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by spanhandler 6y ago
I wish anyone, anyone else would make competing operating systems & accompanying software suites that performed as well and required as little unproductive horseshit to keep working properly, and in fact worked as hard to make my life
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The most frustrating thing about web standards is that if we were going to do the whole apps-over-HTTP/HTML thing we could have features and light weight, by building way more functionality directly into HTML. Better form elements wi
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I tried a few lightweight Linux browsers on a 2GB low-clocked Celeron machine a while back ("hacked", older-model Asus Chromebox). Chief candidates were Surf, Qutebrowser, and Midori. The best on the performance/ui-jank scale
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by spanhandler 6y ago
AFAIK the "widescreen era" of computer monitors has been driven by TV screens & TV screen marketing (non-tech and non-screen-nerd people just knew "HD" and maybe "1080p" meant "good screen"), whic
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I do a ton of that locally (or, sometimes, in a remote branch that I 100% own and no-one else will be touching), but clean it up before pushing or merging.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Andrew Morton (7): updates more updates yet more updates still more updates even more updates some more updates updates Real illuminating merge log there bud :-)
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Knowing I have to get up, that I'm likely to be disturbed early, or that I'm needed at a particular time in the morning makes falling asleep really hard. That and I find it a lot easier if I'm on my own with no-one in my spac
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by spanhandler 6y ago
1) any part of you out from under the blankets (face, perhaps) feels the coolness. 2) I can't sleep with few or no blankets anyway. I mean I could probably adjust to it over time, or if I'd hiked 20 miles that day I bet I could, b
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Depends on the platform and what you're looking for. Some operating systems and languages/ecosystems are worse than others. Windows stuff is largely incredibly bad (not saying Windows is bad, for this reason anyway, just that se
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by spanhandler 6y ago
My experience, after buying a monitor for home for the first time in like a decade and getting a very nice 27" HP z27 4K: it's... fine. I think I'd need like 5 more diagonal inches before I could really fit more on it than I
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I don't really participate in it, but Reddit's the only place I can easily find opinions about products that're maybe not paid shilling, now that smaller sites and forums are practically un-Googleable unless you already kno
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I'd worry more about that being a problem if Chrome and Firefox weren't still noticeably lagging desktop Safari on power use. Yeah Firefox had that big announcement that they'd improved, but the news was that they'd...
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Using Safari over Chrome or Firefox gains me 90-120 minutes more battery on my Macbook. Android went through contortions and re-architectures for over a decade to even approach iOS' place on the performance/battery-capacity/b
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Team America: World Police. Now I get to hear the AIDS song and “America, Fuck Yeah” in my head at least once every day for the rest of my life. It’s changed my mind about the concept of entertainment being so crap that it’s actual brain po
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I couldn’t get through Click. I don’t think I even made it halfway. It was too disturbing. Meanwhile actual horror movies rarely bother me. Go figure.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
.length is easier. .length, .size, .len, .count, then all those again but as functions taking an array argument, then again but as method calls, are not . And that’s not all the possibilities! Seriously I bounce between languages enough th
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by spanhandler 6y ago
This is pretty much exactly my take on this, down to the assessment that shaking up Chinese trade policy is just about the only halfway sensible thing Trump has done. Are we crazy or has most of the rest of HN somehow missing the point of a
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I'd say his actions on Chinese trade have been the closest thing to a coherent policy he's had on anything whatsoever, actually. His other trade actions have been, uh, scattershot, to put it very nicely, yes, and I doubt you could
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Silicon Valley's data collection should worry most US citizens more than TikTok's, yes, totally, 100% agree, break them all up, ban all that crap, burn it all down, yes, I am with you. ... but one hopes data collection concerns
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The widespread existence of them has made everything grow farther apart, due to their needing lots and lots of space and people not wanting to be close to where they're traveling, and they're quite expensive, and for most people i
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The trouble is that, 1) cars are much more expensive, when you tally it all up, than walking and bicycles, so one must count against them the time it takes to pay for them (and if one is very exactly accounting, one might also place some po
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by spanhandler 6y ago
BeOS on a 166Mhz Pentium with 128MB of RAM (luxury!) felt positively spacious . Like you were lavishing it with far more resources than it needed and so rarely risked even approaching its limits, so far as maintaining UI responsiveness w
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by spanhandler 6y ago
If the only embedded browser engine available, period , is Safari as provided by the OS, then it's much harder for app makers to introduce bugs (or features) that bypass Web content restrictions. Without the restriction app makers de
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by spanhandler 6y ago
You can run other browsers. You can't run other browser engines . The way you win is that your uncle doesn't click a Google ad banner to install Chrome when he searches (in Safari) for golf club reviews and end up complaining to
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yeah, but like 0.1% of their user base really cares about that particular freedom, while the rest would end up installing Chrome because Google put ad-banners for it at the top of all the Mobile Safari search results, then be pissed off t
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Given how much time users spend in their browser, not allowing other browser engines could be entirely explained by not wanting to deal with support & review issues when users notice their brand new iPhone has 20% less battery life than
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by spanhandler 6y ago
It's exactly what you'd expect from a low-friction, highly competitive marketplace. They eat everyone's profit in a hurry. That Apple was able to take a 30% cut while this happened leads me to believe they did an incredibly
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> It's also worth pointing out: Real search results actually go to the URL listed in the result. Ads can be redirected to third party tracking links which may or may not eventually send you to the correct real page. This has been ex
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Operating systems in the sense of kernels might still be focused on performance, but the whole GUI layer of every major OS ( maybe except macOS, which might explain why most of its utility programs are still so snappy and nice to use relat
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I distinctly remember their experiments with inlining ads "ethically", and all the discussion about that by outsiders, and how the "ethically" part quietly went away and they settled on "clearly trying to trick peop

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