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jpablo commented on Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions ambisounds.app/... · Posted by u/alpaca121

sudo712 · 3 months ago

I love the idea, and thanks for doing this. I would like to create free apps too just for the heck of it but one of the biggest issues I find with creating free app store apps is that, regardless of whether you are charging money or not, you need to keep feeding Apple $100 per year, which is excruciating, especially for countries where the developer population is much higher and the income disparity is high. Since the Play Store only charges 25$ ish and one time, it is much more feasible to do it on the Play Store, hence the availability of such apps is more on Play Store.

jpablo · 3 months ago

The $100 is per year.

jpablo commented on The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club eatonphil.com/2025-art-of... · Posted by u/eatonphil

tbbfjotllf · 5 months ago

Your criticism of discord for this use case is valid. I didn't mean it has to be discord, it could be any platform as long as it allows having proper discussions without being a pain. I believe something like a flarum forum would be way better for this use case.

jpablo · 5 months ago

What's wrong with email?

jpablo commented on Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess jacobbrazeal.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/tibbar

joeyagreco · 6 months ago

on computer, the difference between the 2 is negligible in my opinion, since either way you have to place the mouse at the start and then navigate to the finish with the only difference being if you are holding down left click or not.

on phone/tablet, the difference between the 2 is massive, since you don't have to slide your finger across the screen and can just tap tap (and even use multiple fingers if you want.

jpablo · 6 months ago

On a computer click click is a lot slower since you have to come to a complete pointer stop in your release. If your pointer is still moving in the release square most interfaces would detect that as some attempt to start a drag

jpablo commented on Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess jacobbrazeal.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/tibbar

tibbar · 6 months ago

I never use a mouse, which probably makes a difference here: it's all via touchpad.

jpablo · 6 months ago

Not having the right click to cancel a drag would certainly be a huge difference

jpablo commented on Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess jacobbrazeal.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/tibbar

jpablo · 6 months ago

This doesn’t make any sense. Click and click is slower than click+drag, it’s just obviously two extra movements (a full extra press and an extra release).

You can also drag and hover while waiting for the opponent move and release if the expected move shows up or right click to cancel the drag if not the expected move.

Also dragging and hovering over your target square is super useful to visualize your move and catch any last millisecond mistakes.

I do t think any of the top bullet/hyperbullet players does click and click. I think I have seen Magnus doing click and click in very old chess24 blitz videos but I’m not sure he did that in lichess playing bullet orin chesscom scc for example.

jpablo commented on Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] media.ccc.de/v/38c3-liber... · Posted by u/doener

bbayer · a year ago

I am really impressed by how young speakers are. It is really fascinating to see how somebody collect such technical knowledge at such a young age.

jpablo · a year ago

Everything is out in the open nowadays. Kids can start learning whatever they what an younger and younger ages.

A perfect example is chess. It used that a lot of knowledge was in books, often in foreign languages. Nowadays everything is out there in the open and additionally you can casually play games against top 100 opposition once you are okeish enough accelerating the development even more.

jpablo commented on GPT-5 is behind schedule wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gp... · Posted by u/owenthejumper

jaybna · a year ago

25% of the top 1000 websites are blocking OpenAI from crawling: https://originality.ai/ai-bot-blocking

I am betting hundreds of thousands, rising to millions more little sites, will start blocking/gating this year. AI companies might license from big sources (you can see the blocking percentage went down), but they will be missing the long tail, where a lot of great novel training data lives. And then the big sites will realize the money they got was trivial as agents start to crush their businesses.

Bill Gross correctly calls this phase of AI shoplifting. I call it the Napster-of-Everything (because I am old). I am also betting that the courts won't buy the "fair use" interpretation of scraping, given the revenues AI companies generate. That means a potential stalling of new models until some mechanism is worked out to pay knowledge creators. (And maybe nothing we know of now will work for media: https://om.co/2024/12/21/dark-musings-on-media-ai/)

Oh, and yes, I love generative AI and would be willing to pay 100x to access it...

P.S. Hope is not a strategy, but hoping something like ProRata.ai and/or TollBits can help make this self-sustainable for everyone in the chain

jpablo · a year ago

They aren't blocking anything. They are just asking nicely not to be crawled. Given that AI companies haven't cared a single bit about ripping of other's peoples data I don't see why they would care now.

jpablo commented on British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

jpablo · 2 years ago

There's a spanish saying: Ladrón que roba a ladrón tiene 100 años de perdón.

A Thief that stoles from a Thief has 100 years of forgiveness.