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New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles"

Phrodo_00 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:37:53 +0000

What would be the problems? When I’ve looked into streaming video before (for normal, non ripping reasons), I’ve noticed that most are already playlists of segments. You’d just need to store the segments that are different between versions, which should be better than keeping full separate versions which is what they apparently do currently.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices"

Phrodo_00 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:09:20 +0000

Yeah, I discovered this the hard way when I tried to plug a somewhat modern keyboard to a pc through ps/2 (for the theoretical interrupt-driven speed) and didn't work.

A lot of mechanical gaming keyboards still support ps/2 though for the aforementioned interrupts.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week"

Phrodo_00 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:50:51 +0000

Yeah, and there was also Maemo/Meego that was also sold on stores. Neither had a very high market share.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

Phrodo_00 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:12:20 +0000

> Because they can't do much, if anything at all?

But the Apple Watch can, and a lot of the same arguments apply to it as much as any third party watch.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Origins of Common Unix Programs"

Phrodo_00 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:34:55 +0000

> CUPS > Apple

CUPS is currently owned by apple, but they only bought it in 2007. It actually originated as an independent project by a company calles Easy Software Products.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

Phrodo_00 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:15:50 +0000

What do you mean HUUUGE upgrade? The only difference between the 3DS and the 3DS XL is the battery. Same with the New 3DS XL and New 3Ds.

You might be getting confused because the New 3DS (which was a hardware upgrade) mostly sold in XL version in the US. The non-XL model was sold mostly as limited special editions.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

Phrodo_00 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:47:16 +0000

Neither generation of Switch Pokemon games looked or performed decent, but I guess bad performance is a gamefreak constant since at least the 3DS

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Doom, the Gallery Experience"

Phrodo_00 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:01:56 +0000

Yeah, that's what the post means. This is not a Doom level.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

Phrodo_00 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:24:02 +0000

Sure, but this is a Demolition Man reference

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "All clocks are 30 seconds late"

Phrodo_00 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:19:12 +0000

> Is it the same for the current minute of the current hour ? I'm not so sure.

Yes it is. Appointments start at the beginning of the minute, not the average. (And while changing clocks WOULD change that, I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense)

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client"

Phrodo_00 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:36:14 +0000

A podcast is basically a list of files which are the episodes (together with episode metadata), so this would presumably fetch those and notify you when there's new ones / download them, and maybe keep track of how far along you're in each episode and provide playback speed controls.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "How Chordcat works – a chord naming algorithm"

Phrodo_00 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:40:33 +0000

It's pretty much historical, and initially based on the tastes of medieval priests doing Gregorian chant. It started with the handful of intervals they would use and more intervals were added as needed when music grew more complex until we got to similar-ish 12 intervals, which were then actually equally spaced later.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan"

Phrodo_00 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:37:14 +0000

> What do you think Japan should do to encourage Japanese language learning among immigrants?

It really boggles my mind how many immigrants to a place (because it doesn't just happen in Japan) are fine not trying to learn the language, especially if the place doesn't even understand the languages you know. You'd think living in such a place would be enough encouragement (it certainly would be for me), but I keep seeing stories about immigrants in several places not bothering to learn a common language of where they live.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

Phrodo_00 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:52:55 +0000

> Most people do install Nvidia’s out‐of‐tree graphics driver

Most people that use Nvidia. I specifically don't buy Nvidia graphics cards or laptops that use them in my Linux computers because they're not in-tree.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "New Mac Mini with M4"

Phrodo_00 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:58:56 +0000

Docker in macOS (at least the useful one) just runs in a Linux VM, and I don't see why you couldn't run a VM off an image on an external drive. Maybe the UI doesn't let you select that location?

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks"

Phrodo_00 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:32:41 +0000

It's not clear their license was open source, actually. OSI Makes free distribution the first part of the definition of open source, as well the ability to create derived works[1]. Their rule against forking might clash against that.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks"

Phrodo_00 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:29:52 +0000

> Android, for example

Yes, OEMs are expected to release their kernels' sources. Also yeah, they're mostly very bad at it.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA"

Phrodo_00 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:22:24 +0000

> If consoles did it, it would most likely mean a break in backwards compatibility or a lot of investment in emulation.

Consoles tend to break compatibility every like couple of generations anyway. The PS5 is only compatible with PS4, for example, because the PS3 used the PowerPC-based Cell. Also, Nintendo has been using ARM since like, the Gameboy Advance (Fun fact is that in handhelds nintendo tended to use the previous generation's CPU as a sound chip, and would use it when running previous generation carts) (Nintendo home consoles before the switch used PowerPC. The Nintendo 64 used MIPS)

I agree with you on the custom PC market, but that has to be pretty small compared to consoles.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Show HN: Kotlin Money"

Phrodo_00 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:28:19 +0000

Might be a minimum for a money library (not completely sure what the absolute minimum would be). It would be an application design choice to not use one and stick to general fixed point/Big Num constructs.

New comment by Phrodo_00 in "Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge"

Phrodo_00 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:50:16 +0000

Ah, this is true, but it's weird consider this issue (that I agree google might be overstepping in) in a lawsuit that doesn't involve an affected OEM.