Yeah, that's the one I bought. It's nothing like a scroll wheel.
Oh, oh. You mean the actual little upright wheel thing. Sorry.
Readit Newshotsauceror commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs
hotsauceror commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs
I found that wired trackballs with scrollwheels no longer seem to exist. I bought a wired trackball without a scrollwheel and absolutely hate it.
hotsauceror commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs
I still haven't figured out why they no longer make wired trackballs. The thing never moves, why do I need it to be wireless?
When you say "they", do you mean Logitech or Big Mouse in general?
Because I have wired trackballs from both Logitech and Kensington, and have for many years. You can pry my Kensington Orbit from my cold, dead hand.
hey, this is Howon from CodeRabbit. We use a cloud-provider-provided key vault for application secrets, including GH private key.
This is the third or fourth time you’ve spammed this exact comment in response to people’s perfectly legitimate questions. What is this clown-show bullshit?
Not that one more opinion in this endless war of opinion will matter, nor will it convince anyone, but I genuinely don't see the issue with "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment."
hotsauceror commented on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it philmckinney.substack.com... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
He refused a generous exit package because he wanted to maintain his ability to talk about his experience with HP, but waited 15 years to do so? I think i missed something, or he's not completely honest?
"I nobly refused these golden handcuffs so that well down the road I could continue huffing the farts of a company that is a shell of its former self. Don't let your eyes deceive you - they're still a powerhouse. Buy my book."
Is this what LinkedIn considers radical candor?
hotsauceror commented on Ask HN: Is anyone still programming the old-fashioned way (without LLMs)? · Posted by u/philbo
You are not a dinosaur. I would argue that the great majority of engineers at our org do it the 'old fashioned' way.
My own experience with LLM-based coding has been wasted hours of reading incorrect code for junior-dev-grade tasks, despite multiple rounds of "this is syntactically incorrect, you cannot do this, please re-evaluate based on this information" "Yes you are right, I have re-evaluated it based on your feedback" only to do the same thing again. My time would have been better spent either 1) doing this largely boilerplate task myself, or 2) assigning and mentoring a junior dev to do it, as they would only have required maybe one round of iteration.
Based on my experience with other abstraction technologies like ORMs, I look forward to my systems being absolutely flooded with nonperformant garbage merged by people who don't understand either what they are doing, or what they are asking to be done.
hotsauceror commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Every now and then my macbook will hide all of my windows so that I'm just looking at my wallpaper. It is a pretty wallpaper, but I don't really understand why I need a hotkey or gesture or whatever is happening just to allow me to gaze at it.
I guess this is more of the same? Some pretty picture can shine through at you because... pretty?
I may be mistaken but I believe the hotkey is "display my desktop, uncluttered" for those that still store files on their desktops.
hotsauceror commented on Cinematography of “Andor” pushing-pixels.org/2025/0... · Posted by u/rcarmo
>>> This is not quite the same situation as the end of Rogue One and A New Hope, where some people make the argument that Rogue One ends just a few minutes before ANH begins; I am not convinced by that argument, although the cinematography certain seems to be leading us there.
The ending scene of RO is the data handoff and narrow escape of the Tantive IV with Leia, R2-D2, and C-3PO on it.
How is that not a direct continuity into the opening scene of A New Hope?
Unless there was some sort of tractor beam, the Tantive IV did, in fact, escape, and may have been able to jump to light speed. In such an event, any eventual recapture by the Star Destroyer and battle with Vader's boarding team would have looked exactly the same as the escape sequence. There's nothing definitively saying "and they were recaptured within a few minutes of their initial escape."
hotsauceror commented on Cinematography of “Andor” pushing-pixels.org/2025/0... · Posted by u/rcarmo
I would love a series of movies that run parallel to the original trilogy, but in the style of Andor, following the dirty ground work of the rebellion, rather than its handful of shining heroes.
I think there's some room for stories of the seamy underbelly of the Rebellion, like Cara Dune and the droppers. But I think it would be easy to go to this well too many times.