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rappatic commented on Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits   mattwie.se/no-sleep-till-... · Posted by u/mattwiese
rappatic · 16 days ago
If Claude usage limits are this important to your life, it seems a little smarter to just bite the Claude Max bullet. Isn't an ordinary sleep schedule easily worth $180/month difference?
rappatic commented on Where's Firefox going next?   connect.mozilla.org/t5/di... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
rappatic · a month ago
When are we getting Mac biometric support for extensions? I want to be able to use my Touch ID with my password manager on my Mac! Do any HNers have solutions for this (Dashlane)?
rappatic commented on You are what you launch: how software became a lifestyle brand   omeru.bearblog.dev/lifest... · Posted by u/freediver
rappatic · 2 months ago
Does the author find it aesthetic or artistic to write like this? No caps, incomplete sentences, banal and faux-poetic prose? He's writing an opinion piece about software, it doesn't need to read like Tumblr poetry written by teenagers.
rappatic commented on Denuvo Analysis   connorjaydunn.github.io/b... · Posted by u/StefanBatory
mathverse · 3 months ago
Denuvo does not need to hire from the scene. The scene is not some magical place full of uber leet crackers. People doing denuvo have the same or better skills.
rappatic · 3 months ago
Denuvo definitely does attempt to hire from the scene. It's less that they necessarily need those specific peoples' skills, but rather because there are so few people who can crack Denuvo, so hiring a single such person dramatically reduces the number of people out there cracking your games. The most famous example being Empress, who was the only person in the world cracking Denuvo for a few years. I'm sure Denuvo would have loved to hire her, if only to stop her from releasing cracks.
rappatic commented on The Journal of Imaginary Research   journalofimaginaryresearc... · Posted by u/cenazoic
rappatic · 3 months ago
They should TeX these up for some real flair ;)
rappatic commented on Stringly Typed   stefanjudis.com/blog/stri... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
cartoffal · 4 months ago
The idea of "type safety over the network" is a fiction.

When it comes down to it, what is being sent over the network is 1s and 0s. At some point, some layer (probably multiple layers) are going to have to interpret that sequence of 1s and 0s into a particular shape. There are two main ways of doing that:

- Know what format the data is in, but not the content (self-describing formats) - in which case the data you end up with might be of an arbitrary shape, and casting/interpreting the data is left to the application

- Know what format the data is in, AND know the content (non-self-describing formats) - in which case the runtime will parse out the data for you from the raw bits and you get to use it in its structured form.

The fact that this conversion happens doesn't depend on the language; JS is no more unsafe than any other language in this regard, and JSON is no better or worse of a data serialisation format for it. The boundary already exists, and someone has to handle what happens when the data is the wrong shape. Where that boundary ends up influences the shape of the application but what is preferable will depend on the application and developer.

rappatic · 4 months ago
> The idea of "type safety over the network" is a fiction

> When it comes down to it, what is being sent over the network is 1s and 0s

?

When it comes down to it, all of computing is 1s and 0s. This is not some feature that's particular to the wire.

rappatic commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup   pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike
rappatic · 4 months ago
Why on startup? Windows startup is already so painfully slow, especially compared to Apple silicon machines, and adding Office to it would only compound this problem. I think this problem can be avoided, while also still helping pre-load Office, if Windows just detects when resource utilization is low and loads Office in the background then.
rappatic commented on The Seven-Year Rule   macsparky.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/thecosas
rappatic · 4 months ago
This reminded me of a hilarious passage from Chapter 9 of the novel Ulysses. Stephen Dedalus is pondering a £1 debt he owed from five months prior:

> Wait. Five months now. Molecules all change. I am other I now. Other I got pound.

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KarmaCake day827December 16, 2020View Original