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The early Soundblaster cards sucked. Even the SB16. The first real comparable product to the Amiga was the Gravis Ultrasound in 1992. Don't even mention SVGA, with it's pre-VESA no…

> It competes with fopen. No, it actually competes with Excel. At least in the finance world, there are still a million small processes driven by an Excel spreadsheet put together …

I drive a 2019 Passat, with lane assist, tempomat, road sign detection etc - it only beeps when there is no more washer fluid (but then it does beep every fcking 5 minutes - easily…

> The thing with GMaps is that everyone has traffic data, so nobody has an advantage. It's not necessarily about "advantage", especially on longer journeys. What if there is a cras…

My employer just finalized a contract with Anthropic, for enterprise Claude Code use. Which means that unless there is a _major_ downgrade in service quality, we are now locked in …

This is highly parasitic: someone does a Show HN about their hobby project, and then you come and snap on to it like a leech with your to-be-paid-for completely unrelated game demo…

In this sense, Java is already the next Cobol. I usually ask one or two questions about class loading in interviews (of senior Java devs), the younger ones are frequently stumbling…

Certainly it might have been out of control of its original owner, perhaps due to a prompt injection attack. If I start a completely benign agent, but someone injects malicious ins…

Windows 3.1 was probably the first mainstream version of Windows, with significantly less memory requirements (and it ran no problem on a 286 IIRC). Windows 3.11 came almost 1.5 ye…

Reviewing code in PRs is not a no-effort action. If there are 3 people working in the project, and thousands of people submitting bugfixes, then no matter how useful those bugfixes…

I used VS6 professionally and for private business around 2000-2004, and it was still going strong then. VC++ was great. One thing though that I still have nightmares about is Visu…

Yes, but if you compare the complexity of (Turbo) Pascal to the complexity of C++... language, environment, libraries and cross-compilation... (A nice thought-experiment is to ask …

I had such an interview once. The recruiting agent explained to me beforehand that this is kind of a "stress-technical" interview, supposed to test my real knowledge as I would hav…

Why stop at writing code? We should all build our custom ASIC chips, or if you don't have a chip fab, at least do FPGA!

You can enforce classification and privacy labels (or something similar) in Excel and other document files, at least in a closed corporate environment. Azure also supports this. Al…

My biggest gripe with Zed right now (it seems they had changed the default force-formatting of source code) is that it is non-extensible. I just wanted a custom action when I right…

Why are certain parts of the text highlighted in yellow? This is very distracting.

No plugins? Those are what give NP++ its real power and usability - for example I use the XML and JSON pretty print functionality daily (on Windows, on my work machine). Otherwise …

No dedicated Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Ins/Del? Meh. No T-shape cursor keys?!? Lame. No love. No want. Go home. Thinkpad FTW. Sorry.

Having strong SETI@Home vibes from 25 years ago, except of course, this is not for the greater good of humanity, but a for-profit project. Problem is, from a technical point of vie…

> I’m seriously considering a pivot to security Exactly my conclusion, unfortunately I'm too old to pivot now, but anyone in their junior-to-mid days as a software developer should…

I tried reading Proust's In Search Of Lost Time some time ago, in which the first 10-20 pages are about a guy lying in his bed at night and observing his own thoughts (roughly). An…

Let me highlight this part: > Everything was ruthlessly sacrificed to cut costs, including pilot safety. If we translate this analogy back to AI driven software development, what w…

To me, the odd part is when you compare the performance of RPC vs inline code. You present it as if you found something new and foundational, only possible thanks to AI, when in fa…

Because only those two extremes exist: you either don't have a phone, or your are glued to it?