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New comment by dfxm12 in "Keygen.music"

dfxm12 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:41:47 +0000

The Dunning-Kruger effect will grow with AI adoption.

New comment by dfxm12 in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

dfxm12 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:18:57 +0000

It's more popular, especially with the subsequent games and media franchise. FWIW, I hear people talk about Flashback's predecessor, Another World, a lot. That is also a popular game.

New comment by dfxm12 in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

dfxm12 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:04:49 +0000

"The default state is the traditional key function"

What is the traditional F-key function? Today, on my laptop, I probably use the media controls most, then the brightness controls, then fn+f5 to refresh a page.

Is it worth defaulting to some tradition from a time when computers didn't play media or have dimmable displays? How many apps recognize the full set of f keys anyway?

New comment by dfxm12 in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

dfxm12 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:23:18 +0000

Does dice require that you buy tickets through their app and you're required to present the app as your ticket? That sucks too.

New comment by dfxm12 in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

dfxm12 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:34:07 +0000

If you like specific acts, sure. Or maybe some cities take independent venues more seriously than others. Growing up, ok I missed out on getting Metallica tickets because I didn't want to support clear channel (or Live Nation, or TM, etc...), but I still was able to see plenty of amazing metal bands in indie venues.

Another interesting note: Weird Al is playing three venues within driving distance from me. Only one of them is selling tickets through TM.

New comment by dfxm12 in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

dfxm12 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:01:33 +0000

Ticketmaster has more vertical integration. They own the ticketing, ticket resale, the clubs, concert production, promotion and talent management. When you own the venue, you can lock out other ticket sellers. Artists are probably looking for a one stop shop for putting a tour together.

As an example, stubhub can sell/resell tickets, but that's about it.

New comment by dfxm12 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

dfxm12 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:32:35 +0000

Medicine researched even with government funding is out of reach for a lot of people. It's going to take a leap of faith to think that "breakthroughs" researched from a private business is going to be enjoyed by the masses.

Socialized risk and privatized profit is the default. AI isn't going to change that. If it is as successful as the hype, it's going to exacerbate it.

New comment by dfxm12 in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

dfxm12 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:35:26 +0000

It's not an economy problem, it's a policy problem. We can choose to treat drug addiction like a disease. We can choose to give people health care. We can choose to give people money to keep their lives together. Law makers would rather this happen though.

New comment by dfxm12 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

dfxm12 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:43:59 +0000

Ronnie Coleman, the bodybuilder?

New comment by dfxm12 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

dfxm12 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:29:33 +0000

This is part of it, but you only need a few dozen great players to put together a program. Another part is organization. Italy has kids playing calcio in the streets by default, but FIGC has been run poorly for decades. USSF tries, but similarly is a little in over their heads.

New comment by dfxm12 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

dfxm12 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:18:55 +0000

It's slightly more than that. These sports (and let's include hockey, since it's played widely intentionally too) are all organized the same way, meaning the players are largely trained the same way leading up to college and also in the pros. There's a clear pipeline to the basketball and hockey national teams. The best league is the one closest to home. The uniform pipeline and playing close to home makes training for, coaching and playing with the national team that much easier, which makes the team that much better.

American men gotta find their own way to become a world class soccer player. There's no pipeline like there is for the big 4. It's harder for teammates to gel when some went through the ranks in Germany, some in England, some in Italy and have only a few weeks with a new coach to buy into the system.

America's biggest rivals also aren't very good. So while the best European and South American teams constantly have to play each other and fight for survival, the US has to play middling teams like Mexico and Canada and tiny Central American and island nations.

New comment by dfxm12 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

dfxm12 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:07:10 +0000

A documentary, maybe it was China Heavyweight (which is maybe 15yo at this point, so it might be out of date today), suggested that kids are trained for many years for specific Olympic sports (and nothing else) based on their rough physical attributes. This shotgun approach has success at finding great individual athletes, and will probably ensure they have a reasonable chance at qualifying someone at as many events as possible. Maybe this is just how the boxing program is run though...

New comment by dfxm12 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

dfxm12 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:53:13 +0000

Athletic American men can probably make more money playing another sport. You get perks like (mostly) free college. Paths to the pros are less uniform than the college -> pro pipeline, so even when the US has a generation of 11+ world class players, because they've been trained differently and play much further away from home, they can't come together with just a few weeks of training as easily as, say, a basketball team. Plus, the local competition isn't very good. It's just other middling teams and tiny countries.

Conversely, the NWSL is likely the most lucrative league for women besides the WNBA. In both cases, it's a legit pipeline from college to the pros. Women's hockey is similar. So you have a group of players who know each other, have been playing together for a while and were roughly trained the same way. Also, the second best women's soccer team happens to be in their "division".

They can come together as a team better than American men who all went through different training programs from youth.

New comment by dfxm12 in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

dfxm12 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:55:13 +0000

I think it's ok that hardware and software are designed with the 99% in mind. After that you probably run into competing interests/trade-offs anyway (a system built for ergonomics probably looks different from a system built for speed).

New comment by dfxm12 in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

dfxm12 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:51:17 +0000

If you have Claude write down notes, check them into the repo when you're done. It probably can't hurt and it might help.

LOL. It didn't even cross the author's mind to consider reading the notes himself to decide if they make sense.

AI is sending us down a path of anti-social behavior. It will be bad for us, of course, but AI is only as good as it is because it was able to be trained on info from github, stack overflow, etc. Without socializing interesting info, humans and AI will both suffer.

New comment by dfxm12 in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

dfxm12 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:09:59 +0000

I understand some people are jerks, but that also includes those who monolithize an entire class of people based on a stereotype.

New comment by dfxm12 in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

dfxm12 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:03:23 +0000

You can ask for Caffè in ghiaccio and will likely get it, let alone something fancier like a shakerato.

(FWIW, The author did say cold brew, and not iced coffee, but still...)

New comment by dfxm12 in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

dfxm12 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:36:00 +0000

I was just on my phone in an Italian gelato shop in Belgrade, looking up what "stracciatella" means in the context of gelato so I didn't sound like an idiot or struggle to communicate with the employee.

I understand the latter, but just as one datapoint, I would not think you sound like an idiot for asking "what exactly is this that you're selling?"

New comment by dfxm12 in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

dfxm12 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:22:20 +0000

I would love for the author to interact with vacationers directly instead of making up this back story about them in their head. To let them know, no, this place doesn't have cold brew, but buddy, wait until you try a shakerato. Then maybe people wouldn't look for the The Borghetto di Merda.

New comment by dfxm12 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

dfxm12 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:37:22 +0000

In the US, if you quit your job, you lose access to many benefits, including affordable health care. It might be hard to get a loan for a car, to find an apartment, etc. This is systemically set up this way, including making sure employment doesn't get too low, which would give more power to employees.