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whobre commented on Spending too much time at airports   thezvi.substack.com/p/spe... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
abxyz · 20 hours ago
“I almost always book the minimum flight, basic economy, whether or not I am paying. There is so little to be gained from moving up compared to the price.”

Perhaps I’m too precious but economy class is awful compared to business class. Lie-flat seats are a significant improvement over economy. If you are spending your own money, sure, stick to economy so you can spend your money on other things that are more important to you… but someone else’s money? What conceivable reason is there to choose economy if someone else is paying.

whobre · 20 hours ago
Business is much better for long flights. For flights under 5 hours it almost does not make any difference.
whobre commented on The Enterprise Experience   churchofturing.github.io/... · Posted by u/Improvement
Gazoche · 7 days ago
I'm in a similar situation, having left a startup a year ago to work at $BIGCORP, naively thinking it would benefit my résumé. This is all painfully accurate.

The other thing about working for $BIGCORP is that it molds your skills to be hyper-specific to this company. It's less about learning to use cool technology stacks, than it is about learning the internal tools, procedures, and unspoken etiquette of the company. Skills that are vital to navigate the everyday complexity of $BIGCORP, but that you can't really export to any other job.

whobre · 7 days ago
It probably will benefit your resume. At least that’s my experience.
whobre commented on Traps to Developers   qouteall.fun/qouteall-blo... · Posted by u/qouteall
busymom0 · 8 days ago
> Division is much slower than multiplication (unless using approximation). Dividing many numbers with one number can be optimized by firstly computing reciprocal then multiply by reciprocal.

Is this a general fact or specific to a language?

whobre · 8 days ago
It's generally true even for CPU instructions: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/280673/why-d...
whobre commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy   theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
neves · 11 days ago
For me worse than the can't pay is the lack of options. In the VHS time I had more good movie options than in the current streaming services. I remember when I bing watched Kurozawa or Mario Monicelli's movies. Now it's very hard to find non American cinema. The tech is there, but the System fail us.
whobre · 11 days ago
Yep. I swear I liked the old Netflix with DVDs better. I could rent pretty much any movie I wanted.
whobre commented on Inside OS/2 (1987)   gitpi.us/article-archive/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
mikewarot · 15 days ago
The cool thing about OS/2 2.1 was that you could easily boot off of a single 1.44 Mb floppy disk, and run multitasking operations, without the need for the GUI.

I had (and likely have lost forever) a Boot disk with OS/2, and my Forth/2 system on it that could do directory listings while playing Toccata and Fugue in D minor in a different thread.

I wrote Forth/2 out of pure spite, because somehow I heard that it just wasn't possible to write OS/2 applications in assembler. Thanks to a copy of the OS/2 development kit from Ward Christensen (who worked at IBM), and a few months of spare time, Forth/2 was born, written in pure assembler, compiling to directly threaded native code. Brian Matthewson from Case Western wrote the manual for it. Those were fun times.

whobre · 14 days ago
> The cool thing about OS/2 2.1 was that you could easily boot off of a single 1.44 Mb floppy disk, and run multitasking operations, without the need for the GUI.

It was cool, but don’t forget that you could do the same thing with MP/M on an 8-bit machine in late 1979.

Even Microsoft developed a similar operating system a year later, but never released it. The code name was M-DOS, or MIDAS, depending who you ask.

whobre commented on I prefer human-readable file formats   adele.pollux.casa/check-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
whobre · 16 days ago
Even "human-readable" formats are only readable if you have proper tools - i.e. editors or viewers.

If a binary file has a well-known format and tools available to view/edit it, I see zero problems with it.

whobre commented on Windows XP Professional   win32.run/... · Posted by u/pentagrama
int_19h · 18 days ago
Win2K did multiple users more or less the same, the only difference I remember from XP is the login screen that would list all accounts so you didn't have to type the username.

As for UI, it was very easy to switch to classic mode.

whobre · 17 days ago
> Win2K did multiple users more or less the same

No, it didn't. You had to use some 3rd party software for that.

whobre commented on Windows XP Professional   win32.run/... · Posted by u/pentagrama
rayiner · 18 days ago
How was it better than Win2K?
whobre · 18 days ago
Multiple users on a same machine out of the box and way faster boot time.

Didn't care for the UI, though - looked childish...

u/whobre

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