Related documentary here: https://youtu.be/iqDMnwc434E
Readit News0xabe commented on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality english.elpais.com/cultur... · Posted by u/geox
A lightbulb is a fascinating example, because there’s an argument to be made that a “minimum government specification” lightbulb would be superior to what the market provides (read: under-spec’d cheap caps that die due to heat https://www.edn.com/ensure-long-lifetimes-from-electrolytic-... ).
I’m tired of having to replace whole LED light fixtures instead of being able to replace a bulb. I am currently waiting on a special order to arrive with 2 fluorescent light fixtures. I refuse to put up more LED fixtures that will go bad in another 2 years.
0xabe commented on Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source ramatak.com/2023/09/15/un... · Posted by u/TMM2K
> Running out of ammo and instant payment sounds a lot like an arcade
Any chance you have an example? I can't recall an arcade game that had you pay per bullet.
This was my impression: running out of ammo leads to death leads to paying for continue credits.
0xabe commented on Ask HN: How do you install not the latest iOS version? · Posted by u/laurentlassalle
Are software consumables like food and gasoline? Do you throw away your entire house after 5 years? What about your books? Movies? Music? Photos? Art?
You can take a 20 year old+ copy of Windows software that shipped on a CD-ROM in a paper box and it'll probably work just fine on Windows 10, maybe it needs some compatibility setting checked or absolute worst case an XP or 2000 VM. Meanwhile what do you do with an 8 year old iOS app? Hunt down old devices on eBay that you hope you can get working?
I was just wishing today to install an old version of Garage Band that could run on an older Mac. But I don’t have it on a disc, and can’t see how to download old versions.
0xabe commented on macOS 13 Ventura review arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/BaldricksGhost
It works well only in theory. Almost no apps works on ios9 anymore, so you can't run netflix, hbo, even browsers are useless because certificates aren't updated - that's why i wanted to just use it as a homekit server, but you can't do this either.
ie, the processor is just fine for doing all of the above, but slowly all functionality has been lost.
Right, the argument is that the hardware is still functional, but due to the walled garden nature of the ecosystem, it can no longer be used. They are more like appliances and less like general purpose computing devices.
0xabe commented on Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer textualize.io/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/willm
Textual is a project I started in 2021 to build a TUI framework on top of Rich.
I did a Show HN back in August 21: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28106389
At the time, it was purely a hobby project, but a lot has happened since then. I was VC funded (nobody was more surprised than me) and since January, Textual has been my full-time gig.
This version adds a CSS renderer and more powerful layout engine, which enables some really interesting features such as live editing.
We've also added a websockets based console app for logging, which restores print style debugging when testing your TUI.
This release has documentation. Which you can find here:
https://textual.textualize.io/
Github repository:
https://github.com/Textualize/textual
Textual is still very much a work in progress, but it is way more stable now.
Textualize (the company) is currently 3 developers based in Edinburgh, Scotland. We recently hired dev no.3 and we have a fourth starting this year.
Looks neat. Is there a way for this to be used with C++? Seems like a nice improvement on ncurses.
And that's on top of USB input delay (up to 40ms [1]) or Bluetooth 5.0 (20-100ms), plus your monitor (4ms+).
[1] https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/40182/1/On_the_Latency_of_USB...
Latency isn’t the only issue. Bandwidth is another. MetalJesusRocks has an interesting video[0] on it.
Can someone recommend a good primer on _implementing state machines_? I’ve only really encountered the theory and the diagrams, but have had a harder time finding examples of actual implementations in code.
Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom has a chapter on state machines. It’s both freely available online or for purchase if you really like it and want to support him.
But to me it seems like in the long run emulating Linux on Windows is easier than the other way around.
I have a PC with Windows 10 and so does my dad that I’ll be converting to some kind of Linux soon. Windows 11 isn’t even an option due to the TPM chip requirement. The computers are still quite good and it makes no sense to abandon them. With Linux their performance will probably improve.