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timnetworks··on The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output
if you save a jpeg as a bitmap, doesn't that save every bit faithfully? is the example backwards or is my understanding of maps of bits naive?
timnetworks··on Setting Up a New Windows Laptop in 2026
this is the instruction to the microsoft product manager that put that there
timnetworks··on Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids
https://www.war.gov/UFO/
timnetworks··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
If my radio got FCC stamps on it, I'm sure the airplane has this figured out but in the opposite direction.

Did someone update fly by wire to run on 2.4Ghz BLE or something? What is even the deal with airplane mode?

timnetworks··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
This is why TXT and MD and RTF exist. This is why CSV exists. This is (some of) why some governments are moving away from this junk.

But microsoft's incompetence keeps a lot of people employed.

timnetworks··on $40K for an $8 knob? The case for a military right to repair
surely there are some extra knobs at the original knob factory and 3d printers have nothing to do with it.
timnetworks··on Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS
I have one of these and now all I need to do is find a reason to use the Mac.
timnetworks··on Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia
Me too. What I haven't heard until very recently is normal people either unafraid to say it, or afraid of the consequences of saying it less than the consequences of what is happening.

They lost the plot, it's a little too late, but it's new.

timnetworks··on What makes a good smartphone camera?
Light your subject
timnetworks··on Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software
I've never seen someone fling their clipboard against the wall so hard it shatters. Probably clipboard developers are just a better breed.
timnetworks··on Hey Uber, fix your eatsite. You're embarrassing the internet
cri-ckets. I wonder what idiot hole helped them up.
timnetworks··on Interview with Bob Odenkirk
mr. show was an amazing bit of media
timnetworks··on Is my blue your blue?
> Your boundary is at hue 172, greener than 63% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.

isn't turquoise exactly (50%) between the two?

timnetworks··on GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
godaddy is a fucking joke, and at ten times the price [of what I use instead]!

and they burrow their stupid certificates into your computer, you can thank microsoft for that one I guess

timnetworks··on Bring Your Agent to Teams
> Teams is where most enterprise work happens

gtfo.. this can't possibly be written by claude, someone thinks this!

timnetworks··on Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny
Olympics are literally a showcase of the genetic lottery. We can have Testtube Olympics alongside Special Olympics if there is sufficient interest.
timnetworks··on Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
Of course it's Made on iPhone! They stopped making anything else!
timnetworks··on Show HN: Tiny pixel characters for Cursor AI agents
The sprite graphics are amazing. Was this done by hand?
timnetworks··on Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
Is there a shell replacement for windows these days? I don't need two right-click menus and whatever it is they did with the task tray anyway.
timnetworks··on Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe
Some people are not concerned with having it run the fastest, just having it run at all may be enough.
timnetworks··on X is selling existing users' handles
mine wasn't even that rare, no followers, and twitter still took it away. now it has a blue badge.

it's not my computer i suppose. a whole bunch of computers, all not mine.

now imagine hinging your entire marketing philosophy off 3-4 platforms like this.

timnetworks··on Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites
The most dangerous links recently have been from sharepoint.com, dropbox.com, etc. and nobody is going to block those.
timnetworks··on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
Anecdote: yesterday i exported my bookmarks into an html file and then asked for a script that will make a webpage out of them. with a search. and favicon download from domain. better than any bookmark bar imho.
timnetworks··on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
of course none of this nonsense applies to those than can afford private travel
timnetworks··on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
Fairfax is pretty close, about 30 miles or 3-4 hours driving.
timnetworks··on Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf]
Managers that can't do the work aren't managers, they're supervisors.
timnetworks··on Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account
this is the correct affect. you lose money while they win an imagined IP violation, then someone posts a copy of your item with text that avoids their system and they make money there too.
timnetworks··on When someone says they hate your product
Microsoft Teams developers, please come @ me.
timnetworks··on Google is dead. Where do we go now?
I watch people search for PlatformName Login every single day because they don't know how URLs work.

Google isn't search. It's a crutch for people with too much time and money.

p.s. not google labs, not tpu's, but specifically search.

timnetworks··on Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links
Reminder: 90% of the functionality a user needs is available via the web (pwa).
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