teg4n_'s comments

On: I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox

[teg4n_]

is there any reason to think it wouldn’t look like Brave just with firefox instead of chromium?

[lolinder → teg4n_]

Is there any reason that would be a problem? My main beef with Brave is that it's not really contributing to browser diversity.

[wkat4242 → lolinder]

Yes. Brave's crypto scam is a problem, and they've done some very controversial things in that regard. Like taking "money" on behalf of sites that didn't even participate.

On: Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity fo...

[teg4n_]

kidnap? what are you even are you talking about?

On: Microsofts AI boss thinks its perfectly OK to stea...

[teg4n_]

The meaningful difference is that one is an autonomous person and the other is a machine owned by a company.

On: Google no longer developing Material Web Component...

[teg4n_]

This doesn’t make any sense to me. They are web components, can’t Wiz use web components? Why would it need a different implementation?

[e111077 → teg4n_]

politics

On: X is justifiably slow (2022)

[teg4n_]

is that app you are playing with for your company? I think it makes perfect sense most people do not want to do free work to make things snappy if the company does not prioritize it on company time

On: Flags Are Not Languages

[teg4n_]

It seems like these flags don’t uniquely represent specific languages. Look at how many languages have the flag of India.

On: Ask HN: Where have all the large monitors gone?

[teg4n_]

Probably because with PCs you typically want to be able to focus on any particular part of the screen without moving your head a lot while with a tv relying on more peripheral vision is normal and expected.

On: Debate isn't the best lever to reach the people I ...

[teg4n_]

I people constantly complaining about modern web frameworks but these people never offer concrete alternatives. It’s always “it depends” or whatever to avoid even an example of what they are arguing _for_ and why it’s better.

[stavros → teg4n_]

HTMX.

On: Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8G...

[teg4n_]

I would certainly prefer more RAM but I have a 8GB M1 MacBook Air and I do web development in VSCode fine. It's never been a problem for me personally.

[yumraj → teg4n_]

Take a look at the memory pressure in task manager.

We use an M1 8GB MBA purely as a home browsing laptop and it constantly gets into yellow memory pressure with few tabs open across FF and Safari.

Performance might be acceptable but I’m sure it’s paging like crazy reducing the SSD, and hence the MBA’s life.

[okdood64 → yumraj]

> It's never been a problem for me personally.

> Take a look at the memory pressure in task manager.

They just said it's never been a problem for it. What does looking at his memory pressure do? Give them a false sense that something is wrong now?

That said if I did regular development on my personal laptop, I'd want 16GB. But if it's not an issue for someone's use case, I don't see a problem.

[smcleod → yumraj]

Absolutely spot on. Try running a couple of small containers or browsing some code docs online at the same time and you’ll be swapping.

[floydnoel → smcleod]

i would rather eat my thumb than run a container of anything on a macbook air. 8gb of ram is not for bloat-lovers. it works great for web dev.

On: Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next ...

[teg4n_]

because a lot of people hate how spotify has the same app for music and podcasts