glimshe

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1. 391.▲
   by glimshe 7mo ago

   My AMD 286 with a sound blaster absolutely destroyed a C64 in games. Gosh, I played Monkey Island VGA and Wing Commander on it.
2. 392.▲
   by glimshe 7mo ago

   Is "generally available" the proper wording when Claude is generally unavailable so often these days?
3. 393.▲
   by glimshe 7mo ago

   I'm the trendsetter. I've never stopped using wired headphones and, after being made fun of for years despite much better audio quality, cost, simplicity and reliability, the rich finally decided to imitate me. Never let go of you
4. 394.▲
   by glimshe 8mo ago

   I used to run POV-Ray on my pathetic AMD 386 clone. A simple render took 20 hours and yet I did it.
5. 395.▲
   by glimshe 8mo ago

   BBSs have been in theory replaced, but in reality they haven't even been approached by modern social media. Small forums full of dedicated users, often local. So many great memories.
6. 396.▲
   by glimshe 8mo ago

   Well... We're kind of saying the same thing, I just said it from another perspective. I meant to say that the military created it, so the military will stay around to reap the dividends.
7. 397.▲
   by glimshe 8mo ago

   I was about to say the same thing. How can people compare Apple to a NIAKUN throwaway laptop? I'm no Mac fanboy - I use Windows, Linux and Mac at home. I find MacOS somewhat annoying, but as a Internet browsing laptop, I'd much ra
8. 398.▲
   by glimshe 8mo ago

   Silicon Valley started with the military... And the military won't ever go away.
9. 399.▲
   by glimshe 8mo ago

   From a time when programs had to be first and foremost useful . Products like 1-2-3 succeeded by solving real world problems and people bought computers to work faster or work less. Now contrast that with Liquid Glass or Copilot integratio
10. 400.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    Both Windows and Mac OS are going through a rough patch. I think these mature OSs have most things that users want, and since incremental polishes don't give people promotions, executives go for major changes that almost always degrade
11. 401.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    I use office on Mac and Windows. It works fine on Mac, but not better than Windows. OneNote, for instance, has serious delays and glitches when syncing notebooks changed on other machines or web. I lost work multiple times before stopping u
12. 402.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    I think Anthropic certainly mishandled things, otherwise they would not have lost the contract. Obviously the investors are upset: this is a guy making millions/billions, the expectation is absolutely for him to find a way to resolve c
13. 403.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    Hey New Apple, can you guys fix the nearly weekly prompt I get to reject local network access for the browser? I don't have that on my windows or Linux machines so it's fixable!
14. 404.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    Now that I think about it, Big Toilet Paper is a threat to democracy by robbing billions from unsuspecting high-fiber food eaters.
15. 405.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    It's called vitrectomy. There are risks and that's why they generally only consider it for really severe cases. Look it up.
16. 406.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    Is "Why I left OpenAI" this decade's version of "Why I left Google"?
17. 407.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    HN is minimalist, not horrible. And the content is good!
18. 408.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    Eye floaters are like that. They don't go away but you get used to them being there.
19. 409.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    I don't have tinnitus (as in "chronic tinnitus") but sometimes I hear it for a few minutes after I have a poor night of sleep...
20. 410.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    They could buy back stock or, God forbid, pay good old dividends to investors instead of throwing money away.
21. 411.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    You'll always find someone claiming X or Y are close to collapse at any given time. As even a broken clock is right twice a day, eventually one of these predictions will randomly be proven correct. That person will then be elevated to
22. 412.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    Claude Free suggests Visual Studio. Claude Plus suggests VSCode. Claude Pro suggests emacs.
23. 413.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    Just so you know, you could have done that gradually with decreasing amounts every day...
24. 414.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    I do. I rotate every few months among different services. I don't keep a single service permanently.
25. 415.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    Its just amazing how people on HN can say the most absurd things with total conviction. No wonder LLMs do the same, it's in the training data. I literally see no ads on my streaming subscription for close to a tenth of the price of cab
26. 416.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    First thing I do with every AI. I don't want a buddy, I want a better search and analysis engine.
27. 417.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    The joy of computing still lives in the age of AI...
28. 418.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    I didn't get where I am by taking random bets, but I'll say you'd lose your money here.
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    by glimshe 8mo ago

    I absolutely have health insurance, the most expensive available on my state. That doesn't protect me 100%, but what health insurance (including the ones available at most companies) does? People who have poor money management skills b
30. 420.▲
    by glimshe 8mo ago

    The FIRE community and my own personal situation prove you very, very wrong. It's absolutely possible for a upper middle class family to retire in their 50s, even in their 40s, if they live frugally.