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New comment by Braini in "Win16 Memory Management"

Braini — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:52:01 +0000

Thats correct - and I notice that on myself. There are just much more things reachable at any point in time compared to our youth it takes real effort to focus.

New comment by Braini in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

Braini — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:33:21 +0000

I am also looking for that personally.

I think its partially as you say: "everything I may need either already exists". Through the connection over the internet (as great as it is) you see things already done already and often better than I would be able to do it myself with the limited time I got.

Also generally the large amount of things going on, its just a lot one could try, much more than in former times. So for people with focus problems its also a question of, yeah: focus.

For me I still code enough for work (as long as they let me do it - looking at the AI push) so I am fine but I still think back to the old times (C64, Amiga, 90s PC, rise of Linux on the Desktop) where I had more fun. So I guess its the technology getting more mature and personally its also getting older and maybe burned out a bit.

New comment by Braini in "Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU"

Braini — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:21:45 +0000

I actually never understood this, the C128 was a strange device (as you say like the IIGS). Was it really because Albert Charpentier left and then nobody was able to do a VicIII until much later (C65)?

New comment by Braini in "Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU"

Braini — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:28:24 +0000

Important fun fact, this synthesizer was an Ensoniq chip (ES5503 DOC), designed by Bob Yannes, the inventor of the SID chip. The IIGS was actually a cool machine, not very successful unfortunately.

New comment by Braini in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

Braini — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:30:05 +0000

In general you are right, I expect something like this to appear in the future and it would be cool.

But isn't the criticism rather that there are too many (as you say repetitive, not relevant) events - its not like there are cool stories emerging from the underlying game mechanics anymore ("grand strategy") but players have to click through these boring predetermined events again and again.

New comment by Braini in "iPhone Air"

Braini — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:25:37 +0000

Well one can only hope so. It has maybe 2 good years left, would be nice to get a new one at some point.

New comment by Braini in "Software development topics I've changed my mind on"

Braini — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:21:17 +0000

This was such a relieve for us. Looking back its unbelievable how much combined time we wasted complaining about and fixing formatting issues in code reviews and reformatting in general.

With clang-format & co. on Save plus possibly a git hook this all went away. It might not always be perfect (which is subjective anyway) but its so worth it.

New comment by Braini in "Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color"

Braini — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:56:36 +0000

Its also faster when used via Remote Desktop, VNC etc. so still doing it for these reasons.

New comment by Braini in "Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please"

Braini — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:41:05 +0000

Wondering whether we will see some combination with Cyc at some point (which tried to solve the „encoding of the world“ problem)

New comment by Braini in "Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday"

Braini — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:33:47 +0000

There should be SOPs in place for each "expected" issue so people know what to do. Its not like you (should) start debugging and deploying stuff in the middle of your on-call shift anyway. Its not 100% for sure but in the normal case this should be fine.

New comment by Braini in "Another burnout post"

Braini — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:39:33 +0000

At first glance this seems like a healthy attitude (and probably is)

On the other hand this spaghetti stuff usually comes back to them in form of new (bug) tickets or even worse on-call alerts. Then they (or some other poor soul) has to deal with it again.

New comment by Braini in "Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison"

Braini — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:29:45 +0000

Well then let them do it. The more interesting part is the "forcing others to do it" or "being forced by others to do it". The individual should be able to make this decision. But we both know thats not how it works.

New comment by Braini in "Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal"

Braini — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:07:02 +0000

Dry cooling towers do exist (though I am aware they also have disadvantages).

New comment by Braini in "iPhone SE 4 due in early 2025 with OLED and Apple Intelligence"

Braini — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:09:56 +0000

Same. I switched from Android (Sony xperia compact series) to a Mini 13 and while it took a while to get used to iOS its just great. A pity they discontinued it, I intend to keep it as long as in any way possible (i.e. until apps don‘t support the then final iOS anymore)

New comment by Braini in "Is a Universal Basic Income System Even Possible?"

Braini — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:32:04 +0000

Yes, it is unfair. If we have all this great automation and AI, why is this necessary?

New comment by Braini in "It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet (2015)"

Braini — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:37:32 +0000

I always had one (likely stupid) question regarding these as I don‘t own one but would very much like an improvement over the paper, so now is the time to ask the experts: Are you supposed to additionally use a hand while the water runs or is the water pressure sufficient to get completely clean?

New comment by Braini in "LLMs now write lots of science. Good"

Braini — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:02:52 +0000

Exactly.

This is the "reverse centaur" metaphor by Doctorow (for example here https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-23...)

which describes the exact problem with this.

New comment by Braini in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

Braini — Mon, 27 May 2024 09:52:07 +0000

Interesting, need to check but so far the modern methods of multi protocol messaging was mostly just aggregating the web UIs of the various services in a single application (read: like a web browser)

Pidgin, Miranda, Adium are the things I was referring to - would be cool if I could use them for whatsapp, signal, gmail chat/hangouts but I don‘ think thats possible. Happy to get corrected here.

New comment by Braini in "We need 70% less coders as the AI handles most of the coding"

Braini — Mon, 27 May 2024 08:57:05 +0000

Yeah thats because then they don‘t really look at it and certainly don‘t really understand it.

In some way reviewing code is more complicated and hard than actually writing it.

I really like the „reverse centaur“ metaphor by Doctorow regarding the automation AI will bring us - humans having to double check the stuff AI wrote for correctness in AI pace.

New comment by Braini in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

Braini — Sat, 25 May 2024 10:16:21 +0000

That is correct but it was still more open than what we have now with the current services. 3rd party clients and multi-protocol messengers we don't have at all anymore.