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_7acn··on Windows 11 is finally getting a redesigned battery indicator
They should focus on battery usage instead. I love Windows, but Windows on a laptop is a horrible experience…
_7acn··on Ask HN: Best password manager? (end 2024)
I use my own https://0password.github.io for private stuff and 1password at work. Both are very convenient and well made :)
_7acn··on They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard
But they still make great stuff like Korg Volca FM or Dirtywave M8 and many, many other beautiful synths!

Apart from that, with music equipment, it's completely different than with computers. In our case, great hardware becomes outdated and goes out of use. You could say it disappears forever because its time has passed. With music equipment, it's entirely different. There, everything remains compatible, almost nothing "goes out of use" and it cannot become obsolete.

_7acn··on Godot Isn't Making It
Game Engine not famous, I guess :C
_7acn··on 1/0 = 0 (2018)
Not zero. Infinity
_7acn··on Ask HN: Can anyone give me a good reference on the Aaron Swartz case?
Btw, there is a movie worth watching: „The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz”
_7acn··on Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface
Cool. BTW, the sun shines white, not yellow.
_7acn··on Twitter is the worst global social network except for all the others
In your article, you write that a social platform without trolls is impossible. You simply encountered a dumb-ass troll who didn't like the fact that you like Twitter and he reacted this way.
_7acn··on I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100
I set up a private account on Azure to host a small, static website using 100% FREE components. However, it wasn't possible to do this without registering a credit card. Even when I tried to add a different card from Revolut, which is a prepaid card, I received a message stating that such cards are not accepted and that it has to be an actual CREDIT card.
_7acn··on A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#
However amusing, this comparison doesn’t seem accurate to me. F# may appear more challenging only to someone who is already accustomed to OO programming languages. For people just starting to code, without pre-existing habits, learning F# could be much easier than learning C#
_7acn··on A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#
What do you think about F#, then? It already covers everything you mentioned and it has discriminated unions.
_7acn··on M4 MacBook Pro
No OLED yet :(
_7acn··on Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox
1. You can fork this repository and do whatever you want with it (e.g., self-host). The license is public domain.

2. If you save this page to your disk, everything will still work offline.

_7acn··on Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
Ain't that for 8-yo
_7acn··on NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean
"What an ignorant fool! There could totally be life there!"
_7acn··on NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean
Just in case, let’s check if one of Jupiter’s moons, packed with salt and freezing near absolute zero, happens to have life. Sounds like a great way to spend public money.
_7acn··on Winamp Legacy player source code
Personally, I use Winamp to play FLAC files from CDs I own and to listen to streams from DI.fm
_7acn··on Ask HN: What is the most expensive off-the-shelf software you have seen?
Alias|Wavefront Maya Unlimited (now Autodesk Maya)
_7acn··on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
„I think Apple is AmAzInG so I will downvote you”
_7acn··on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
The sluggishness of the system on new hardware is an accurate observation, but I think the author should also take a look at macOS or popular Linux distros, where it's significantly worse
_7acn··on Frustrations with the OCaml ecosystem while developing a synthesizer library
Sounds very relatable coming from F#.
_7acn··on A New Theory of Distraction (2015)
It should be forbidden to link paywalled articles
_7acn··on The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education
IMO, AI speeds up work and makes life easier, but it might be not necessarily great for humanity. I have my doubts, and I think only time will tell what the long-term effects are...

I don't know Assembler, but I can effectively use SQL. Do I need to know Assembler? Probably not, but I would certainly be a better programmer in general, if I did.

I recently completed additional studies in New Media Art. I noticed that students can use Photoshop fluently, but few of them can correctly draw a human figure anatomically. Do they need this skill? Probably not, but they would certainly be better artists if they had it.

In my opinion, this is a general trend, not necessarily related to AI itself, where technology gives us quick results but paradoxically degrades other skills that were once achieved through hard work.

In a sense, we have a "instant gratification" society today.

_7acn··on What App to Use for Notes?
„Offline PC” sounds interesting. Is it for security reasons?
_7acn··on What App to Use for Notes?
I mostly use .txt file with Sublime Text (I don’t sync notes), GitHub’s „project” (set to private) and sometimes I also message myself on Signal.
_7acn··on Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
When I see the low level of support that Apple provides for various less popular web browsers, it reminds me of a certain story:

A friend of mine once worked a long time ago at an IT company that was building an online store. He wrote a script there that displayed a message whenever someone accessed the site using Netscape "Get lost, jerk, with that Netscape and go straighten bananas on a tree”.

The company was quite popular in my country, and that message caused a lot of outrage on Usenet groups.

_7acn··on Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
I’m mostly using Windows, so even today, it remains my main audio player. I use Winamp for FLACs and DI.fm streams
_7acn··on Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?
During his tenure, Windows 8 was released... Just as W8, the server version also lacked the START button, which was particularly noticeable when working through RDP. Also, the whole "Metro" design was a disaster. I also remember the acquisition of Skype for an astronomical amount. Where is Skype now? Indeed, an underrated CEO...
_7acn··on The internet is already over (2022)
I've been using the Internet since the days of Netscape Navigator and 14.4 kbit/s dial-up modems. Maybe it's just that I'm getting older, but I really miss the old Internet. Ironically, it felt less "anonymous" back then, and it was easier to be part of a community — users knew each other. Now, everyone is here, and the quality of content has significantly declined.
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