tabony

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Comment · 1 year ago

A lot of people will spend $30 at a coffee shop in a week. Maybe $150 in one month.

I think $15 for a whole month of entertainment, tutorials, and useful content and to pay the people who create the videos is worth it.

Comment · 1 year ago

It's not a directly mappable to a register-based microprocessor but it's directly mappable to a stack-based microprocessor.

e.g. The PSC 1000 microprocessor (1994) could run Java directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignite_(microprocessor)

Stack-based microprocessors tend to perform worse than register-based ones and I assume there wasn't a huge reason to develop a Java-on-chip for a "Java computer.” (1) It would have not run non-Java software easily and (2) the future of stack-based microprocessors wasn't as bright.

Comment · 1 year ago

CSS has way more features today than 15 years ago but is easier to master in my opinion.

Back then, CSS implementations had a lot more quirks and you had to keep all of this in your head. Just because one combination of CSS properties in Firefox worked one way did not mean it worked even similarly in Internet Explorer.

Comment · 1 year ago

I couldn’t screenshot non-DRM videos on Windows XP either.

It’s because the video is being rendered on a different framebuffer for performance reasons.

Helpful for DRM too.

Comment · 1 year ago

You’re way overthinking it.

I go to a show. There’s maybe 50 people in a dark, dingy room. I want to support the band so I buy a shirt and a record from the merch table.

Sometimes I’m right by the record store so I stop and browse. I see an LP for an album I like, either used or new. I buy it.

Now I have a stack of records. I go home and play records. I still use Spotify.

Comment · 1 year ago

While it is, the same issue exists in Sublime, Vim, Emacs, Gedit, pico/nano[1], IntelliJ, Android Studio, Eclipse, and every editor.

[1] https://threatpost.com/researchers-show-how-popular-text-edi...

I think Xcode may be the exception but Xcode plugins also can’t do much.

Comment · 1 year ago

Actually it goes the other way. Inflation erodes public debt [1][2]. It is, however, not necessarily good[3].

But at the end of the day, the causes of inflation are not cause and effect. You can print money to save an economy without causing inflation as we did during the 2008 financial crisis[4] or you can print money and cause hyperinflation as in the case of Argentina[5] or Zimbabwe. It’s more about how you do it instead of what you do.

[1] https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/how-inflation-erode...

[2] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/using-inflation-erode-us-publ...

[3] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2022/aug/inflation...

[4] https://econofact.org/rising-inflation

[5] https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-money-printing-destroyed-ar...

Comment · 1 year ago

At least in my area, we also don’t build new highways. We only widen existing ones.

Right of way seems to be the biggest driver of cost and seems to be a major blocker for transportation progress.

Comment · 1 year ago

Dark mode is difficult to read for me.

Comment · 1 year ago

Have been doing all my life and it has never backfired.

It’s not about breaking rules. It’s that I already know what you want.

If I buy you ice cream without asking you for the flavor, it’s because I already know what you want because I pay attention to you.

And it doesn’t matter when I get it wrong because you appreciated the 500 other times I cared about you.