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switz

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About switz

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https://saewitz.com (email: hn@saewitz.com)

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    It largely works and it's a massive business success. This is the classic engineer asking the 'why this technology?' to what amounts to a business question. They chose it early on,…

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    I do this. The awkward thing is when I am in person or on the phone and have to explain that my customer email address is [their_business_name]@my_weird_domain.tld But the people u…

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    Comment #48418257

    Can someone explain to me if EU card transactions are capped, why Stripe charges me (US) the full ride on my EU customer's cards? In fact, I get charged even more for EU cards – pe…

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    Comment #48076984

    I personally don't agree, and my experience is that RSCs embrace the inherent complexity of building websites. All websites span the server and the client to some extent. Giving yo…

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    Comment #48014318

    It's a shame that VCs have corrupted a $200MM/year business into the perception as a failure. Who cares if the VCs didn't get a large return, or if the outsized impact of the softw…

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    Comment #47969679

    Please do not wash your authentic writing through an LLM.

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    Comment #47798078

    Workers runtime is open source and permissively licensed fwiw https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

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    Comment #47785942

    Though this would be mildly annoying for the earnest case (selling a ticket to a friend), it would be the actual solve to the problem. The parent's suggestion still creates artific…

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    Comment #47773043

    It's really up to the artists. Many are surprisingly cool with it, though there are a few notable exceptions (i.e. Prince). Sounds like the artist in this particlar case gave their…

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    Comment #47770415

    Oh hey, it's me! Happy to answer any questions We landed an update on mobile last week that brought all 4,000 artists with a "collection" onto Relisten. That'll be coming to the we…

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    Comment #47606915

    4 1's == 4/1 could just be a coincidence

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    Comment #47243185

    really appreciate you building and maintaining it! state machines are the truth!

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    Comment #47223489

    I run Firefox latest so it should work. There's always a risk when going from HTML5->Web Audio. There's an occasional blip that's impossible to avoid (or at least, I have never fou…

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    Comment #47223209

    Thanks! Please do share if you choose to implement it (you can open a Github issue). I'd be glad to add any projects using it to the README.

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    Gapless 5 was actually the precursor to this library over a decade ago, so Rego deserves full credit. They built the first example of gapless playback on the web and I took inspira…

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    Show HN: Gapless.js – gapless web audio playback

    Hey HN, I just released v4 of my gapless playback library that I first built in 2017 for https://relisten.net . We stream concert recordings, where gapless playback is paramount. I…

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    Comment #47145807

    RSC by design does not ship everything to the client. That's one of its basic premises. It ships markup, composed in client interactivity, but you can shed a lot of the code requir…

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    Comment #47142927

    This is pretty fascinating and comes with some complicated AI-world incentives that I've been ruminating on lately. The better you document your work, the stronger contracts you de…

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