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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I concur that Windows has always been a mess, but at any given point, wasn’t one of those things the “prescribed way” of doings things? Like, I get that Win32 is never going away, and some of the ideas were busts. The Java phase I think is
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
> The problem isn’t React itself, it’s the React-by-default mindset. I think this is not-seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees. The reason why we’ve been having this discussion for 20+ years is because HTML was not designed to be an app platfo
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
There's a pretty amazing video where a guy makes an entire functioning e-bike battery out of disposable vapes that he gathered around a music festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVp9T8f_W4 I can't fathom wh
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
A story I heard: the boxes of cake mix initially didn’t require eggs. Apparently housewives at the time hated them, because it made them feel sort of worthless, so the recipe was re-engineered to require a minimal amount of fresh ingredient
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
ah, I never actually bothered to read up on binary notation. I only know it via party tricks (counting to a thousand on two hands)
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Really like that zero glyph. I wonder if, instead of Roman numerals, one could use ligatures to encode numeric strings as binary… 42 as 010101 (I sort of randomly picked 42, didn't know it was such an interesting string… Douglas Adams
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
(just based on a little googling, don't shoot me if I'm wrong) 1 nuclear plant: 8 billion kilowatt hours/year 1 avg. wind turbine: 6 million kwh/yr, so 1300 turbines to match one nuke. It's obviously silly to bring
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Meta lies to their advertisers too, though https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/18/facebook-knew-ad-metrics-wer... It’s just a huge criminal enterprise.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
my first Intel was a 286 (DX2-66), and I just did a double-take reading this article when I saw “the Intel 285K CPU” ah if only they had incremented that number by one… a new 286 even just in name would be sooo funny… not as funny as bringi
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
There’s an important generational component that’s getting missed here. Most children (American children, at least) grew up on Chromebooks. That instills a certain expectation of how these things work — documents save themselves. To switch
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
> Software in x86 world is not optimized, broadly, because it doesn’t have to be. The demoscene shows what can be achieved in tight performance envelopes, but software companies have never had reason to optimize code or performance when
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I have heard that Apple Silicon chips are designed around the retain-release cycle that goes back to NeXT and is still here today (hidden by ARC compilation), but I don't think that's the whole story. Back when the M1's came
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
sincerely curious — does Linux natively map the numeric keypad on my mouse? Is there a GUI?
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
shout out for SteerMouse! https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/ (macOS) It's a kind of magical mouse driver that supports nearly every USB mouse made, including _all_ the quirky little buttons and extra functio
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
yup, correct, thanks
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I had no idea Pubsub was still a thing. Seems like it hit the scene right around when Google kneecapped the whole RSS platform.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Some companies who actually depend on actions like this should consider fronting some cash to keep this project going.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
"more complexity" is kind of a funny ask
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
It seems like you see either 3-4 columns, or a link to arrange a conference call with a salesperson (e.g. a “don’t-bother-button”)
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Are there any improvements to be done to Git? It seems like kind of a solved problem, like word processors or spreadsheets… most “improvements” to those are diminishing returns. I don't mean to sounds like an MS apologist, btw. I fully
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
When I was a teen I wanted to install electric windows in this vintage car I wound up with. My father said, “That‘s just one more thing that can break,” and yes it sounds kind of glib but I really took that to heart and let it shape my life
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
"no reason"? Try telling that to the people who wrote the books.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I hadn't heard of Interac before but it looks perfect. It’s outrageous that private duopolies control > 95% of transactions in the country.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Thank you the correction. Dang.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I believe the bounding box has to fit all the possible ascenders and descenders etc., so the em-height is proportioned within the box to whatever the highest and lowest marks in the typeface are. But this technique isn’t correcting for some
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I don’t believe so. It would be hugely useful, but I have found the iOS implementation to be kind of wonky, so I’d rather it not come to web unless the idea can be perfected. Also I think a proper implementation would require reference to l
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I used to do that with a vintage 70's sportscar… later learned that it was pretty bad for the long-term life of the transmission so had to train myself out of it.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
First, shutting down programs like this is like leaving the lights off in your home because you can't make rent of the mortgage. Saving $0.025 off your energy bill is not going to meaningfully help. Second, it’s at the top because it’s
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
so it wasn't expensive because people didn't do it? They did.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
You can animate an absolute positioned div without it obviously altering what a normal person would call "the layout." That's not simple unless one is willing to dig very deeply into the how web browser rendering works. And r

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