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New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Medo: A modern UHD 4K open source Media editor for Haiku OS in less than 1.44 Mb"

pwdisswordfish4 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:03:42 +0000

Why do you measure floppy capacity in megabarns?

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "V (Vlang) 0.2"

pwdisswordfish4 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 22:59:47 +0000

It came from the same developer. The mere fact that he was that sloppy in securing a publicly-facing service to leave a vulnerability so severe and so easily discovered should have you asking: why should I believe that anything else in this project is any more robust and secure (and will be in the future)?

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "V (Vlang) 0.2"

pwdisswordfish4 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 22:36:50 +0000

> goto language

As in ‘considered harmful’?

I’m staying away from any language with vulnerabilities like these: https://christine.website/blog/OVE-20190623-0001

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed"

pwdisswordfish4 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:43:16 +0000

What are you people complaining about? The command does exactly what it advertised, it chucks disks.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "On the Graying of Gnome"

pwdisswordfish4 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:42:09 +0000

XFCE is barely maintained, unfortunately. The recent port to Gtk3 lost some functionality as a result of regressions in the toolkit: keybindings in menus are no longer hover-rebindable, and the themes have not been properly ported, leaving me only with bloated Adwaita. For some reason, the package with window manager themes has not been released for 4.12 (the package from 4.10 works fine, though). There’s no path for migration to Wayland. Integration with display managers (i.e. screen locking) and systemd’s power management is flaky.

And I am saying all this with regret, as a long time user; I consider it the best desktop environment I have used.

I almost wish they had forked Gtk2 instead of porting to Gtk3 (or even more crazily, ported Gtk2 to Gdk3 to take advantage of ‘plumbing’ improvements in the latter, like Wayland support), but I do realise they just don’t have the manpower.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online"

pwdisswordfish4 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:10:08 +0000

There's still a missing word or something else going on: "Flurly is a Shopify alternative attempts"

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Arrays of Arrays (2009)"

pwdisswordfish4 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:20:50 +0000

Beginners and also C++ programmers, expert and beginner alike. Even though it’s just as misleading in C++. This:

    int a = 0;
    int& x = a, y = a;

declares x to be a reference, but y an independent variable. Similarly, a template parametrised by a variadic pack of function pointers is declared thus:

    template

It’s a good thing I don’t work in C++ too often, because my forehead would have probably sustained noticeable injury from all the facepalming each time I see ‘int& x’ instead of ‘int &x’ and ‘typename... T’ instead of ‘typename ...T’.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online"

pwdisswordfish4 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:37:38 +0000

There's a typo on the Shopify page: "Flurly is a Shopify alternative attemps"

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online"

pwdisswordfish4 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:29:10 +0000

Nice job. A suggestion: support alternative payment processors besides Stripe.

I paid with cryptocurrency for the first time today when I realized my webhost accepted it in lieu of cash and that it had the lowest fees among all payment options. For example, right now my webhost's calculator says that for a $10 deposit there's a 20 cent fee for a net deposit of $9.80 if I use "Bitcoin". (I actually have no Bitcoin and managed to pay anyway, because my webhost is using BitPay as a processor, which seems not to limit you to Bitcoin only.)

A product on Flurly right now using Stripe at the same price looks like it would be $10 - (2.9% + $0.30) - 1% for a net of $9.31 after net $0.69 fees. Considering the example on Flurly's homepage is $1, for this and the $10 example I gave and for other small payments, it's obviously a better deal for sellers if buyers avoid using Stripe. And it turned out to be easier to log in to Coinbase and pay with some giveaway coins I'd received than it would have been to pull out my credit card and fill in the info.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles"

pwdisswordfish4 — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 16:02:59 +0000

Might have something to do with the fact that the dialogue was apparently originally written in Polish, which usually omits subject pronouns (they can be inferred from the verb form). If the translator was Polish, they might have carried that over to English.

(Noticed how I dropped ‘it’?)

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "FreeBSD src repository is transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend"

pwdisswordfish4 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:05:01 +0000

BitKeeper has been available under Apache license for several years now. It's interesting that they didn't choose it. Not enough third-party use to justify adoption?

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Ousted Black Google Researcher: 'They Wanted to Have My Presence, but Not Me'"

pwdisswordfish4 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:41:42 +0000

Text-only link: https://text.npr.org/947719354

In case someone wanted to decline at the cookie interstitial.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'"

pwdisswordfish4 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 03:57:12 +0000

> We changed how our sessions work to get around it

In other words, you fixed the bugs in how your original implementation relied on bad assumptions that it shouldn't have tried to rely on to begin with.

The only real quibble here might be that duplicate requests cost you unnecessary transit.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Hypercore protocol: a distributed (P2P) append-only log"

pwdisswordfish4 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 02:02:02 +0000

The Dat people are notoriously opposed to blockchain hype. That doesn't mean you should actually go build anything on top of their projects (for reasons to do with what the top post in this thread touch on—they don't know much about stability or focus).

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Periodic table of the web's APIs"

pwdisswordfish4 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 18:11:13 +0000

I considered, especially since this is a Show HN, to not say anything and let it slide, but considering the potential long tail for negative effects, where web dev circles are already filled with mildly annoying falsehoods and crazy beliefs, it seems kind of irresponsible to opt for letting it slide out of some (possibly mistaken) notion of politeness.

There are some bad conclusions that can be drawn from this chart, if not just downright bad info contained in it, at least in its current form.

For example, if the date labels are going to be this arbitrary, it would probably be better to just omit them altogether.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course"

pwdisswordfish4 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 22:29:42 +0000

Your HN profile is empty, so there seems to be no good way to check out your institution's program or to contact you.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "A (terrible?) way to do footnotes in HTML"

pwdisswordfish4 — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:51:15 +0000

Size of visual cue and size of hit target should not be conflated. In terms of visuals, it is a good idea for the marker to be presented as unobtrusively as possible.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "Show HN: This website is valid JSON"

pwdisswordfish4 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 08:53:41 +0000

This but unironically.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "A Modern JavaScript Tutorial"

pwdisswordfish4 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 02:05:27 +0000

Shoehorning big words into a message usually has the opposite of the intended effect. This instance is not the exception.

New comment by pwdisswordfish4 in "A Modern JavaScript Tutorial"

pwdisswordfish4 — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:23:11 +0000

There's a perverse irony in the way your responses here exude condescension while ostensibly trying educate and inform about the sort of things that people respond to. Although it looks like you came here to argue (which now explains the presumptuousness), I didn't, and I'm not wasting any (more) of my time indulging you.

> I get what you're saying. People often do couch cynicism and trolling in pleasantries.

No, apparently you don't, because that's not at all what I said or what I'm trying to say. Aside from failing at that, you almost succeeded at deflecting, but not quite. The attempt to change the subject and avoid responding directly is yet more reason to stop this here.