Hacker News: StuffMaster

New comment by StuffMaster in "Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri"

StuffMaster — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:24:13 +0000

>The strangest thing about this is in the system configuration dialogs where they have a set of really gee whizzy modern configuration screens but you still have to go into 15 year old screens to do many common tasks

I much prefer the older screens. They are so much easier to use.

New comment by StuffMaster in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

StuffMaster — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:14:05 +0000

Oh god please no. Chrome's history/bookmarks UI is awful.

New comment by StuffMaster in "The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed"

StuffMaster — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:55:32 +0000

And you can use whatever software you want

New comment by StuffMaster in "How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect"

StuffMaster — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:35:41 +0000

>Okay, you might argue that in earlier decades programmers also tended to have an understanding of hardware circuit design and how a CPU and memory etc. works in terms of logical gates and clocks

My degree included this and I'm very glad it did.

New comment by StuffMaster in "Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11"

StuffMaster — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 13:56:02 +0000

The idea of patenting a filesystem is absurd

New comment by StuffMaster in "Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?"

StuffMaster — Fri, 24 May 2024 15:08:18 +0000

I'd like to hear more...

New comment by StuffMaster in "FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules"

StuffMaster — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:33:41 +0000

Comparing Facebook to an ISP is highly disengenuous.

New comment by StuffMaster in "When do we stop finding new music?"

StuffMaster — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:03:21 +0000

I know what you mean but at that point I started blaming the system! I still don't know that song.

New comment by StuffMaster in "When do we stop finding new music?"

StuffMaster — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:58:38 +0000

Yep. I recall this happening. Let's all praise DEREGULATION and the dollars it brought us.

New comment by StuffMaster in "SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite"

StuffMaster — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:37:30 +0000

>Not the same thing dude. This interface is straight outta 2005. Chrome's interface has been being tweaked constantly over the years. It doesn't need an overhaul because it's not 15+ years out of date.

You basically repeated my point. Change for change's sake. And it looks similar to 2009 Chrome, so yeah it's quite literally 15 years out of date.

>look like it was there when 9/11 happened while everything else looks new

So change for change's sake it seems.

New comment by StuffMaster in "SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite"

StuffMaster — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:31:07 +0000

I think I now understand the mentality of a Cybertruck buyer

New comment by StuffMaster in "SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite"

StuffMaster — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:11:49 +0000

It looks perfectly fine to me.

Changing for change's sake would mean that Chrome will need a new interface soon in order to not look ancient...

New comment by StuffMaster in "I Used Netscape Composer in 2024"

StuffMaster — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:40:47 +0000

I really really really agree with you.

New comment by StuffMaster in "NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++"

StuffMaster — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:40:15 +0000

Pull-down menus are so obtrusive! You SHOULD prefer to hunt and hunt and hunt for the button you want. The future is now and it sucks.

New comment by StuffMaster in "NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++"

StuffMaster — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:32:51 +0000

I also love Notepad2. Both are awesome.

New comment by StuffMaster in "People hate the idea of car-free cities until they live in one"

StuffMaster — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:29:02 +0000

Some new developments in the US are "mixed use" which emulates what you described.

New comment by StuffMaster in "DVD's New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit"

StuffMaster — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:25:39 +0000

Whoah if that's true it should be more known...

New comment by StuffMaster in "Stop postponing things by embracing the mess"

StuffMaster — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:04:44 +0000

+1 for Andrew Huberman

Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU

ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFL6qRIJZ_Y

New comment by StuffMaster in "Intel's Humbling"

StuffMaster — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:29:04 +0000

I thought it was a bad idea when I first read of it. It reminded me of Intel's Netburst (Pentium 4) architecture.

New comment by StuffMaster in "How to pronounce the trickiest English words"

StuffMaster — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:10:47 +0000

>The Romans modified and adapted the Etruscan alphabet, which was borrowed from the Greek, who borrowed it from the Phoenicians , etc. to their own language.

Also as I recall those are each unrelated languages so the letter/sound congruity dropped markedly at each transition.

(I'm not sure if that's the correct way to put it. Also I tried to sound really smart in writing it.)