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by ada0000 7mo ago
I saw RT was already speculating/fearmongering about France giving Ukraine secret nuke components. This all seems like it could get quite bad.
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by ada0000 7mo ago
Horrible.
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by ada0000 8mo ago
In UK, was redirected to russia today. Cannot recall which domain(s).
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by ada0000 8mo ago
Tax breaks, operations of state owned industry, other incentives etc are guided by five year plans implemented by a party bureaucracy.
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by ada0000 8mo ago
If the size of state and bureaucratisation are the main issues, one wonders how China got so far :-)
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by ada0000 8mo ago
I know enough about Unix that shipping an outdated binary in the base system is entirely unsurprising :-)
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by ada0000 8mo ago
macOS switched to zsh a while ago. i don’t see what that minor choice has to do with being or not being UNIX.
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by ada0000 8mo ago
OpenAI aren’t using their cloud directly, but have signed data center partnerships with them that are effectively huge amounts of debt not backed up with revenue. That’s all liability that Google doesn’t really have because they have revenu
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by ada0000 8mo ago
don’t forget oracle!
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by ada0000 8mo ago
> vying with Microsoft for the “worst maintainer of links on the entire Web” trophy Anybody who has tried to read Microsoft’s dev blogs know they’ve earned that trophy. Raymond Chen’s articles are excellent, but go back a few years and e
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by ada0000 8mo ago
The Expanding What We Measure section was very nice to see. Thank god somebody is attempting to measure more qualitative metrics like the experience of contributing rather than annoying people into clicking around more.
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by ada0000 8mo ago
asked it who it was > jeff epstein, financier > just chillin rn lol > u? hilarious project, an awkward omegle chat with a dead pedophile
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by ada0000 8mo ago
They would want to learn Winforms/WPF/WinUI/whatever if microsoft could settle on one and use it. I suppose part of the react native stuff is that Microsoft hasn’t done a good job of making people, even in Microsoft, bet the
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by ada0000 8mo ago
Microsoft has the resources to train people.
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by ada0000 8mo ago
+1. even blocking keywords could be nice, e.g. i don’t use AI for coding and don’t care much for news about claude code. captcha would make it more of a hassle to post comments.
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by ada0000 9mo ago
Apple maps was the only GPS app that correctly routed me in rural England; others would occasionally tell me to drive straight through a no entry sign. It’s an interesting exception to the rule.
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by ada0000 9mo ago
> almost any bugfix at the level of an operating system kernel can be a “security issue” given the issues involved (memory leaks, denial of service, information leaks, etc.) On the level of the Linux kernel, this does seem convincing. Th
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by ada0000 9mo ago
What exactly does “one shot” mean here?
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by ada0000 9mo ago
even when there are alternatives, sometimes it makes sense to use a library like Qt in its native language with its native documentation rather than a binding - if you can do so safely
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by ada0000 9mo ago
windows 11 for ARM, as bad of an OS it is in many aspects, is an incredible experience for backwards compatibility. I can run a 32 bit game built for windows xp in parallels and not have to think much.
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by ada0000 9mo ago
herb sutter and the c++ community as a whole have put a lot of energy into improving the language and reducing UB; this has been a primary focus of C++26. they are not encouraging people to “churn out more broken garbage”, they are encourag