Notices by Janne Moren (jannem@fosstodon.org), page 2

@slowtiger @adriano @angusm @cstross
The scary thing is, I have no idea if any of these names are real or fake.

@danluu
The conventional wisdom for a long time was that bicycle racing tyres should be very narrow and pumped very high. This was borne out by tests.

But the test was resistance rolling against a smooth steel cylinder. Once testing began with softer, bumpier materials that mimic real-world road conditions we learned that wider is not worse (to some point), and pressure should be much lower. The tire absorbs small bumps instead of moving over them.

The exact conditions really do matter.

@glassbottommeg
Also, you never know if that brand you tossed in will suddenly be tainted and have a completely different meaning to people a few years down the road.

Japanese state TV has strict prohibitions on any brand imaging at all. Every drama scene with a computer screen is full of stuff like a "Goggle" search screen, the "Ahomon" online retailer and so on.

NHK can't even call the May holiday "Golden Week" (that everyone uses) since it originated in a TV commercial decades ago.

@hierarchon
Yes, except for the "small single-dev projects" part.

You can be a larger, well-funded years old project with multiple developers and still don't want to branch out into features or use cases you didn't plan for or care about.

I've been tangentially involved in one and it was quite common.

@taiyo
General cost of living is much lower in Tokyo than in Los Angeles though.

@kspalaiologos@akkoma.0x68756773.moe @kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be @niconiconi @ignaloidas @lanodan
Apple hardware *in general* is not any better than other premium computing hardware. And the software has been on a long, slow worsening trajectory for years.

The M1 and M2 are *really* nice CPUs. But that is 80-90% due to them being ARM-based, free of legacy cruft; other ARM systems are similarly just better than the equivalent X86 ones.

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@kspalaiologos @niconiconi @ignaloidas @lanodan

People stopped using them for a reason though.

Perhaps you could have another go at a more opinionated hardware design today.

@timbray
I've used Firefox reader mode on your blog for years.

Maybe should have said something...

@LunaFoxgirlVT @orowith2os
Not just game development; any kind of development, DevOps or any other use case where you want to script and automate your workflow in some way.