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Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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Came here to say the exact same thing. I can't stop talking to everyone and their brother about it. It feels like a clear leap into the future. For the uninitiated, here are some highlights of what it enables you to do: - You can go to a friend's apartment with a Chromecast and just start playing games YOU own like CyberPunk & Assasins Creed within seconds on their TV (assuming they have a controller or you brought y…
It sounds great- but do you trust google not to shut it down, increase the price or embed a bunch of ads everywhere? You can’t take the games out (or resell them) so it’s a hard sell for me.
Yeah, I just got burned by the cancellation of Nest Secure. I’m no longer keen on investing time and money in new Google products and services
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#994Stadia, the initial reviews were actually pretty bad, but I'm blown away by how good it is. There's something undeniably cool about playing cyberpunk on a macbook air with full graphical detail, and then switching over to play on my TV exactly where I left off. The latency is virtually imperceptible to me, and I love that I don't need a 50 GB download just to try out a new game. Everytime I use it I'm honestly impres…
I think a good experience depends on the quality of your internet connection. Unfortunately, in the US this is hampered by the ISP duopoly
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#995Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to disagree that macOS has a good GUI. I have used Ubuntu with KDE Plasma (Ubuntu) extensively in the past, but when I started a new job a year ago I was supplied a 2019 MBP. This year has been my first Mac experience. I find a lot of things annoying. I'm mostly used to it now and don't mind the day to day experience, but it was jarring and I know it's not ideal. * If I want to maximize a window, I have to hov…
A shortcut to maximise the window: click the green icon while pressing Option.
Great, thanks!
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#996Bitcoin
Until I tried writing bitcoin script. Then I found Ethereum, which lived up to the hype.
Hey - this is the second time i've ran across one of your comments that intrigued me. I'm currently in the process of selling my business and will be focusing full time on ethereum development. I don't know anyone in the space so i'd love to chat and i'd gladly pay you for you time. Email me at Rhoades.lorenzo@gmail.com if you're interested.
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#997LED lighting, especially in its application to bicycles.
You talking about safety?
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#998Bitcoin
- https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/ten-years-in-nobody-has-c... and followup - https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle...
I read both articles but it isn't very convincing. He goes on to point out the 150 different companies and projects that solve the same things as bitcoin/ eth. However, instead of a million different 'endpoints' there's one its self-contained. You have this extremely powerful technology that has the ability to do all of these different things that have taken hundreds of thousands of people 20 years to make. Eth has done that in 7 years with a fraction of the resources. As adoption grows so will the development speed.
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#999Hamilton. I'm not big into theater nor musicals, and I had heard so much about it by the time I watched it on Disney+, I wasn't expecting it to blow me away but it totally did. I'm a huge fan now, watched it several times, listened to the album hundreds of times, read the book, and recommend it every time I can :)
I can appreciate the amount of talent that went into making Hamilton, but I found the pace too manic to fully enjoy it. The thing never lets up.
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#1000The Wire. I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes. I think it helped that I quite quickly saw it as a morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures in mitigating the effects of crime, rather than a typical 'good vs bad' cop show. With that mindset, the possibly-underwhelming finale of S1 is much more effectiv…
The wire absolutely blew my mind and raised the bar on how great television can be. I have trouble getting past the first few episodes of Game of Thrones, how does it stack up to The Wire in terms of sucking you into the storyline and committing, looking forward to each new episode and pondering over episodes during your day to day like I experienced with The Wire?
I'd say most shows fall short of The Wire. Game of Thrones was /good/ for the first three seasons or so, then got worse and worse. The last season, in my opinion, is so bad that in hindsight I wish I hadn't watched the entire show.