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lhball commented on Internet Archive expands Flash support mastodon.archive.org/@tex... · Posted by u/sogen

lhball · 2 years ago

I had en elementary school teacher that made a website dedicated to flags games appropriate for students. It was amazing, FULL of games from my childhood: https://web.archive.org/web/20050407011006/www.gamewing.com

If they can get that working I’d be ecstatic!

lhball commented on 75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12 1000hoursoutside.com/blog... · Posted by u/gmays

WheatMillington · 3 years ago

I don't think I'm necessarily having the same experience as you.... my advice to people who aren't sure if they want kids, is DON'T. It's bloody hard, you sacrifice A LOT. Don't have kids unless you're very sure it's what you want.

I have 2 kids under 6 and I feel like I just don't have any time for any of my hobbies any more. I leave for work first thing, come home in the afternoon, and haven't had any time for myself until the kids are down at 7.30, and I'm utterly wasted. Weekends are just chaos, yeah we can divide and conquer but that only goes so far.

As for enjoying hanging around with kids.... I don't know what age that starts, but I'm 5 years and counting.

Honestly I'm exhausted, and I'm not gonna lie, I have some regret about having kids when I see the child free people around me, and how they're spending their 30s.

lhball · 3 years ago

> I just don't have any time for any of my hobbies any more

Exactly this. I have 2 under six, and outside the odd night were my wife bathes both kids, from 6am to 9pm I’m either working or hanging out with my kids. Maybe 2-3 times a month I’ll get 4 hours to myself to go watch a baseball/hockey game.

At the end of the day though, I look back and I’m grateful. I tell myself “where did my hobbies go” but deep down I know I probably would have spent that time watching a 3 hour super smash brothers documentary or re-reading LOTR or something stupid like that.

Kids have made me more focused. Their unconditional needs force me to weed out the time wasting, unimportant things in my life. I honestly sometimes wonder how it ever felt like I was busy before.

lhball commented on Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system webosarchive.com... · Posted by u/codepoet80

myvoiceismypass · 4 years ago

Is it crazy that I still think webOS is the best mobile OS of all time? The pre and pixi were just... underpowered

lhball · 4 years ago

To this day nobody does notifications as well as WebOS did.

IMO the hard-headed refusal to make a touch keyboard even optionally available also contributed to their demise.

lhball commented on Aspect-ratio is great css-irl.info/aspect-ratio... · Posted by u/damir

eyelidlessness · 4 years ago

I’m reading on iOS Safari so maybe not seeing what you’re seeing, but I don’t see what you describe.

lhball · 4 years ago

Late to this. Here’s a screen shot. https://imgur.com/a/gYLytqh

lhball commented on Aspect-ratio is great css-irl.info/aspect-ratio... · Posted by u/damir

lhball · 4 years ago

Good read.

It’s kinda funny that, on a CSS focused site, the position of the “latest” article label on the homepage is set above that of the site logo and navigation bar.

It’s nice to know even CSS experts make mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

lhball commented on Three Electric-Jaguar Years tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/CapitalistCartr

xattt · 4 years ago

> I mean, what buying a gas car is like in 2022. It’s like holding onto your flip phone in 2012. It’s like trying to find your hotel in a strange city after a red-eye with a paper map. It’s like putting your retirement savings into coal-mining investments.

This piece comes from a place of privilege. I bought a gas car out of the necessity of a growing family within the last year. Within my market, there are no options to buy a new electric without waiting for a very, very, very long time. Also, travelling out of province to buy is not an option given the pandemic and a small baby at home.

lhball · 4 years ago

It’s a “luxury belief”[1] and it shows that some people either forgot or never really knew how the other half lives.

1: https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of...

lhball commented on Shortwave – Firebase founder's new email startup shortwave.com... · Posted by u/Liron

lhball · 4 years ago

Think Google Inbox (RIP :tombstone:) meets Basecamp (:campfire:).

A little like Superhuman in that it's a an email client that uses Gmail as its backend and it has a plethora of keyboard shortcuts.

Pretty blown away by how quickly the setup completed.

lhball commented on Amazon has acquired Facebook's satellite internet team engadget.com/amazon-has-a... · Posted by u/alexrustic

ransom1538 · 4 years ago

"Rockefeller's wealth was ~420 billion (inflation adjusted) at its peak."

Dumb question. Why do people use inflation? Like Rockefeller would take the cash and put in a %2.5 account for 100 years? He probably would have put it in an investment at minimum gaining %7-10 account for 100 years - giving him multiple trillions.

lhball · 4 years ago

Even if you factor in investment returns you're not getting the full picture IMO unless you take into account price increases over time as well.

A common refrain is that Carnegie Hall only cost $1M ($29,581,868.13 when adjusted for inflation) to build, so why do we still credit its founder with their name? Shouldn't we rename it in honor of someone who's contributed more to the Hall?

What this doesn't take into account is what it would cost to _build_ a new Carnegie Hall today. Labor is far more expensive (highest $/hr ever in 2019 if I'm not mistaken [1]) today and so are building materials [2].

So it's true he'd see compounding returns from investing, but to do what they did back then would cost significantly more today. IE, their dollars took them further back then.

Also, worth noting Rockefeller donated 6% of his salary to charity every pay check every single year of his life, not just when he could "afford" it [3]. So if you take into account the _missed_ compound returns of those charitable contributions, you can start to get a sense for just otherworldly their charitable efforts were.

Not trying to say these guys were angels. And yet, as rich as they were, I think too often that overshadows the gargantuan contributions to charity they made.

[1](https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/02/are-wages-increasing...) [2](https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-price-in...) [3](https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/people/hall-o...)

lhball commented on PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey developer.apple.com/forum... · Posted by u/ingve

lhball · 5 years ago

Echoing others here, I honestly prefer this than dealing with outdated defaults built into the OS. More often than not they just get in the way.

The real bummer is for newcomers. It's going to make getting started much more of a headache since they first need to learn how to setup a local environment.

lhball commented on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? · Posted by u/wyldfire

dhosek · 5 years ago

LG 38UC99-W 38-Inch 21:9 Curved UltraWide QHD+ IPS Monitor with Bluetooth Speakers http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01LW54S4U/donhosek

It's amazing how much the extra screen real estate helps.

Other than that, I've bought surprisingly little in the last two years other than food, clothing and gifts.

lhball · 5 years ago

$1K - Hard pass. I'll take two crappy IPS 24 inch monitors before I drop that kinda cash on a monitor.

Thing is I've seen co-workers with these, and buy call accounts they love them, but I've never really been blown away by them.

The 144hz refresh rate is nice, but wasted on someone who just writes code all day.