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by ido 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the original Pentium ('93) was when CPU fans became mandatory.
422.
by ido 3y ago
It's kinda weird but if I don't think too long about it I still sorta associate 3.5" as "modern", where as the classic floppies are the 5.25". It's silly at this point in time but windows 3.11 (the first v
423.
by ido 3y ago
But the "suburbs" (some of them would not be considered suburbs but simply outer parts of the city in a lot of other places in the world) are immensely more populous than 100 years ago.
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by ido 3y ago
I also know multiple people who hold apartments in Berlin but spend most of their time elsewhere, and keep it “just in case” for occasional visits.
425.
by ido 3y ago
Because birth rates are going down worldwide and at some point the people who wanted to move away from the countryside/poor countries to the big global cities would have already moved (those left behind are older than the ones leaving,
426.
by ido 3y ago
I'm not suggesting to stop building, I'm asking what is the solution to housing unaffordablity?
427.
by ido 3y ago
It will not continue seeing such rapid growth for another few hundred years, world population will plateau by mid century and even the big cities will at some point stop growing.
428.
by ido 3y ago
We often hear here (Berlin) that the housing affordability crisis is due to not building enough housing...Yet London apparently built loads in the last 20 years and it's still as unaffordable as ever (or even more than ever)? Is there
429.
by ido 3y ago
I would wager a guess that no other city in Western Europe grew more than London though.
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by ido 3y ago
Supplier of the CPUs we're talking about (alongside IBM).
431.
by ido 3y ago
But intel (and AMD) scaled up MHz/GHz a lot further. Motorola was stuck at 500MHz as the Athlon and PIII were already racing to 1GHz.
432.
by ido 3y ago
It’s not about speed, compatibility with Firefox is actually getting worse . I switched (back) to FF and DDG a few months ago and FF is having trouble with multiple websites I use on occasion (for an example off the top of my head, if I wa
433.
by ido 3y ago
20 years later, a lot more people are comfortable ordering online. a lot of it is a matter of scale and efficiency (the original lacked both).
434.
by ido 3y ago
several European countries (e.g. Kosovo) use the Euro as their currency despite not being part of neither the EU nor the Eurozone for exactly the same reason.
435.
by ido 3y ago
I don’t think it’s nearly everybody these days, but that it may seem like that if you happen to be in FAANG-heavy local bubble.
436.
by ido 3y ago
I don’t think developers earn 5-10x more than 15 years ago. Assuming you’re using something like $250k as a typical salary (for dev jobs at US tech-hubs) I guarantee you the typical equivalent in 2008 was not $25-50k.
437.
by ido 3y ago
The problem (I’m not in Poland but I’m in Berlin, which also has strict rules about firing long term employees) is that senior talent has a lot of choice of where to go to so why should they bother with a place that would only give them a 1
438.
by ido 3y ago
If you can tell from the first meeting, why was this person even hired in the first place? The only time i experienced something like that was when the CEO hired someone without asking anyone else to vet them.
439.
by ido 3y ago
I’ve no clue about Netflix specifically, but at some point as an industry we have to hire some junior people in order to have new seniors a few years down the line…
440.
by ido 3y ago
My main experience at the time was with Heretic (only slightly more sophisticated than Doom I/II) - you're right that it's a bit tedious but at the time (when 3d was still a novelty) it somehow added to the feeling of really
441.
by ido 3y ago
it reminds me of the saying: the golden age of sci-fi is 15.
442.
by ido 3y ago
It is rational self interest, but self interest beyond a point is selfish , which is generally considered a negative personality trait. If you want to put it in game theory perspective, normalizing selfish behavior means that when you co
443.
by ido 3y ago
We’re already heading towards a peak mid-century and then a slow decline of global populations based on existing trends.
444.
by ido 3y ago
Why not both?
445.
by ido 3y ago
As someone who learned programming with these old early-90s Visual Basic versions as my introduction to programming, it was also extremely slow - you couldn't make commander keen with early VB on win 3.x - it wouldn't be fast enou
446.
by ido 3y ago
But that's not what the original mastodon post said - it was about people getting hired at a very young age. I run a small indie studio (5 people including myself) and know a lot of other indies, and have myself in the past worked for
447.
by ido 3y ago
This is indeed mentioned down-thread in the linked mastodon post :)
448.
by ido 3y ago
If i got an applicant with an impressive itch.io page full of games they've made and released themselves I'd interview them even if they're 18 (I'm not sure about child labor laws for kids younger than that).
449.
by ido 3y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
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by ido 3y ago
Have you seen a video of this sign? It’s glowing and flickering a harsh white and is situated exactly opposite a tall apartment building.

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