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New comment by pantalaimon in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

pantalaimon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:21:42 +0000

Same with Ic - Ich

New comment by pantalaimon in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

pantalaimon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:09:25 +0000

It's pretty annoying that you need vendor specific APIs and a large vendor specific stack to do anything with those NPUs.

This way software adoption will be very limited.

New comment by pantalaimon in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

pantalaimon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:39:27 +0000

I don't know anyone who goes through the trouble to spoof their user agent and I know plenty Linux users.

New comment by pantalaimon in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

pantalaimon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:22:47 +0000

> even Germany stated recently that closing down their Nuclear Plants was a big mistake

Well that's because we have a new government, CDU was always in favor of nuclear power.

New comment by pantalaimon in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

pantalaimon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:42:47 +0000

i686 builds even faster

New comment by pantalaimon in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

pantalaimon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:40:29 +0000

T2 manages to do it

https://t2linux.com/

New comment by pantalaimon in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

pantalaimon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:38:50 +0000

They did get rid of the delay slots and some other MIPS oddities

New comment by pantalaimon in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

pantalaimon — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:01:23 +0000

> segment leaders can simply use their capital to prevent challengers instead of competing on product/service quality

This is done through regulations. If you are the market leader, you have the resources to comply with new bureaucracy (that you lobby for through standards organisations) and you don't really want to do much risky new development so ossifying your product is fine. That makes it really hard for new competitors to enter the sector.

New comment by pantalaimon in "I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine"

pantalaimon — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:27:15 +0000

The Mac studio also comes with up to 512GiB RAM.

The PS5 only has 8GiB.

New comment by pantalaimon in "Bet on German Train Delays"

pantalaimon — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:06:19 +0000

All operators run on DB infrastructure.

I recently experienced this with CD from Karlovy Vary to Berlin. It was snowing that day and inside of the Czech Republic I was enjoying the scenic view of the Egerland without any delays.

But as soon as we pulled into Germany, the train came to a stop - problems with the rail security infrastructure, nothing the train operator has any influence on.

We eventually arrived in Berlin with +1h delay.

New comment by pantalaimon in "Bet on German Train Delays"

pantalaimon — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:56:34 +0000

The problem is the infrastructure. There is already the Generalsanierung under way, it will take a decade and secure the status quo.

A lot of delays are due to rail corridors being at capacity, but overboarding bureaucracy makes any improvement there a generational project.

Hamburg - Hanover has been discussed for decades with strong opposition from NIMBY groups with no solution in sight.

But even if there is no opposition things take ages. E.g. for restoring the 2nd track and electrification between Cottbus and Görlitz the plan is now to finish the project by 2041.

This is absolutely insane for 100km of track that were removed as WW2 reparations.

And looking at previous projects it's unlikely to finish in time.

The new S-Bahn track in Berlin between the main station and Gesundbrunnen was supposed to open in 2017. It got delayed over and over and is now finally scheduled to open by the end of this month - just a delay of 9 years.

And that's with an interim station because the real station at Hauptbahnhof wasn't finished in time - and no intermediate stop, that's now also in the planning phase and will mean the line will have to be interrupted again in the near future

New comment by pantalaimon in "PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI"

pantalaimon — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:21:30 +0000

I'm sure it could generate a decent device tree

PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI

pantalaimon — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:01:36 +0000

Article URL: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/26/pmOS-update-2026-02/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179553

Points: 85

# Comments: 104

New comment by pantalaimon in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

pantalaimon — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:52:41 +0000

People still speak German in South Tyrol even though it's part of Italy since 1919.

New comment by pantalaimon in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

pantalaimon — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:40:53 +0000

The US also did annex large parts of what used to be Mexico in the 19th century, so you don't even technically have so be an immigrant to speak Spanish

New comment by pantalaimon in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

pantalaimon — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:38:36 +0000

> Russian is another “difficult” language, but all the satellite nations had no problem picking it up.

Russian is not more difficult than English and a lot of the satellite states were speaking other Slavic languages. If you already speak Spanish, it's less difficult to pick up Italian too.

New comment by pantalaimon in "The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware"

pantalaimon — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:47:16 +0000

I would envision to see some more GPU drivers from Chinese companies like MooreThreads

New comment by pantalaimon in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

pantalaimon — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:06:43 +0000

> but there’s no real way to coordinate that in society from the top down without being authoritarian.

PR comes to mind. They managed to convince millions of people that smoking is 'cool', we just need another Bernays to do the same for having kids.

New comment by pantalaimon in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

pantalaimon — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:29:24 +0000

You often have a radio clock source like DCF77 that all those radio controlled clocks use

New comment by pantalaimon in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

pantalaimon — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:18:57 +0000

Quake and Doom sure come to mind