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New comment by webworker in "The Horror of Fallout (Game) Isn't the Bombs. It's the Decline Before Them"

webworker — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:18:07 +0000

Fallout’s pre-war world feels more familiar than it should, and we should be talking about that. I wrote this article as a mashup between Fallout, peak oil theory, and the slow decay/decline that likely would have happened before the bombs dropped. The game and tv show never really depicted any of that, and it's a shame.

I had a lot of fun using my imagination and writing this article, and I hope any (hopeful) readers have as much fun reading it.

The Horror of Fallout (Game) Isn't the Bombs. It's the Decline Before Them

webworker — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:18:07 +0000

Article URL: https://ben1777.substack.com/p/the-real-horror-of-fallout-isnt-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798169

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by webworker in "Thanks for Sharing Your Venmo (Vimeo) Story"

webworker — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:29:59 +0000

For Vimeo customers, the questions are: "What if..." and maybe more importantly, "What now?"

Thanks for Sharing Your Venmo (Vimeo) Story

webworker — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:29:59 +0000

Article URL: https://ben1777.substack.com/p/thanks-for-sharing-your-venmo-story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802544

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by webworker in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

webworker — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:50:23 +0000

Someone just posted an inside story of what went on inside of Vimeo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757868

New comment by webworker in "Vimeo's Slow Fade: An Engineer's Front-Row Seat to the Fall of a Web Icon"

webworker — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:09:09 +0000

An excellent dissection, but took me a minute to get through it!

I really don't know what they were thinking with trying to scare off all the little indie creatives with the pivoting to enterprise stuff, who won in that strategy? And why wasn't there room for both? They could have just left the old Vimeo in stasis for those people and created an entirely new product line that'd have been better suited, especially since they were rewriting stuff from scratch anyway.

As pointed out, if you want to win in enterprise, you have to be willing to bend over backward, which is exactly what Microsoft did/had to do to get entrenched and at least part of what locked Apple out until iOS came along.

The bit about BrightCove and the competition explains so much.

New comment by webworker in "I just want working RCS messaging"

webworker — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:56:19 +0000

I truly do wonder about the amount of tech debt that must be inside of the Messages app on MacOS and iOS. It's got to be massive.

I also wonder what they're using (protocol) under the hood that lags behind other chat clients like Telegram and Signal and WhatsApp. It works, but I wonder how/if it'll continue to scale and stay competitive.

New comment by webworker in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

webworker — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:28:44 +0000

Arc was the only Chrome browser that I could stomach as a development browser/environment. Kind of tight-lipped, but I assume it'll keep getting updates?

I use Safari day-to-day, but its behaviors are inconsistent with caching which makes development hell. I notice this caching behavior even when you have it disabled in the network developer tools.

New comment by webworker in "Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep"

webworker — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:13:59 +0000

We need all hands on deck to bring this back to life

New comment by webworker in "Butt Head Astronomer (a.k.a. Power Macintosh 7100)"

webworker — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:53:22 +0000

I personally prefer the Power Macintosh 6100 form factor, but even I can appreciate the goofy personality of Apple’s engineers to tease Carl Sagan with a first-generation PowerPC Macintosh. “Cold Fusion” on the 8100 was probably the coolest name of the series, while the poor 6100 got stuck with “piltdown man.”

Butt Head Astronomer (a.k.a. Power Macintosh 7100)

webworker — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://apple-history.com/7100

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982647

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by webworker in "Toroidal Propeller"

webworker — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:45:56 +0000

They seem to make the ride smoother, but they don't seem to help much with distance/runtime per battery charge. Like a minimal/marginal improvement in that regard, vs a standard prop.

New comment by webworker in "Toroidal Propeller"

webworker — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:49:52 +0000

The same thing exists for eFoils. We (riders) haven't been too impressed with them.

New comment by webworker in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"

webworker — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:44:50 +0000

Yeah, between the two, I strongly prefer BitBucket Pipelines. Feels much cleaner.

New comment by webworker in "Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs"

webworker — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:03:07 +0000

"Burr, it's cold in here ..."

New comment by webworker in "Apple M3 Ultra"

webworker — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:58:39 +0000

The real hardware needed for artificial intelligence wasn't NVIDIA, it was a CRAY XMP from 1982 all along

New comment by webworker in "Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads"

webworker — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:47:47 +0000

I have a hard time understanding why anyone would buy a physical tv that big. I decided to get a projector. Huge surface area. Goes away/out of my sight for the 98% of the time I'm not using/watching it.

New comment by webworker in "iMac G4(K)"

webworker — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:29:21 +0000

As a owner of both slot load and tray load G3's, I strongly prefer the tray loaders. The drives still work, while I have to jam a credit card with double-sided tape into the drive to get a disc out of the slot load drive.

New comment by webworker in "iMac G4(K)"

webworker — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:26:29 +0000

The really should have kept that design around longer, iterated on it.

Maybe it just wasn't possible to put a G5 on that small of a logic board, but it's still an absolutely stunning computer. I have one sitting on my kitchen counter right now!

New comment by webworker in "iMac G4(K)"

webworker — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:19:04 +0000

There's a cache of them in a storage unit east of Atlanta. You can still find the listing on Facebook marketplace.

I bought a B&W machine from the guy for $50 or $60.

Also grabbed a G4 Digital Audio tower. To my surprise, it was a top-end 733 MHz model.