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811.
by giobox 4y ago
By "disc", you mean CD? I remember this a lot once CD-ROM became huge in the mid 90s, but most of my DOS shareware came on 3.5 inch floppies.
812.
by giobox 4y ago
> They actually work better than modern ones imo, because you can go into any gear from either front cog with no issue You can do this on the latest modern stuff too, what you are describing is often called "cross-chaining". C
813.
by giobox 4y ago
> But you kind of do have to be old in order to have outdated knowledge I'm not so sure. Google and StackOverflow are chock full of outdated (sometimes dangerous!) advice and knowledge on just about any tech subject, which hurts the
814.
by giobox 4y ago
Theres a fair amount of quotes I'm too lazy to find now where Jobs expresses his absolute distain for the "enterprise" market. With enterprise software, the end user is almost never the actual paying customer, which when you
815.
by giobox 4y ago
For me, I look for the opposite solution. What is the poorest quality camera my colleagues in meetings will passably accept? I want as few pixels of my sleepy head in morning meetings being beamed to my colleagues as I can get away with, wh
816.
by giobox 4y ago
It can still be a lot more efficient to grab the scrollbar to jump to a section of a large document. For example, you can instantly get to say 3/4 of the way through by moving the scroll bar a very short distance, which when done with
817.
by giobox 4y ago
* 2560x1440 at 27 inch: 109 ppi * 4k at 27 inch: 163 ppi * 5k at 27 inch: 218 ppi I've ran both 5k and 4k monitors on a variety of macOS machines in the 27inch size class - its not nearly as bad "a whole another story". Its a
818.
by giobox 4y ago
In fairness, the connectivity standards that can support the data overhead of 5k/120hz aren't all that wide spread yet. Even thunderbolt 4 doesn't have the bandwidth for uncompressed 5k at 120hz. It's only just possible
819.
by giobox 4y ago
The scaling artifacts are no different at 4k compared to running an MBP at "non-native" retina resolutions - its the same problem/issue, if you are sensitive. For what its worth, Apple have shipped many MacBook Pros at "
820.
by giobox 4y ago
> Goldeneye, though it controls differently to modern shooters, was an excellent use of the single stick at the time. You could also use dual sticks by using two controllers at once - groundbreaking! Wait, what!!? Can you really play dua
821.
by giobox 4y ago
> I had to root for him to fail because clearly this humanity-on-the-brink would be better off with one fewer self-interested mass-murders around making things even worse. That's... not a great way to motivate the player. Isn't
822.
by giobox 5y ago
I've often wondered if we need to radically change the State's relationship with the software it produces. As Robert Lessig famously observed, "code is law" in a world controlled by computers. There is increasingly a str
823.
by giobox 5y ago
For fuzz, anti and anti-aliasing issues, you can sometimes make them worse with a HiDPI display. All of these issues really boil down to render resolution not integer scaling to the display resolution. If the render resolution is an integ
824.
by giobox 5y ago
While I love the CRTs I have on some old hobby builds, I’m extremely doubtful a “new” CRT could be manufactured at a price people would want to pay. It would sell to a niche if it was affordable; I just don’t think the manufacturing infrast
825.
by giobox 5y ago
I only learned what the "Sparkle Button" (that really does appear to be its actual name) does the other week in an article discussing its terrible design too. Instantly earned a spot in my personal UX Hall of Shame. Click the &quo
826.
by giobox 5y ago
This will hugely vary based on where you were living at that time - I worked for a UK ISP in the early to late 2000s and can't agree with this description of the UK as a whole. Virgin's coverage has never really been close to &q
827.
by giobox 5y ago
What? He's the single largest shareholder, but even recently its approx 17 percent of Tesla he owns. Musk hasn't owned more than 50% of the stock anytime Tesla has been a public company.
828.
by giobox 5y ago
Isn't this supposedly one of the magical things WebAssembly gets us? While I can sympathise with wanting <insert your favourite language here> in the browser, I'm not sure its so great in reality and I'm really scared o
829.
by giobox 5y ago
The problem isn't a technological one arguably though, and that's why all purely technical solutions are probably doomed to failure. A huge part of the reason senior government figures around the world often choose to use WhatsApp
830.
by giobox 5y ago
Right, but not all drivers operating a vehicle in the UK are required to pass a UK driving theory test. Virtually all foreign drivers can arrive, show up to a rental car place on their foreign documents and just drive out. While in the best
831.
by giobox 5y ago
I find the UK's road sign for "National Speed Limit Applies" to be surely one of the worst designed road signs in history. Much like your German example, it exists solely to tell you the speed limit has changed. Rather than p
832.
by giobox 5y ago
You know Aperture has been dead a long time when there is no one left to complain about how relatively poor its performance was, especially in its early years. There were of course some great ideas in there, especially in the UX and photo m
833.
by giobox 5y ago
Although this article paints this being about diversifying a China-heavy supply chain, Apple have been forced to ramp up manufacturing in India for many years now due to legislation that places enormous import taxes on selling products in I
834.
by giobox 5y ago
Nova is nice, but its selection of plugins and integrations (things like linters, code syntax highlighting for specific languages etc) is just vastly behind VSCode. Mac native is nice to have, but the feature set in VSCode is so hard for a
835.
by giobox 5y ago
Perforce is probably more widespread than people realise, and not just games industry although they've focused more on the benefits they bring to that field in recent years. Perforce were offering a good quality version control system
836.
by giobox 5y ago
Attacking rich foreigners for not paying enough <insert tax or contribution> to their adopted homes is fairly common throughout the world, no? America does make it harder to avoid paying tax with a system that taxes income regardless
837.
by giobox 5y ago
If you actually read the support page you linked and understand what Hulu offers, its still an "ad free" Hulu service for 12.99. For almost all of the limited cases where ads do occur, its due to it being an optional external stre
838.
by giobox 5y ago
There is more than one tier of sub, but ad free does exist, and is explicitly called the "Hulu (No Ads)" plan. In the US its $12.99 right now, and has been around a while: https://help.hulu.com/s/article/
839.
by giobox 5y ago
> While many competitors do this (Hulu, YouTube), it's a terrible experience and I've seen both myself and others simply turn to Netflix to avoid the ads In credit to YouTube and Hulu, they give you the option to go ad free, or
840.
by giobox 5y ago
It's amazing how long people have had performant productive systems with Ivy Bridge CPUs and Pascal based GPUs (NVidia 10xx parts)... If it wasn't for many of these older boards not having a TPM for Windows 11 support I'd hav

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