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New comment by bepvte in "Fintech dystopia"

bepvte — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 03:38:59 +0000

All of the games that feature this mechanic are bad, empty, fintech husks. Often they feature same neon vaporwave artstyle, maybe with apes, and usually are transparently asset flips designed more to to feature on cryptocurrencies landing page then to be played. No good games include this ridiculous use case that I cannot imagine anyone who plays games even a little bit to want.

New comment by bepvte in "Ten influential programming languages (2020)"

bepvte — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:47:06 +0000

This is one of the best talks I've seen, do you have any other recommendations?

New comment by bepvte in "Show HN: Forma – An efficient vector-graphics renderer"

bepvte — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:12:20 +0000

You might be interested in https://github.com/servo/pathfinder

New comment by bepvte in "DoorDash S-1"

bepvte — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:41:08 +0000

Corporate lobbying and the wealthy's influence in politics damages democracy far more then this rhetoric ever could.

New comment by bepvte in "DoorDash S-1"

bepvte — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:02:18 +0000

The VC world and the economy of online startups are almost like a planned economy. The extremely wealthy allocate money for these expensive yet unprofitable online services, like uber, doordash, and UpWork, almost like socialist central planners. So many of these modern businesses would not exist without the safety net of the extremely wealthy.

Also, how is DoorDash still unprofitable, despite taking 30% commissions from restaurants, and 25% commissions from delivery costs, during a pandemic which has many people locked inside??? It's like the Quibi excuse but somehow worse.

New comment by bepvte in "Fast UI Draw is a library that provides a higher performance Canvas interface"

bepvte — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:18:33 +0000

Vaapi recently got AV1 support.

New comment by bepvte in "Zig 0.7.0 tagged"

bepvte — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 01:47:48 +0000

This user script works for me: https://gist.github.com/pixeltris/77c676ef65b0b76e7aa56d8a0e...

New comment by bepvte in "I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts"

bepvte — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 04:31:27 +0000

Uninstalling climacell... know any alternatives?

New comment by bepvte in "The Sackler family’s plan to keep its billions"

bepvte — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 17:10:22 +0000

We generally trust doctors to give us medications and advice that help us, and ingest what they prescribe.

New comment by bepvte in "The Sackler family’s plan to keep its billions"

bepvte — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 17:07:58 +0000

Read the linked new yorker article at the bottom of this one to see how they played a direct critical role in getting doctors to perscribe them for minor pain.

New comment by bepvte in "Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later"

bepvte — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:01:58 +0000

I really wonder what the author of the sites endgoal is. Do they want flatpak to be eliminated? Do they think theyre stopping the next "systemd" from taking over their favorite distro?

New comment by bepvte in "Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on innovation"

bepvte — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 13:47:53 +0000

https://research.google/

New comment by bepvte in "Why we are suing the Administration"

bepvte — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:08:56 +0000

Can you prove that you aren't yourself? How would someone prove that?? I believe you are allowed to say "free tibet" etc on tiktok without any problems right now.

New comment by bepvte in "Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life"

bepvte — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:10:50 +0000

On twitter, im fairly sure AMP links are not hosted by Google. They use a standard developed and pushed by google but I believe the pages themselves are not served by them unless they are accessed from google search.

New comment by bepvte in "SQLite 3.33"

bepvte — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:38:41 +0000

Is the "set" evaluated where its written or only during "sum()"? If not, whats the sum for?

New comment by bepvte in "Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal"

bepvte — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 02:35:44 +0000

Edge has more aggressive and persistent tracking identifiers then Google Chrome

New comment by bepvte in "PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later"

bepvte — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:03:05 +0000

I agree with the size complaint. Its unbelievably annoying when I have to embed a bitmap image in a pdf and turn some 75kb jpeg into a 26mb pdf for compat reasons

New comment by bepvte in "Flutter for Linux"

bepvte — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 21:35:58 +0000

Flutter only falls back on the canvas, it avoids using anything but html elements if it can. Fancy animations tend to resort to the canvas

New comment by bepvte in "Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013)"

bepvte — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 04:22:30 +0000

Do you rely on redis persistence at all?

New comment by bepvte in "Flatpak – A Security Nightmare (2018)"

bepvte — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 23:25:00 +0000

I still love flatpak, and much of what this article states is hostile and outdated. The "XDG portal" specification makes filesystem access less popular then before. Also, "fakepak"? Really?