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IIRC, the mouse driver attached a .dll to all programs to do the scrolling.

Internet Exporer 6 did not have tabs.

There was a setting to open each window in a separate process. Even Windows Explorer (the file manager) had this setting, in case it crashed extracting a thumbnail or something.

IE crash would take down Windows Explorer because it was integrated into it since Win98. A bad ideea, IMO - the point where bloat began.

Like I said, technologies were just being invented. Back then things improved (mostly - see IE integration as a counter-example). Each new version was better than the one before. Can you say that now?

Try switching from IDE compatibility mode to AHCI or RAID.

Even the shortcut keys were the same everywhere!

Win95 did have scroll wheel support! Win311 didn't.

TweakUI indeed doesn't add support for scrolling inactive windows. I used IntelliMouse driver for that feature.

It's because those things that improved stability were just being invented.

No browser had tab isolation. In fact, no browser had tabs.

Memory protection in Win311 (first to use the new v86 mode) and Win9x was intentionally weak to allow DOS programs to access hardware directly. WinNT/2000 broke sound in all DOS games and lots of other programs that relied on direct hardware access. The price of stability was incompatibility.

I ran Win98 until 2006 or so. Once I replaced all bad software and drivers, it was stable enough to not bother to turn off at night and do suspend-to-ram instead. I recently bought an Acer Swift Edge w/ Win11. It is so bad, it is not capable of S3 sleep. It won't even disconnect from wifi.

The decline started earlier than WinXP. IMO, it started with the integration of IE in Win98 desktop.

I never had MacOS. Is it really true?

- What you buy is yours forver?

- Even if the company's servers go offline?

- Even if you change your PC?

- Apple can't remove it from your machine whenever they like?

- You can back up the installer and license and reinstall it later? Offline?

> Why do you feel the need to tear this project down over aspects you haven’t even looked at?

Because it looks to me like some sort of hype product launch / vaporware / investor bait / star farming, or some other foul play, and everyone here gave votes and supportive comments instead of realizing just how bad it must be in reality.

No, you're not.

"Cannabis-related diagnoses" - I don't even understand what that means - it could be a "this is a cannabis user" diagnosis. A 14% increase in cannabis use after legalization is expected.

All the others show 1% - 3% increase, some having very wide CI, which they call significant. (??)

"Opioid-related diagnoses" - Again, I don't understand what that means - it could be a "opioid user" diagnosis. It shows a 3% decrease with huge CI, but which they call "no change". (??)

I'm the one with the criticism. You should argue with me, not those who agree with my criticism.

This project is so bad, anyone with basic physics and electronics understanding can tell it's bad. Unlike @sleepybrett I never even built a keyboard in my life and yet can I still find numerous problems with that keyboard. And I didn't even get to the MCU firmware part. I can only imagine how bad that is.

If this project was done only to learn, then why is it here? People don't usually brag about what they learn. (Look ma! I put 3 lego bricks together.) I mean, it's perfectly OK to build projects to learn, make mistakes and learn from those too - I wish I had time to do that myself - but showing it on HN as if it's some viable product? Don't do that.

Why are you defending it? Just because it looks "cool"?

Yes, it did, and the total capacity changed too. With 4K (larger) sectors I got a few GB more space.

No. It's a vaccine.

In case you don't know, the very first vaccine invented was the rabies vaccine. It also contained RNA - a live rabies virus - and it also hijacks the patients own cells to provoke an immune response.

Please stop spreading conspiracy theories.

There are various categories of vaccines, from completely synthetic proteins to live virus vaccines. And yet, they're all called vaccines. I don't see how is a synthetic RNA fragment is much different from the live RNA virus that was the very first vaccine (rabies).

I had a Seagate Cheetah ~70GB 10'000 rpm SCSI HDD from around 2002 that could be low-level formatted. I could even change physical sector size.

Not even good for gaming because of the unreliable connections between modules.

Non-viable product. I would NOT buy this.

- How much does it cost? Sell price, not BoM price. I expect something like $10'000 for a full 104-key layout.

- How heavy would it be?

- Can you lift a 104-key layout from the table without it breaking in 2 (or more) pieces? Can you even lift or move a 40% layout with one hand?

- How do you arrange it in a non-ortholinear layout? If you can't, then anyone can just buy an ordinary ortholinear for $100 and switch layouts in software.

- How does the spacebar key look like? Enter key? Shift? I can't type if those big keys aren't big.

- How do you make spaces between key groups?

- There are a lot of pogo pin connections. It's statistically impossible for all of them to work. Is there any redundancy for those connections? Alternate signal paths with automatic rerouting? Any debugging tools/indicators to find where the bad connections are?

- If you have a MCU in every key, and at that price, I would expect them to have a mini-display in the keycap plus lots of other fancy features.

- How about automatic function assignment for each key based on it's location? Can it do that? If not, then any drop on the floor becomes a half-hour puzzle-solving problem.

From the article:

> That all three gossamer galaxies existed along a line, as neighbors, didn’t escape the attention of astrophysicists, who began to coalesce around an origin story.

How about this:

What we see is an advanced galaxy-killer alien weapon being fired at one target, and then continuing to travel beyond that target and making 2 more (unintended?) victims.

This article is an ad for a book.

I only do tinkering once. After that, it usually stays that way for as long as the option/setting exists and doesn't break.

For example, in 1996 I tweaked the buttons on Total Commander's main button bar (was called Windows Commander back then). I still use that same button bar today, 30 years later. Only some icons had to be replaced. I try to do the same in Linux, but...

There are some programs where this just doesn't work. Firefox for example has a bad habit of deprecating settings and adding new ones (with wrong defaults, because... money probably). It needs tinkering all the time.

Players with auto-reverse have 4-track heads. Using one of those, you can read all 4 tracks at the same time. But the best would be a rotating head (helical recording) like VCR or D/CAS I mentioned. That can use the whole width of the tape, not just 4 tracks.

So get a used D/CAS, keep the mechanical parts, replace the brains with ESP32, and post the project on HN. :)

- Default route is over tor and you didn't make an exception for ssh.

- Hide where you are in the world from your employer, who owns the server. (On vacation?)

- You're hacking the server.

You mean like D/CAS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D/CAS

How is that a valid argument? They're not even in the same industry, let alone the same "stage" (market?). But the examples are good - for the opposite argument. Very few of them had problems because of a new company entering the stage.

US Steel - down because of deindustrialization, but it's still big

Standard Oil - broken up almost immediately by antitrust law

AT&T - also split by antitrust lawsuit, but then bought back the split companies and it's big again

Union Pacific - lost the top position because BN (from BNSF) bought more railroads than them, but it's still the second. It's also kind of hard to grow if you have to build rail tracks... in US.

Pennsylvania Railroad - failed to compete with interstate highways built in 30s and jet airlines starting from 60s when their main revenue was declining industrial heavy freight.

International Mercantile Marine Co. - might be a valid example

American Tobacco Company - broken by antitrust laws

U.S. Rubber Co. - I don't think they were that big in 1910. There were a lot of competitors.

Central Leather Company - ran out of leather and the investors liquidated the company to buy oil and gas shares instead

Amalgamated Copper Mining Company - ran out of copper.

He said "Nokia". Nokia had usable keyboards, not that tiny BB thing where you need child fingers type with.

  https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_e70-review-96.php
  https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_e90-1857.php
  https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5730_xpressmusic-review-385.php

I had the E70 for many years. The keyboard was amazing, even better than the E90.

Total Commander for Android has plugins for ftp(s), sftp, smb (windows shares), webdav, dropbox, gdrive.

https://www.ghisler.com/androidapp.htm

https://www.ghisler.com/androidplugins/googleplay/

1) Putin won't come for the rest of Europe.

2) Even if the does, why attack Moscow? Russian civilians have nothing to do with the war and we're not barbarians.

3) Even if we wanted to, Moscow as a target is so big that dead reckoning starting from Portugal is probably enough to hit it. There are also a lot of other means of guidance, including sun/stars, Gee and public FM radio stations.

4) And why dones instead of ballistic missiles?

They're very important. They help us (a small part of us) to be more violent apes, and find more targets for out violence.

Technology never changes the human nature. It only makes it more efficient.

I'm not sure the responses could be trusted.