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New comment by NiteOwl066 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

NiteOwl066 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:03:59 +0000

Macbook neo is most probably a cheap low end laptop, or a very small laptop. (with rumors that it uses A-series processors)

It's not competing with Macbook pros which are the top line for laptop power users.

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "Fabiano Caruana, Chess Is Meaningless [video]"

NiteOwl066 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:07:52 +0000

I in general agree with his point. Many people have this min-maxing attitude which is very useful for society when correctly directed. But often we just use it for tasks which aren't truly productive.

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)"

NiteOwl066 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:29:08 +0000

Yeah you could add many more major names like Banach or my favourite (and imo most underappreciated) Jan Czochralski.

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "Doctor-prescribed videogame for ADHD"

NiteOwl066 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:44:32 +0000

That's not really true. There's a reason why in many countries (including mine) medicine students take them en masse for studying/exams.

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "Writing Gnome Apps with Swift"

NiteOwl066 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:54:08 +0000

You would just use some architecture pattern. I would say the most natural one for SwiftUI is MVVM so the logic would go to viewModel.

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "Surely You're Joking, Comrade Beria (2021)"

NiteOwl066 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:24:44 +0000

While it might be true I think it's worth pointing out that Khrushchev and Beria were in rivalry for power. And I would be surprised if in his memoirs he wouldn't have painted Beria as the bad guy. So I think we should take all those memories with a grain of salt at best and understand that all those stories might be twisted or even completely false.

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "Should error messages apologize? (2013)"

NiteOwl066 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 14:30:49 +0000

Out of interest what places are those?

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board"

NiteOwl066 — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:38:05 +0000

What's the source of those comments?

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III"

NiteOwl066 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:33:07 +0000

I think you are a little bit biased here. Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition from ubisoft has one major issue, it's lacking expansions. But the graphics itself is imo better than in hd mod. https://www.gamersgate.com/media/products/product/14687141/s... https://i.imgur.com/i1DNqNp.png The second one is a pic from hd mod. The first one is hd edition.

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "Cyberpunk 2077 Update 1.5"

NiteOwl066 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:58:42 +0000

I wonder how big is the impact of the pandemic on the industry. CP is not the only game that had many issues after covid virus spread all over the world.

Personally I see that the productivity(and especially products quality) had decreased in the company I am working for.

New comment by NiteOwl066 in "Microsoft is ditching Electron for Teams"

NiteOwl066 — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 07:51:49 +0000

Yeah I really hope ms will finally have clear path on their native apps. You can like or dislike Apple but it's really nice that you know that they will support swift with swiftui as the main thing for native development on their platforms for at least couple years. MS has so many tools for the apps that I am not even sure which one to use when I want to write a light modern native app for their platform.