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Back in my day... We had 1024x768 and if you were rich enough for a 19", 1280x960


My first, second and even 3rd laptops had 640×480 in 16 greys, with passive matrix LCDs. They also didn't have pointing devices.

I still use 15+ year old Thinkpads with 1366×768 pixel screens (a bit cramped) and a W520 with a 1920×1080 screen. Twisted nematic screens.

For me, given the 20th century laptops I started on, I think they're great. Not perfect, but good enough to put in 2 weeks working 9-5 on one of them, no problem at all.


This is a good rule for saving money in other areas of life too.


It may surprise you how heavy Facebook is these days


Maybe he has imposter syndrome?


I believe it is the default on netBSD


It seems ai generated...

And just too much content...

Maybe post one playlist per day of actually curated content? the existing content seems low quality like some others have mentioned


I happen to be from the same town as this guy. He is well known for building his own ramjet-powered cruise missile.

I don't know about recently but he was actively involved in the local RC airplane club for quite a while if I recall correctly.

His website is well worth checking out, he has a very extensive technical knowledge.


Okay, that's very cool! I don't mean to trash this guy at all, he may well be a real expert in some fields.

However, it is a failure mode that people who are really smart and qualified about one thing can assume they are equally smart and qualified about a bunch of other fields that require their own specific expertise. Alas, it doesn't work that way.

There's nothing wrong with not knowing about some specific technical subject. It is a red flag though when someone takes it as a threat to their identity and self-worth to acknowledge that they don't know much about some particular subject, even if they do know a lot about a different subject.


I fully agree with you and have unfortunately seen this happen with a number of youtubers I follow as their channel and influence has grown.


This is wrong. As another commentator pointed out,the body processes fructose differently from sucrose.

As for honey (and fruit, for that matter) - they are full of beneficial compounds that help your body regulate blood sugar.

To illustrate this, someone I know of with type I diabetes who ate natural honey didn't need to inject as much insulin as when eating commercially processed/heated honey - those beneficial compounds are destroyed during the process. Same for fruit vs fruit juice...


I cannot find the study at the moment (Google you used to be great at this!) but there was one seeing how diabetics blood sugar was impacted from just fruit consumption. Got to the point where even at 20 serves per day (4 times the recommended) in most people it didnt cause an issue. Bundling that sugar with fiber was a big part of regulating sugars.

Corn syrup might or not be different, Im no expert in that field, but simply having highly refined sugars without the filler is monocropping your diet in weird ways. In the same way soil is being killed by mono cropped agricuture, we are doing the same with our gut biome. The flow on impacts are still being discovered.


Sucrose is glucose-fructose, and is easily split. My understanding is that it is all split by digestion.

The glucose and fructose than act the same as glucose and fructose from HFCS.


Interesting read


I checked out a lot of browser desktop environments before embarking on my own project, this one definitely takes the cake


Nice of you to say, thank you!

I am a big fan of desktop environments so I know there are some good ones out there and I have indeed tried to make one of the best.


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