jamie_ca (u/jamie_ca)

jamie_ca commented on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time cbc.ca/news/canada/britis... · Posted by u/ireflect

jonny_eh · 11 days ago

It's "standard" for a reason. Humanity settled on these numbers long ago because they work best. It boggles my mind why anyone would choose otherwise since what we do at any given hour is arbitrary.

jamie_ca · 11 days ago

The US decided (and Canada followed) that daylight time was more correct for the larger portion of the year, presumably it's easier to transition the remaining 4mo to daylight than it is to move 8mo to standard.

But also, all the opinion polling (business and individual) was like over 90% in favour of year-round daylight time, so here we are.

jamie_ca commented on Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner layandreas.github.io/pers... · Posted by u/wismwasm

DelightOne · 2 months ago

Amazon Originals, Netflix Originals. Disney Originals. Paramount Originals. I'm just wondering what is different between series and music, that for music its very bad morally to create your own and to put your own in the front row. While for other streaming its accepted.

jamie_ca · 2 months ago

The difference is how they're consumed you don't sit down on Netflix and say "put some scifi on shuffle for 8h", you sit down and choose a show.

If you're the kind of person who would manually queue up 100% of your songs for the day then Spotify Generic songs aren't an issue. If you just hit a "2020s R&B" playlist and go that's where it feels more sketchy.

jamie_ca commented on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm theverge.com/report/82065... · Posted by u/evolve2k

PaulHoule · 3 months ago

Would love to see it on MacOS X -- Steam works great on my Mac Mini for the games it supports, would be great to see everything run on it.

jamie_ca · 3 months ago

Are you looking for Crossover? It's a bit annoying to not run Steam natively (no cmd+H to hide, etc) but it's got a lot of support. Performance is decent on my M2 mini, and even cross-platform stuff like Baldurs Gate 3 is comparable performance to native.

Especially anything that Mac Steam natively calls out lack of 32bit support has good support.

jamie_ca commented on Making a Small RPG jslegenddev.substack.com/... · Posted by u/ibobev

Tade0 · 4 months ago

For those of you who, like me, have no graphical chops whatsoever, I can't recommend Liberated Pixel Cup assets enough:

https://lpc.opengameart.org/

There's also a character generator with plenty of options to choose from:

https://liberatedpixelcup.github.io/Universal-LPC-Spriteshee...

jamie_ca · 4 months ago

I can counter-recommend Kenney's game assets, it's got sprites, buildings, terrain, backgrounds, top-down, side-on, isometric... Lots of variety for different genres and settings, too.

https://kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-assets

jamie_ca commented on Google Antigravity antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi

IncreasePosts · 4 months ago

Is the extension system in VSCode not powerful enough to make these just normal extensions for a vanilla VSCode executable? Or is everyone just going for lock in, since if you download MyFork, you can't start using some other extension that uses OtherGuysModel?

jamie_ca · 4 months ago

Back when Cursor was new (before literally everything was AI hype) they explicitly called out that they wanted to do more in-depth integration with the editor than was possible with just the extension APIs.

Presumably that hasn't changed much. If you want to do any large-scale edits of the UI you need to spin up a fork.

jamie_ca commented on Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails telebugs.com... · Posted by u/kyrylo

kyrylo · 4 months ago

I follow 37signals updates on ONCE, but I don’t recall them mentioning sustainability issues. Could you share a link?

Thanks for the suggestion! A hosted solution could definitely be an option. That said, some people have mentioned that having an indie dev behind it can be a turn-off. I’ll keep exploring ideas that make sense, though.

jamie_ca · 4 months ago

I want to vaguely recall that they had like 4 products in planning stages for ONCE, released Campfire, then released Writebook for free, and then made Campfire free.

Lately on the podcast I only hear about Fizzy and one other unannounced SAAS that they're putting dev energy behind, nothing about other ONCE products.

I suspect that without a critical mass of usage driving word of mouth the long tail of sales was basically nil, and long-term even fairly small products weren't looking to recoup dev costs any time soon.

jamie_ca commented on Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts gtaforums.com/topic/10041... · Posted by u/mrzool

axus · 4 months ago

Can a Steam Deck install games without using Steam? If so, big advantage over Google Play and the App Store.

jamie_ca · 4 months ago

It's more fiddly in that you need to swap to desktop mode to do the installs, but you can get it set up so that your "external" games from Epic or Itch or emulators or whatever show up in the standard Steam UI.

jamie_ca commented on Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest roberdam.com/en/dinversio... · Posted by u/roberdam

koakuma-chan · 4 months ago

Not sure how it's like over in EU, but in Canada, at this point, I assume all fin tech startups are scam. Neo financial and wealth simple are definitely fucking scam. Major banks may suck but at least you get what you pay for.

jamie_ca · 4 months ago

Curious about your opinions on WealthSimple, if you can share. I got introduced to them when they bought out SimpleTax, and so far they've been pretty reasonable for investments.

jamie_ca commented on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

diego898 · 4 months ago

Thinking of doing the same! Which kit did you order? I see a FNG, FNG+ Bundle, and "Learn lockpicking bundle". 3rd one seems the most likely candidate. Any tips you can share? Thanks!

jamie_ca · 4 months ago

I got the Learn Lockpicking bundle a few years back, it's a solid customizable lock - six slots, a few different pin styles, and the springs to make it work. I got practiced enough to get a 3-pin opened, but I'm definitely out of practice now.

jamie_ca commented on Litestream v0.5.0 fly.io/blog/litestream-v0... · Posted by u/emschwartz

turnsout · 5 months ago

Real talk, how do you actually avoid N+1? I realize you can do complicated JOINs, but isn't that almost as bad from a performance perspective? What are you really supposed to do if you need to, e.g. fetch a list of posts along with the number of comments on each post?

jamie_ca · 5 months ago

Either joins for a fat query, or aggregate the subqueries.

For the latter, it's along the lines of `select * from posts where ...` and `select * from authors where id in {posts.map(author_id)}`. And then once it's in memory you manually work out the associations (or rely on your ORM to do it).

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