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- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been an android developer for a decade at this point, I’m aware of how app deep links work.
The comparison is not “what LOE is call linking from scratch” but rather “how does call linking meshing into existing production codebases across all platforms compare in LOE to 3 buttons?” And the answer is self evidently more.
You’re minimizing the amount of effort and were comparing it to buttons. Adding “a few buttons” is very different than setting up 3 platforms to all use a new protocol (calls from links will require new handling - previously all calls were just based on authenticated users being allowed into webrtc calls based on their tokens. Now you have to have a new handler which joins a call with the token in the URL - that can’t be handled identically). Then we get into the Android app, much of which is still in Java, which uses multi-activity-srchitrcgure meaning you’ve gotta pass data through each layer manually, rewriting each of these activities to accept the new deep link and route to the right end.
And then you’ve got to be sure it all coordinates across iOS, Android and your backend.
It’s not hard but it’s not “a few buttons”. It’s probably 2 weeks of work for skilled and competent engineers, 1 per platform.
Do you actually have any experience in Mobile dev? You sound like a fresh outta college junior eng - cocky and confident that everyone else is wrong, making it harder than it needs to be etc.
Just like that cocky junior eng you’re too unaware of what you don’t know to realize you’re wrong. Wade through the grass a few times and you’ll realize the flowery meadow is full of snakes.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 5 weeks ago:
Call links are a lot more work than “a few buttons”
- Comment on Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games 2 months ago:
Classing dying corporation spends more on their patent lawyers than they do their programmers. The IP lawyer to programmer ratio going positive is the death knell
- Comment on Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games 2 months ago:
Every single phone application does this. The entire Google and Apple app store economy is built on the local host doing something to make it easier on the servers.
- Comment on Verizon looks to expand Fios with $20 billion purchase of Frontier 3 months ago:
Counterpoint: frontier should go out of business, they’re absolute garbage.
Frontier, spectrum and optimum all blow ass cheeks
- Comment on Heed the Dark Urge and check out Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7, which adds 13 new evil endings plus official mod tools 3 months ago:
They’ve stated that the mod support includes every aspect of the game from mechanics to races to quest lines to dialogue.
So it should support your requirements.
- Comment on Risk Of Rain creators wind down work on unannounced project and take jobs at Valve 3 months ago:
They’ve released a game like every couple years. Many of them flops, many of them hugely successful.
Deadlock is in progress
CS2 2023
HL: Alyx 2020
Dota Underlords 2020
Artifact 2018
Dota 2 2013
CS:GO 2012
Portal 2 2011
L4D2 2009
L4D2 2008
Etc
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 3 months ago:
Who else do you go to though? Ring 0 fed ramp security vendors are not exactly common.
They’ll keep a lot of business just from lock in
- Comment on Future Fords might detect speeding and report you to the cops 4 months ago:
Libertarians and Anarchists I assume. An unholy alliance.
Governments exist to enforce rules.
Speed limits are the closest thing to a universally good rule you can imagine but “Big gubbmint bad” means that people gut react to it and throw a fit.
I kinda expected it but felt it needed saying: fuck speeders.
- Comment on Future Fords might detect speeding and report you to the cops 4 months ago:
If you’re driving to your protests you’re already an idiot.
Fuck speeders. I don’t care about the surveillance considerations for licensed vehicles on public shared roads.
Speed cams everywhere would be my preferred solution.
- Comment on Future Fords might detect speeding and report you to the cops 4 months ago:
Surveillance State totalitarianism blah blah blah I know:
You’re wielding a deadly weapon with the kinetic energy of a small bomb in a public space. You should be forced to obey the rules by any means necessary. Fuck your freedom: speeding endangers everyone!
- Comment on Complaints about crashing 13th, 14th Gen Intel CPUs now have data to back them up 5 months ago:
It’s been more than a year and I’d have to sell off my motherboard for a new socket and AMD.
I’ll just roll with it until it burns out then jump ship.
- Comment on Complaints about crashing 13th, 14th Gen Intel CPUs now have data to back them up 5 months ago:
Lmao I think I was undercoating it to try and improve stability. I’ll try the opposite, even if it does chew through the processor a bit quicker.
- Comment on Complaints about crashing 13th, 14th Gen Intel CPUs now have data to back them up 5 months ago:
My i9 13000 computer has been unstable since day 1. It mostly doesn’t affect me since it seems to be most unstable at idle. There’s always a chance when I step away for 20 minutes that I come back to a reset computer.
Tbh I just assumed it was windows this entire time.
- Comment on Team Fortress 2 fans have launched a new campaign to get Valve to save it 6 months ago:
Flip the script - why have they mitigated bots in other games but not TF2? Is it because the strategy doesn’t transfer or is it because the implementation doesn’t translate?
And if they haven’t mitigated bots elsewhere - why would they do it in a crusty codebase like TF2 vs somewhere shiny and new.
- Comment on Team Fortress 2 fans have launched a new campaign to get Valve to save it 6 months ago:
Support for TF2 would be undertaken voluntarily by developers since Valve has a flat corporate structure.
The only way you get continued support for TF2 is convincing devs to work on a crusty old legacy codebase for a game that doesn’t make anywhere near the amount of money as other games that everyone else is working on.
TF2 is iconic - Valve just doesn’t care.
- Comment on Team Fortress 2 fans have launched a new campaign to get Valve to save it 6 months ago:
Ain’t gonna happen. Valve is all in on their new hero shooter
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 7 months ago:
When Apple offers small phones nobody buys them (see iPhone 13 mini)
When Android companies offer thick phones they lose out to the latest thin Samsung.
The phone manufacturers aren’t idiots - they do a lot of research into what will sell the most phones.
Battery life and thick < thin.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 7 months ago:
The size of the sensor limits the size of the lens as well as the way the optics are formed for the stack.
You will never get starry bokeh from a stack of lenses that are so tight.
There’s a reason that you’ll have filmmakers shooting in larger and larger formats - it changes image quality and the type of lenses you can use.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 7 months ago:
It’s not what actual consumers prefer though.
People can say that all they want but the marketing facts are that the thinner phones have consistently won out.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 7 months ago:
Congrats: you just proved you’re not the average consumer.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 8 months ago:
Remove the bump: make the phone thicker for more battery 😉
Unfortunately the average consumer consistently prefers thinner phones. Thicker offerings sell worse than their thinner counterparts.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 8 months ago:
The problem is fundamentally a physics issue.
You’re going to struggle to get depth of field on any pancake stack, much less one that is as miniaturized as a mobile phone.
Also your sensor isn’t actually nearly as good as a DSLR. A DSLR has a sensor about 5x the size of a phone and that makes a huge difference in the photos.
Here’s a handy graphic:
- Comment on A 14-year-old is charged in fire that destroyed a driverless Waymo vehicle 8 months ago:
The February 10th fire was reportedly caused by lit fireworks
That doesn’t sound that malicious tbh.
that were tossed inside the vehicle as it was surrounded by a crowd in Chinatown. Involved suspects were seen smashing windows and other parts with skateboards before leaving a fiery carcass for firefighters to put out.
Ah a bit more vandalism than just a stray firework. Sounds like he had an ideological issue with driverless cars.
Totally get it - we don’t need them. I hope he doesn’t get his life ruined by our absurd penal system.
Arson is always a dangerous form of vandalism but nobody got hurt.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 8 months ago:
Power + Volume Up?
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 8 months ago:
Genius. That’s such a good idea to find your phone.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 8 months ago:
Interesting. It’s definitely a Samsung default and I thought it was Google default too.
You can obviously disable it by turning off Assistant but if that’s not what you’ve done then there’s more to it than I thought.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 8 months ago:
Tasker is great for that. I also love the “send a keyword and tasker will text back with current GPS location” feature.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 8 months ago:
Default android is not what most people run. Samsung and Google defaults are assistant.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 8 months ago:
Yeah I don’t think that’s the default on Samsung or Google phones. Could be wrong.
