flying_sheep's comments

On: Actual Size Online Ruler (Mm,Cm,Inches) – Screen M...

[flying_sheep]

> This page is a darknet that can't be found on Google, add it to your bookmark, favorites, otherwise you will lose it.

But I can find it on Google

[Cheer2171 → flying_sheep]

I'm convinced this is a troll. HTML page has meta keywords, the robots.txt is set to disallow nothing (aka allow all).

First submission or comment from this new HN account and it hits the front page in minutes.

On: 8cc.vim: Pure Vim script C Compiler

[flying_sheep]

I'd love to use vim to compile vim lolz

[queuebert → flying_sheep]

I always suspected Emacs would achieve sentience before vim. Maybe I'll be wrong.

[zelphirkalt → queuebert]

The difference is, that with Vim script it will either happen unexpectedly or unexplicably, while in Elisp it will/might happen later, but will be in the realm of understandable things.

[tambourine_man → zelphirkalt]

Just keep adding closing parenthesis to the end of the file. Eventually Emacs will greet you in HAL 9000 style.

On: Unison Cloud

[flying_sheep]

Distributed function call isn't that simple. You will soon have various issues like authentication, authorization, compatibility between versions, throttling, retry (e.g. transient error), and so on :-/ The list is so long we could probably write a book about these

[pests → flying_sheep]

Many of those are already handled.

[zawodnaya → flying_sheep]

Or like a whole language to handle them

On: AWS Icon Quiz

[flying_sheep]

That's why I think Adobe has made the smart move. They simply use English as the icon, color as the impression.

You can guess via the English if you are unfamiliar with the icon. And easy to spot via the color if you already know the icon.

Let's say if I forget the characters in the Illustrator icon. But I can recognize the icon is Illustrator because of its orange color.

[dylan604 → flying_sheep]

I think Microsoft was even better, at least on the number of users that recognized the blue W for making documents the e icon to get online, etc. That's how my mom did it, but she would have no idea what Ps, Il, Ae, would mean

[Sohcahtoa82 → dylan604]

And if you arrange the icons right on your task bar, you can make it spell lewd things.

[paulddraper → flying_sheep]

That gets harder if you have 200+ products.

On: X.org

[flying_sheep]

To make it clear, no one is buying X.org

[zer8k → flying_sheep]

As we saw with Freenode everyone has a price. This will be an interesting point in internet history for sure.

On: Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my ...

[flying_sheep]

This is a piece of good Hacker news. Nice job

On: Show HN: Find the 10 highest and 10 lowest correla...

[flying_sheep]

Well this tool does not cater for splits and dividends :-/ very misleading IMO

On: Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API

[flying_sheep]

I paid ~100 dollars to buy songs in Taiko no Tatsujin in iOS 4 via In-App Purchase. But around 2 years later they axed the game and I have no way to download it again. First I can still recover it via iTunes backup. But later when iOS 7 is published, the backup just couldn't run anymore. It was just gone. I should have owned them if I pay that amount of money :-/ It was a very fun game.

[extrememacaroni → flying_sheep]

There's people who pay tens of thousands of dollars on Genshin Impact and the game will be removed from the store at some point too and the things they spent money on will be gone. You don't own things from the store :\

On: Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API

[flying_sheep]

I had many 32-bits games in macOS but they were all axed, including big titles like Diablo 2 (not the resurrected one), Warcraft 3, and a lot of indie games. This made me realize why no sensible game companies would develop in Apple platforms, unless the games generate revenue continuously (which are mostly pay-to-win games)

God know what Apple would axe next :-/

[mlajtos → flying_sheep]

> God know what Apple would axe next :-/

I hope Oculus..eee..I mean Facebook..ah..Meta!

On: Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess

[flying_sheep]

I have switched back to Windows because macOS is like a second-class citizen in Apple :-/ I am programmer with many Bash scripts in macOS. But the switch is quite smooth actually (thanks to WSL 2).

With the similar price of M1 iMac, I can buy a Windows with a much better GPU (for gaming, deep learning, mining, or whatever) and a 140+Hz monitor. With a high refresh rate monitor the UI is so silk smooth. Expect iOS level smoothness when scrolling web pages.

However there is something I still want a solution. Say the continuation of the current website (between Edge and iPhone). Password synchronization and Notes (the official iCloud web Notes is almost useless).