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New comment by jan_Sate in "If you're a button, you have one job"

jan_Sate — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:51:33 +0000

There's a problem with buffering tho. If the device's slow and unresponsive, and the user tapped the rotation button several times, it would be confusing if the rotation action happens 10 seconds after the user tapping the button. The user'd be left confused like "alright. So, has my input been taken?"

Now that I'm wondering. How does iphone mitigate this problem?

New comment by jan_Sate in "OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1"

jan_Sate — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:51:17 +0000

You're right. I misread. I guess I need coffee.

Yeah cargodist's indeed broken. You could milk plenty amount of money by just setting up two airports far away.

Maybe try Simutrans. It's got actual economy simulation. I tried it and I didn't like it tho. I couldn't make a profit in that game and kept losing. :(

New comment by jan_Sate in "OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1"

jan_Sate — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:03:01 +0000

It's actually not difficult to setup at all. The game just work out of the box without any mod. However there's a learning curve. Find a tutorial somewhere online and follow it thru then you're golden.

It took me maybe an hour to learn the first time I played it. It's worth it! :D

Tho after finishing the game a few times it gets old.

New comment by jan_Sate in "Pong in S Favicon"

jan_Sate — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:32:51 +0000

Tangentially relevant. Someone made a snake game on URL bar: https://demian.ferrei.ro/snake

New comment by jan_Sate in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

jan_Sate — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:58:08 +0000

I got 35000, 18/13/9/9/6. Not my first language.

Interesting how literally everyone here's performing better than I do. Perhaps that's because I just clicked on the first option whenever I don't know about a word.

New comment by jan_Sate in "The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern""

jan_Sate — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:40:33 +0000

This. I don't see the point of constantly changing UI as an end-user. The old one just work. It works perfectly. Now that you changed it and thing breaks. :|

New comment by jan_Sate in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

jan_Sate — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:05:48 +0000

Unpopular opinion but I actually enjoy using USB Micro B more than USB-C. That's because USB-C is much more complicated and there're non-standard-compliant cables floating in the market. USB-C also has some fancy mode like voltage selection. If it got screwed up somehow leading it to supply the wrong voltage, it could fry your Pico board.

New comment by jan_Sate in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

jan_Sate — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:02:04 +0000

The form factor. It's tiny compared with mini PC. Unlike other SBC, the software support's good that it just work as advertised (GPIO, graphic hardware acceleration, etc.). If you're using it for work, it also has stable supply chain / commitment that you can ensure to be able to obtain a unit in at least the next few years.

But you're right. It's pretty overpriced for its performance. If I'm after the GPIO I'd just use a microcontroller. If I'm setting up a headless server I'd just use pretty much any other SBCs or mini PC. I'm personally not a big fan of Raspberry Pi.

The cheap Raspberry Pi's still available as Raspberry Pi Zero tho, if that's what you're after.

New comment by jan_Sate in "Mini Micro Fantasy Computer"

jan_Sate — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:09:06 +0000

Not sure on the performance but it might be possible to port this Mini Micro to those platforms.

New comment by jan_Sate in "Mini Micro Fantasy Computer"

jan_Sate — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:06:54 +0000

Couldn't someone just rebuild the source code for Raspberry Pi?

New comment by jan_Sate in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

jan_Sate — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:01:41 +0000

This. I might purchase other Rockchip SBCs as well.

New comment by jan_Sate in "Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop"

jan_Sate — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:05:34 +0000

That's pretty fun to play with. Whoever made it, good job! :D

New comment by jan_Sate in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

jan_Sate — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:09:04 +0000

That's hilarious. I wonder if it'd be fixed today tho. Once a jailbreaking technique is identified, it can be implemented by adding guardrails (tho it'd possibly compromise the capability of the model)

I'm also surprised that it didn't get caught and removed by post-generation censorship. I thought that most cloud services would have that. Perhaps I was wrong.

New comment by jan_Sate in "SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin"

jan_Sate — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:53:35 +0000

lol. It's fun. Not that I could ever guess it right realistically but it's fun.

This kind of fun thing's exactly why I'm on the internet. Thanks for sharing! :D

New comment by jan_Sate in "Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team"

jan_Sate — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:01:48 +0000

It depends on your scale. I sell on my own site at a very small scale and I just made a webform that let the user select the quantity of product on their own and get the quotation and the order would be created automatically. After that the user would be provided a link to my Paypal and they'd have to manually enter the amount and the order ID on Paypal as a remark and make the payment. Then they'd have to click on the "I paid" button on their order on my website. Then I'd receive a notification on the payment, manually verify if it's paid and fulfill the order. The payment processing is done without the being technically integrated into my site.

Since my scale is small enough, even if the user forgot to enter the order ID, it'd still work because I could just map the order and payment manually by timing.

If you don't want to create your own order handling website, even a Google Form would work for that. Just get the user to pay you on their own and fill in a form. Then you'd do the payment mapping manually and send them the product.

New comment by jan_Sate in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

jan_Sate — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:53:36 +0000

Oh. I read "crabs" and I was confused until I clicked into the article. Guess I need coffee.

New comment by jan_Sate in "SDL Now Supports DOS"

jan_Sate — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:17:08 +0000

Uhm... excuse me? Why? Is there anyone even using DOS for anything serious these days?

New comment by jan_Sate in "7zip.com Is Serving Malware"

jan_Sate — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:09:53 +0000

The same could be said for software from the US. Could be a vector of CIA. For average US citizens, it might even be safer to use Russian software because FSB can't come after them.

New comment by jan_Sate in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

jan_Sate — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:08:38 +0000

Anyone else doesn't like modern minimalist icon design? It looks boring.

New comment by jan_Sate in "Maggots, an efficient source of protein"

jan_Sate — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:31:58 +0000

ew! why? Why?