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New comment by nizmow in "IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)"

nizmow — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:11:51 +0000

A TNT was from the late 90s. In 2006 512MB consumer GPUs were common.

New comment by nizmow in "Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes"

nizmow — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 03:04:29 +0000

Who hurt you?

New comment by nizmow in "Amazon Tells Employees to Relocate or Resign"

nizmow — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 02:30:12 +0000

I suspect this will become increasingly common with companies that allow remote work. Atlassian is a large Australian tech employer that is full remote, and this is definitely the case there - performance reviews twice yearly and a very high attrition rate.

New comment by nizmow in "Protocol Wars"

nizmow — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:59:45 +0000

Doom didn’t even use the Windows networking stack. You just chose IPX from the multiplayer setup menu.

New comment by nizmow in "5G Rollout Disappointments"

nizmow — Sun, 07 May 2023 07:45:07 +0000

Anecdata: in Sydney, Australia, 5G on Telstra is incredibly fast (I get more than 1 gigabit at my apartment, but more typical / busier cells seem to be between 300-500Mb), and my experience using it mostly just for web browsing is it’s streets ahead of 4G.

New comment by nizmow in "The Case for C# and .NET"

nizmow — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 05:01:21 +0000

You're wrong. Everywhere I've worked the general pattern is to build using Windows/Linux and deploy entirely on Linux (or Docker).

New comment by nizmow in "Average home prices in New Zealand reaches 8.8 times average household income"

nizmow — Fri, 06 May 2022 09:50:40 +0000

Quite unnecessary. I’d almost suspect you’re not actually European.

New comment by nizmow in "Confessions of a Michelin Star Inspector"

nizmow — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:13:02 +0000

What on earth do people do besides eating at home from a rotating set of straightforward recipes? Honestly curious. I’m the main cook in my home and we do eat out every other week, but who has time for that much experimentation?

New comment by nizmow in "How Does FaceTime Work?"

nizmow — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:30:17 +0000

FaceTime is also free, and Telegram’s audio and video quality is vastly inferior.

New comment by nizmow in "AIX Running on Apple's M1"

nizmow — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:26:39 +0000

On the other hand, the only real reason you’d want to run AIX is because you had to, because you had the hardware and there was no other option.

New comment by nizmow in ".NET for Beginners (2020)"

nizmow — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 07:00:17 +0000

How do you install Java? First thing you'd do is download the JDK. Is the JDK a language? No, it's not.

New comment by nizmow in ".NET for Beginners (2020)"

nizmow — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:57:52 +0000

This is probably more of a Windows problem than a .NET/C# problem, but it's a very real problem.

New comment by nizmow in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

nizmow — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 10:40:52 +0000

Typically though, FAANGs still solve their problems with boring technologies.

New comment by nizmow in "Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia"

nizmow — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:46:01 +0000

Murdoch’s News Corp.

New comment by nizmow in "Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)"

nizmow — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 23:37:28 +0000

I've recently started a job in a very complex business domain, but sadly they're using NoSQL for everything. I've known for a while about the technical tradeoffs of NoSQL, but until now I'd never experienced that the lack of expressiveness in the data store is a major obstacle to understanding what kind of data the code deals with and how it's related. The data's all there, but exploring it without a real schema is much more difficult.

New comment by nizmow in "Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health"

nizmow — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:42:11 +0000

Strangely enough, they did exactly as suggested when batteries started wearing out on iPhones (unable to reliably provide the voltage at full drain for peak performance) and you're the exact kind of person who jumped on them for planned obsolescence.

New Qt Releases Might Now Be Restricted to Paying Customers for 12 Months

nizmow — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 12:44:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Might-Restrict-New-Releases

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22812383

Points: 6

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New comment by nizmow in "Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud"

nizmow — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:46:39 +0000

How do you remote into Paperspace instances? Is there a custom client that performs well? Every few months I'll tinker with setting up a Linux desktop in some generic cloud provider, but the lack of good remote desktop X solutions is always a pain point.

EDIT: after some more clicking around I managed to find references to a Paperspace "native app" for remote desktop. I may sign up for an account and give it a try, since I just noticed Vagon only supports Windows machines at the moment.

New comment by nizmow in "Domain Logic and SQL (2003)"

nizmow — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:58:20 +0000

Follow up: yes, you're all correct, but sometimes things in an organisation aren't perfect and I've been in many situations where the database is the bottleneck with little power to change it. Now that I think about it, it's mostly a symptom of the database frequently under a different 'organisational area' compared to the application. This means we might have the ability to, for example, easily add more application servers, but the database falls under a different department and any changes require a lot more coordination with other parts of the business. I realise this could happen for any resource, but in my experience it's very common to have it occur with a database.

New comment by nizmow in "Domain Logic and SQL (2003)"

nizmow — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:00:44 +0000

One thing this article doesn't mention is that in many cases databases scale poorly, and only vertically. You can throw a bunch of domain logic in complex SQL queries and see significant performance benefits, but at some point you may find that your application has grown and your SQL server is running into IOPS and CPU limits that are difficult to fix. At that point your answer could be, pull logic out of those complex queries and create simpler queries that ask less of the DB and run on the application side so you can scale horizontally.