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New comment by accatyyc in "Let's Destroy C"

accatyyc — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 08:59:32 +0000

How about just

    puts(“Hello, World!”)

which has been in C since the dawn of time?

New comment by accatyyc in "iOS 13's Music App Sucks"

accatyyc — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 23:18:16 +0000

How do you start the radio? If you start it from a song of the genre you want to listen to now, or a playlist containing mostly that genre, it won't mix in random stuff you've liked before. I get very nice mood/genre radios just by starting them from some song I liked currently.

Spotify launches a dedicated Kids app with curated playlists and playful art

accatyyc — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:40:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/30/20938076/spotify-kids-app-announced-disney-taylor-swift-family-plan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397560

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New comment by accatyyc in "Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing"

accatyyc — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:01:00 +0000

In Objective-C (and some other languages with ternary operators) the same can be written like this:

    int a = b ?: c ?: 0

New comment by accatyyc in "A Useful Thing in Bash"

accatyyc — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:58:27 +0000

Same here, probably something added by oh-my-zsh

New comment by accatyyc in "KDE is adopting GitLab"

accatyyc — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:44:24 +0000

For me, using pure git is fine when working on solo projects. The benefits of such services is when there are many developers in the same project. Gives a good overview of issue reports, what commits are linked to what issues, easy "pull request" overviews/quick reviews without checking out branches etc. It's more about the social and less about the source control for me

New comment by accatyyc in "Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments"

accatyyc — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:49:33 +0000

Personally I think you should skip the /r/ or /i/ part of the paths. Always bothered me that reddit has it - communities are central to these sites so IMO they should be the first part of the path

New comment by accatyyc in "Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem"

accatyyc — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:51:43 +0000

Then email servers would have to download billions of images of which 99% the corresponding email won't even be opened

New comment by accatyyc in "Donald Trump Wants to Purchase Greenland from Denmark"

accatyyc — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 07:30:09 +0000

Turns out he was...

New comment by accatyyc in "The Most Dangerous Writing App"

accatyyc — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:38:40 +0000

It feels like a programmer thing, since unsaved files won't be compiled when you run the program. At least that's where I got the habit from

New comment by accatyyc in "Assholes: A Probing Examination"

accatyyc — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:30:52 +0000

Why would informing people about the importance of testing make you look like an asshole? You could do it in a polite and helpful way, instead of being an asshole about it.

New comment by accatyyc in "Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox"

accatyyc — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 06:28:19 +0000

I’d say Mozilla is right in their wording. Your point here is also included in that - if websites showed the push dialog responsibly, it would be for example in the website settings after the user checked a box called “send me push!”. Many good web services do it this way, and if done this way I suspect the accept rate is closer to 100%.

Some people might want push from news pages, but 97%+ don’t, so it makes no sense to request it immediately.

They probably even lose subscribers. Someone who read some content and liked it, decided that they want push may have already opted out because they didn’t know the site yet.

New comment by accatyyc in "What Finally Killed AirPower"

accatyyc — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 06:41:28 +0000

Thanks. Updated my post to say smartphones - I have no idea about what EV batteries are exposed to.

New comment by accatyyc in "What Finally Killed AirPower"

accatyyc — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 06:40:03 +0000

Thanks for the links!

Also, I want to add that what I wrote above is only regarding smartphones. I don’t know how much stress/extra heat etc that EV batteries are subject to, but I imagine they drain/charge at more intense rates relatively.

New comment by accatyyc in "What Finally Killed AirPower"

accatyyc — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 06:34:43 +0000

Yeah, but a battery gets hot when charging fast. Keeping it connected at 100%, the phone stays cool in my experience. And charging often makes the window where it generates heat from charging smaller

New comment by accatyyc in "What Finally Killed AirPower"

accatyyc — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 06:20:05 +0000

Constantly charging causes fewer power cycles and extends your battery life.

New comment by accatyyc in "What Finally Killed AirPower"

accatyyc — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 06:16:00 +0000

The things that kill smartphone batteries today are age and power cycles. It doesn’t matter if you charge from 0% to 100% in one go or from 90% to 100% ten times. Both add up to one power cycle.

To keep your battery fresh for as long as possible, always keep the phone connected to a charger. No battery cycles. It will get worse after a few years anyway.

New comment by accatyyc in "Swift UTF-8 String"

accatyyc — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:21:18 +0000

That's just a convenience thing. I've worked in Xcode for nearly 10 years and I never use that feature. Good feature for teaching though. But if you hate it, just don't use it.

New comment by accatyyc in "How to live without Google (2017)"

accatyyc — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:17:41 +0000

Ads doesn’t mean they have to track you. I assume (and it seems like) DDG targets their ads based on your search query and not personal information, and afaik they are very open about this.

New comment by accatyyc in "Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1"

accatyyc — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 07:28:14 +0000

This is very cool. I really like the style that is the result of retro graphics and then raytracing added on top. I hope it will become a common style in games!