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timw4mail··on "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
The A750 is not that poor of a GPU either. If that's considered low-end, then gaming on a Steam Deck, or a budget gaming computer is impossible.
timw4mail··on Ask HN: How many of you are consciously downsizing your devices/going retro?
Quartz isn't retro enough for me...I find clockwork watches (especially with skeleton mechanisms) more appealing.
timw4mail··on Adélie Linux
But I like digiKam.
timw4mail··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
I understand some unease about this, but this appears to be an isolated incident. Until it's shown not to be, I don't see how this makes the MAX family any more dangerous.

Lest Alaska airlines be given too much of a free pass: they had a deadly incident due to lack of maintenance, where a DC-9-family jet lost elevator control entirely.

Regardless, an incident like this is not the worst outcome: nobody was hurt, and the aviation industry can learn lessons from the situation. That includes learning whether this is an isolated incident, or a systemic one, and where the issue actually came from.

timw4mail··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
More often a substitute for cars I'd say. I've ridden a bus long-distance on two trips.

I'm not sure why you think busses are more equivalent to planes other than holding more passengers.

timw4mail··on Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
Iterating over tree structures is a pain without recursion, but that's the only situation where I feel I need recursion.
timw4mail··on Instant messaging: Protocols are "commons", let's take them seriously
The question then, is what kind of protocol(s) should be used.

SMS is about as close as exists for open instant messaging, but it requires a phone number

IRC seems to have inspired Discord and Slack, with the closed variants improving on features and discoverability.

As far as I know, XMPP doesn't really have a cross-server ability like SMS and IRC, though.

timw4mail··on Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
That certainly works for Bun and Deno, not sure about what is effective in Node, though.
timw4mail··on Behavior belongs in the HTML
`<button type=submit>` makes more sense to me than `<input type=submit>`
timw4mail··on Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows 10 Security Updates
ReactOS barely works...and last I knew it was at XP-level support for applications.
timw4mail··on Firefox on the brink?
IT staff browser management
timw4mail··on I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust
So having one easy to use build system (and actual package manager) is worse than having countless arcane build systems?
timw4mail··on I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust
In C++ crashing with a helpful error is rare. In Rust it's rare not to get a helpful error.
timw4mail··on Nolan Says Buy Oppenheimer on Blu-ray So No Evil Streaming Service Can Steal It
DVD is 480p
timw4mail··on Steam Deck OLED
Between SD cards and M.2 drive upgrades being pretty painless, you can start small and upgrade.
timw4mail··on Steam Deck OLED
The XBox One and PS4 are very PC-like as well. (Continuing with the PS5 and XBox Series).

But yes, Valve does seem to get what gamers want (other than games made by them)

timw4mail··on Intel vs. NEC: The Case of the V20's Microcode
I wonder what this would mean in regards to any Soviet clones. Those probably would have just copied the microcode though.
timw4mail··on Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk'
And a supported CPU. Zen 1 is not officially supported, in spite of how new it was when 11 was released.

But yes, Rufus removes the stupid requirements.

timw4mail··on The sad decline of cursive
My print letters flow together so I don't end up lifting the pen(cil) as much.
timw4mail··on I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore
I certainly agree that current front-end stacks are a house of cards.

On the other hand, though, not many developers get to focus mostly on new code. And generally, open source dependencies are going to be used, as it's considered wasteful to build everything from scratch.

timw4mail··on Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig
Not at all. I don't want that responsibility.
timw4mail··on Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00
Which reminds me...I was thinking about smashing MSDOS 6.22 and PC-DOS 2000 together.

I wonder how well it would work to copy the MSDOS 'DOS' folder into the PC-DOS one, just keeping the programs with different names.

timw4mail··on Please don’t theme our apps
Funny how this only seems to be an issue with GTK apps, and not with QT.
timw4mail··on Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel
Never thought about the asphalt part, but makes some sense. From what I understand, bitumen is basically the part of oil distillation left over after you distill away all the aromatic(liquid) stuff.
timw4mail··on Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
And streaming video furthers its devolution into fragmented cable tv...
timw4mail··on Second-Guessing the Modern Web (2020)
I disagree. Most of the "interactivity" is attention-stealing anti-patterns that no sane person actually wants.

News sites with scrolling auto-playing videos, overly-complex SPAs that are slow when you just want to get this specific task done, newsletter subscription modals, the list goes on.

True "webapps" are rarer than we've been lead to believe.

timw4mail··on Second-Guessing the Modern Web (2020)
Featuritis...the drive to add "features" because other sites do.
timw4mail··on Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers
And how is Chrome not the new Internet Explorer?
timw4mail··on Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste
They definitely could have more life than the duration of the ChromeOS updates. It's an arbitrary date, not performance-based at all.
timw4mail··on Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'
I guess I'm glad I noticed this when it appeared on a driver update.

Another box to uncheck on each update: arc control and telemetry.

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