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PunksATawnyFill··on Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results
Except it's way too big now, resulting in spurious cursor-jumps, erroneous right-clicks... it's dumb.

Even dumber is that Apple didn't do the obvious thing to make the giant trackpad pay off: Make the Pencil work on it! DUHHHH

PunksATawnyFill··on Don't set the language of your website based on user location
Also: STOP DISABLING ZOOMING.

WTF!

PunksATawnyFill··on MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life
Can you not select steam gauges and a GNS 430, for example?

If not, that seriously hampers this product as a training/refresher tool.

PunksATawnyFill··on MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life
Flight Simulator used to start at Meigs Field in Chicago.

Then Mayor Daley the asshole destroyed the airport.

Santa Monica is next. poundMAGA

PunksATawnyFill··on Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper
+1 for you sir, for doing what someone HAD to do.
PunksATawnyFill··on Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper
I notice in the demo with the rotating rings that the illumination underneath them does not rotate smoothly. Anybody have an insight as to why?
PunksATawnyFill··on The C++ preprocessor doesn’t understand anything about C++, including templates
Macros are inscrutable garbage and a sorry hack.
PunksATawnyFill··on Show HN: Hackeroo the Better UI for Hacker News
It's better if it gets rid of the obnoxious and offensive "you're posting too fast" bullshit.
PunksATawnyFill··on Show HN: I built an open-source SwiftUI app with an Airtable back end
What is Airtable? Seems like something that should’ve been mentioned.
PunksATawnyFill··on Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, national security
Why? What massive files are you downloading on your phone?

And IoT devices typically require tiny throughput. Is your electricity meter pumping out 4K video?

PunksATawnyFill··on Ask HN: Why can't I send faxes from my phone?
I figured that audio compression on mobile networks prevented the sending of faxes as tones.
PunksATawnyFill··on Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package
What about LibrePCB?
PunksATawnyFill··on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
It’s annoying that Apple is given a free pass on pushing media-centric devices and claiming that services are their future, but then making it HARDER for customers to consume those services, with offensive moves like deleting headphone jacks and reducing battery size.
PunksATawnyFill··on How Coke and Pepsi make millions from bottling tap water
Bottled water is just another way to rip off all taxpayers, chiefly the stupid.
PunksATawnyFill··on Al Alcorn, creator of Pong, explains the NTSC color graphics trick
I remember this being used in games on the Atari computers, but only those that were ports of Apple games and Apple’s crude graphics. By skipping horizontal pixels, they’d get composite NTSC to smear the area into a color.

But the Ataris had S-video outputs (in 1978!), which of course is not composite. The color resolution is too high to produce artifacts when using separated video, so those games were essentially black & white on a good monitor like the Commodore 1702 hooked up with separated Y & C signals.

The Ataris were great, forward-thinking computers.

PunksATawnyFill··on ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
Still doesn’t make up for ICANN’s other scams.

The canned collection of TLDs should have been abolished years ago, but when it looked like ICANN was going to do it and allow arbitrary TLDs, they turned it into a gargantuan rip-off and sham.

PunksATawnyFill··on GitQlient – a multi-platform GUI-oriented Git client written with Qt
Qt isn't behind a paywall, but they do their best to hide the open-source installers.

https://www.qt.io/offline-installers

PunksATawnyFill··on Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
Anyone using douchetags is a tool anyway.

Talk about regressive.

PunksATawnyFill··on Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)
Funny how far things have gone. "Basic cable" had ads, but it was "free," as in included with your base-level subscription. But then basic-cable channels like MTV decided to try to charge for their viewership, AND have commercials. So now you're supposed to PAY to watch commercials.

But let's face it: The stupidity of the public seems to have no bottom. Look what Apple gets away with.

PunksATawnyFill··on Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019)
I guess some people feel all "leet" by using abbreviations without (or before) defining them and expecting everyone else to run around looking them up.

It's tired and lame.

PunksATawnyFill··on Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019)
Don't use an abbreviation BEFORE defining it.

Come on. This is tiresome.

PunksATawnyFill··on Customers do not ask for software complexity
I disagree. I worked for a couple of big-six consulting firms, and my experience at the last one was that they could be pretty clueless and lazy about determining what the customer really needed.

I spent a goodly amount of time preparing a questionnaire about the client's business needs and purposes for doing ad-hoc database queries. None of the questions were leading or simply offered up a feature. They required some thought and would yield useful information.

The project manager was baffled by it. NO! he said, clearly flummoxed by this divergence from what apparently was his (and perhaps the firm's) lazy, half-assed approach: Look up all the available products for the customer's task, put all of the features they claim to offer in a big list with checkboxes next to them, and hand it to the client. This is exactly what I was told to do, in the rebuke I got for doing it right.

I referred to this as the grocery-list approach. Of COURSE the client is going to create an imaginary need for most of the features and check them off. Who wouldn't?

Another great example is "customizable UI." How many thousands of man-years of work have been wasted on this boondoggle?

PunksATawnyFill··on Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors
They’re faster to use.

They’re consistent between fonts.

PunksATawnyFill··on Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors
Why?
PunksATawnyFill··on Things I wished more developers knew about databases
The solution isn't to force style on programmers within the language. It's to fix the shitty diff tools that flag whitespace changes as significant.
PunksATawnyFill··on The Decline of Usability
That is such a lame, played-out excuse. A real favorite of apologists for shitty UI design.
PunksATawnyFill··on Bouncing DVD Logo
Not true. Movies were of course shot on film, which has way higher resolution than DVD.

Even old TV shows look better than ever, as long as they were scanned from film. Look at the original Star Trek or Twilight Zone on Blu-Ray.

PunksATawnyFill··on Bouncing DVD Logo
"Could of?"
PunksATawnyFill··on Bouncing DVD Logo
I made the mistake of pressing Degauss on a monitor while holding a magnet next to it.

This basically calibrated the thing to look normal... with the magnet there. It took quite a while to restore to normal.

PunksATawnyFill··on New iPhone SE
Ugh, this is not at all a valid comparison. It's extremely tired, too.

The phone MUST create analog audio signals, to drive its own speaker. Denying customers a connector to access it is petty and offensive. Compounding that offense is requiring every listening device to now incorporate redundant D/A converters. Contrary to apologists saying that this enables better quality, it in fact results in wholly unpredictable quality.

Not to mention that your ears will ALWAYS require analog audio. So do billions of amplification devices around the world.

There's no excuse.

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