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by bztzt 6d ago
in Windows, some teams/people use it others don't. Historically it hasn't worked well with some of the internal build/test/etc stuff, that's mostly changed in recent years.
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by bztzt 6d ago
内卷/involution seems like one possible kind of "recursive self-improvement". A circle is also an exponential: y = i^x. (I have no idea what will happen. 内卷 or intelligence explosion both seem plausible.)
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by bztzt 8d ago
Buddhism itself also has such a history, for example with the Hindu gods, or with Shinto in Japan.
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by bztzt 1mo ago
You don't need a tool, you can just right-click and uninstall.
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by bztzt 1mo ago
this is how I did "AI coding" (for unfamiliar languages/frameworks/etc.) back in the GPT-3.5/4 days. Except I'd also test each line to verify it actually did what I thought it did.
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by bztzt 2mo ago
MAI is supposed to have its own design language/brand identity that is unrelated to the overall Microsoft brand. It has its own fonts, logo, colors, etc. The weird thing is that consumer Copilot, which is (or was) developed at MAI (as
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by bztzt 4y ago
Microsoft's head of marketing at the time posted about this on internal Yammer. He said there were two main reasons: first, "Windows 10" just did better in focus groups than Windows 9 or other alternatives; second, since the
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by bztzt 5y ago
switching between a touchscreen and mouse is no more awkward than switching between a keyboard and mouse, imo
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by bztzt 5y ago
I'm not sure there's any crisply definable bright line separating them. Generally embrace/extend strategies do involve trying to make extensions that some people will consider valuable.
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by bztzt 11y ago
WinRT doesn't depend on the CLR at all, it's just an updated COM-based model.
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by bztzt 11y ago
Aren't your two paragraphs really two ways of saying the same thing?
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by bztzt 11y ago
no, but they've introduced a bunch of versions of it under different names (WPF, Silverlight, Phone Silverlight, WinRT XAML, UWP), a few of which broke compatibility, so that's probably where you got that impression.
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by bztzt 11y ago
voice is just an input method. a natural language interface can also support typing or other inputs.
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by bztzt 11y ago
The meaningful difference is whether there are isolation and distribution/update mechanisms so that users can install and maintain apps with less risk and hassle. This doesn't have much to do with (in-app) UI per se, though.
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by bztzt 11y ago
These benchmark articles frustrate me because I rarely feel they tell me anything. What do the benchmarks actually measure? When one tested product benchmarks as better/worse than another, what specifically is happening to make it bett
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by bztzt 11y ago
Yes
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by bztzt 11y ago
Correct.
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by bztzt 12y ago
the answer from "silverstorm" is correct. To elaborate a bit, if you add a feature or API to the underlying OS, but there's no corresponding browser feature that makes use of it, to someone who spends most of their time in a
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by bztzt 12y ago
even if you're "good at" hierarchical filesystems they have a few inherent problems: 1) there's overhead associated with coming up with a hierarchical file structure, keeping it updated whenever your problems or your und
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by bztzt 12y ago
There used to be a bus route that went from Seattle to Bellevue at 2:15 and 3:30 am, but it got shut down as part of recent budget cuts. :(
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by bztzt 12y ago
what, are you saying Bozo the Clown wasn't a success? :)
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by bztzt 12y ago
certain core systems components are often developed by small teams or individuals even within large organizations. the .net GC was written/maintained by 1 dev for a long time (Patrick Dussud, later Maoni Stephens), the Windows thread s
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by bztzt 12y ago
the ambiguity is that it's presented as something the host does in this particular instance, but the validity of the probability calculations depends on it being a protocol the host always follows (in particular, that the host will alw
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by bztzt 12y ago
thoughtlessness and callousness are far more common sources of evil than either incompetence or malice strictly defined. "People who don't care if I live or I die".
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by bztzt 12y ago
there is a separate, smaller "quality" team with a separate reporting hierarchy that is supposed to address this - that's where the reference to data scientists, etc. in the article comes from. basically the idea is to split
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by bztzt 12y ago
Aren't we seeing it? I thought Qt does support WP8+: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/winrt-support.html
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by bztzt 12y ago
Windows Phone is some shared core components from Windows desktop (which RT is basically just an ARM build of) + its own stuff on top. The shared core has been growing with each release.
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by bztzt 12y ago
They had to block native code on WP7.x because they were on the CE kernel, knew they were going to move to the NT kernel in WP8, and native apps wouldn't have ported over.
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by bztzt 12y ago
imo the browser is just a better navigation model for a wide range of apps than typical OS GUI shells. so it's natural that either native apps get hosted in the browser (the plugin model) which has gone out of fashion, or APIs to do wh
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by bztzt 12y ago
Bing isn't losing money anymore, they're finally breaking even as of last year.

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