pkorzeniewski

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by pkorzeniewski 2mo ago
I run Windows 10 on a laptop with 16GB RAM and on fresh boot it uses ~2.5GB, which leaves a lot of memory for other stuff, but I guess when even the new Notepad uses 20x more RAM that the old one it makes sense to require 32GB RAM.. One can
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by pkorzeniewski 6mo ago
Let's be honest, nobody gives a shit about you personally in any job, you either deliver what you're paid to deliver or they couldn't care less if you're gone the next day and forget about you completely the day after, e
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by pkorzeniewski 6mo ago
Voyager 1 & 2 is one of my favourite human science achievements, not even so much from technology standpoint, as it's relatively simple compared to what we have now (although that's one of the charms), but just the fact that i
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by pkorzeniewski 7mo ago
I didn't say there're no new great movies coming out, I simply stated that there are enough of great old movies than I PERSONALLY don't need new movies. > it just seems like a very boring way to live out your life. Quite t
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by pkorzeniewski 7mo ago
I haven't been in cinema in the past ~10 years and to be honest I wouldn't care if no more movies were ever made, simply because there are hundreds, if not thousands, amazing movies made since the beginning of the cinema that I di
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by pkorzeniewski 7mo ago
One thing I rarely see mentioned is that often creating code by hand is simply faster (at least for me) than using AI. Creating a plan for AI, waiting for execution, verifying, prompting again etc. can take more time than just doing it on m
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by pkorzeniewski 8mo ago
So the suggestion here is that instead of using battle tested libraries/frameworks, everyone should now build their own versions, each with an unique set of silent bugs?
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by pkorzeniewski 9mo ago
The "built a browser" example you gave reminded me how I've "built a browser" as a kid in the 90s using Visual Basic (or something similar) - I've simply dragged the browser view widget, added an input and some
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by pkorzeniewski 9mo ago
Depends on the type of tourism you prefer, I absolutely love roadtrips because "journey is more important than the destination", it's an adventure and the best memories from trips I have are from the journey itself, the desti
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by pkorzeniewski 10mo ago
Same here, using Alpine.js is a breeze and it made working on frontend fun again, everything is so easy and intuitive to implement and manage, even on large projects. It's definitiely my favourite frontend framework right now and a def
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by pkorzeniewski 1y ago
I wonder how this will affect the burnout rate among IT workers in the long-term, which already was quite high. I guess a lot of people force themselves (or are forced to by their company) to use LLM in fear of being left behind, even if th
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by pkorzeniewski 1y ago
Same here, still using Sublime Text due to its general snappiness, but can't wait for Zed to be released on Windows, it feels like a modern successor to ST that just keeps getting better.
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by pkorzeniewski 2y ago
You can browse through archived GeoCities websites on The Geocities Gallery [0] I get a warm feeling looking through all these "home pages", they feel so much more genuine and personal than anything found on modern social media. [
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by pkorzeniewski 2y ago
> These hypotheticals seem awfully contrived. Well.. they're not. I've first hand experienced "what if they accidently charge you for who knows what" as I mentioned in my example and I recall many, many stories on HN
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by pkorzeniewski 2y ago
Yes, I didn't clarify that I would want an option to pay for subscriptions by invoice, not to get rid of automated recurring payments. Let's be honest - the only reason companies won't do that is because it's not in thei
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by pkorzeniewski 2y ago
Sure, you can use PayPal as well (which I do when I really need to pay for a subscription), but that's just a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place - I get it that some people like the convenience of automa
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by pkorzeniewski 2y ago
I absolutely hate subscriptions, I can't wrap my head around why people got so comfortable with allowing companies to charge their credit cards whenever they want, how much they want and how long they want.. Yes it's convenient, b
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by pkorzeniewski 3y ago
I recommend The Geocities Gallery [1] to go back in time and experience the 90s web yourself, there is something beautiful about all these personal web pages. Each one has a distinct look that alone can tell a lot about the author's
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by pkorzeniewski 3y ago
I bought CX-3 5 years ago and it's a really fun (and reliable) car to drive and I say that as someone who previously was daily driving a sporty roadster for many years :-) Unfortunately they stopped producing the CX-3 line and replaced
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by pkorzeniewski 3y ago
I've started changes in my diet with an "acid reflux detox" for a month, which meant eating a very limited group of foods that most definitiely shouldn't cause acid reflux and drinking pretty much only water, after that
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by pkorzeniewski 3y ago
Diet in GERD/LPR is a quite tricky and complex topic, when you start reading what types of food and drinks should you avoid it can easily overwhelm you, because besides obviously unhealthy stuff there's also a lot of healthy stuff
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by pkorzeniewski 3y ago
Note that there's also a less known type of Acid Reflux called Laryngopharyngeal Reflux (LPR), also known as Silent Reflux, which doesn't manifest with "usual" symptoms like heartburn or a sour taste in mouth, but instea
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by pkorzeniewski 4y ago
I'm from Europe and use SMS only, I don't get it how having a dozen of messaging apps and remembering who uses what is better than a simple SMS that I can send to absolutely anyone with a phone..
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by pkorzeniewski 4y ago
I recommend games from Wadjet Eye Games studio, they're really well made, with great story, voice acting, balanced difficulty and overall they feel like created in the 90s.
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by pkorzeniewski 4y ago
I despise touch controls in almost everything, from cars to home appliance, in my opinion the only reason they're replaced physical controls is because it's simply cheaper to make and people just got used to them because manufactu
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by pkorzeniewski 4y ago
I would like governments in countries with housing crisis to do something different - soft limit how many properties can a person own by inducing taxes that drastically increase with each new owned property. Most people just want to own a r
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by pkorzeniewski 5y ago
One of my favourite games of all time is Mafia 1 that was released the same year as Morrowind (2002) and similarly it has a big, lively open world and the 3D graphics were top-notch at that time. I revisit Mafia every few years and for some
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by pkorzeniewski 5y ago
I've recently fixed a VCR from the 90s, connected it to a TV from the 80s (I collect retro stuff..), put some old VHS tape and I must say that the experience is really enjoyable - the whole mechanical operation and even the poor qualit
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by pkorzeniewski 5y ago
I've FreeDOS installed on my retro laptops (Toshiba Libretto and Toshiba Satellite, both from 1998) and it works great for my nostalgic needs, although some games like to crash but they would probably crash on a "classic" DOS
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by pkorzeniewski 5y ago
I'm in my 30s and I went through the phase of watching a lot of TV as a teen, then not watching at all in my 20s and not owning a TV for many years, and now I'm back at moderately watching TV everyday. There're several pros o

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