asrael_io (u/asrael_io)

asrael_io commented on Postgres IDE in VS Code techcommunity.microsoft.c... · Posted by u/Dowwie

diggan · 7 months ago

When for-profit companies write "Democratizes X for all" it means "for people who can pay and aren't embargoed". When they write "Simplify" it means "Get locked in to our ecosystem". When they write "Your favorite X" it means "The product we're selling to you", and so on.

Once you start reading press releases with this business-dictionary, it gets a lot easier to just close the tab and move on.

asrael_io · 7 months ago

i feel like we need a first-era unsuck it search engine for this :D

asrael_io commented on Show HN: Tiny Moon – Swift library to calculate the moon phase github.com/mannylopez/Tin... · Posted by u/mannylopez

ks2048 · a year ago

Nice work. Just FYI for anybody else - it adds an icon to status bar (if that's what it's called? - top right icons). I thought it was going to open an app window and didn't notice the icon, so thought it wasn't working. (In hindsight, it's clear from screenshots in app store).

asrael_io · a year ago

I think it's called the menu bar, and apps that don't open windows (with an icon in the menu bar) are known as "menu bar apps". Until recently, these were a PITA to implement with Apple's SDK. Thankfully they provided API support sometime I think starting with macOS 13... before that it was pretty kludgy.

asrael_io commented on How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default tenbluelinks.org/... · Posted by u/arantius

shombaboor · 2 years ago

literally, how does anyone find this acceptable? It makes me feel dumb that I find this outrageous, like the emperor's new clothes: y'all can see this too right?

asrael_io · 2 years ago

Yeah, it's a full on clown world at this point.

asrael_io commented on Meta Horizon OS meta.com/blog/quest/meta-... · Posted by u/ahiknsr

distortedsignal · 2 years ago

My point is that there is more to "VR Headset Market" than just "low end" - low end is one part of the market, but (right now) Facebook has that part locked up.

It may be that there are more places to compete in the VR Headset Market that people on HN don't know about.

Like you said, this is probably something like an Android play. Everyone was talking about the Apple Vision Pro as the VR Market's "iPhone moment" when it came out - maybe Meta Vision OS (or whatever they're calling it) is Facebook's Android moment.

And yeah, Facebook would probably be ok with others taking the low end of the market if they do it well. Right now, Facebook is the only company willing to take a loss on their own platform. So they do.

asrael_io · 2 years ago

Not really sure if the Vision Pro could be called the iPhone of VR. It's not nearly as popular and its demand has ground to a halt.

asrael_io commented on 27 years ago, Steve Jobs said the best employees focus on content, not process inc.com/jeff-haden/27-yea... · Posted by u/jey

asrael_io · 2 years ago

I guess you can't win them all even focusing on content... coughs Apple Maps coughs.

asrael_io commented on Animated AI animatedai.github.io/... · Posted by u/qwertyforce

asrael_io · 2 years ago

The later slices remind me of a gifted test I failed, because I rabbit holed on dividing the shapes...

asrael_io commented on Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music music.ishkur.com/... · Posted by u/diggan

techsupporter · 2 years ago

Today in niche requests:

Does anyone have pointers to streaming electronic music (ideally trance / progressive trance, upbeat synthwave[0], or house) that has absolutely no vocals?

I listened to a lot of no-vocal electronica back in the 80s but I can't find anywhere to stream it now, even just as a long playlist on Apple Music or Spotify, without a vocal track being dropped in. Vocals are fine but I like non-vocal/just-electronics tracks upbeat music as ambient or to listen to while zoning out.

I emailed SomaFM and di.fm to ask and they have one stream apiece that mostly fits the bill but maybe there are others out there?

0 - Upbeat because I know about "lofi beats to study by" and that's a bit too slow for what I'm after. :)

asrael_io · 2 years ago

Does anyone know if Thinner's releases are archived somewhere? Here's some of their stuff (it was a netlabel from awhile ago that released free music):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygXNgC94ZUk&list=PLE77D1EF33...

There's also Deep Mix Moscow Radio (probably more around soundcloud etc): https://archive.org/details/DeepMixMoscowRadioJuly1120160729...

asrael_io commented on One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly ruoyusun.com/2023/10/12/o... · Posted by u/insraq

asrael_io · 2 years ago

So, purely from an economic standpoint: Windows is the only platform.

asrael_io commented on Bare-metal Rust in Android security.googleblog.com/2... · Posted by u/iamd3vil

SuaveSteve · 2 years ago

The Doom of programming languages? Rust must be run everywhere with no irony.

asrael_io · 2 years ago

Yeah but does Doom run on rust-analyzer?