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cdmoyer commented on Magnus Carlsen might walk away from classical chess lichess.org/@/MeTooSlow/b... · Posted by u/akbarnama

thom · 8 months ago

It's hard to defend Fischer because he was a massive weirdo. Magnus has had far more skin in the game long term though, so I'm generally willing to hear him out.

cdmoyer · 8 months ago

I mean, massive weirdo, and maybe not Magnus... but he didn't invent Fischer Random Chess because chess was too hard for him. He dominated for several years, right? The game wasn't as advanced or computer prep dominated as it is now, but he seems like he was arguing from a very similar position and mindset as Magnus.

cdmoyer commented on Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now threema.ch/en/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/andrew918277

darby_nine · 2 years ago

I find it somewhat disturbing that this sort of thing is not considered a career killer for politicians.

cdmoyer · 2 years ago

I mean, if you asked many people "is it ok if the government can read some of your chat messages in exchange for catching a bunch of child pornographers," this will be a very popular "yes" vote. People are generally very willing to trade some rights and freedoms for safety. Or don't realize the trade-off they're making.

cdmoyer commented on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers heynote.com/... · Posted by u/jonatanheyman

cdmoyer · 2 years ago

I love this. I currently use an app like this. Ctrl-: opens and closes. But it is just one big blob and the Cmd-a thing gets me as well. Looking forward to giving this a go.

cdmoyer commented on Why don’t we do email verification in reverse? blog.yossarian.net/2022/0... · Posted by u/splash123

yunohn · 3 years ago

It’s actually quite easy to set this up, if you missed doing so when it asks:

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9308783?hl=en

cdmoyer · 3 years ago

If you use chrome and only chrome.

cdmoyer commented on AirPods Suck in Video Conferences · Posted by u/jh00ker

cdmoyer · 4 years ago

I'll be honest, after several years, I've never noticed this. I probably have google meets, slack huddles, and phone calls with people for 2-4 hours a day, and most are using AirPods and nobody is asking anybody to repeat things. (Except when they weren't actually paying attention.)

I also record those mini slack screencasts with them all the time and have no problem understanding on review.

I know I personally am a loud talker, so maybe that helps. I've also upgraded to airpod pros, but did a year of remote without and many coworkers don't have them.

But, one coworker slowly turns into a robot when using his AirPods. Maybe it's about how much interference is in the area? But he's defaulted to using his laptop mic and AirPods to listen.

cdmoyer commented on TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business old.reddit.com/r/tifu/com... · Posted by u/ahiknsr

cdmoyer · 4 years ago

The OP later clarified that it wasn't a normal transaction. They sold a "cheap company van" using their stripe business account. That seems like a huge liability, since a used car seems extremely likely to cause a chargeback. I don't think dealerships would accept a credit card payment (other than deposit) for this reason.

https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/wa1zob/dont_...

cdmoyer commented on Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/ndesaulniers

bredren · 4 years ago

I searched for this term, "Schneier's Boojum" and the results suggest clearly this is Bruce Schneier you're referring to.

But I'm not seeing this Boojum as a concept explained in quick results, actually, one of your prior comments mentioning it is top result. [1]

Would you please explain what you mean by Boojum / link to what you're referring to?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27941909

cdmoyer · 4 years ago

See here: https://spacetime.dev/memory-retention-attacks

cdmoyer commented on My Steam Game Revenue Stats donislawdev.com/my-first-... · Posted by u/donislawdev

willcipriano · 5 years ago

> Features:

> New update = new bugs

> Poor graphic and sounds

I have to say the first two "features" aren't doing you any favors.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1404560/Yerba_Mate_Tycoon...

cdmoyer · 5 years ago

Honestly, those make me want to buy it. Refreshing honest. I don't think the market here is people that'll be put off by that.

cdmoyer commented on Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust tauri.studio/... · Posted by u/metalwhale

briandear · 5 years ago

> Electron gives the promise of total code re-use across platforms which is what makes web technologies more suitable for desktop apps.

I am not sure what the point is of Electron: a shitty-resource hungry app that literally is a wrapped web-app. Instead of writing platform specific apps that leverage the power and capabilities of those platforms, we get a jack of all trades and master of none. Electron is a business decision, not an enlightened technical one.

What value does electron add to the user? I would argue none. That Slack can’t find the resources to write actual Swift for a Mac App is just amazing to me. Instead we are essentially interacting with a lowest-common-denominator web app. Is a chat app that hard to write natively? We’d get better performance, a smaller footprint, and a more polished, platform-specific product.

cdmoyer · 5 years ago

Honestly, this site is the only place I really hear about the supposed horror of electron. The resource issue doesn't seem to effect me or people in the 7 slacks I'm in all day.

My 6 year old MacBook runs slack, Xcode, android studio, safari, chrome, messages, vs code, vim, iterm2, preview, battle.net and hearthstone all the time without issue, really.

I think for the average user, they'd rather have more features across platforms more quickly than a smaller resident memory footprint and install size.