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“ Makes me want to have like 5 separate computers”

You forgot one.

DS9 was kinda crazy. It starts with the Bajorans, who represent oppressed and conquered Palestinian/Jews, winning against the oppressive colonizing imperium by using terrorism. It keeps making the point that against an immoral colonizer oppressing your land and people, terrorism is a moral course of action to win an asymmetric war.

Not sure mainstream tv would still follow this logic today.

Climate is out. Climate tech too.

AI is in.

It would be a natural extension of the current work in software. Every layer of abstraction/web/scripting language adds seemingly 10x in both ram and processing time, undoing the advancement of 1000x faster processors and ram increases.

But at some point we’re hitting a wall here. If we want our software to undo 100,000x more processing powers, we need that llm software emulation layer.

Newtonian gravity gives infinite time to fall into black hole?

I thought you need at least special relativity for time dilution.

Firstly backtick doesn't go to the most recently used.

The whole window arranging so you can click on them doesn't help you when you have multiple desktops, close some terminal, and jump to some other terminal three desktops away. Like, arranging windows so you see some part of it always, just so you can click on it to switch back and forth between windows feels like a horrible workaround for broken alt-tab behavior. But there's additional levels of weirdnesses that just make using Apple frustrating and scary, like it's constantly throwing random curve balls. It just reeks disorganization. Which is really unfortunate - 10 years ago or so (when witcher task switcher still worked) I really enjoyed working mac. Back then I was mostly coding in the same windows I guess. Nowadays it's business work, and it's just a pain.

But even then. If you close a terminal, it'll jump to some random terminal on another desktop. It just doesn't make any sense.

The problem is that window management is so atrocious in Mac OS that using multiple desktops is just asking for trouble. Like of you close one window of some software, it will jump to some random other window of the same software on some other desktop.

In the end you’ll spend a significant amount of your time trying to “get back” to where you just where (that alt-tab, a possible savior for this in all other OSs, doesn’t work at all on Mac just adds to the UX mess)

I don’t understand this. I have a m4 with 16gb, and it can barely run office. Throw in a couple of browser tabs of ChatGPT and LinkedIn, and it slows to a crawl.

Every app window / browser tab is like 1GB these days.

The crazy thing is, if you have 10 office windows open on a MacBook with 16GB, it brings the system absolutely to its knees.

But the functionally most use would be mostly there with office 95 at the latest (except for syncing).

Why does software nowadays use 1000x the resources of software 25 years ago, but only provides minimally more useful features.

I was channeling my inner Anakin Skywalker awkwardly trying to convince Padme that dictatorships are better (mirroring the previous commenter here, also awkwardly arguing for a dictatorship of a benevolent AI). Funny how it continued with so much discussion, it sometimes seems the hn crowd lives in a galaxy far far away.

I see 502 bad gateway

scar != tumor

Definitely that was often a solution, but the version I had didn't run on DOS. Not sure whether this was a windows only version I had. Often the problem was ram, extended memory often didn't really work on DOS.

I was running Sim City 2000 inside Win 3.1 on an 386 with 33MHz (I had 16MB of ram though). But it was virtually unplayable.