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burmanm commented on Blurry rendering of games on Mac   colincornaby.me/2025/08/y... · Posted by u/bangonkeyboard
rarepostinlurkr · 17 days ago
If anything it's an example that games can be amazing on macOS, if developers take the time to learn and use the system. WoW on macOS is a far superior experience to WoW on Windows.
burmanm · 16 days ago
By what standard is it superior to WoW on Windows? Starting from the available hardware, the Windows world is far superior for WoW resulting in better visuals and more consistent fps which is a good start of having enjoyable experience.

Also I really can't think of the way Mac's mouse settings in WoW work better than the Windows ones. Scrolling, mouse movement are all having more settings under Windows to customize them compared to the experience on Mac (even with all the tools such as Mos to help with the bad external mouse handling in Mac).

So what exactly is so superior? I play WoW on both platforms and when I have a choice (that is, when playing at my home desktop - on my summer cabin I only have the Mac option) it's always the Windows one I select. It's nice that it works in Mac so I can play everywhere as I only have Mac laptop, but the sometimes weird graphics bugs, worse performance and odd issues with rendering displacing my WAs and other stuff just doesn't inspire confidence in Mac gaming compared to using Windows. And the mouse movement.. ugh.

burmanm commented on Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge   yle.fi/a/74-20161606... · Posted by u/axelfontaine
thehappypm · 3 months ago
False.

First of all it's not just so easy to destroy infrastructure in a way that can't be rebuilt quickly; thousands of miles of train tracks would be difficult to destroy. This is happening all over Ukraine.

Second, blowing up your own country's rail infrastructure means you can't use it, either, which means you lose an advantage you have that your trains can move on your rails but your enemy's cannot.

burmanm · 3 months ago
If you look at the map you will see that there isn't multiple tracks coming from Russia to Finland. Some of them were even designed to be blown up if necessary (such as the Salla rail tracks).

Finnish rail roads are mostly north-south bound (or west of Helsinki) which are not helpful to Russian advances. The only way for them to transport weaponry would be through east-west bound (near the border) and there isn't many. It's easy to take such out and they would not impact our infrastructure at all as they're not heavily used (if at all since eastern part of Finland is economically the weakest link anyway).

It's quick and easy in the end to destroy. Rebuilding them under artillery fire isn't easy.

burmanm commented on Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge   yle.fi/a/74-20161606... · Posted by u/axelfontaine
varsketiz · 3 months ago
The goal is defence - to prevent easy russian train logistics deep into Finland.
burmanm · 3 months ago
Far easier is to just destroy the train tracks with explosives that connect between Finland and Russia (or demolish them like done in Salla after letting them rot).

There's no defensive reason for this other than in the cabinet talks.

burmanm commented on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant   economist.com/the-america... · Posted by u/jcartw
m00dy · 5 months ago
there's a lot of reasons that it won't happen anytime soon. Those countries use euro as their main currency, also culturally and historically connected, which you can call them latins. Why don't you add Denmark to that group ? You can't because it will take ages :)
burmanm · 5 months ago
But for similar application, you could use MobilePay (Vipps?). That works across Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

So although only Finland uses Euro (and rest have their own currency), you can easily transfer money between persons using just their mobile number as an example.

burmanm commented on LA wildfires disinformation reveals limits of fact-checking   weaponizedspaces.substack... · Posted by u/rbanffy
lupusreal · 8 months ago
Can somebody fact check the LA firefighters running out of water despite being next to an ocean? I already know their trucks can pump sea water just fine.
burmanm · 8 months ago
Seriously? The fires started in the area of Pacific Palisades that has altitude of hundreds of meters above sea level with few kilometers of distance.

In which world can such pump work? Are those firetrucks embedded with gravity defying technology?

Perhaps a slight reading of how water pumps work (with even elementary physics classes) would be a nice starting point for these silly accusations.

burmanm commented on Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG's new Preservation Program   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/Tomte
946789987649 · 9 months ago
Even World of Warcraft which used to be seamless in terms of issues, has had increasingly more and more obvious bugs. A sad state from the "Blizzard polish" of yesteryear.
burmanm · 9 months ago
World of Warcraft has never been without issues. When it launched it was full of bugs, servers kept crashing (but they did refund a lot of gametime back then) and so on.

And every expansion was just a nightmare start, without being able to get to the new zone, servers again crashing.

You just have golden memories of a state that never happened. Game wise, WoW has gone forward a lot since DF (the disaster of SL taught them something) and is actually in a lot better state than before. Sure, it has bugs, but it's also a massive game. And they do keep fixing a lot of bugs with quite good response time these days instead of what it used to be.

burmanm commented on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public   blog.cloudflare.com/paten... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
lccerina · a year ago
In a sane law system, the existence of a company as a mere "box of patents" without any real product currently or previously on the market would be illegal, and these patent trolls won't exist...
burmanm · a year ago
Where would you draw a line for "any real product" ? ARM for example doesn't actually produce any "real" (physical) product, but they certainly do research and produce technology for other companies to build products on.

There's a lot of "on paper" companies around the world who actually do produce novel technologies even if they don't themselves create the end product, but instead sell their inventions to other parties.

burmanm commented on AMD's Radeon 890M: Strix Point's Bigger iGPU   chipsandcheese.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/luyu_wu
setgree · a year ago
In theory this makes sense, but reviews all suggested that the price proposition for the APUs didn't really work and now AMD has released a laptop part that fills the same niche. DIY folks won't be able to get their hands on the laptop part right away but presumably soon? It just seems kind of odd to release something that outperforms your own product in the same segment.
burmanm · a year ago
The 8600G/8700G are installed to normal AM5 socket and can be swapped. The laptop parts are socketed and are not going to be available in the AM5 market.
burmanm commented on Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown   lwn.net/Articles/984502/... · Posted by u/signa11
kilolima · a year ago
Do you have use the mouse to use rich text? If so then no thanks.
burmanm · a year ago
We've even had word processors for over 40 years, why would we suddenly need mouse support to write rich text?

Editing rich text without mouse has always been a thing, Markdown isn't something that suddenly created some fancy new rich text without mouse experience.

burmanm commented on Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas   haystackeditor.com/... · Posted by u/akshaysg
burmanm · a year ago
I wonder if you've considered (or if there's already) an integration to Git to assist in reviewing pull requests? I often find myself jumping around in VSCode trying to understand some subtle changes in the PRs I'm reviewing which might have small one line changes to many functions.

Understanding how all of those are tangled together would simplify reviews a lot. Especially if the code in question touches places that I haven't visited in a long time (or written by someone else who might have slightly different style of architecting).

I could already see myself using the tool for pair coding / explaining my own PR to others, this looks seriously nice for any sharing.

u/burmanm

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