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by trm42 5y ago
The speed of it on the low end machines was not good even though it was advertised as speedy. It _worked_ on 286 machines but it was slow to use. Kind of annoying to use but so was Windows 3.0 on the same machines. I remember selling the id
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by trm42 5y ago
Last time a headhunter managed snatch me was weird. I wasn't really active before deadline because I was on a holiday trip and the headhunter said "it's okay, let's call after your holidays". I wasn't actually
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by trm42 5y ago
One old developer colleague once said wisely that if you find a good manager follow them through the job switches if possible.
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by trm42 6y ago
I remember playing some CGA games with some Hercules graphics card. There was two TSR programs which made it possible to run CGA color games with the yellow-on-black Hercules display. Can't remember the name of the other one but one of
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by trm42 6y ago
Did most of if out of curiosity. Really nicely done and well written. Really approachable for a total golang-newbie.
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by trm42 6y ago
I kinda relived parts of my own childhood with the story. Funnily written for childhood memoirs :) In my case the magical Windows version was Windows 95 Final Beta (AKA Chicago), which I managed to get through my fathers connections. Oh boy
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by trm42 6y ago
And we're talking about whole country which already censors and blocks internet traffic so the telemetry being sent to the US wouldn't be a real problem anyway except for saving internal bandwidth / firewall capacity.
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by trm42 6y ago
And my lasting impression is that LibreOffice is trying to make CSV import/export as easy as possible when MS Office is trying to make it actively harder and harder in every version.
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by trm42 6y ago
My dad had 300Mhz beige G3 tower and it was always rock solid. Of course Photoshop and Pagemaker were a bit crashy apps...
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by trm42 6y ago
Yeah they were slow and had limitations but on the other hand G3 iMacs were the cheapest DV-video-editing setups for schools and other lowend usage. Editing with them felt really good compared to some P3/K6 PCs I and my friend had. And
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by trm42 6y ago
Or you just didn't know about similar Mac models then? :) Apple had LC|Performa 500 series of which the first models were sold in 1993 [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_LC_500_series ] And don't forget
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by trm42 6y ago
I agree. The metaphor for manipulating files, drivers etc has been the pinnacle of the desktop metaphor (maybe with the exception of BeOS but they just copied and made kinda better version of MacOS classic. I recently bought a Powermac G4&#
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by trm42 6y ago
It ran smooth enough on 486/33DX with 10 Mb of ram. Actually it ran better on that than on 66 DX2 with 4 megs of ram.
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by trm42 6y ago
Haven't used desktop Linuxes or Windows for about decade as macOS + Linux servers has provided useful common ground for both use cases. But even ten years ago KDE was a lot more nicer to use than Windows and I would assume they have go
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by trm42 6y ago
Imagine, how much further Linux would be if people (and Microsoft) had used all the energy of trying to make Windows work like Linux instead of actually improving Linux. There has been lots of projects with that goal like Cygwin, Mingw, WSL
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by trm42 6y ago
Funny, how big part of the list are Linux-origin projects or WSL. How about really making the switch to Linux instead of trying to make Windows function like Linux?
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by trm42 6y ago
Well, comparing m43 cameras with full frame is like comparing Phase 645 sensor with FF cameras. M43 cameras are really nice and lightweight but have their own limitations. All the Leica m43 glass are so called Pana-Leica glass: Panasonic de
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by trm42 6y ago
I belive Sigma realized that they need to up their game and a lot because the Chinese cheapo manufacturers (and partially Samyang) are eating the really low end niche. Of course Samyang has upped their game with the AF-equipped Sony FE -len
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by trm42 6y ago
For landscapes 400-600 mm are in some cases really nice.
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by trm42 6y ago
Sounds like the m43 20mm f1.7, which is known for its good IQ, pancake design but annoyingly slow AF :)
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by trm42 6y ago
Nikon was the second biggest camera manufacturer until recently when Sony ate their market. Even in the early 2010s Nikon was thought as the innovator and techically better than Canon but Sony stole that title. Nikon fumbled with the mirror
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by trm42 6y ago
On day in my previous job our junior support guy started cursing loudly. He had done what he was asked for and did some some small, _almost_ day-to-day support request which was supposed to do some requested maintenance things for some cred
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Vimeo: It’s not legacy code – it’s PHP(medium.com)
4 points by trm42 6y ago|2 comments
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by trm42 6y ago
Yes, Jobs and Apple are kind of sharks but on the other hand did you witness Flash running on Android phones? They were so slow that you didn't want to enable it even if you could :D
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by trm42 6y ago
I would splice the argument in half: A. Creative people creating games and other fun stuff with Flash in similar vein than HyperCard and Visual Basic allowed decades earlier B. Bloody stupid web page enchancements and whole sites made in Fl
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by trm42 6y ago
FTL is available for iOS at least :) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ftl-faster-than-light/id833951...
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by trm42 6y ago
I have had Fractal Design's Node 304 as a home server / NAS for the last 3,5 years. It's quite reasonably priced, the provided fans are quiet enough and can be replaced later on with Noctuas. It doesn't offer disk hotswa
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DJI offers Lidar-focus for Cine-lenses(diyphotography.net)
2 points by trm42 6y ago|0 comments
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by trm42 6y ago
Sounds awfully familiar. Sony A7ii was really frustrating camera. Used it for for few years or so. The A7rII was a lot better and A7iii is already really good. In many cases I'm just using continuous focus and reframing the picture whe
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by trm42 6y ago
The article is probably from 2018 as the newest DSLRs like Nikon's D780 has about the same sensor PDAF capabilities as their Z-series mirrorless bodies. It's funny, how in the beginning mirrorless cameras (and DSLRs in the livevie

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