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Koshkin··on 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
Well, graphics acceleration is still considered optional on servers :)
Koshkin··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
Not exactly. Pronunciation varies between dialects and accents; it is the subject of a linguistic discipline called "phonology"; writing systems or difficulties arising from their "irregularities" with respect to spoken word do not concern it. Put differently, speech and pronunciation, while related, are not the same.
Koshkin··on Cloud gaming is kinda amazing
Tried Amazon Luna once on a TV, it was indeed a good experience.
Koshkin··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
Yes. Linguists do that all the time. People do learn Latin, etc.
Koshkin··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
> French person here :

I could guess that solely from the space before ':'

Koshkin··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
You do not guess, you learn.
Koshkin··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
> a single way to pronounce it

Within a particular dialect, that is.

Koshkin··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
Sure; this has nothing to do with the way written words are spoken, though.
Koshkin··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
Finnish is not unique in that it has quite a few dialects like most other languages.
Koshkin··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
To be fair, the "ghoti" joke is not about pronunciation but rather about the perceived mismatch between the way a word is written and the way it is spoken.
Koshkin··on The ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour
60 is the smallest of the five numbers below 100 (the other being 72, 84, 90, 96) that have most divisors (12, to be exact).
Koshkin··on The future of version control
What's currently missing from the automatic conflict resolution is intelligence. The AI doing merges is the future.
Koshkin··on What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down
In American English, 'Adam' and 'atom' are pronounced the same.
Koshkin··on How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone
> Android is one of the most popular operating systems in the world.

More accurately, "as of December 2025, Android, which uses the Linux kernel, is the world's most popular operating system with 38.94% of the global market, followed by Windows with 29.99%, iOS with 15.66%, macOS with 2.14%, and other operating systems with 10.78%."

Koshkin··on Never Bet Against x86
Never say never...
Koshkin··on Programming in K
K[ryptic!]*

*I appreciate mathematical notation, but this is not it.

Koshkin··on Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs
What does price have to do with anything.
Koshkin··on Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)
I see a huge problem with Latin alphabet (with or without modifications) being shared among different languages is that it is almost never transliterated from one such language to another (I think the Baltic and the Slavs may still be doing that), which can make foreign names look like something imagined by a low-key LLM. How am I supposed to say 'Andrzei Chrząszcz' or, for an easier one, say, 'Buôn Ma Thuột.'
Koshkin··on 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
Curiously, some people insist that the year zero AD was a thing.
Koshkin··on Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)
The Chinese selling Portuguese souvenirs made in China?
Koshkin··on Proton and NordVPN blocked in Spain during soccer matches
Learn to read Spanish already…
Koshkin··on JetBrains drops X11 for Wayland as default in IntelliJ-based IDEs
"Drops" feels like too strong a word, given that this is merely a switch from one default to another.
Koshkin··on PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
So… What’s the magic? (In theory, interpretation/emulation and compilation should produce identical behavior.)
Koshkin··on Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine
The Docker image homepage:

https://github.com/rbanffy/vm370

Koshkin··on Text-based web browsers
links is my favorite file browser and pager
Koshkin··on Text-based web browsers
> text-mode web browser

> inline images inside the terminal

Now I'm confused

Koshkin··on Text-based web browsers
A.k.a. "terminal-based"
Koshkin··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
No CMake support (VSCode, emacs, nvim all have it).
Koshkin··on C Is Best (2025)
Is SQLite hard to use?
Koshkin··on C Is Best (2025)
You mean, "DOW"
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