nibnib | 9 years ago | on: What.CD is shutting down
It's frustrating sending fixes to Spotify when you come across something incorrect. It takes so long for any action to be taken that I've given up.
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nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Broadcom Wi-Fi Datasheets
That was a graphics driver IIRC
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Lenovo will adopt the ‘Moto’ label for its smartphones
I am in Europe, and bought mine from a European Amazon, but no SD-card. I still use it, and yeah the camera is definitely quite far behind. I'll probably go for a Xiaomi soon.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Lenovo will adopt the ‘Moto’ label for its smartphones
Non-expandable storage is the big miss for the 1st gen Moto G.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: How Japan Prepares Its Children for Independence
There could be some lag involved. The children of 3 decades ago are now having their own children and are deciding their freedoms. I think crime was lower in the US 6 decades ago than 3, so each generation may be reacting slowly to a perceived level of danger.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Nasty Gal is expected to file for bankruptcy
>Can you trust any of the advice from her book?
This is pretty much the norm for business books. This time it just isn't backed by survivorship bias.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: ASML Buys Stake in Carl Zeiss Unit for $1.1B
The support contracts on these tools runs into huge figures, there can be 100s of engineers keeping a small number in production. Each sale is essentially a huge contract, not a one-time payment.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
> Its all just different levels of discrimination.
Aren't some of those levels enforced legally?
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Fusion – One-stop prototyping service for PCBs
Modern BGAs will often need that many layers just to break out all the signals.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Survey: 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings
That's not quite the same usage as Reagan though.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: KiCad: A commitment to freedom
You also need to allow for failure conditions. If a power tube fails as a short or low impedance, which will vaporise first: your thin tracks, or your fuse?
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be
>algorithms were invented on paper first
This I can see, but the parent seems to be talking about commercially viable software. I think people should be careful when discussing imprisonment as some kind of distraction-free vacation for intellectual pursuits, the reality is that a large amount of time would be spent caring for your mental wellbeing.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be
Has anyone ever done this? There have been successful books written in prison but not many, and that translates much better to pen and paper than software does. It sounds like something of a fantasy to be honest.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: How I built a keyboard by hand
>Forget finding a new set of DTL transistors for a PDP-1
Is this true? I would've thought we have millions of equivalent devices available
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: A Commodore 64 Is Still Being Used to Run an Auto Shop in Poland
Anything with critical timing that runs over a parallel port can be very tricky to get working in a VM. It means running a realtime OS on top of a non-realtime OS, with some abstraction layers added. A C64 is very deterministic in comparison.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Pixels and voxels, the long answer
>You'd have to imagine that actual graphics artists during the 8-bit era viewed low resolution as a limitation to overcome, not a purposeful feature of their artwork.
Well yeah, but it's a feature nonetheless. People aren't doing anything wrong by preferring sharp pixels. It's an aesthetic all to itself.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: An LA man who has built dozens of tiny houses for the homeless
The homeless are likely to be reliant on support systems in cities beyond just housing. Moving them further out means they have to travel further.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: An Open Source Tool to Combat Clickbait Links
It's the largest Spanish-speaking population, maybe that's why?
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: Millennials Don't Care About Owning Cars, and Car Makers Can't Figure Out Why
>1. Buy a $5000 car up-front, which is an expensive up-front cost for me (and more than most people my age have in savings). If I've been careful in investigating the car, it will work most of the time and only cost me $500/year in repairs.
Is this accurate for the US? I live in an expensive European country and a used car around that price would cost next to nothing in annual repairs, unless you really drove it a lot. Do you need to pay $5k up front? It's common here to take loans for used cars.
nibnib | 9 years ago | on: A New Phase for World of Warcraft’s Lead Designer: His Own Startup
There's also the problem of working within technical limitations. Even with standard file formats there can be much more involved than just dumping files into a project.
I would imagine artists need to be involved in technical discussion and would need to learn & bug-test custom software for importing and processing assets. It seems like a different skillset to traditional art & design backgrounds.
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