
shortrounddev2··on Sam Altman Is Getting Desperate and It Is Starting to Show
Does anyone believe this vision anymore though? It's obvious that the current tech is not the path to AGI
shortrounddev2··on Gmail AI gets more intrusive
I moved to ProtonMail right before their CEO started mouthing off about his dipshit opinions. I still use them because it's cheaper to pay for a family plan and get a VPN, password manager, and storage along with the email. I used to pay for each of these services individually and was paying 2x what I pay now
shortrounddev2··on A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'
I first joined reddit in 2010 because it was the best place to see other people's minecraft creations. I no longer have an account but by far the most commonly suggested videos for me when I view the front page without an account are

1. Car crashes

2. Street/bum fights

3. Conspiracy theory content (UFOs, Anti-vax, chemtrails)

4. Anti-semitic videos (one such video was titled "Kanye was right about everything")

5. Anti-muslim videos (weirdly I get a lot of Indian majority subreddits that post a lot of hate videos about Pakistan/Muslims)

Every single one of these categories produces feelings of outrage. Reddit has just become a fucking hate machine. Not just hate toward other races, but hate toward the entire human race. Every video shows someone doing some anti-social shit, like people driving like total assholes, or running people over, or getting hit by a train after cutting off traffic, or beating each other senseless in public. In the 1990s there was a huge outcry over violence in media because of Mortal Kombat, Doom, and The Matrix, but here we are today watching actual people die on dashcams regularly. This has to be just bad for us on a really primal level

shortrounddev2··on Pain Points of OCaml
Isn't that a synchronous call?
shortrounddev2··on Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies
Halliburton gave Cheney $34mil when he left the company to go be Vice President
shortrounddev2··on Pain Points of OCaml
My main gripe with ML variants is the poor syntax around async (F#). For networked (web) applications, you begin to find that many or most of your functions are async, and wrapping them in computation blocks which come with their own internal syntax that eliminates a lot of the elegance of ML and makes your code look more imperative often feels like it defeats the purpose of the language.

In F#

    let Foo =
        async {
            let! data = getData() |> Async.AwaitTask
            return data.value
        }
Is this the best they can do? C# just has

    async Task<Data> Foo() =>
        (await getData()).value;
Ive always wanted ML syntax like this:

    let async Foo =
        let data = await getData
        data.value
I just dont write a ton of pure functions which have no I/O dependencies
shortrounddev2··on You can't cURL a Border
You're correct. They're assuming that they might be served with a subpoena or warrant or something, but US Customs officials can and will demand the passwords to your personal devices or coerce you into giving your biometrics

https://www.eff.org/issues/border-searches

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