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by wkjagt 3y ago
Thin never works for me because I need a case anyway so I don't break it, so the added thickness takes away all the effort that went into making the phone thin. I'd really like a slightly thicker phone that doesn't need a cas
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't thought of it that way.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Last year, I was driving through the mountains, behind a motorcycle that sounded so good I had constant goosebumps from it. The sound of it echoing between the mountains, slowing down, accelerating for like 30 minutes was such a special exp
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by wkjagt 3y ago
There are many things in OSTEP that I found really eye opening. One thing that stuck with me was that at some point, when discussing virtualization, it referred to an OS as a virtual machine, and that really changed the way I look at operat
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Whenever I read "yeah no", it reminds me of HN comments from people disagreeing with someone. I have no idea when "no yeah" would be used though.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I'm from the Netherlands, and moved to Quebec (French part of Canada) 16 years ago, to be with my (now) wife, and even after all those years, I still feel I can't express myself as well in French as in my native language. This, I
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Being in the Netherlands makes this very challenging indeed. I am from the Netherlands but don't live there anymore. I came to visit family in December a couple of years ago instead of the usual summer trip and I had forgotten how incr
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Also be sure to check out The Hours.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
One of my favorites is Fabien's own "Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D". He does a really good job at explaining how id Software managed to create a first person shooter for the 386, including code samples in C how very
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by wkjagt 4y ago
This is really amazing, thanks for sharing! How did you know which pins to look at? And do you know what the other pins do? I’m super curious now, and actually have an original gameboy which I now want to open up :-) I wonder if these same
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I guess the battery acts more like a buffer for the solar panel, and battery life here literally means “the lifetime of the battery”.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
This created a wonderful image in my head. Thanks for that. I take famously long shits too, and this would be a deal breaker for me. I guess a smart toilet would solve this. Wouldn’t even need to be that smart: “someone’s there: keep the li
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Yeah! A DX2 66Mhz, with a real mechanical hard drive, in a real beige case with a turbo button :D Some modern "amenities" I have are the gotek, and a CF Card to IDE adapter, so I can more easily copy files to it. I use it mostly f
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I quit my full time job a year and a half ago, so my wife could pursue her dream career, I could spend more time with the family, take care of the house, be there for the kids when they get home from school, do some hobby projects for mysel
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Gotek are awesome. I use one in an old 486 and it works really well as a floppy drive replacement. Especially with the FlashFloppy firmware replacement.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Something I’ve always found interesting is wording in 1st person vs 2nd person. For example a link to “your orders” vs “my orders”. They’re both legit, but feel totally different. And I guess there’s a third, neutral option: just “orders”.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I just had an idea: how about a car that makes you stop by the side of the road to watch 2 minutes of ads before being able to continue. And for a certain amount you can unlock adless travel.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I still use my SE (first gen) which is the same form factor. I love this phone, and I regret the day it’ll be so far behind the latest supported iOS that I have to stop using it.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Would be interesting to see a similar article on car design through the years. I’ve always wondered what happened in somewhat recent years where many cars were made to look like they had an angry monster face. I haven’t looked into it much
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Reminds me of the days when working in an office was still a thing, and I sent a coworker next to me a joke on Slack, and they replied LOL but their IRL facial expression didn't even show anything close to a smile.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I agree. It’s my favourite sized phone _and_ it has a headphone jack.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I’m reading this on my iPhone SE (the first gen, from 2016) and it works totally fine.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
For me the fun of programming came back when I allowed myself to do things that are completely useless, apart from the fact that it brings me joy. It started with 6502 assembly programming for a breadboard computer I built. Right now I am p
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by wkjagt 4y ago
One day I’ll buy a real 16C. But they’re just a little too expensive to easily justify buying. I know there are remakes but there’s just something about the real thing.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I’ve understood monads multiple times in my life, but each time that understanding was so fragile that it crumbled when I tried explaining to someone else. I’m currently in a phase where I don’t understand them.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
> We're in the last period of the golden age of electronics, as the world has moved to SMD and extremely-high-integration, the stores of cool stuff that we can play around with are being depleated, but let's make the most out o
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I actually went through this yesterday! I opened a new (still in plastic!) box of HD “floppies” to make a bootable disk for my 486. I sent a picture of it to a friend and he replied “how big are these? 512k?”. I too thought it was common kn
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by wkjagt 4y ago
> The most annoying one, is that the app always defaults to the closest location "as the bird flies." So many apps do this and it's really annoying. There are quite a lot of commercial activity on the other side of the ri
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I have a PC1500 and there’s just something magical about it. I still need to get around repairing the little printer that comes with it.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
When my first kid was born, I planned to start preserving my navel fur to be able to knit him a sweater for his 18th birthday. I regret that I never got around to that. He’s 15 now and I don’t think 3 years will yield enough for a sweater.

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