Brave-Steak
Re:Test your product on a crappy laptop
on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:15AM (#29612749)
Notably, this is one reason why WoW managed to hit such a wide audience and become so successful. The art design made the game look amazing, but the hardware requirements were so low you could run it on a potato. Its contemporary, Everquest 2, managed to look uglier while being much harder to run.
Re:AMD Laptops finally reach the 4k screen barrier
on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:27PM (#28908076)
I've given up. I disable hibernation and I shutdown my laptop whenever I used to put it to sleep. It's bizarre that standby/hibernation no longer works reliably.
Re:Windows 11: Just say no
on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:56PM (#28560318)
My biggest annoyance is that they've removed the ability to open the task manager by right-clicking the taskbar. Instead, I have to right-click the Windows icon in the bottom left. Just ... why? What benefit is there to not letting me right-click anywhere on the bottom part of my screen? Do none of these muppets even use Windows?
Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:46PM (#28557331)
Discord is an information/knowledge blackhole. Information goes in and never comes out. The amount of times I've searched for info and found it on some obscure forum I've never heard of before is staggering. Like, where the fuck would I be without xda-developers and its massive font of knowledge spanning back a decade, which is organized by device and topic? Like, Discord simply cannot replicate that, yet every community is defaulting to it.
There are a bunch of technical products I repeatedly come into contact with that have coalesced around Discord instead of a forum, and it's a huge pain in the ass to find any information that I need.
Re:North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters
on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:22PM (#28543889)
> China would never get rid of such a powerful way to annoy everyone else
It's not just this. China doesn't want a unified, Western-friendly Korea directly on its border. They also don't want the mass refugees if NK fails.
Re:In Pursuit of PPE
on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:41PM (#22928929)
I honestly wish sites like HN would get rid of downvotes. It's generally only useful for generating an echo chamber. If a comment is particularly disruptive, it should just be reported. Otherwise lack of upvotes will naturally send it to the bottom of the page and comments giving reasonable responses if the comment is wrong about something are more than sufficient.
Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan
on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:16AM (#22365129)
It is reassuring. You can avoid and protect yourself against coughing/sneezing humans. You can't really avoid an invisible carrier.
Re:Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8
on Sunday February 16, 2020 @04:54PM (#22343982)
I've spent over 100 hours on Factorio. Somehow I still haven't managed to launch the rocket. I always ending up some cool mod and I start a new game.
Re:Apple's long processor journey
on Saturday February 15, 2020 @07:24PM (#22339003)
What was the reasoning for transitioning from Pascal to C?
Re:I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
on Thursday February 13, 2020 @01:34PM (#22320115)
So I'm trying the Crackbook Revival extension and it's actually a bit devious. You can set it to increase the delay every time you try to open a site on your list. And if you switch away from the tab, it resets the timer so you can't just wait it out while looking at other links. It also doesn't seem to tick down if you open it in another window.
Which newly released documents? Quote the article because I can't find anything.
Every article I'm seeing in the past week refers to documents released in 2015. Why the fuck now? It reeks of public manipulation, especially with the US increasing efforts to convince people not to use Huawei equipment.
Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained abou...
on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:53AM (#22307115)
It had lidar and ignored an unknown object it was tracking. If that's not damning for the whole field, I don't know what is.
Re:Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:47AM (#22307090)
Am I mad? Did anybody actually read the article? Why is everybody piling on LoC/day when the article is about average LoC over a period of time and how it correlates to the work you're doing and what a realistic average LoC might look like for a sane project. From this point of view, it doesn't matter at all if you deleted 20k lines and have a negative LoC for the day. That's missing the forest for the trees.
Re:Boeing Starliner's flight's flaws show “fundamental problem,” NASA ...
on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:45AM (#22298838)
Muilenberg became CEO in 2015. The McDouglas thing happened in '97. He inherited an existing management structure that was already primarily interested in profit over all other concerns, especially engineering.
Moreover, the 737 Max program ran from 2011-2015. The CEO at the time was an MBA.
Re:Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight...
on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:26AM (#22297651)
> whilst sheltering cheaper tickets as much as possible.
I'm sorry, why? I don't see being able to travel across the world at high environmental cost to be some god given right. It's not sustainable, especially as use of long-distance travel continues to grow with no end in sight. Make it expensive for everybody, instead of subsidizing it for whatever group you have a bias for.
Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start...
on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:45AM (#22289502)
Who can I send an email to in the EU who's willing to investigate this? There's got to be some institution that gives a shit.
Re:Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?
on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:45AM (#22288281)
This book looks interesting, but it's unfortunate that there's no way to get the instructor's book for the answers to the exercises. Sort of diminishes the value of the book for self-learners.
Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:28AM (#22288187)
> does that justify you stomping through the garden in May?
MBA: Is it something we can monetize? It might be worth considering.
> It's especially ridiculous in the context of podcasts because Apple- a company that understands the principle better than most, has failed to destroy the podcast market for 20 years and counting.
I don't understand this part though. I haven't gotten the sense that they ever tried to monopolize or destroy the podcast market. Hell, from what I can tell, they've enabled it to thrive as an open marketplace in a way that Spotify certainly isn't interested in.
Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:26AM (#22288173)
Plenty of people do it, myself included. Don't change your habits just based on one cranky old bugger.
Re:WHO Director-General: “We may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”
on Monday February 10, 2020 @05:47AM (#22287984)
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g34407-d388919...
Seems to have gone out of business. Doesn't exactly seem like serving bats was popular enough for them to stay afloat.
Re:Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU
on Sunday February 09, 2020 @12:04PM (#22283051)
I’ve seen studies indicating that reinfection with SARS was possible. It’s not unlikely.
Re:95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:02AM (#22266578)
Man, I remember reading this back then and agreeing with everything he said. And he was largely right. SC2 never really became relevant. By the time they fixed the arcade and implemented coop, both features that were absolutely necessary to capture the casual audience, it was way too late. I love the coop mode, but it's clear that the whole game is getting little investment from Blizzard because they themselves realize it wouldn't be worth the time, money and effort.
Re:Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)
on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:42AM (#22265074)
What does he have against Friends?
Re:Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:24AM (#22264972)
> Keep your device non-discoverable. Most are only discoverable if you enter the Bluetooth scanning menu. Nevertheless, some older phones might be discoverable permanently.
Does this mean your MAC address isn't visible while on, non-discoverable and connected to a BT device?
Re:Show HN: SlothTracker – cross platform time tracking desktop app
on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:25PM (#22242279)
I just feel it's hard to evaluate the price if I don't have a rough idea of how often there might be updates. Is it a monthly thing? Every 4 months? 8? Once a year? I don't know how much time passed between v1.0 and 1.1 and 1.2. I don't even need exact dates. A statement like "We expect to push out a new version every few weeks/months/once a year or so" makes it easier to reason about the cost.
Re:Show HN: SlothTracker – cross platform time tracking desktop app
on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:38AM (#22237603)
This looks interesting. I see that the license is only valid for a certain version. How often are new versions released? I couldn't find any info on release dates of previous/current versions.
Re:AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in ben...
on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:18AM (#22237312)
I know, I figured you'd upgraded it before at some point. I was just curious. 6970 to 1060 is quite the jump. That must've been great.
Re:Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage
on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:06AM (#22236301)
Seems like he put together the video from small videos off of the official channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqONzeACDBaF6FfKjh7ndAQ/vid... which is linked in the video description.
Re:AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in ben...
on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:43AM (#22236026)
Out of curiosity, what was your last GPU?
Re:AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in ben...
on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:29AM (#22234777)
This is great, thanks. One of my biggest issues in PC hardware has been comparing older parts with modern ones. Most sites don't retest old hardware with new tests that they use on new hardware, so you end up with wildly different numbers that don't tell you anything.