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New comment by j_4 in "Notion releases offline mode"

j_4 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:36:49 +0000

Yes.

New comment by j_4 in "Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check"

j_4 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:04:28 +0000

Often overlooked but electric buses are very heavy. Here in my small hometown they visibly started decaying the road infrastructure super fast in many places since they got introduced. Not impossible to patch up, but not a negligible cost of moving to the tech.

New comment by j_4 in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

j_4 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:33:15 +0000

I'm sorry, white men?

New comment by j_4 in "These Websites Have Been Seized"

j_4 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:55:23 +0000

In a somewhat similar but frequently more deranged aesthetic vein, I am a huge fan of Defense Charts on Xitter.

https://x.com/DefenseCharts

New comment by j_4 in "I made $100K from a dick joke"

j_4 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:07:40 +0000

On paper, yeah. Sadly the threshold is very low, and you get hit with a brutal regressive tax immediately after you pass it (obligatory lump-sum social security tax).

New comment by j_4 in "Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'"

j_4 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:59:50 +0000

Just throwing this out there. I'm a homebody living in a climate where the weather is kind of miserable for half of the year so would rather just execrise at home, and I've gotten fantastic mileage out of resources on the r/bodyweightfitness subreddit. I just have a pull-up bar and some gymnastic rings hanging from it. Been doing something very closely based on the Recommended Routine for almost 10 years now, on and off (mostly off, to be honest). It keeps me sane and healthy, or at least definitely more so if I didn't bother with it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...

New comment by j_4 in "picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models"

j_4 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:21:50 +0000

I love Crocotile. It's got very opinionated, kind of weird UX, but it gets me in the zone so so well. I haven't used it in ages, I should give it another spin.

New comment by j_4 in "Piracy"

j_4 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:44:49 +0000

Are you able to name 3 examples of this happening?

New comment by j_4 in "Galaxy Buds reportedly exploded in a user's ear causing permanent hearing loss"

j_4 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:19:42 +0000

Lack of microphonics is the killer feature of wireless for me, I avoided earbuds for my entire life because of how grating I find them.

New comment by j_4 in "Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider"

j_4 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:46:42 +0000

Not likely. It's just a technical limitation of thermal paper. That's the trade-off for cheap, tiny form factor, fast, and low maintenance printing.

New comment by j_4 in "Google Console closed testing requirements are awful"

j_4 — Thu, 30 May 2024 09:10:49 +0000

I'm not sure about a lot. There are tools available that let you just extract some files from Xcode and build on Windows. These work a treat and are maintained by a single guy.

New comment by j_4 in ""3 Body Problem" Is a Rare Species of Sci-Fi Epic"

j_4 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:38:01 +0000

Greg Egan anything. Can't recommend him enough. BIG ideas.

New comment by j_4 in "Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years"

j_4 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:42:47 +0000

Hey, Windows has had a related-ish bug forever too!

Go to device properties and change L/R balance to be unequal.

Turn sound down to 0.

Turn it back up and balance is equal again.

New comment by j_4 in "Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?"

j_4 — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:48:34 +0000

MiniReview is a game curation app/platform that does a very good job of surfacing interesting and non-predatory stuff.

Not directly affiliated but my own game has been featured on there.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=minireview.bes...

New comment by j_4 in "More than 600k students and teachers use Z-Library"

j_4 — Tue, 23 May 2023 07:46:21 +0000

Piracy is very different from theft and far more morally defensible.

FWIW my work, which puts food on my table, is pirated every day.

New comment by j_4 in "Godot 4.0 Stable"

j_4 — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:44:27 +0000

Godot 4.0 doesn't support C# on the web and mobile, one of those fabled "Godot $nextver fixes this" things that somehow immediately come up whenever I get hyped up for giving Godot another try.

New comment by j_4 in "Godot 4.0 Released"

j_4 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:42:47 +0000

There's a very barebones plugin that does simple syntax highlighting and code completion, more basic than the built-in Godot editor.

New comment by j_4 in "Godot 4.0 Released"

j_4 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:30:04 +0000

Not GP but I'm a full time solo indie dev.

In my case the main issue with GDScript is the tooling, or lack of thereof. No symbol aware rename, no go to definition/usages, poor autocomplete, cryptic errors. Also static typing that's kinda but not entirely there, which exacerbates the tooling issues.

Good tooling is an enormous undertaking, so the way I see it, GDScript is forever doomed to feel like someone's impressive hobby project.

New comment by j_4 in "Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history"

j_4 — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:38:00 +0000

Yeah, LCG seems like such a great and ethical model, but has a proven track record of being hard to keep alive.

I'm currently a very happy player of Flesh and Blood TCG and think it's a fantastic game with great stewardship, but I have very mixed feelings about game economy entirely based on boosters, especially now that I work on games myself.

New comment by j_4 in "Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history"

j_4 — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 18:27:37 +0000

You'll notice that was added in an addendum, they must've backtracked. I haven't seen it before. What I saw was the original announcement and the resulting Reddit discussion, in which the article author and several other members of the organization had a very different, self-righteous, and downright combative tone. The threat of banning people for not complying was explicitly spelled out.

That Reddit thread is here. It seems to have been thoroughly cleaned up, but you can still see some slivers. I don't think it's worth wading through it, especially if Null Signal learned to be more diplomatic from it - just wanted to make it clear that I was being truthful, or at least as best as I could. I remember the "violence" and "morally deficient" bits as direct quotes, but my memory might be faulty and hyperbolized.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Netrunner/comments/vvr25h/nisei_an_...

(NISEI is the former name of Null Signal Games, that's also a term they deemed insensitive, and chose to fully rebrand.)