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I used some build of blender on windows mobile, crazy how efficiently it worked on 400Mhz HTC Niki, just the screen size, so the performance part seems to be done since forever :D

Writing Is Thinking 12 months ago

I would also compare reading to being reprogrammed like EEPROM. Although the process is slower, the changes feel more permanent when learning: you need to create connections yourself from examples compared to someone demonstrating it on the video.

I wouldn't necessarily call it debugging, more like "remote helpdesk". Either way, this is a brilliant way to "compress" instructions.

Why is Hetzner not listed as AWS/GCP/Azure alternative, especially that it's mentioned in "About" section as a hosting platform for various services.

Also Dailymotion is YouTube alternative from France.

No Calls 2 years ago

You are so much spot on with this post. Nothing puts off more than someone on LinkedIn asking "When do you have time to have a call to talk about what I can do for your company?" or even worse: "Here's my calendly, pick the spot you would like!" Not to mention I am not a decisive person in the company, the largest choice I can do is whether I work on a Mac or a PC.

If I'm in a better mood, I ask them to send me some e-mail or PDF with what they have to offer.

I am adding your post to my bookmarks and will always reply to such messages with it.

I sent photo of subway information screen in Hamburg with clearly visible line and direction - it did not pick up anything except the line number and "it's possibly a subway".

I use Namecheap and sadly still Gandi for old domains.

The only issue I experience with Namecheap are included redirects which have something like 90% uptime.

Route53 domains is seriously not needed for anything - just add zone in AWS and point your registrar to new NS.

You can use any registrar with R53, so it's more like: if you really need to have domain registration written in Terraform and the other registrar doesn't provide it

I try to read at least 16 books a year (usually it turns out to be more). I cannot stress enough how much this helped me increase my skills.

One example: The Go Programming Language. I tried using Go several years back after using Java for years and my experience was horrible. Then I read this book and I understood the philosophy behind Go, followed all exercises. Am I Go expert? Far from it. But I am proficient enough to write my own tools or contribute small fixes to other teams at work efficiently.

I remember my two favorite skins: working iPod 4G and iPod Nano 1st gen. With functional scrollwheel and menus.

Was it really since Winamp 5? IIRC, I installed them on Winamp 3.

Edit: I just fell into a nostalgia spiral reading Winamp forums. It still has posts from 2000.