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Brave-Steakon Test your product on a crappy laptop

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.

Brave-Steakon AMD Laptops finally reach the 4k screen barrier

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.

Brave-Steakon Windows 11: Just say no

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?

Brave-Steakon Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord

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.

Brave-Steakon North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters

> 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.

Brave-Steakon In Pursuit of PPE

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.

Brave-Steakon New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan

It is reassuring. You can avoid and protect yourself against coughing/sneezing humans. You can't really avoid an invisible carrier.

Brave-Steakon Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8

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.

Brave-Steakon Apple's long processor journey

What was the reasoning for transitioning from Pascal to C?

Brave-Steakon I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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.

Brave-Steakon Crypto AG

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.

Brave-Steakon Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot

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.

Brave-Steakon Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day

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.

Brave-Steakon Boeing Starliner's flight's flaws show “fundamental problem,” NASA says

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.

Brave-Steakon Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests

> 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.

Brave-Steakon Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

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.

Brave-Steakon Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?

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.

Brave-Steakon Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

> 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.

Brave-Steakon Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

Plenty of people do it, myself included. Don't change your habits just based on one cranky old bugger.

Brave-Steakon WHO Director-General: “We may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”

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.

Brave-Steakon Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU

I’ve seen studies indicating that reinfection with SARS was possible. It’s not unlikely.

Brave-Steakon 95th percentile isn't that hard to reach

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.

Brave-Steakon Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

What does he have against Friends?

Brave-Steakon Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android

> 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?

Brave-Steakon Show HN: SlothTracker – cross platform time tracking desktop app

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.

Brave-Steakon Show HN: SlothTracker – cross platform time tracking desktop app

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.

Brave-Steakon AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in benchmark leak

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.

Brave-Steakon Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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.

Brave-Steakon AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in benchmark leak

Out of curiosity, what was your last GPU?

Brave-Steakon AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in benchmark leak

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.