But, does it have wobbly windows?
Readit News64738 commented on Cosmic Updates (Feat. Community) blog.system76.com/post/co... · Posted by u/frankjr
64738 commented on A visual guide to SSH tunnels robotmoon.com/ssh-tunnels... · Posted by u/brendanfalk
Huh? I had 0 problems upgrading the RAM in my 2011 MBP. Have they made it inaccessible since then?
Unfortunately, yes. Several years ago they started soldering the RAM directly to the motherboard, and don't provide any ram slots. So, whatever amount a unit shipped with is the max it will ever have.
I'm still using a mid-2009 MBP. Upgraded the RAM, replaced the hard drive with an SSD, and just last week installed Catalina on it. It's still my daily driver lol.
64738 commented on Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life? · Posted by u/gavribirnbaum
There are a couple sections, but for the most part it's chronological, with new entries at the bottom. Started adding dates to new notes/quotes/observations about 5 years ago.
It's a sprawling mess, so I rely on search to find what I'm after.
I reference it often -- it's like an extension of my brain.
I do the exact same thing. Just a text file that these days I store in a Dropbox folder so that no matter what system I'm on I can just "vi ~/Dropbox/notes.txt".
Similarly, several years ago I added a keybind to my .vimrc that, by typing ",a" I'm moved to the bottom of the file and today's date with a separator line underneath. My leader key is "," and I mnemonically associate "a" with "append".
The earliest date recorded in it goes back to 2006 and is about 300KB in size. I still reference and add to it on a regular basis.
64738 commented on Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010) highscalability.com/blog/... · Posted by u/kd5bjo
Slightly off topic but this is my favorite justin.tv video, and also shows something of the website and how early in the days of live streaming we were back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqgEm8XWXu8
Thanks for that! I hadn't seen it before, that's pretty funny.
64738 commented on The Long, Slow Death of Venice bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/pseudolus
It's not about being recognized as a tourist. It's about judging people by their actions, instead of how they look. All the other things mentioned are actions that could be considered rude or abrasive. Someone should not have to dress like you for you to treat them well, for that is the fault of the prejudiced.
While ultimately true, the problem is that you can't control how other people think or judge, but you can control what you wear.
64738 commented on YouTube should give users a way of knowing if a video has been altered spencerdailey.com/2019/06... · Posted by u/spenvo
Videos until now were thought to be immutable. If someone removes a point of controversy from a video, a person linking to it as proof of that controversy suddenly looks like a liar.
The immutability illusion was busted for me when SpaceX edited one of their video live-streams. Their intent was harmless in that they corrected a split-screen that was showing the same camera feed in both windows, IIRC.
However, when you visit that video's youtube page, the video date was listed as something like "Live-streamed on ...", with no note of it being edited. You are given the impression that what you are about to view is what was streamed, when it's not.
The edited version is a better video, but don't tell me I'm watching the same thing as those who saw it live during the stream.
Your standards are unfortunately warped by modern trends. Almost all popular apps are hugely bloated because the developers just don't care, the focus is on UI re-design and feature churn and the illusion of ease of development. Some counter examples (compressed installer size for convenience):
7-zip for 64-bit windows: 1.4 MiB
Winamp 5.8: 7.8 MiB
mpc-hc: 13.5 MiB (open source media player with many built-in codecs)
irfan-view: 3.4 MiB (image viewer/utility)
uTorrent: 2.3 MiB
Sysinternals Process Monitor: 1 MiB
For a truly native application, which doesn't pack a huge run-time or dependency tree, that's the expected size range. Now, it's true, it seems no one does that anymore ...
Thank you for mentioning IrfanView. Back in the day I used to have a cracked copy of LviewPro that was always one of the 1st programs to be installed whenever I started working on a new system. It was small, fast, and I could easily flip through all the image files in a directory.
I stopped using LviewPro probably 8, or 10 years ago, but always wished I knew of a replacement that was so efficient. I see that IrfanView also does quite a bit more. I think I have a new favorite!
Now, if you'll pardon me, I need to drop the author a kind note. :)
64738 commented on Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal aerc-mail.org/... · Posted by u/jcamou
Love the idea, and I really will give this a go as a daily driver.
Just a small feedback: I had trouble with one of the requirements -> scdoc, didn't know what exactly that is (Googling didn't help), so might be worth to provide a direct link in the README.md to https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc/
Thank you, I had the same problem. Apt couldn't find it in my Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS install, and when I googled it I'm pretty sure "South Carolina Department of Corrections" wasn't what I was looking for. ;) So, thank you for the link.
64738 commented on Nebula: A paid alternative to YouTube, curated by the creators watchnebula.com/... · Posted by u/rahuldottech
>No programmatic ads
The "programmatic" qualification has a weird smell and makes me suspicious.
Same here. The moment I saw "programmatic ads" I thought, "then what kind of ads do they have?"