einr

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by einr 5mo ago
Fair enough if it’s not vibe coded, I’ll take your word for it. Code review seems like it’s mostly bots (Claude, Cursor, Greptile) from the PRs I looked at? Nevertheless, AI use is not what really stood out to me. It’s that it’s SO MUCH COD
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by einr 5mo ago
How much UI text does this thing have that it needs thousands of lines of localization? Where are these files? Especially curious because I see a whole lot of hardcoded english text in there…
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by einr 5mo ago
I don’t think so. I just used a public GitHub LoC counting tool directly on the repo, there are a few. https://ghloc.vercel.app/thunderbird/thunderbolt?branch=main claims 141k and most of it is Typescript.
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by einr 5mo ago
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by einr 5mo ago
This is a pain, to be sure, but surely there is some sort of logic you could implement to detect whether a file is a Real File that actually exists on the device (if so, back it up) or a pointer to the cloud (ignore it by default, probably,
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by einr 5mo ago
It's a little interesting that they would pick Office 2000 as an example, since Office 97 and onwards do not use standard OS widgets -- it reimplements and draws them itself*. The menu bar in Office 2000 does not look like the standa
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by einr 5mo ago
To be more exact, I think the first great Pentium was the 133, but the 75 is the first that was a real, proper jump in performance from a fast 486 and represented decent price/performance.
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by einr 5mo ago
I think it’s a bit of both. It absolutely tried very hard to pretend that it was a ”586” (Pentium class) but also ”5x” is right there and implies that if the DX4 is 4, this is 5. The full name on the chip on some of them is ”Am5x86-P75 DX5-
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by einr 5mo ago
This is almost exactly what the plan was, until C= went out of business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset It was going to be HP PA-RISC based and have an AGA Amiga SoC, including a 68k core.
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by einr 5mo ago
The 68060 is pretty good to be fair, but it never ended up being widely used and Motorola definitely saw PPC as the future. Maybe if these theoretical new 68k Amigas became a huge market hit they could have taken the arch further and it cou
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by einr 5mo ago
Yeah, it does alright and is a significant difference to a DX/2, but Quake came out in ’96 and the P60 came out as a super expensive workstation class CPU in ’93. If you were a gamer in ’96 it is unlikely you were rocking a P60 because
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by einr 5mo ago
The original Pentiums (socket 4, 60 or 66 MHz) had the infamous floating point division bug, had underwhelming perf for anything not FP bound (most things), ran hot, and were too expensive for what you got. A DX/4 100 was nearly always
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by einr 5mo ago
Especially since when actual clock quadrupled chips eventually came out they had to call themselves ridiculous things like ”5x86” instead of DX/4. (The Am5x86 133 runs at 4x33 MHz)
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by einr 5mo ago
Yeah, there were holdouts of course but the DX/2 really seems like the breaking point. (Also, a Pentium 60 is barely faster than a DX/2 66 at many tasks — it is a Bad Processor — but that’s another conversation ;)
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by einr 5mo ago
The CD32 chip actually had byte-per-pixel (chunky) graphics modes but the omission from the 1200 was fatal. I agree. Unfortunately, even with chunky graphics and/or 3D foresight, 68k would still have been a dead end and Commodore wou
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by einr 5mo ago
You’re in luck! https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chas...
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by einr 5mo ago
The DX/2 66 is a true legend of a chip. It was so good. The final nail in the coffin for the Amiga and for 68k. I love the Amiga, but it just didn’t Doom. Before it, you could claim that a 68040 was kinda-sorta keeping up with the 486
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by einr 5mo ago
Unfortunately that’s an unacceptable security risk, especially for a government.
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by einr 5mo ago
I haven't mentioned America or any other continent. It is the Europeans who are shouting about sovereignty right now. Well, no one has mentioned computer hardware until you did. Surely you understand how "all the motherboards ar
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by einr 5mo ago
The same is not true in Europe, so there's not a huge Dell, HP, or IBM equivalent. In the 90s and up until the early 00s we used to have quite a few pretty serious contenders, but they are all dead now: ICL, Siemens-Nixdorf, Tulip, B
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by einr 5mo ago
Sometimes organizations need to undertake work that is not friction free to achieve longer term goals.
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by einr 5mo ago
> are there any machines still running on a Z80? A LOT of them. Zilog only announced its discontinuation in 2024. But that also means that there are A LOT of them out there, and they are cheap and generally extremely reliable parts.
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by einr 5mo ago
The Commodore REU (RAM Expansion Unit) architecture for the C64/C128 allows for up to 16 MiB - 256 banks of 256 addresses in 256 pages. Due to the lack of support hardware in the C64 (no hardware RAM bank switching/MMU) this memor
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by einr 5mo ago
The easy way to accomplish this is to just launch a NeXTstep box in your browser from https://infinitemac.org/ I don’t know if they have Improv pre-installed, but it will let you mount disk images from your computer. (Perso
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by einr 6mo ago
Yup. But from the OP, all the information we have is the CPU model, and the GP decided that was enough to say it should be thrown in the trash for power inefficiency, so I thought it was enough for some bad math. (FWIW, searching for the CP
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by einr 6mo ago
I know, but it should be roughly correlated and only serves as comparison for wildly inaccurate napkin math anyway.
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by einr 6mo ago
I guess. It's hardly an open-and-shut case of "throw your old computer away!" though, especially when this is a worst-case scenario of running a desktop computer at full blast 24/7 without it ever going into sleep mode o
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by einr 6mo ago
65W TDP? Let's say we want to run a PC so we're switching to a newer low-end Ryzen with a 35W TDP and that that's a 30W difference for the whole system. Let's say we're running the system 24/7 and the CPU is pu
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by einr 6mo ago
This article is a wonderful example of an expert leveraging AI to do normal work 100x faster. This article is an example of an AI agent taking 40 minutes to do some basic ass sysadmin troubleshooting tasks. 100x faster than who? An ”exper
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by einr 6mo ago
It’s not the tooling for me, macOS is just bad as a server OS for many reasons. Weird collisions with desktop security features, aggressive power saving that you have to fight against, root not being allowed to do root stuff, no sane pack

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