> The Web could have maxed out as a distribution system for catalogs, data sheets, academic papers, and similar business to business info. Strong disagree, demand for the internet was insatiable, all one had to do to…
I guess what I don't get is the part where you broadcast that it's a midlife crisis. If I bought a super expensive computer or house or vacation I wouldn't walk into the office and announce I've had a midlife crisis.…
I should have said the car was just like a 4 door performance Civic. In that context "Look It's My Midlife Crisis Car TM" feels like a car equivalent of quoting Seinfeld or Friends as a substitute for a personality or…
I had a coworker who one day showed up to work, pointed out the window and said look I bought a midlife crisis car very matter-of-factly, and I will never understand this. You don't need to do anything, nobody is making…
You might be right, 8 ms of total end to end latency is about 1 frame at 120 hz or half a frame of 60 hz, someone would need to be quite competitive to notice that. And the baseline was 4 ms, so going from half a frame…
Yes, fully agree, advice like "old thing is better than new thing in this particular category" tends to not last because new thing has people actively working to make new thing good. Exceptions are when the underlying…
He seems confused at the end why people think wayland is so slow, but don't you think it's because of his xwayland result? People were probably running x11 games on wayland and noticed that significant lag. Just a wild…
> What are the chances that I could find the exact charger needed for a GameBoy Colour? Your chance is 100% because the charger for GBC is 2 AA batteries ;)
But that's the fun part!
Microsoft would have had to have done the right things before Windows Phone, ie the Windows Mobile era, but that was the Ballmer era where only Windows mattered, and mobile didn't meaningfully increase sales of Windows,…
Never did understand why gimp's ui isn't a Photoshop clone, or more broadly, why there isn't one canonical Photoshop clone like libreoffice is to Ms office.
In my experience a docx that looks good in libreoffice usually looks good in word, it's the other way around that is usually more of a problem.
Desktop Linux is criminally underrated now, it's just so good. Latest Ubuntu LTS turns any computer into a free Mac in the sense of a Unixlike system where everything just works, but somehow we are still joking about…
Yeah, it's always annoying to me how asbestos is equated to things like leaded gas that go into the environment and poison everyone on the planet when it's more like second hand smoke or something like that. Asbestos is…
When your house has termites, it's quite correct to say that the termites don't care about the house, even though each individual termite cares deeply about having an infinite supply of wood to chew on.
Because money printer go burr
I swear I have seen a new article about Polestar owners "scrambling" for one reason or another about once every month or two for, like, 10 years now. Can we not? Most people have to decide which car to buy, which is the…
Bricks and minifigs = franchise that sells used legos Dad of Oregon man had $100k-200k of Star wars legos One store agreed to sell them on consignment Something shady happened with the store and he ended up with no…
Right? Next tip for developers, always work in a private office, preferably a corner office, I learned this from my boss.
Personally I think if he did that people wouldn't pay attention. My experience is that when you complain to people about digital rights they just glaze over unless you walk them through all the ins and outs and the…
Ahaha that's even better, I had no idea, love it!
Yes, radio found out naming is hard before software did, in very old times there was High Frequency (HF), but then circuits got fast enough to go higher, oops, ok no problem, let's call the new frequencies Very High…
That's probably right. The interviewers who are sitting around complaining on HN are probably not the typical interviewers one encounters.
Hmm, no, you have latest Chrome, via Boot Camp ;)
That's not actually the part that bothers me, but it's good to caution about envy.
> The Web could have maxed out as a distribution system for catalogs, data sheets, academic papers, and similar business to business info. Strong disagree, demand for the internet was insatiable, all one had to do to…
I guess what I don't get is the part where you broadcast that it's a midlife crisis. If I bought a super expensive computer or house or vacation I wouldn't walk into the office and announce I've had a midlife crisis.…
I should have said the car was just like a 4 door performance Civic. In that context "Look It's My Midlife Crisis Car TM" feels like a car equivalent of quoting Seinfeld or Friends as a substitute for a personality or…
I had a coworker who one day showed up to work, pointed out the window and said look I bought a midlife crisis car very matter-of-factly, and I will never understand this. You don't need to do anything, nobody is making…
You might be right, 8 ms of total end to end latency is about 1 frame at 120 hz or half a frame of 60 hz, someone would need to be quite competitive to notice that. And the baseline was 4 ms, so going from half a frame…
Yes, fully agree, advice like "old thing is better than new thing in this particular category" tends to not last because new thing has people actively working to make new thing good. Exceptions are when the underlying…
He seems confused at the end why people think wayland is so slow, but don't you think it's because of his xwayland result? People were probably running x11 games on wayland and noticed that significant lag. Just a wild…
> What are the chances that I could find the exact charger needed for a GameBoy Colour? Your chance is 100% because the charger for GBC is 2 AA batteries ;)
But that's the fun part!
Microsoft would have had to have done the right things before Windows Phone, ie the Windows Mobile era, but that was the Ballmer era where only Windows mattered, and mobile didn't meaningfully increase sales of Windows,…
Never did understand why gimp's ui isn't a Photoshop clone, or more broadly, why there isn't one canonical Photoshop clone like libreoffice is to Ms office.
In my experience a docx that looks good in libreoffice usually looks good in word, it's the other way around that is usually more of a problem.
Desktop Linux is criminally underrated now, it's just so good. Latest Ubuntu LTS turns any computer into a free Mac in the sense of a Unixlike system where everything just works, but somehow we are still joking about…
Yeah, it's always annoying to me how asbestos is equated to things like leaded gas that go into the environment and poison everyone on the planet when it's more like second hand smoke or something like that. Asbestos is…
When your house has termites, it's quite correct to say that the termites don't care about the house, even though each individual termite cares deeply about having an infinite supply of wood to chew on.
Because money printer go burr
I swear I have seen a new article about Polestar owners "scrambling" for one reason or another about once every month or two for, like, 10 years now. Can we not? Most people have to decide which car to buy, which is the…
Bricks and minifigs = franchise that sells used legos Dad of Oregon man had $100k-200k of Star wars legos One store agreed to sell them on consignment Something shady happened with the store and he ended up with no…
Right? Next tip for developers, always work in a private office, preferably a corner office, I learned this from my boss.
Personally I think if he did that people wouldn't pay attention. My experience is that when you complain to people about digital rights they just glaze over unless you walk them through all the ins and outs and the…
Ahaha that's even better, I had no idea, love it!
Yes, radio found out naming is hard before software did, in very old times there was High Frequency (HF), but then circuits got fast enough to go higher, oops, ok no problem, let's call the new frequencies Very High…
That's probably right. The interviewers who are sitting around complaining on HN are probably not the typical interviewers one encounters.
Hmm, no, you have latest Chrome, via Boot Camp ;)
That's not actually the part that bothers me, but it's good to caution about envy.