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571.
by tracker1 7mo ago
They were ok for the price... I think they were probably the most responsible for squeezing every bit of profitability from independent builders though. It really became a race to the bottom, combined with more interest in mobile/lapt
572.
by tracker1 7mo ago
So, like a 17.5k line change just for VFS? That'd be so much smaller and easier to reason with.
573.
by tracker1 7mo ago
Better, throwing in two of those Celeron 300As into a modded dual socket MB... I remember running one of those OC'd Duron's at 1.1ghz... had a custom shim to better support the cpu cooler with it. IIRC, I ran it with a Voodoo 3
574.
by tracker1 7mo ago
I had an AMD 5x86 @133 that lasted me several years... I had the secondary cache module and 64mb of ram, which was a lot for the time. It wasn't great for gaming, but general productivity software and just simple web browsing it was k
575.
by tracker1 7mo ago
You assumed it was a point of ego, even said as much. I don't have to buy shit from Sony if I don't want to, and you can't make me. They definitely lost more on potential hardware sales the past few decades than I would h
576.
by tracker1 7mo ago
If you're utilizing undocumented APIs that aren't meant for public use, sure... but the core Win32 APIs have been pretty stable for going on 3+ decades now. You can take a lot of win32 apps from the early 90's and they'
577.
by tracker1 7mo ago
They've really shifted how Outlook works... as well as how the backend is more tuned to the way M365 mail works far more than how it used to work with Exchange, or independently. It's been a slow downslide imo since around 2007 o
578.
by tracker1 7mo ago
You're saying that Windows' system interfaces aren't stable? In comparison to Linux?
579.
by tracker1 7mo ago
I think if IOmega had reduced the license costs for the disks, and had disks gotten under the $5 mark, they'd have held on for close to another decade before larger USB drives displaced them. I worked for IOmega's support call cen
580.
by tracker1 7mo ago
Depends on what I'm doing... but I'll often split windows, then stretch them to overlap slightly, or I'll have other windows that are always windowed over the top of others. If I'm just browsing/chatting, I'll
581.
by tracker1 7mo ago
> Lost more than they gained (from me, implied). Maybe, just maybe assume the best in people instead of jumping to the worst interpretations you can.
582.
by tracker1 7mo ago
I still haven't bought a Sony labelled product since... though I may or may not have consumed Sony content. They've definitely lost more than they gained.
583.
by tracker1 7mo ago
Absolutely.. loved X1, I just think X2 was just a bit more fun... X3 was a bit of a backslide though.
584.
by tracker1 7mo ago
That is hands down one of my ATF scenes in any movie. Expendables 2 was IMO just about the most "fun" movie I've ever seen as well. It wasn't great cinema, or a specific classic.. but it was fun. I have similar feelin
585.
by tracker1 7mo ago
Only God could defeat Chuck Norris.
586.
by tracker1 7mo ago
Well, I already don't travel to countries where police are regularly not paid... not to mention countries where people are jailed for memes and what I consider free speech issues... so UK has been out for a few years as far as I'm
587.
by tracker1 7mo ago
I'm afraid to find out at this point... retinal damage combined with cataracts that I'm waiting to have a job with medical insurance to take care of... I used to be in the top 0.001% for color detection, now I know I'm very
588.
by tracker1 7mo ago
I remember working on a few early tools for VRML towards the end of the 90's... It was cool, but far from great... was remembered from the mention of VR in the article. That said, my only regret with Bitcoin was deleting my early walle
589.
by tracker1 7mo ago
Kinda cool to see... TBH, I'd be more inclined to reach for Rust and Ratatui myslf over C + ncurses. I know this would likely be a much larger executable though. With MS Edit resurrected similarly, I wonder how hard it would be to get
590.
by tracker1 7mo ago
How would you go about breaking up this particular set of functionality into smaller PRs, exactly? It's meant to introduce a virtualized file system... the size is dictated by the feature itself. Also, no mention at all regarding the
591.
by tracker1 7mo ago
VB6? I mean, you could do some great things with it, and it was pretty easy to do things with. That said, so many people doing things with it didn't really know what they were doing, had no UX understanding and just created slop. I t
592.
by tracker1 7mo ago
Today's C# isn't bad... assuming you aren't overcomplicating the world through excess abstraction.
593.
by tracker1 7mo ago
I haven't even seen Notes in the wild since around 2008 or so...
594.
by tracker1 7mo ago
For that matter, had they invested in a web plugin that treated domino as a thin client server, they may also still be around today. Though load balancing would probably take a bit more work.
595.
by tracker1 7mo ago
Hard to imagine a place adopting Notes and just using the email... email was always kind of a shortcoming in the box. It was there, but wasn't very good imo. I think that Outlook was pretty great up until they started the cloud editi
596.
by tracker1 7mo ago
I can only really compare it with Access, and between the two, you can get a bit more done a bit more easily with Notes over MS Access, but that's another application that didn't get a clear path to modern usage.
597.
by tracker1 7mo ago
I have such mixed memories regarding Lotus Notes... prior to working with software dev, I'd worked a few contract stints in data entry/lookup because I could type and 10-key very fast. Later I'd work a few different develope
598.
by tracker1 7mo ago
WASM already offers this, for better or worse... There should be improved interop APIs for DOM access, but WASM is already very useful and even for directed UI control, "fast enough" a lot of the time. Dioxus, Yew and Leptos are
599.
by tracker1 7mo ago
JS doesn't either... JS casts numbers to strings when adding them to a string... "2" is not a number, it's a string that contains a number character... "2" + 2 === "22" because you are appending a num
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by tracker1 7mo ago
That's the rub, isn't it... who watches the watchmen? In times past, journalism at least had the veil of impartiality, but modern journalism is far more of an editorial activist activity than simply answering the 6 W's of a

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