markemer's comments

On: Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?

[markemer]

Yes, but only as a fun retro thing. Not for most calculations, although I have to say for back of the napkin, almost all in your head style things, they can be handy.

On: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

[markemer]

LadyAda is 5x the EE I am, and I think highly of myself. The boards are just art.

On: A $6B Nuclear U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier 'Sunk' by $100M Diesel 'AIP' Sub

[markemer]

Isn't this like the exact plot of Down Periscope?

[boricj → markemer]

It depends, did they sing Louie, Louie while cosplaying as a fishing trawler?

On: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

[markemer]

Especially if you're in the ecosystem. I can use them with all my devices, and they switch seamlessly.

On: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

[markemer]

Yeah, honestly, smartphones are a very mature category now. Only so much you can do with them. Same with laptops and desktops. Plenty of improvements to be made, but those yearly wow factors are just not coming back.

[kjkjadksj → markemer]

Cheap and generous flash storage would make me wow and come back immediately and forget all sins. Somehow they never dangle that though. Blame iCloud drive subscription for perverting incentives I guess. Headphone jack coming back would have me camping outside the store for midnight release.

On: Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship

[markemer]

Not to mention radiation hardening. The soft error rate alone on these single digit nm chips would be massive.

On: "What LLVM Claims, but Fails to Deliver"

[markemer]

Yeah, I thought maybe he was a big fan of GCC or something, but he just seems to not like compilers? Or likes complaining about them?

[altairprime → markemer]

That’s a popular trend in video games, too; quite a lot of people invest a second hobby’s worth of energy into their complaints, with the occasional gem in the rough among them. You can find this in any hobby - like, I know nothing about golf, but I am absolutely certain if I asked a golfer “what changed in golf clubs recently? are you still happy with them?” I am near-certain to get a lengthy spoken history of club design and manufacturing flaws. Humans are most irritable about their most favored topics.

On: "What LLVM Claims, but Fails to Deliver"

[markemer]

Yeah - I didn't understand the hostility - if these fixes had been refused or not even considered, than maybe, but they all seem like honest bugs that need fixing.

On: Most people don't care about quality

[markemer]

Yeah, me too, but thankfully Starry Night is owned by New York's MOMA. So the french can't have it, but I can see it in New York.

On: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations

[markemer]

They meant scare quotes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20quotes

While they may be “quotes” of stuff from the original (which that technically was) the intent was clear.