Hacker News: wvbdmp

New comment by wvbdmp in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

wvbdmp — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:16:57 +0000

Eh, it still could if anyone would make it a priority. I’m not a Jobs or Apple fanboy by any stretch, but I think this is selling him short.

New comment by wvbdmp in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

wvbdmp — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:56:16 +0000

That will probably come when EV marketshare is higher and innovation plateaus. I definitely appreciate the phone thing as someone typing from an iPhone SE. I also think phone batteries degrade faster than cars, right? I think my phone is from 2022 and I’m definitely starting to feel it.

New comment by wvbdmp in "Fits on a Floppy – A Manifesto for Small Software"

wvbdmp — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:28:32 +0000

Adobe Acrobat Reader: 586 MB

Adobe DNG Converter: 1,670 MB

These are just the Windows setup files. God knows how what they extract and download…

New comment by wvbdmp in "Fits on a Floppy – A Manifesto for Small Software"

wvbdmp — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:25:02 +0000

I was holding an external USB floppy drive the other day and the form factor, the tactile experience and the satisfying ejection mechanism got me fantasizing about a floppy jukebox with one song per disk. I’m sure it would be dope, but even for a regular 3 minute track you would have to seriously destroy your audio quality to fit into 1.44 MB. Those things are tiny! The best you could do would probably be some metadata that plays the song from elsewhere, but that’s lame and now you’re moving from being storage-constrained to leaving it 99% empty…

New comment by wvbdmp in "German Dog Commands"

wvbdmp — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:48:16 +0000

The list goes to 48 (!), in case you’re fooled by the self-promo and “PS” after number 20.

New comment by wvbdmp in "'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking"

wvbdmp — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:26:50 +0000

Indeed, as we all know the order is

1. Run

2. Think

3. Shoot

4. Live

New comment by wvbdmp in "The CMS is dead, long live the CMS"

wvbdmp — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:52:50 +0000

ProcessWire mentioned! Didn’t expect that in 2026, but yes, I also use it a lot. Sites just keep chugging.

New comment by wvbdmp in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

wvbdmp — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:19:17 +0000

I hope so, but if this goes awry in any way, especially if – god forbid – they lose the crew, my fear is it’ll be a blow to the American hegemony that will be very hard to recover from. Orange man is bad, but I think something like that would add a whole other dimension to the US’s loss of face. I’m as anti-american as they come, but despite everything Pax Americana must be acknowledged and I shudder at the thought of it shattering.

Godspeed!

New comment by wvbdmp in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

wvbdmp — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:38:28 +0000

It’s difficult to imagine something more psychologically damaging than WWI trenches. Where can we read more about this?

New comment by wvbdmp in "Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?"

wvbdmp — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:08:04 +0000

Playstation Dreams

S&box

Roblox

No?

New comment by wvbdmp in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

wvbdmp — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:15:35 +0000

It’s pretty clear that OP was referring to cunnilingus.

New comment by wvbdmp in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

wvbdmp — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:34:03 +0000

To be fair, I would assume that the base, or in this case the carrier, is the only place where they would have the reception to broadcast their location, right? You probably don’t have cell service while out and about planting weapons on massacred civilians.

New comment by wvbdmp in "The pleasures of poor product design"

wvbdmp — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:12:08 +0000

It’s been on HM a couple of times, first in 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theuncomfortable.com

New comment by wvbdmp in "The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics"

wvbdmp — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:19:51 +0000

On the contrary, it’s unfortunate that this space can’t just be an island of stability, where things keep working the way they always have and new features are added unobtrusively. Instead we get surface-level change for the sake of change as well as slop and surveillance nobody asked for, and are still missing conveniences that have been table-stakes on mobile for years. It would be a a step in the right direction if Windows would simply stop disrupting itself.

New comment by wvbdmp in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

wvbdmp — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:44:59 +0000

I agree that it paints both sides as silly, but it does so incredibly badly. This is evidenced by, eg., the comments on Letterboxd, who all seem to either think their outgroup is lampooned (yay 5 stars) or their ingroup is slighted (grr 1 star). The movie set out to combat division and failed catastrophically. At least that’s my charitable interpretation. It’s also too long, lol.

New comment by wvbdmp in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

wvbdmp — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:32:57 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aIDxHesKyU

New comment by wvbdmp in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

wvbdmp — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:40:11 +0000

Indeed, the Aeron chair, which became a design classic and the apparently the best-selling office chair ever in the US, only came out in 1994. So about the same time as the web. Not sure if it’s the only office chair design with a dedicated wikipedia page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeron_chair

New comment by wvbdmp in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

wvbdmp — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:16:46 +0000

Well, company scrip specifically IS actually illegal, so it must be something slightly different.

New comment by wvbdmp in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

wvbdmp — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:26:46 +0000

It would be legal to never pay it out in real money at all, if other marketplaces are any indication. Like “store credit” or gift cards. You can’t get it out of the walled garden and the walled garden unilaterally controls the value.

New comment by wvbdmp in "Mother of All Grease Fires (1994)"

wvbdmp — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:16:53 +0000

Fun fact: I learned yesterday that that expression was popularized in English only as recently as 1991 by none other than Sadam Hussein when he referred to the Gulf War as “the mother of all battles”. At least that’s the story. Apparently it was a bit of a meme in the early nineties, so this post may be referencing it more or less directly. Hussein was of course referencing the Quran.