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bitcraft | 1 month ago | on: Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

The crispy aliasing of the audio has always felt cozy to me. It’s also a bit of a signature of the system, like the wobbly polygons on PS1. I appreciate that there are ways to change the sound, but it feels a bit rude to label it broken or defective.

bitcraft | 1 year ago | on: Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

Boyscouting works because you don’t need to get permission to fix tech debt when it is bundled with something else. 98% of those tickets you file to fix warts will never be addressed because the business demands that time is spent on features that make money.

bitcraft | 1 year ago | on: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

I might be a minority here, but I don't really consider the Android OS a feature I want. As a Remarkable 2 owner, I've come to really appreciate the long battery life and purpose built OS. There are no "app" distractions, and it has become an essential part of my daily work flow for note taking and e-book reading.

I wish Daylight success, but at their price, its not a compelling offer for me.

bitcraft | 2 years ago | on: The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6

I had to do a double take regarding the single click "issue" because later in the article it is mentioned that scroll bar behavior was changed to accommodate users with RSI.

So what is it KDE? Do you care about RSI or not? I'm no longer a young person anymore, and appreciate any features to prevent RSI. I think its silly to relent on the single click due to "new user pressure".

At least there is still an option for it, I suppose.

bitcraft | 4 years ago | on: Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters

Is it so far fetched that there are people, especially in groups, who act in extreme ways? I’m sure they are saying exactly “ We cannot let them have freedom, we must control everything they do”, because it is optimum for them to do so.

bitcraft | 4 years ago | on: OK Lenovo, we need to talk

I never understood how some people seem to not know that Lenovo and IBM are not the same company. When Lenovo, a completely different company, bought the rights to manufacture IBM products in 2005, the Think* brand was no longer IBM. The author states, eventually, his point being that Lenovo lost it’s mojo, but it never had any. The Thinkpads people remember with mojo were the IBM ones, and some Lenovo branded ones after the handoff, but that’s really just residual “mojo” from the old teams and processes. Lenovo was never good, and really isn’t now, and has a long record of bad behavior.

bitcraft | 7 years ago | on: V8 release v6.8

Very excited to see more improvements with V8. I am worried however about how good google chrome is and how it completely dominates in some markets. I hope that Firefox can continue to improve (Quamtum is great!) and stay relevant especially since Electron Apps are popular and it’s not certain that some day they won’t include Google telemetry.

bitcraft | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How can I become more eloquent?

Your post is well written to begin with, so it seems that you already can write consice and convey your point well. While I’m not known almost family and friends as being exceptionally articulate, I’ve found bother reading philosophy and poetry combined with practice to be helpful. You must practice for example, in front of a mirror, or write down some creative thought in a personal journal or even a blog. Reading along won’t help.

bitcraft | 7 years ago | on: The state of type hints in Python

I don’t like the added burden of importing types in order to use them. So far, I’ve relied on pycharm’s excellent static analysis and docstrings to add type hints. One huge pain point that about C++ are header files and maintaining two source files for related code. Python stub files really reduce flexibility when refactoring or building new code. If you are adding types and maintaining two source files, the rapid development advantage of using python is nearly lost, and the type info is hidden while reviewing code, unless you have both files open. Not great for code review when the editor isn’t able to report type conflicts.

bitcraft | 7 years ago | on: Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem

In my local market, the slowing down of the crypto fad is showing. Used GTX 1080 GPUs are no longer hawked at $800 and there are various ASICS generally available. Even new retail cards are coming down in price, but are still way too high for technology that’s been available for a couple years now. Unfortunately, I believe that Nvidia is going to keep the prices high so that they can position the upcoming 11 series at the $700 mark just because they can.
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