Hacker News: DDayMace

New comment by DDayMace in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

DDayMace — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:02:08 +0000

I much prefer gnome for multiple desktop switching and app switching in general. Seeing this article I know there are many on macos who agree!

New comment by DDayMace in "Chuck Norris has died"

DDayMace — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:07:59 +0000

he's not really dead, one of his morning push-ups just launched him into a new universe.

New comment by DDayMace in "Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds"

DDayMace — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:31:48 +0000

Wow a Nintendo lawsuit that doesn't bother me ;-)

New comment by DDayMace in "LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor"

DDayMace — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:50:27 +0000

I think Libresprite is a fork of Aseprite from before it changed its license. In that context, maybe not a big deal.

New comment by DDayMace in "What Is a PC Compatible?"

DDayMace — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:14:50 +0000

Great article

New comment by DDayMace in "The sad state of font rendering on Linux"

DDayMace — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:18:04 +0000

So I'm sorry to hear about some of the problems with Linux font rendering in this article, it goes beyond my knowledge. I want to say though as a user, I have, between Linux, Mac and Windows machines over the years, literally always preferred Linux font rendering over cleartype and now even Mac not caring about lower resolutions and non-mac screens. You shouldn't need a 4k screen to get crisp and smooth fonts and sometimes even when you do they still look like shit, especially cleartype.

New comment by DDayMace in "Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 9590X"

DDayMace — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 22:21:28 +0000

I love ubuntu/linux for everything. Development, games under proton or classics via lutris, emulators or sourceports. It's just mecca. My "lesser" hardware performs better than Windows 11 and I am more free to customize. This is the greatest time to be a Linux user ever, and it's only getting better.

New comment by DDayMace in "What's the difference between a motor and an engine? (2013)"

DDayMace — Wed, 22 May 2024 18:11:15 +0000

In French and German the word for engineer is "Ingenieur"

New comment by DDayMace in "Jordan Mechner vs. the sands of time"

DDayMace — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:52:15 +0000

This is a fine article, but it ends right when it starts to get good. I was totally ready for the less common knowledge or a juicy story.

I am on Lutris a lot. It's awesome what can be played on Linux these days. I think it may end up being the primary home of vintage gaming.

New comment by DDayMace in "If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)"

DDayMace — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 22:43:04 +0000

It seems like if the company did a bunch of A/B testing on a wide range of customers, they could figure out if such legacy customers were truly satisfied with the existing product, or perhaps prefer the new UI.

New comment by DDayMace in "If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)"

DDayMace — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 22:41:11 +0000

Yes, that's a good strategy. Ask for permission rather than forgiveness. A former colleague and I did just that for awhile, and we were able to avoid the politics and fit the work into sprints.

New comment by DDayMace in "If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)"

DDayMace — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:27:37 +0000

There's a lot of truth to this. Back when I was doing UI for a big bank, I urged them to cleanup their frontend technical debt and unify their interface into a more consistent modern look and feel. They ignored it and I ended up leaving rather than hack into jQuery all day.

They understandably emphasized stability over replacing tested components, which financial is often known for. However I think their visible sign of improvement to the customer is severely lacking even today (this was five years ago), especially compared to their competitors. My overall feel is that the site is brittle regardless of what's happening under the hood.

New comment by DDayMace in "Stop Using Brave Browser"

DDayMace — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:01:24 +0000

This article is way over the top to me. Eich shouldn't be discredited simply because he donated to some conservative cause once. A lot of companies do that to hedge their bets in DC. And let's say Eich is what you would call anti LGBT or what have you? I don't agree with it but I don't think someone should be attacked for it. Maybe he has some religious beliefs or something. Or maybe, since that was years ago, he changed his mind or became a different person. It seems illiberal to me. It seems the best way to get people to agree with a point of view is make solid arguments and see if they come to a new decision. Going after him or anybody and trying to destroy his career seems less ethical than what you are accusing him of frankly, considering companies pull this kind of stuff every day. There is a much better way to criticize Brave than stoop to this thin emotionally low article.

New comment by DDayMace in "Mary Quant, ’60s designer who invented the miniskirt, has died at 93"

DDayMace — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:02:58 +0000

Mary: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!

New comment by DDayMace in "Your reading should be messy"

DDayMace — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:31:30 +0000

I think it really depends on the book, type of printing and its purpose. You might have a first edition you never open and read the kindle instead, have a cheap paperback for the beach that has sand and water wrinkles, or you might have a well used out of print tech book that you are gentle with in the hopes it will last longer than you do. If someone wants a display quality hardback to line their living room bookshelf to impress guests or accent their video meeting background, so what?

Life is too short to read everything. Read what keeps your interest, page by page. If a book bores you, don't finish it. Sell it, give it to a friend, drop it off at goodwill, let it gather dust. So what? Just my two cents.

New comment by DDayMace in "Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech"

DDayMace — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:29:22 +0000

Yes I think there is definitely a positive angle. Hollywood's influence has been protected in large part by union influences controlling access to bankable actors, among other reasons. The possibilities for a surge of truly independent decentralized productions is promising.

New comment by DDayMace in "Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech"

DDayMace — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:03:56 +0000

This could really help low budget games as well. One person could do all the animations for low-poly models with text based dialog or generated voices.

New comment by DDayMace in "Apple Silicon Mac’s have 2-3 times longer battery than PC laptops"

DDayMace — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:02:11 +0000

SoCs, ARM especially, are the future I don't doubt. I am thankful Apple is pushing the industry to advance. But :-) until these kind of battery advancements trickle down to Linux and Windows, I really don't care to be in Apple Prison(TM) as a trade-off.

Also, Apple has a long and storied history of specification marketing hyperbole, so I am extremely skeptical these chips will get 'real-world' 2x battery life.

I will keep building my cased x86 behemoths and refurbished Thinkpads as long as there is stock available :-) Hmm, where did that rotary phone go...

New comment by DDayMace in "Atom was archived today"

DDayMace — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:39:49 +0000

Sublime is great! Ultra fast. I feel like VSCode will be as sluggish as Visual Studio eventually.

New comment by DDayMace in "Debunking common myths about the Autobahn"

DDayMace — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:02:22 +0000

This is fascinating, thank you.