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timw4mail··on 98% Isn't Much
Progress, or constant churn for the sake of Google's stranglehold on web standards?
timw4mail··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
While true, aircraft fatality statistics generally are not split that way.

The 747 is a safe aircraft, but there have been a lot of fatalities associated with it, due to pilot error, terrorism, improper repair/maintenance, etc.

timw4mail··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
Hard to beat other planes that have not had fatal crashes or hull losses, especially when you consider the Tenerife crash.
timw4mail··on Deno 2.9
But the point of Deno was to try to avoid pitfalls that became apparent in NodeJS, so some over-correction was bound to happen.
timw4mail··on OS9Map
Officially? A single cpu G4 tower. Beyond that, I'm not sure.
timw4mail··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
While I agree in terms of modern browser expectations (and books absolutely should not need JavaScript), I think books in HTML makes a lot of sense. HTML was meant for sharing text documents, after all.
timw4mail··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
As a crazy person with both, I have mixed feelings between them.

In favor of the X3:

- Crisper text

- Whiter display

- Slightly better battery life

- Top-mounted power button (subjective)

In favor of the X4:

- Larger display

- Plain USB-C charging

- Slightly better custom firmware support

- Backward and forward button on the same side (subjective)

timw4mail··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
More mass = more momentum = harder crash. That's physics.
timw4mail··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
For the bigger vehicle, perhaps, but a smaller vehicle, even if up to modern standards, is less safe due to the larger one.
timw4mail··on Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger
...and that's why I've always hated that name
timw4mail··on Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt
Confirmation bias, instant communication, hyper focus on Boeing mishaps, etc.
timw4mail··on Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
And here I felt like I was wasting money on an Intel B70 to run LLMs locally.
timw4mail··on Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
Syncthing
timw4mail··on Haiku
Beta it may be, but there's a good amount of software and programming language support. The 64-bit version is amazingly stable, even on the nightly version.
timw4mail··on Haiku
Resource efficiency is a huge one. If you are familiar with the Via Nano: it's a SLOW x86_64 chip (sometimes used in thin clients) that feels about half as fast as older AMD 64 cpu. Haiku feels great on a Via Nano, and it's really storage-space-efficient. Linux distros are slower, and use more storage space (especially important for using an OS on a thin client PC).
timw4mail··on Don't hijack my mouse pointer
Wait...what year is it again?
timw4mail··on Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port
I've never seen the appeal of GNOME 3+, the design seems so user-hostile to anyone who has used computers for a while: hiding menus for no reason, having super limited menu options, etc.

I'd rather use LXDE, XFCE, or KDE.

timw4mail··on IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
The only case where I care about an IPv6 address is for something I actually want to expose to the internet. A temporary address would be quite annoying in that case.
timw4mail··on Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XVIII: How Does FPU Detection Work?
Some 486SX boards are even sillier: There's a soldered 486 SX, and a regular 486 socket, so you can add a socketed 486 SX to your board with a 486 SX. Obviously the point is to be able to add a regular 486 CPU, but it's still amusing.
timw4mail··on How to turn anything into a router
Surely something like OPNsense/PFsense would be better for the average user than setting up all the software manually?
timw4mail··on What came after the 486?
Pentium-compatible processors were more numerous than you think.

- AMD (K5/K6/K6-2/K6-III) - Intel (Pentium) - Centaur (IDT Winchip, later Via C3/C7/Nano) - Cyrix (6x86, 6x86MX) - Rise (mp6)

timw4mail··on What came after the 486?
For the vast, vast majority of use cases, they are faster, yes.

Cyrix chips get too much hate because of Quake being optimized specifically for the Pentium and its FPU.

timw4mail··on VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
Homebrew wouldn't support Haiku anyway.
timw4mail··on macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal
No.
timw4mail··on Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)
And there was the same problem with early PS3s, on Nvidia's GPU package...it was a fairly widespread problem at the time.
timw4mail··on Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables
The code style seems to be targeting some old version of PHP...but I'm absolutely sure typed properties require a newer version of PHP than existed in 2008. (If I recall correctly, that's around the days of PHP 5.4 or so)
timw4mail··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
I'm pretty sure screen-spanning was better before "fullscreen"...In Lion, I think?
timw4mail··on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
Just uses make-like syntax, not yaml, which I view as a huge advantage.
timw4mail··on Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies
There are new models that are recreating beam spring too. (Although I don't think they are in stock yet).
timw4mail··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
I'm too invested into Gentoo at this point to really consider Arch, but hey, arch-chroot does make modern Gentoo installs just a bit quicker.
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