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New comment by shhsshs in "Show HN: BAREmail ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi"

shhsshs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:16:52 +0000

I would love one of these for Google Chat. It feels like it's been getting slower and slower these past few years.

New comment by shhsshs in "iPhone 17e"

shhsshs — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:02:46 +0000

I'm trying to understand what you mean by this. Are you saying they're "bad" in terms of resolution, or artistic value, or something else? They seem good enough (far from "bad") by any definition I can think of.

New comment by shhsshs in "The largest number representable in 64 bits"

shhsshs — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:37:28 +0000

`9↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑9` seems like a reasonable guess (barring encoding cheats/trickery like @masfuerte commented!)

Edit: I've misread the above comment and my number is is 64 bytes (significantly more than 64 bits. The largest 64 bit number through my approach would be `9↑↑↑↑↑↑9`, which is significantly smaller.

New comment by shhsshs in "Round and Round"

shhsshs — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:52:13 +0000

No, because it never sees its back!

New comment by shhsshs in "Round and Round"

shhsshs — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:51:30 +0000

By the astronomical definition of the word "orbit", no. Earth does circle Mercury though (and Mercury circles Earth).

In terms of this post - I suppose technically Earth does NOT circle the Moon, because we never see its back!

New comment by shhsshs in "The Farmer Was Replaced [video]"

shhsshs — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:36:06 +0000

Fun to see you here - I discovered this game through your videos! I think despite the lack of raw "content", I got a LOT of playtime out of this game by trying to push higher on the leaderboards.

New comment by shhsshs in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

shhsshs — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:27:08 +0000

Sarcasm noted. An apple would actually be more difficult to hit because of its reduced size.

New comment by shhsshs in "We all dodged a bullet"

shhsshs — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:44:58 +0000

I think it's more appropriate to say TOTP /is (nearly)/ phishing-proof if you use a password manager integrated with the browser (not that it /doesn't need to be/ phishing-proof)

New comment by shhsshs in "Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists"

shhsshs — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:33:18 +0000

"Repeats" may be the term you're looking for. That would be interesting, however in some pieces it could make the overall document MUCH longer. It would be similar to loop unrolling.

New comment by shhsshs in "Why Go Rocks for Building a Lua Interpreter"

shhsshs — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 17:39:11 +0000

From the article:

    My Lua data types have a notable difference from C Lua: an ability to be “frozen”.

New comment by shhsshs in "Ocarina of Time Randomizer"

shhsshs — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:01:43 +0000

The project has data about every location (doors, chests, etc.) and the conditions that must be met to allow access to those locations - for example [1]. From there the randomizer shuffles various entrances/exits and item locations around using rules that are mostly guaranteed to keep the game beatable.

[1] https://github.com/OoTRandomizer/OoT-Randomizer/blob/d1bb6c2...

New comment by shhsshs in "Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification"

shhsshs — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:14:34 +0000

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

New comment by shhsshs in "How many supernova explode every year?"

shhsshs — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:41:39 +0000

Question for you and commenter above, do you play games with controls similar to Outer Wilds often? Do you play many games in general? I've seen this comment a few times and I'm curious why this is such a common talking point. I thought the controls were very intuitive, so I'm curious if it's a familiarity issue or something else.

New comment by shhsshs in "Types as Interfaces"

shhsshs — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:05:45 +0000

Totally achievable by using interfaces instead of structs

    type Foo interface {
      Foo() int
    }

    type Bar interface {
      Bar() string
    }

    type FooBar interface {
      Foo
      Bar
    }

Then functions that accept a Foo will also happily take a FooBar. Does not solve the problem of passing a FooBar[] to a function that expects Foo[] but that can be solved with generics or a simple function to convert FooBar[] to Foo[].

New comment by shhsshs in "Rounding Percentages"

shhsshs — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:56:24 +0000

> If your language has bad defaults, you may have to ask for the right rounding mode explicitly.

Is the author implying Rust's default rounding behavior is a bad default? In what world is "ties to even" a GOOD default?

New comment by shhsshs in "Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)"

shhsshs — Fri, 24 May 2024 15:43:41 +0000

https://benjoffe.com/weekle

New comment by shhsshs in "The UX of UUIDs"

shhsshs — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:47:50 +0000

The author mentions UUIDs are hard to copy/paste because of the hyphens.

New comment by shhsshs in "Behavioral Programming (2018)"

shhsshs — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:43:44 +0000

The example in the EnforcePlayerTurns section is kind of buggy. Make an attempt to place two Xs in a row in different cells, then place an O in a third cell - the second X you attempted to place will magically show up at the same time as that O.

New comment by shhsshs in "Matthias Wandel's YouTube channel got hacked [video]"

shhsshs — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:59:27 +0000

I think we would all agree you have to REALLY let your guard down to accidentally open a file like that.

But you would be surprised how much you drop your defenses when you are convinced you just got an email from a friend/business partner/etc.

New comment by shhsshs in "DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching"

shhsshs — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:15:04 +0000

Many FPS games move the camera by listening to relative mouse movements and moving your camera a corresponding amount, while keeping your cursor hidden and in the center of the screen. Absolute movements cause different issues depending on the particular game.

I am not familiar with HID but I assume there is a way for the computer to provide feedback to the input device about the cursor’s current position. If that’s correct, it could probably be done with relative movements just fine.