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New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

TheAmazingRace — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:08:28 +0000

Also, I’m impressed at some of the up scaling techniques that some players use to help improve the quality of DVD movies. Sure, it’s not native, but it’s certainly not bad looking either.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:33:50 +0000

Hilariously, DVD production could potentially outlive Blu-Ray discs, since DVDs are still popular enough 30 years later, and surpass the sales of Blu-Ray movies.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:15:37 +0000

Honestly, one of my colleagues said it best.

"Do you want friends? Or do you want to be right?"

Sometimes there really is no glory on those hills you die on.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

TheAmazingRace — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:03:06 +0000

Ross Ulbricht being let go as part of some quid pro quo with crypto-libertarians was certainly a huge miscarriage of justice. He should not be walking free, but alas.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

TheAmazingRace — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:09:32 +0000

I think he was referring to Carmack's note on Burger Becky when she passed away.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

TheAmazingRace — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:53:12 +0000

It doesn't say in the blog post, but will this be released for MS-DOS?

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:28:46 +0000

Luckily, for gaming purposes in 2026, 32 GB of RAM is perfectly fine for the foreseeable future. I'd only consider 64 GB and up if you're using your system heavily for virtual machines or high end workstation level tasks.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:22:42 +0000

In my humble opinion, 4K gaming is rather overrated. I find high refresh rates at 1440p to be the sweet spot and you don't have to get a top-end GPU to drive it at ultra settings in games.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "86Box v6.0"

TheAmazingRace — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:56:59 +0000

It's amazing how far this emulator has come over the past few years. It runs so well on my Mac Mini M4 Pro system that it has effectively replaced my real 500 MHz Celeron rig for all but the most demanding activities.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

TheAmazingRace — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:06:22 +0000

So unlike some folks, I’m still very much reliant on $DAYJOB for the majority of my income. But I managed to carve out a niche in an unexpected place.

OS/2 consulting

It all started when I made a connection through a OS/2 community post asking for help on some CNC equipment running OS/2, and it turned out that they were fairly local to me, so I now have an occasional source of income in the form of troubleshooting and debugging OS/2 boxes.

I’m slowly building up contacts to do more. This isn’t ever going to entirely replace my normal 9 to 5, but it’s really good side work and gives me something to do.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

TheAmazingRace — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:23:56 +0000

Apples to apples? More like Windows to Windows. LOL

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

TheAmazingRace — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:20:50 +0000

Wouldn't the DX2 be 66 MHz? Or did you intentionally run it at 33 MHz?

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

TheAmazingRace — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:09:42 +0000

It didn't help that the earliest P5 Pentiums ran on a 5V rail. Newer revisions starting with the P54 core used 3.3V and helped with keeping the chips cool.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:33:49 +0000

Well and the earliest versions of Windows 95 used FAT16 (specifically VFAT for support for LFNs or long file names). So enjoy those ridiculous cluster sizes if your hard disk even approached a gig or so.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

TheAmazingRace — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:15:28 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. Presto was very lightweight and, to my knowledge, exceptionally standards compliant as well.

I think the last version of the Presto engine did have a source code leak, but naturally it's not a great idea to work on it unless you want to catch a lawsuit.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:42:34 +0000

I get the love for Macbook trackpads, but Lenovo really nailed it with the ThinkPad trackpoint and glass trackpad combo, especially on more recent models.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "The MacBook Neo"

TheAmazingRace — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:15:04 +0000

I know Lenovo has their issues, but out of all the non-Apple laptop companies, they are by far the best out there. And to their credit, they do try to listen to customer feedback.

Also, AFAIK, Lenovo still has their ThinkPad designs developed by a design think-tank lab in Japan that they own (and IBM still has a bit of influence here as well) so I know Lenovo still gives somewhat of a damn in trying to develop a solid laptop.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

TheAmazingRace — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:52:36 +0000

Dapper Drake? Man that takes me WAY back.

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

TheAmazingRace — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:14:39 +0000

This is incredibly helpful! Thanks!

New comment by TheAmazingRace in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

TheAmazingRace — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:30:16 +0000

Thank you! I didn't see this when I was first looking into it.