Windows, after 98SP2 and XP it just became absolutely untenable. (it started during XP already) Any pre-installed version was rife with junk one just wanted to get rid of. What still remains to this day, the inexplicable slowdown between a fresh install and a couple of months down the road, at boot time processes which keep writing to hd choking the os for tens of minutes, restore point hell, ... anti-virus which guaranteed ruins your OS ... software that somehow gets installed out of nowhere ... a printer completely impossible to install, then there's the 600mb HP printer software you need to install ... the endless dialog questions you are bombarded with at random times ... I think many people accept this as normal, part of how things are. I switched to Linux and it stays out of my way. I do recognize that some of its configs are difficult for the non-experienced user, however on the flip side you can actually do fixes yourself. Its comparable to someone who can work on his/her own car. YMMV.
That King Tut image was really sensational back then, at least for early teenage me, and for a computer that was within imaginable reach (the Amiga, of course).
Avril is also listed as an artist in many other lucasarts games, including Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Also in Prince of Persia (just for the title screen [0], if I understand well).
Definitely, she's one of the outstanding pixel artists in history. All the Deluxe Paint demo images are hers and are mind-blowing [1]. You can identify her works by the "AH" signature, often discretely embedded in some texture.
> The whole database is around 11 MB, basically nothing. I don’t even bother with proper storage, I just serialize the whole thing to a single JSON file every time it updates.
> But how do I search?
> Well, Ctrl+F, of course. We are too humble, too lazy, and too smart to try to compete with in-browser implementation.
> Wait, what about page size?
> It’s totally fine. I mean, for Berlin, for example, we serve 1.4 MB of HTML. 3 MB with posters. It’s fine.
Besides whatever technicalities, we need more engineers with this sober mentality.
The scale of the internet is too large for individual consumption search engines and word of mouth are the methods I see for distributing access. Search engines need individual Judgement to evaluate results and word of mouth provides context clues and trust.
Business prefers search engines to scale their monetization efforts but the quality of results are unknown.
IDK; the sites I regularly visit nowadays are all either one-off personal projects I learned about through word of mouth or user-centric portals like HN where I get that word of mouth. I guess it's kind of what digg used to be.
> handle the install for a piece of software that like 2 engineers used.
Ah yes .. current prios remain in place, more context switching, operational ownership, unplanned fallout, holidays, meetings ...
cutting the pie in more pieces does not give you more pie ... people still seem to think that ...
