PacificSpecific's comments

On: Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

[PacificSpecific]

There's also a Hokusai range of calculators I saw at yodobashi camera Yokohama this spring. It was 60$,I didn't buy it but I kind of wish I did.

On: Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

[PacificSpecific]

Please post your progress! That sounds cool as hell

[stbev → PacificSpecific]

Thank you! I will keep working on it and post something here

On: I want to live like Costco people

[PacificSpecific]

Not sure if there's anything preventing this from happening in North America but in Japan there are stores that literally just sold broken down bulk items bought at Costco.

On: Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

[PacificSpecific]

I've been doing a 4 day work week and it certainly helps quite a bit. I worry I have gotten too used to it now though.

On: Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987

[PacificSpecific]

Yeah I still write WPF Software today and it's as stable as it's ever been. Kind of nice to have a UI framework frozen in time tbh.

Maui on the other hand.. I don't get why it exists. It's like the worst of both worlds between desktop and mobile. My understanding is it's rebranded Xamarin which would explain some stuff...

On: Why Japan has such good railways

[PacificSpecific]

Wow weird. I've lived there and never knew but now that you've pointed that out I'm realizing we never parked on the street. It's always at the house or the parking lot of the place we're going.

Of course 95% of the time we take the train. Only use a car to go to Costco or possibly go out to the country (even then a lot of remote areas are super accessible in public transit)

On: C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code

[PacificSpecific]

Based on your comment it sounds like you have a personal problem with that person which compromises your argument

On: C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code

[PacificSpecific]

That's pretty much correct. I kind of have to switch to "unreal c++" context whenever I'm working in it. They have their own standard library etc

[rustyhancock → PacificSpecific]

Don't forget if you make the editor access a nullptr it'll probably crash and take out any unsaved changes to blueprints!

On: C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code

[PacificSpecific]

You think that's bad. Wait until you see some non game developer coders (I'm being sarcastic of course. The comment I'm replying to is incredibly naive).

On: Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

[PacificSpecific]

If I'm writing Windows desktop GUIs I still stick to WPF. Might be Stockholm syndrome but I quite like it.

I don't see the reason to use any of the new ms ui frameworks. Especially if ms themselves don't even really use them.

As far as I know visual studio is still a WPF project so I'm not super worried about it no longer working.

[RajT88 → PacificSpecific]

WPF looks much nicer. Personally I find it hard as hell to debug.

Winforms just work, and have a well defined set of behaviors. It does not matter that they do not look as nice for most people.

[imron → PacificSpecific]

That’s not so bad. I still stick to win32