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New comment by spatulon in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

spatulon — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:42:59 +0000

Apple also put the music video for The Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies on the Mac OS 8 CD.

Our $100M Series B

spatulon — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:17:28 +0000

Article URL: https://oxide.computer/blog/our-100m-series-b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44733817

Points: 751

# Comments: 503

New comment by spatulon in "James Thomson on the Origins of the macOS Dock"

spatulon — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:35:34 +0000

Unfortunately, if you use a two-monitor setup, you cannot have the dock on the left of the right-hand-side monitor, or vice versa.

New comment by spatulon in "Google's new pipe syntax in SQL"

spatulon — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:39:36 +0000

I've never looked into the PDF format, but, does it not allow for annotations that say, "the glyphs in the rectangle ((x0, y0), (x1, y1)) represent the text 'foobar'")? That's been my mental model for how they are text-searchable.

New comment by spatulon in "Evolve Bank and Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6M people's data"

spatulon — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:29:56 +0000

After Wise moved away from Evolve to Community Federal Savings Bank, they gave me new account details that included an address in New York.

Looking that up on Google Maps and Street View, it appeared to be a small branch in Brooklyn, on a street that looked immediately familiar to me as the starting area in Grand Theft Auto IV.

New comment by spatulon in "Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?"

spatulon — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:17:14 +0000

That doesn't match my experience. I have some unlisted videos that I or a small handful of friends might go back and watch once a year, and it takes several seconds of loading before they start playing. It's very noticeably different from the near-instant loading of most videos I watch.

New comment by spatulon in "Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus"

spatulon — Thu, 02 May 2024 12:19:19 +0000

Until a few decades ago, the term 'billion' actually meant one million million (1e12) in the UK, rather than the now commonly-accepted meaning of one thousand million (1e9). As a British paper, the FT may simply be trying to avoid the ambiguity.

New comment by spatulon in "The Sound Proof Booths of Silence"

spatulon — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 13:57:08 +0000

Two problems that have occurred in recent times when Dota tournaments have not used booths:

- the crowd whistling to tell their favourite team that the enemy team is making some kind of secret play (e.g. taking Roshan, or using a smoke).

- clearly hearing the play-by-play commentary that's being played to the crowd over the arena's loudspeakers, which can also give away information about what the enemy team's doing.

New comment by spatulon in "Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware"

spatulon — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:47:10 +0000

> Any open file

Any file that was opened without specifying FILE_SHARE_DELETE in the call to CreateFile[1] (the Win32 equivalent of open(2)). Unfortunately, most language runtimes that wrap CreateFile tend not to pass that flag.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/...

New comment by spatulon in "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?"

spatulon — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:52:37 +0000

The Mac is no better, in my experience. I just timed how long it takes to open the Calculator app – the simplest app I could think of – on my 2019 MacBook Pro, and the window appears 600ms after clicking on the dock icon. I would not call that immediate, and it only gets worse when you try more complex applications, especially those written in Electron.

New comment by spatulon in "MacOS X 10.1 (2001)"

spatulon — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:39:16 +0000

Yes, and it was actually Microsoft who first brought the iMac stripes to Mac software with Internet Explorer 5, before OS X.

New comment by spatulon in "MacOS X 10.1 (2001)"

spatulon — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:29:39 +0000

The classic MacOS's Finder was 'spatial'. Since each folder on disk could only be open in a single window, and that window remembered its position and layout, there was a certain physical consistency - it felt like the windows were the actual folders on disk, with the same kind of coherency and stability you expect of real-world objects.

Meanwhile, the Mac OS X Finder is not spatial. You can have the same folder open in multiple windows, each with different layouts. There's no longer that illusion that the window and the folder are one and the same – it's just a browser showing you the contents of the folder.

This article goes into a lot more detail. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/

New comment by spatulon in "The Reddit blackout will continue"

spatulon — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:45:32 +0000

Does it really have 2000 employees? I remember when they were owned by Conde Nast and had something like 5-10 people. I know they have a lot more users now, and have added features like image and photo hosting, but to go from that to 2000 employees is quite the blowup.

New comment by spatulon in "Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from Linux, no MSVC"

spatulon — Sun, 14 May 2023 01:16:09 +0000

The Platinum theme used by MacOS 8-9 was probably the closest-looking to that Windows 95 look and feel. And since Windows 2000 was a combination of that old look and feel on top of a modern kernel (NT), one might argue that the Mac OS X Developer Preview was the nearest Apple equivalent.

The first two Developer Preview versions of Mac OS X used the Platinum theme, not the Aqua theme that ultimately shipped with 10.0.

You can see screenshots here: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macosxdp1

New comment by spatulon in "Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads"

spatulon — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:16:12 +0000

Note that one of the .kkreiger devs (ryg aka Fabian Giesen) works at Epic Game Tools on the Oodle compressors mentioned in OP's post.

New comment by spatulon in "Replying to comments about our web page design"

spatulon — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:12:56 +0000

Is that Apple Garamond?

New comment by spatulon in "St Scholastica Day Riot"

spatulon — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:59:03 +0000

Importantly, the punt is propelled by having someone stand at the back and push a pole against the river bed. It's popular with students and tourists in both Oxford and Cambridge, although the two cities disagree over which end of a punt is the back.

Cheaters Will Never Be Welcome in Dota

spatulon — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:51:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/3677788723152833273

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34893975

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by spatulon in "Twitter kicking off a developer API campaign on January 16, 2023"

spatulon — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 11:37:28 +0000

Musk might care if this move drives all the influential power users away.

I'm not influential – I almost never tweet and have almost no followers – but I've read Twitter almost every day for the last 15 years. If I can't use Tweetbot, I'm just going to stop using Twitter. The official client and the website are just not usable for me.

Sure, they haven't been getting any ad revenue from me using a third-party client, so they won't miss me, but they never even attempted to provide those ads to the third-party clients.

New comment by spatulon in "Stadia Is a Major Driver of Vulkan Adoption"

spatulon — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:09:10 +0000

s/Playstation 1/Playstation 3/