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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
For the past several years I had serious problems with lower back pain, once every few months it would get so bad I couldn't stand/sit/walk without severe pain for at least a week, even painkillers didn't help much. One
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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
I use Windows 98 quite often and it's sad how crappy modern UIs have become and how we just got used to it.. really feels like a huge step backwards and it only gets worse
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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
Now that's a coincidence, just yesterday I was thinking if it would be possible to use WLAN in FreeDOS on my 1998 Toshiba Libretto xD I found one of the PCMCIA cards mentioned in the article for sell and immediately ordered it, can&#x2
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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
One thing that started to bother me recently is the meaningless of life in general. Think about humans from a wide perspective - it all boils down to survival of the species and what difference does it make if we reproduce in a cave or a mo
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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
Believe it or not our only TV set is from 1985 (Blaupunkt Scout T8 [1]) and we use it daily :-) We didn't have a TV by choice for the last several years and just used laptop when we wanted to watch a movie, but as I got more and more i
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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
Electronics from the past had such an amazing form factor - nowadays every TV, smartphone, laptop etc. looks pretty much the same, dull and boring.
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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
I can't believe that despite sooo many smartphone models there isn't even ONE under 5 inch with a good camera. Two years ago I bought one of the cheapest smartphones on the market (Alcatel Pixi with 4 inch screen) because it was t
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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
I bought a turntable from the 80s several months ago and I love it :-) I never had a turntable before so it's actually a "new" technology to me, but I find the physicality of the whole thing wonderful - choosing a record and
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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
I've noticed that their web client is getting worse and worse, sometimes it loads messages just to reload (with a force_cold_boot param or something like that) them again, other times it shows the "new messages" bar even thou
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Library of vintage DOS, Windows and Mac software(winworldpc.com)
3 points by pkorzeniewski 7y ago|0 comments
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by pkorzeniewski 7y ago
From time to time I have these "nostalgia attacks", usually late at night when it's only me and whisky. I go down the rabbit hole chasing old commercials, fragments of news shows, live concerts, music videos and so on from th
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Show HN: Voiswave – In-app voice calling widget(voiswave.com)
2 points by pkorzeniewski 7y ago|0 comments
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by pkorzeniewski 10y ago
I hope desktop software will make a comeback, because the current situation with web-based applications is ridiculous - you pay on a monthly basis, but at the same time it can disappear the next month and you'll be left with nothing. W
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by pkorzeniewski 10y ago
Facebook is pathetic, not only do they invigilate you and collect data to sell more ads but generally decide what's wrong and right - they project a specific worldview and you either agree with it, or you can shut up. It's sad tha
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by pkorzeniewski 10y ago
It depends, for several years now I order taxis in my city from the same company and never had any problems - price is similar to Uber, ordering takes literally several seconds over the phone (call, tell the street, hang up) and drivers alw
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by pkorzeniewski 10y ago
I'm constantly amazed how many not well-known things were invented back then that sound like something that came only recently, for example sending photos over the wire - some time ago I saw a video [1] about wirephoto [2] that blew my
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by pkorzeniewski 10y ago
This is ridiculous, but that's what you get by trading ownership and privacy for convenience. I keep all my music in .mp3, movies in .avi and books in .pdf, which means I can access them on any computer, using any software and I don&#x
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by pkorzeniewski 10y ago
The main goal of the car industry (actually almost every industry, but car is one of the most expensive things people buy in their life, with the biggest impact on environment) is to make people buy new car every few years, even if the old
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by pkorzeniewski 10y ago
In my opinion the main problem with having a hard time motivating yourself to work on a project is the simple fact that subconsciously we don't really feel passionate about it - from the technical point, the problem it solves or the ni
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
a. Part of the problem is that people want to live outside city? Should we force people to live in cities or what? b. It's not a failure of society, it's just the nature of public transport - you simply can't provide direct c
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
The author is missing some crucial facts that a) not everyone lives in a big city with public transport, so they've no alternative; b) even if you live in a big city, it's often much faster or more convenient to take a car; c) wit
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
Several years ago I was addicted to coca-cola, drinking daily even 2L - I probably exceeded the daily recommended amount of sugar 4 or 5 times. Since then I've drastically reduced sugar in my diet and luckily I never had a problem with
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
It's not sad at all, in fact it's the opposite - Backbone can be considered a stable, battle-tested framework with a "finished" API and features set. What's not to like? Sure, they could turn it into a bloated monst
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
I recommend https://draw.io/ - it's easy to use, doesn't require an account and you can load/save diagrams from Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox (or, of course, from your device). I've created a lot of
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
When it comes to government projects, I always wonder how many people involved treat it only as an opportunity to make as much money as possible without being caught - after several years you just sweep the whole thing under carpet so nobod
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
You could say the same about installers bundled with some crapware toolbars installed by default - you just need to uncheck one checkbox! It's not about how much effort it requires to turn such bullshit off, to me it's a clear mes
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
The problem with all these "how to get rich" books is that they're full of anecdotes, quotations, fictional stories, motivational bullshit etc. which make you feel good while reading them, but as soon as you put the book back
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
So you basically didn't give a shit about how the website looks and just focused on the content? Sounds cool :)
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
I remember a CSS class in some enterprise software I was working on several years ago: /* bold */ .bold { font-weight: bold !important; } It has became my favourite real-world example of CSS misusage :)
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by pkorzeniewski 11y ago
My feelings exactly, it's like people in tech intentionally complicate things in order to stay relevant and irreplaceable, or maybe using complicated solutions makes them feel superior? No one cares how your app works as long as it wor

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