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It's interesting that we're so used to the GUI buttons having that specific behavior of only triggering when releasing, even if you exit and enter the button area while holding the mouse button down, etc.
IRL 99%+ of buttons work by just doing the thing as soon as you press them. But a button that works like that in a GUI would feel wrong.
That's not true, there's a lot to be done on the exterior as well, the main entrance is not even finished yet.
The big achievement that happened recently is they completed the towers, so it finally reached its target height. Also the Pope's blessing.
Going from 32 bits to 64 bits doesn't double the range (that would be adding 1 bit), it squares the range.
What's the experience with Font Forge for creating pixel fonts? I have never used it but I always assumed that a font creation tool made for arbitrary style "vector" fonts is probably unwieldy if all you want is square pixels, to be rendered pixel-perfect, etc.
I made PixelForge [0] a while ago just for creating pixel fonts and being able to export to TTF. I had it semi-abandoned for a few years, but I'm about to release a new version in the next few days! [1]
I think you're reading way too much into that comment. Sometimes questions are just questions out of curiosity, not accusations of the opposite.
Having lived with a cat that had been in the streets for months before being adopted, and a different cat that had always lived indoors, I think that's the main difference in behavior regarding safety.
The one that had had experiences outdoors was more obsessed with food (to the point of eating everything fast until vomiting sometimes), scared of noises and sudden movements (going to hide in safe places), even from the people that had been living with her and caring for her for years. She was sweet and loving, but the streets never left her.
The one that had always been indoor was friendly to everybody, never super scared of noises, super curious, could regulate food properly (eating piecemeal throughout the day), etc.
There's always differences between cats' personalities, and this is a small sample, but it seemed significant and made sense given their experiences and possible past trauma.
The quick way I'd solve that is to open any program window (like calculator or whatever), mark it as being on top of other windows, and resize it and place it on top of that area. It seems quick and easy enough for the effort.
It reminds me a bit of this post from the Facebook engineering blog (2015) [1] where they discuss embedding a very tiny preview of images into the html itself so they show immediately while loading the page, especially with very slow connections.
[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2015/08/06/android/the-technology...
Any interesting insights about using Godot with C#? I love C# and I'm happy using it in Godot even though it's not as seamless as in Unity: in Godot 4 we still can't export to Web if the project is C#, and there's the whole conversion between C# types and Godot types that adds inefficiencies and extra allocations, etc.; it feels like it's a second-class language in Godot.
I'm always interested in seeing what people find when developing larger projects in C#.
I'm assuming this is the same (or evolved) Lazy Tetris that you posted some weeks ago, with the name changed because of their trademark, right? I was wondering why it had disappeared for me a while ago and I found this again now :)
I think you could place a link from the old website to the new one, or a redirect, especially since the old HN post was relatively big. I had a bookmark and checked every now and then in case it would come back, and only now found it again by going through your HN account posts. Pleasant surprise!
I've played it on desktop (firefox) and android (firefox). The drop animation is super nice!
On android it works great, i love the controls, just dragging to place horizontally and then pressing drop, super satisfying!
On desktop, I would have one suggestion: right now I have to drag the cursor to place the piece horizontally, click to rotate, but then i have to move the cursor to the drop button to drop. Pressing space works, but sometimes I'd want to play with just the mouse, no keyboard. I think middle click could be a good way to drop the piece with just the mouse (double click too, but then you run into timing issues with the left click, so I think middle click is better).
Also, maybe an option to follow the cursor instead of having to drag/drop? So the play flow would be just moving the cursor, click to rotate, middle click to drop.
Also also, a link somewhere to be able to contact, in case of suggestions, questions, etc. :)
Good work!
In Unity3D Game Engine, "Yellow" as a named color is not #ffff00 but #ffeb04, the documentation says "RGBA is (1, 0.92, 0.016, 1), but the color is nice to look at!". I bet this bit the ass of thousands of developers that used it assuming it would be #ffff00 and then wondering why the output color somewhere was wrong.
Somebody liked Saturn enough to put a ring on it.
It's not about the time it takes to say "hello" back. It's about synchronization steps. What if I don't see the first message right away (i might not see the notification, or I was busy with something else, or I was AFK, etc etc)? Then I reply 20 minutes after with just a "hello" because I don't know what they wanted at all, so I can't reply with any information. Then they might take 20 minutes to respond because they aren't going to sit for an answer, etc etc.
It's a waste of interruptions. And for some types of work, like programming (we're in HN after all), interruptions can be more costly than just the "4 seconds" it takes to reply. Them saying "hello" and then without waiting for a reply explaining what they want in a short way, is more efficient and respectful of your time (and theirs, to be honest).
Kim Dotcom? kim.com
Given that you just care about 4 digit codes (so you don't actually care about a generic algorithm that's not super slow in asymptotic time), can't you just solve it with an easy to code bruteforce algorithm? Or is the combinatorial explosion so big that it's actually intractable that way?
Jake Seliger was an active HN user [1], and there were a bunch of highly voted and commented posts about his situation here, among others:
Jul 22, 2023: I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36827438
Aug 04, 2023: If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973736
May 26, 2024: The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40485246
Aug 05, 2024: Starting Hospice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157974
Aug 09, 2024: Jake Seliger has died: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41201555
I suspect it's because they don't want you to focus on the past, only the present. Or maybe it's because it would either highlight how irrelevant the change is, or how annoying the new one is.
In the real world you almost never hear something on one ear but not the other. Even if something is on your left, your right ear still hears it (differences in timing and volume inform your brain on the sound source location). Exception being if it's something really quiet right next to one ear, but that's relatively rare.
So when things are mixed "improperly" (it's subjective), it's very distracting to me. I don't need to force mono everywhere, but it's very common in amateurish channels, and surprisingly also in movies and TV shows. Big productions tend to mix assuming you'll play on speakers (where it's fine to have something playing on just one channel/speaker, since both your ears will hear it), but when it mixes down to stereo and you listen on headphones, it's soooo common for them to pan something 100% to one channel when the source is supposed to be on that side. Like, somebody speaking to the left of the camera, and it comes 100% on the left channel and 0% on the right one. It's so unnatural and annoying to me.
I have an extra suggestion: Maybe some keyboard key mapping, like up/down for switching the channel. I'm imagining having this perma-running in a small PC connected to a TV and the small wireless remotes have mappings for the arrow keys and up/down for channel would be perfect for that. (maybe other mappings as well)
I'd echo the sentiment that this is amazing, and that a TV guide would be awesome.
I'd also suggest maybe adding the channel names (like the comment you posted here) to the app itself (although i think it's cool when it's unnamed and you get the old-school feeling of channels just being numbers).
Also, I'd love to have permalinks for the channels. Not for the individual videos themselves, but just a link that when sharing would bring somebody else to the same channel you're watching right now.
Another thing, although probably outside your control, is that I use a Firefox extension called "SoundFixer" that I use to force the youtube audio to mono (since a lot of channels are annoying to me using headphones, they pan the audio sources too hard left/right and it's super distracting), but it doesn't seem to work on this website, probably because of the way they're embedded. I don't know if this can be changed somehow, or have a mode to force mono audio (which would be also oldschool like old TVs with one speaker only!). It's probably too niche and hard to do though.
Also I don't seem to find any volume control except mute?
He was an active HN user and a writer, he had a very active blog for many years, and he and his wife had been documenting their struggles during his disease; some of those articles were voted high here and had a lot of discussion around them. So in the microcosm of HN, it's relevant news.
RIP Jake.
I've been reading your writings for a few months and I can assure you that you're on a lot of strangers' minds, passively making positive change in other people. I wish all the best to you and your family.
That's so cool! I can imagine it kind of feels like when you have a wheel that you can turn with your fingers and it kind of "snaps" into place at regular intervals, like your body rotation is snapping into a cardinal direction.
Have you thought about trying something similar using Android? Taking the compass and doing small short vibration blips, you can also pair them with sound and light for testing or reinforcing it. Although I can imagine that the compass is not very accurate and the vibration control on Android is probably all over the place in terms of consistency between devices. But being able to have it as something compact that you probably already carry around could make it real-life useful.
I can imagine it being an assistance when it's in your pocket and it passively keeps feeding you the blips, you could use the proximity detection to make it only do that when in your pocket, for instance.
Am I the only one a bit weirded out by a headline that's basically "X said Y" where Y is in quotes, but it turns out that X is not a well-defined entity, and Y wasn't actually said by anybody? Regardless of the content of the article, it just doesn't seem like a good look. And I donate to the EFF! It's just... weird to me.
I don't think this is an unlucky mistake, it's bad processes inside the company. Any other person in the same situation would have gotten the same result. It's not like somebody accidentally gave him the wrong thing, they have two variations of the same product silently being treated as the same, with pin incompatibilities.
I'm not knowledgeable about that specific subgenre, but if you're going to be more or less following the traditional rules of older graphic adventures, I think there are plugins for Unity/Godot that automate most of the common stuff and you can focus on the art and game logic, dialogue, etc. So instead of trying to learn how to develop games, try to look for specific tools to develop graphic adventures, you might find that part of the boring hard work is avoidable!
Out of the people that enter the site, those stats wouldn't surprise me at all.
It's actually "català" not "catalá". Source: I'm català.
All of the things you mentioned are not languages themselves. If you google "catala language" (try it! seriously) you're going to get results for the natural language, not this one. It's just an unneeded roadblock that they placed on themselves.