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The Windows Interface You Didn’t Like, For Linux ( hackaday.com )

If you were asked to pick the most annoying of the various Microsoft Windows interfaces that have appeared over the years, there’s a reasonable chance that Windows 8’s Metro start screen and interface design language would make it your choice. In 2012 the software company abandoned their tried-and-tested desktop whose roots...

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Microsoft windows has historically had pretty great backwards compatibility compared to macos, android or iOS; and pretty great device compatibility compared to basically everything.

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It's being white, isn't it

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Ohhhhhh yeah that makes sense, they're only really happy with easy targets in overwhelming force because they're cowardly c***s. Gun probably scares them off.

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True but sometimes I think 'is it strictly necessary here?' or am physically around children and unconsciously self-censor. I swear when I want to, I asterisk when I want to.

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Oh, I installed Arch manually the other day and rather enjoyed the process :'( felt good to be reminded of all the bits and bobs.

TBF I have been accused of being a time-waster on occasion

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No, because the whole point of this meme is to be entirely devoid of nuance. Functional programming is fucking awesome if product is changing its mind every 5 mins, Oop is great if you have a huge number of junior Devs, rust isn't remotely slow so god knows what bottom right is about, top left probably has more functionality defects than you can shake a stick at but he's lionised here. Don't think too hard about it -- OP didn't (also 'never bashes python or JavaScript'? Absolute weaksauce. Perl and PHP are the ones ppl bash because of entry level dev memes. Embarrassed for op)

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Do people still use vavr? When I wasn't allowed to use scala that made up for a fair few shortcomings but it's probably less relevant than it used to be

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idx is the ideal name for an index, change my mind

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Very pleased to have been of help! I love scala but Java really isn't too bad (streams API is fine except that you need to explicitly move in and out, rather than getting to do the cool scala thing of just using methods in the phenomenal collections library) and I don't like dunking on it, but it really does need a few helper libs. Tuples, either and try I think vavr has. Java seems to have covered most other stuff now. But been a half decade since I've written more than 10 lines at a time so hasn't come up for a while. Sorry. Reminiscing. Sunday night blues.

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I is a vowel too but you sure can!

Edit: also I noticed you dropped one 'y' but not the others. Is this an accident or some subtlety to do with y's 'semi-vowel' status? To be discussed.

I am cooked, chat. (Fuck Nvidia btw)

Edit: "Updating to the legacy 580xx drivers doesn't show me a desktop anymore", just in case someone else can stumble upon this by searching something similar....

Mr. Incredible meme format where his face goes from happy to more and more concerned at each section. The text for each section is as follows: Section 1; Arch has the nvidia-open drivers now, dropping pascal support. Section 2; You still use a 10xx series nvidia card. Section 3; You forgot to install the legacy drivers and have already updated. Section 4; Your GUI doesn't show up anymore. Section 5; Installing the legacy drivers through TTY doesn't help.
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Omg I remember running into something like this about 12 years ago. TTY did help but did need a reboot. I had to arch-chroot off the live usb so many times that night, my first ever Linux installation and I fucked up the bootloader and initial packages so hard so many times. I felt so cool when I was able to switch to another tty without needing yet another usb boot. Thanks for that memory.

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Everything about that is entirely unconvincing to me, but I agree VR because there was nothing to suggest that the VR experience itself need seem unpleasant. Also exponential time dilation is just incredible

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And there's no Tim Curry, who frankly makes RA2

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Yes, yours alone

I just halted a job interview process - due to self respect.

I don't usually have sufficient motivation to post much on any social media platform. This is rare for me. I am putting this out in the world in part hoping for some validation, in part hoping it sparks some kind of social action to save some semblance of privacy and dignity in this modern world....

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We let people use chatbots in our technical interview and don't even mark down for it, since they're a tool that exists.

I have yet to see a candidate who uses chatbots be anywhere near as good at producing good solutions quickly as the ones who don't.

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Oh well that's depressing. I last interviewed about 3 years ago and I guess it might well have changed overall. OTOH I get to run the interviews where I'm at now and I can assure you that 'actually using your available resources' would never be a problem :)

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Ironically Go is such a shite verbose language that basically everyone I know who has to work with it will use an llm code-assistant tool to avoid having to write all the boilerplate themselves.

I know of no other language that comes close to prompting the level of LLM-dependency that Go inspires.

Edit: well, seems like this goes against the popular consensus but I stand by my guns if the down votes are from average Go enjoyers. If, on the other hand, the down votes stem from the sentiment that even Go should not be vibe coded, I can at least agree with that, but who knows what jimmies I've rustled

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That's completely fair, thank you for your service

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Dude, weird ass-comment. I can share my opinions and they don't have to be positive ones. Go is a tool and its purpose is to be an aesthetic stain on the realm of software.

Thank you for your attention

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In reverse order:

  • Directly mapping structs to JSON is a solved problem in userland for every major language
  • yes it does, and worse it's part of the return signature and null is super-prevalent of necessity as a result
  • even java doesn't do that any more, but fine I guess
  • cool, but access modifiers actually make a lot of sense. Go's solution to this is to use capitalisation as a marker, which has no 'inferential readability' -- public/private is obvious. Foo/foo? Considerably less so

Further, meta programming in go sucks donkey balls. Sure, it finally got generics but also they suck. Last I checked it still didn't even support covariance.

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Vanishingly few apps work fully offline and they tend to be the ones that don't send a buttload of requests in the first place.

In my experience.

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Brb updating my personal lexicon

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Yeah that's widely considered to be the article about it tbh

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No. You are in the minority and you will be adjusted

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I was just pissing about and downvoted you with the understanding that you were sufficiently decent to survive a downvote without getting upset. I don't see a reason, however, to performatively downvote that second comment and think whoever did that was unfair, so I'm giving you an upvote.

I have never sat for an autism diagnosis, I have no idea why that would be relevant

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Funnily enough my eldest is getting a laptop this Christmas. Arch Linux with a heavily locked-down environment (I've disabled WiFi on the non-root account, even). She's just about to turn 7 -- how old are yours?

Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux ( 9to5linux.com )

After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla’s new CEO that Firefox will evolve into “a modern AI browser,” the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser....

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No that's way too paranoid. Honestly 20 years not 6 months. And by then ladybird will be viable so nbd

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Well time will tell won't it, but we're both just guessing at the end

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Maybe they just didn't believe his version of the story and thought it a post hoc rationalisation?

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It's not though. There are some situations where you shouldn't 'give', and others where you shouldn't 'take'. This is one of the former cases he is correct.

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I seem to recall that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is freakishly long as well for some reason

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I very much doubt that the primary motivation to be the first person to walk around the world from South America to the UK is a bet. It's ... Y'know, probably more to do with being the first person to do that.

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I think it's probably just framed that way because Russia never officially took responsibility for it, not because anyone believes Ukraine really did it

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Why would you bother talking about them, I suppose. Bitching about dickheads - fun, wow, everyone loves a moan. Complimenting the capable? Dull, flat, uninteresting

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Particularly egregious because any private replacement of a govt program is inherently a monopoly and therefore, by economic rules, almost certain to be wasteful and shite. And outcome metrics are financial rather than intentional. Yeah but ok let's not go down this hole, we all know where we stand.

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I once solved Goldbach's conjecture in only 7 lines. Mods absolutely deleted it. Reason given? Damn, if I could remember that I could remember the proof

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10... billion seconds ago?

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That's a lot of fish

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Paedo in a lea, tho'

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They got the punctuation all mixed up. Instead of 'Windows 10 will be the last ever version! No more major upgrades!' it was meant to read 'Windows 10 will be the last ever version? No! More major upgrades!'

Unfortunate mistake

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Which is weird because if you're actually trying to get shit done, you get much more value out of someone with experience in your ecosystem than someone you've just hired, and it's astonishing how low you an keep those ppls salaries compared to new hires who're much less effective. Hire+fire is shit for everyone. Except, I guess, idiots who can only think 2 months in either direction.

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Maybe worried about looking personally identifiable. It's understandable.

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Nah actually I'm pretty happy mostly. Although I do get horrible muscle spasms when I'm stressed sometimes

Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved ( www.businessinsider.com )

Indulge me for the coming delusion, but if we ignore who this is, forget all the reasons we know that we can't trust him, and allow ourselves just a few moments to hope that we could live in such a world....

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Only if you believed his bollocks, which we all know is not to be believed

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As a fan of logic puzzle games (Baba is you being imo the best of these) difficulty levels are a foreign concept ;)

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I think the idea is that, whilst shorting, you get squeezed. The question is not 'if' but 'when' and if it takes too long and you're $1B deep you can lose your shirt

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Huh. Never noticed the MLM parallels of the current AI hype so much before. Literally levenschtein distance of one, should've spotted it.

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Sicilian ice cream sandwiches are a real thing and they are basically the best thing that's ever happened to breakfast cuisine