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New comment by scott01 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

scott01 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:14:41 +0000

I don’t think so. Windows is very easy to administer compared to both, Linux and Mac. There is also a compliance part that MS makes easier, though it’s a bit beyond what I really know.

New comment by scott01 in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

scott01 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:18:06 +0000

Check out mixes by Blackest Ever Black label (now defunct) from NTS and Berlin Community Radio, listening to them literally feels like a journey. Funny part, sometimes they use a contrasting tune to end a mix, which creates a feeling similar to movie credits roll in the end.

New comment by scott01 in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

scott01 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:01:08 +0000

This appears to be a troll account, that only ever engages in heated discussions. Please, do not engage with it, folks :) On a related note, has anyone noticed actual bots commenting on HN? I sometimes feel discussions are a bit weird here.

New comment by scott01 in "iPhone 17e"

scott01 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:06:47 +0000

Same here, just replaced the battery.

New comment by scott01 in "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed"

scott01 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:37:43 +0000

Maybe yeah. Though I doubt they’d reset data collection settings like that.

New comment by scott01 in "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed"

scott01 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:15:24 +0000

It’s possible to disable history in YouTube’s settings. This will turn off algorithmic feed replacing it with a reverse chronological feed of channels you’re subscribed to.

New comment by scott01 in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

scott01 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:57:50 +0000

Obviously, I wasn’t serious :)

New comment by scott01 in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

scott01 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:03:26 +0000

But if legal system decides the output of LLMs belongs to the entity that trained it, and given that Copilot has the capability to generate any possible code, that means Microsoft, via Copilot, will own copyright to all possible code in the universe, which will naturally allow Microsoft to acquire ReactOS.

New comment by scott01 in "Ask HN: I'd like to learn about software licensing. Any recommendations?"

scott01 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:55:22 +0000

Oh, thanks for the information, very interesting!

Ask HN: I'd like to learn about software licensing. Any recommendations?

scott01 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:25:58 +0000

Hey folks,

Can you give a recommendation what to read to get acquainted with the software licensing topics? I appreciate this is a very complicated topic and I won’t become an expert, but I’d like to try to dip my toes into just for the fun of it and to satisfy some curiosity. e.g. why disclaimers in BSD-style licenses are formulated with this specific language, and why Polyform’s plain language is unenforceable (according to some comments here on HN). Tbh, having a mere appreciation of the complexity of this topic would be a fine learning outcome for me, really.

Anything you can recommend to read? Books, articles, court cases?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489459

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New comment by scott01 in "Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?"

scott01 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 22:03:11 +0000

I second this approach. After setting these ones up, together with lsp-mode and company-mode (I like experience better than eglot), my configuration stayed mostly the same. I also kept adding new shortcuts for functions I needed (like symbol rename or function list), and am currently at a point when Emacs became a very efficient editor for me personally. I also moved most of these shortcuts over to yyIntelliJ editor at work where Emacs is not very practical due to lack of convenient debugger (C++, Unreal Engine).

New comment by scott01 in "Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?"

scott01 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:55:14 +0000

I’ve recently rewrote my configuration and used Bedrock as a new starting point. It’s great, thanks very much for making it!

New comment by scott01 in "The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo"

scott01 — Wed, 28 May 2025 09:19:30 +0000

In game dev monorepo per product is often used, which includes game code, art assets, build system and tooling, as well as engine code that can receive project-specific patches. In Perforce, it's organised into streams, where development streams are regularly promoted to staging, then to release, etc.

The benefit is the tooling, as the article mentioned. Everything in the repo is organised consistently, so I can make ad-hoc Python tools relying on relative paths knowing that my teammates have identical folder structure.

New comment by scott01 in "Microphone Input Noise Comparison"

scott01 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:51:55 +0000

To my understanding, yes, but I'm just a hobbyist.

New comment by scott01 in "Microphone Input Noise Comparison"

scott01 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:04:44 +0000

There's a problem with f32 due to devices using two ADCs to implement it. Essentially, there's certain volume threshold when device switches DACs, and it's audible. If you record sources with varying loudness, you may see noise floor raising around loud bursts, and typical noise suppression tools won't work on files like this (there was a video or a blog post, I can't recall where I saw this). At least this is how Zoom implemented f32, don't know about Sound Devices.

New comment by scott01 in "Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app"

scott01 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:24:33 +0000

I almost didn’t get the reference :)

New comment by scott01 in "I don't know how to build software and you don't either"

scott01 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 13:33:08 +0000

Apparently, yes. I remember reading a comment stating that with Redux, Facebook rediscovered UI optimisations of Windows 95.

New comment by scott01 in "I don't know how to build software and you don't either"

scott01 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 10:51:21 +0000

I’d like to challenge a core argument of the article:

> Only your last ~20 years of experience matters for these questions, because the basic landscape of software development changes so rapidly. [...]

… with an anecdote. I’ve recently skimmed through a “Thinking Forth” book, and, language-specific information apart, was surprised to read that the software structure they recommend resembles to what I’ve figured out over years of programming by intuition.

New comment by scott01 in "Ask HN: Recommend me some silent movies"

scott01 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 10:41:10 +0000

Highly recommend a short movie “Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943). Watched it in a local cinema right after Mulholland Drive, that was quite an experience :)

New comment by scott01 in "Programming Avant-Garde"

scott01 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:32:38 +0000

You can tune data assets while the game is running in editor. Hot reload works and is a crucial part of workflow in a lot of projects. The caveat, if I understand correctly, is that it works only for UObjects. I was surprised seeing UE recompiling stuff on my pet project on Linux, without doing any extra configuration.