cwillu

38 ms·

811.
by cwillu 1y ago
On the other hand, computer use in the star trek universe now seems downright prescient.
812.
by cwillu 1y ago
“You get what you pay for” applies in spades to customer-facing staff.
813.
by cwillu 1y ago
https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-an... has a ten part series on the topic.
814.
by cwillu 1y ago
“16:12 The importance of purging cold water from the line”
815.
by cwillu 1y ago
Nobody forced google to maintain a single coherent identity for users across all their services, such that a ban on one service risks impacts to several unrelated ones.
816.
by cwillu 1y ago
Then they shouldn't be permitted to operate at a scale where their unwillingness to do business with you causes you to be unable to transact with entire business sectors. If digikey decides they don't want to do business with me,
817.
by cwillu 1y ago
> "breaking it up" just turns it into another one of the many many competitors that already exist. That's very much the point: collaring and tranquilizing the 900 pound gorilla in the room so that the reasons people might
818.
by cwillu 1y ago
At the cost of very efficiently radiating that heat back out into space at night. Making electricity and then using that electricity to heat something elsewhere lets you insulate, effectively allowing you to create a box that heat energy ca
819.
by cwillu 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_family has a list of common families; of particular note is CMOS, which is essentially what modern computing is based on.
820.
by cwillu 1y ago
I'm curious what you think “released on bail” means?
821.
by cwillu 1y ago
Is “interpol” public information?
822.
by cwillu 1y ago
osu (music beat-clicking game) has a built-in screen frequency a/b test, and despite running on a 60hz screen I can reliably pass that test up to 240hz. It's not just having 60 frames ready per second, it's what's in th
823.
by cwillu 1y ago
The company is not family, will never be family, and will chew you up and spit you out the moment it is better on net for them.
824.
by cwillu 1y ago
The dependency on telemetry instead of actually sitting down with a user and watching them use your software is part of the problem. No amount of screen captures, heatmaps or abandoned workflow metrics will show you the expression on a per
825.
by cwillu 1y ago
Ironically, that slide deck is pretty insufferable. Yes, lets pretend “make *meaning*” is a meaningful thing to say, when compared to “I'm required to do this” or “I have information to convey”
826.
by cwillu 1y ago
You know that (some) people get paid to work on free software, right?
827.
by cwillu 1y ago
In the 90's, “Software is a young field” had a point. In the 2020's though, I think we have to start admitting to ourselves that it is largely an immature/developmentally-delayed field.
828.
by cwillu 1y ago
And at best it's the same as me asking my smart friend and copy/pasting their response to you, as if them citing sources puts the onus on you with rather than me to check the citations.
829.
by cwillu 1y ago
What's your point? It's surely not that giving instructions should be banned because it's possible to give malicious instructions, is it?
830.
by cwillu 1y ago
And? Is your answer to “some people gave malicious advice on the internet” _really_ to outlaw giving _any_ advice on the internet?
831.
by cwillu 1y ago
Shifting goalposts: you said there's no marketplace, I pointed out a highly prominent one, and your counterargument is… they don't count because other different things exist.
832.
by cwillu 1y ago
> Any device that doesn't have DRM will never support a paid digital marketplace Yet here am on linux buying games on steam
833.
by cwillu 1y ago
No, that's a misconception. If you add BB(748)==‹any N but the correct number›, you get an inconsistent system that will either claim that a machine doesn't halt even though it does (e.g. the real BB champion), or that some machi
834.
by cwillu 1y ago
Only if you write a haiku about the site guidelines first.
835.
by cwillu 1y ago
Nit: disjoint product classes, but clearly related concepts .
836.
by cwillu 1y ago
An interesting take in the context of systemd's deviation from it being the source of bugs because of real world usage that conflicts with systemd's changes.
837.
by cwillu 1y ago
While I agree that they're probably not arguing in good faith, “Did you even read the article?” is explicitly called out in the hn guidelines.
838.
by cwillu 1y ago
“I'll clarify that no one but the designers themselves knows the original intention, but since it's the exact same design as the AA model, just with internal changes, it seems like an open-and-shut case.” “Legendary attention to d
839.
by cwillu 1y ago
I've largely lost patience with the current culture of sacrificing any backwards compatibility that is slightly inconvenient in the name of “improvement”.
840.
by cwillu 1y ago
It's pretty common for blog posts in this arena to just include samples that you click to play.

More ›