Hacker News: JamesStuff

New comment by JamesStuff in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

JamesStuff — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:44:57 +0000

You can always really on the MBAs

New comment by JamesStuff in "Why TUIs are back"

JamesStuff — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:18:05 +0000

There is only so much rounding of borders you can do in the terminal! On a 16” MacBook, you can’t have Activity Monitor take up less than about 2/5 of the width of the screen! There is so much padding around every single element.

I don’t need pretty buttons, I need usability and readability. Without having a 50” display!

New comment by JamesStuff in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

JamesStuff — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:40:40 +0000

The banks cost of insurance goes up, cost of running an account goes up, how do we correct for this? offer worse accounts to customers...

New comment by JamesStuff in "C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte"

JamesStuff — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:09:40 +0000

Not sure about that, seems pretty controversial to me. Are we forgetting about the UNIVACs?

New comment by JamesStuff in "JetBrains CEO Transition"

JamesStuff — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:22:31 +0000

I'm already not keen on the dumbing down of the new editor UI, there is a reason I use JetBrain's products and not vscode...