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sgt··on Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements
I saw it, it's actually pretty cool. But I suspect it's a very niche thing, and you might see someone build a third party extension.

Most people agree that a screen should feel like a physical desk where windows can pile, overlap, and scatter naturally. Would you use a tiling "system" for your physical desk? I highly doubt it.

Niri's infinite scrolling approach makes that into a rigid filmstrip sequence. It might be interesting for some people though.

sgt··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
Sounds even worse (and I'm generally not a fan of speech to text interfaces, as typing is a lot quicker and easier on the brain); imagine a co-worker or your wife steps in and asks a question, your "Yes" turns into an answer to your coding agent.
sgt··on What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on
Well, consider that the speed of light itself is pretty slow, relative to what people's perception of the speed of light is. Even if you had a spaceship traveling at 99.99%, it'd take a surprisingly long time even to reach the Oort cloud.
sgt··on Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements
In the late 90s our desktops on Linux literally looked like this [1]. Of course, that seems to have become lost to history. I bet E is still themable but you have to go back to 1999 when it was super exciting.

[1] https://i.redd.it/fravza9fzie31.jpg

(In fact, it's kind of funny and sad that the state of the Linux desktop and the ambition level hasn't really changed much in 25 years)

sgt··on Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game
As a long time TNG fan, I know the episodes fairly well (noticable when I rewatch them, I notice new things every time), there's one thing I've never really paid attention to and that's the episode names. So I completely fail this game.
sgt··on French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax
By the way, why on Earth is GTA 210GB? That's insane.
sgt··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
That's actually not as unlikely as you'd think.
sgt··on Patrick Stewart has died
And moments that were philosophical and put things in perspective as humans [1].

[1] https://www.facebook.com/reel/2216505129224162

sgt··on The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
Can't you just design better PCB's without weird parts that are likely to be out of stock? Adds to resilience.
sgt··on Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released
Been waiting for this!
sgt··on New iMac with M6
Exactly - I've looked at a lot of monitors. Including top end Dells, one of which I have currently. But nothing that I see beats the Studio Display at its price point. Also 60Hz is perfectly fine on that screen, maybe 60Hz feels different on others for those who feel this is inadequate.
sgt··on Unveiling The Grid: PCBs made in America, twice as fast as Shenzhen
But for prototyping, paying extra for quick turnaround is often very sensible
sgt··on Ghostty 1.4
That is a concern yeah. But I think less of an issue as Mitchell has the Zig team on speed dial.
sgt··on Ghostty 1.4
I'm a GNU screen guy but I generally don't run it locally as that's.. what you have tabs for :)
sgt··on Ghostty 1.4
Probably something to do with Zig. Zig changes so quickly that if you're not using exactly the compiler that they are using, it's unlikely to work.
sgt··on Ghostty 1.4
Now if I could only upgrade it without powering down my current Ghostty
sgt··on Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov on original 'Star Trek' series, dies at 90
@dang black ribbon please
sgt··on Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office
> https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/catalog/cv770rd9515

Cool, look at this list titled Digital:

  - Staff mass storage 6A  (not sure what this means)
  - Decide on ECC
  - Release DMA revision A in November
  - Release CPU PCB revision A in November
sgt··on Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office
> https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/catalog/xw253bb1954

Steve with Ross Perot here

Btw this image viewer - per page, is extremely sluggish and slow.

sgt··on JetBrains Thinkrail
JetBrains Air somehow makes me think of AirBrains
sgt··on fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
Okay, there's no soul. But clearly there's a massive difference between say, Monkey Island 1 and some remake sloppily vibe coded over a month. I just see a lot of that these days.

People taking the shortcut to build new games - and for what purpose, I wonder? To satisfy themselves or they really think that vibe coded games will be memorable for the next generations.

sgt··on fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
I see a lot of people doing recreations of games (or simply new ones) but I've noticed that there's just some ick-factor (hard to explain), in addition to performance issues, and just plain old bugs.

It's amazing what can be built using vibe-coding, but it still feels far away from actually being able to create proper games with soul.

Or am I wrong?

sgt··on How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
Indeed
sgt··on Jack Dorsey's New Voice Model
Who actually thinks that speaking to a computer is better than typing? At least for me, typing is not only faster but also gives me more time to think if i need to stop mid sentence and look at what I just typed.
sgt··on How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
> Even the cheapest CPUs have at least 4 cores nowadays, running billions of operations per second.

It's ironic that modern programs often have latency and response times in the 10s and 100s of milliseconds. I know the reasons why, but it's still a bit ridiculous to think about it. Just the tons of layers of abstractions we introduce.

sgt··on Mdfind Guide: macOS Spotlight Search from Terminal
mdfind is very powerful and underrated. I use it all the time. In fact, most UI things in macOS have CLI equivalents.
sgt··on Americans Are Losing the Long Game
> He might be an African, but even Africans know that very little comes from America.

Anti american sentiment in the very first sentence.

sgt··on Americans Are Losing the Long Game
> We needn’t be so hard on Americans. As the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe has noted, the West at large has foreclosed on the idea of any world to come or any imagined future. Exit is impossible, he winks in French; the longue durée is a dead idea.

Right, lets trust a Cameroonian historian (lol) to decide that the West has come to an end.

sgt··on Linux 7.3
I wonder how many people nowadays see something like this, clicking on it and expecting a "Download and Install" button.
sgt··on macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
What bugs, specifically? I'm not doubting that you're finding bugs, but I am using nearly every part of Tahoe and I haven't found any bugs yet.
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