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by hn_submit 3d ago
These days almost all Google search results return nothing but links to stuff that you can buy instead of useful information you were looking for. They do this because they think they can get away with it, they're the only game in town
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by hn_submit 3d ago
Async/await is a poor abstraction since I find it difficult to reason how an application using it will behave. It's certainly not intuitive or easier to understand than threading. If, in addition, there are many possible design ch
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by hn_submit 3d ago
I believe that it's time, a quarter century after 9/11, to abolish the DHS, the department which was created pure out of spite towards the FBI and NSA. It's a service looking for a purpose and in doing so is trampling the rig
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by hn_submit 3d ago
I believe one of the feasibilities we have with electric locomotion is the standardization of components: electric motors, motor controllers, batteries and battery chargers. These being interchangeable will lead to lower costs through compe
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by hn_submit 3d ago
When they send fingerprints (cryptographic hashes) of the content your watching isn't that "snooping" by definition ? OK, they're not recording everything I say or do (probably) but their categorical denial is insincere
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by hn_submit 3d ago
I believe these "A.I. Armageddon" warnings are completely self-serving to pump up their share price now that interest rates are rising. Soon, it may become financially unsustainable to finance the A.I. boom and the entire sector w
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by hn_submit 4d ago
This is exactly the reason Anthropic's call to slow down A.I. development will fail. Shareholders will be loath to accept that the company loses its lead and a commensurate sharp decline in the company's share price. Moreover, it
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by hn_submit 5d ago
I hate VS Code (even though I use it regularly on Linux Mint) because it's basically "File Focused" not "Project Focused" or "Solution Focused." Yeah, I know that it can read Visual Studio Projects and Sol
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by hn_submit 5d ago
I would say it already is. But it takes time for all software to be rewritten in Rust.
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by hn_submit 5d ago
To me this sounds very welcome. I'm continually scanning and skipping over any HN articles concerning A.I. and LLMs. Having a site (or even a setting in HN) that does this for me is great!
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by hn_submit 5d ago
> For some subset of that everybody, it’s worth paying to have that pain go away. I guess the question is: is that subset of people large enough to run a profit-making business on?
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by hn_submit 5d ago
I'm using .NET so I at least have the advantage of being able to use the same programming language on both platforms. I can even share code between the two.
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by hn_submit 5d ago
No it isn't. What's transforming the military-industrial complex are the wars in Ukraine and Iran which have shown that cheap drones can totally defeat a much larger and more advanced military force. The road we've taken wher
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by hn_submit 5d ago
A little late, isn't it? .NET has had this for over 20 years (pre-compile).
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by hn_submit 5d ago
Probably some A.I.-enabled version control system. I mean, everything has A.I. in it these days, right? Yawn!
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by hn_submit 5d ago
I'm totally disgusted that my Visual Studio 2022 instance uses 2 Gigabytes (!!) of RAM to run. What the hell is it doing that it's using that kind of memory? How about those morons solving that first before moving towards Rust. An
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by hn_submit 6d ago
Some deployments can be AOT compiled (ASP.NET, mobile), others (like WinForms, WPF) cannot. That makes it confusing and fickle since not all language features work with AOT. Microsoft needs to choose for AOT Full Monty and leave the CLR beh
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by hn_submit 6d ago
That grin will soon be wiped off their faces when Linux Mint takes over the desktop and wipes another one or two Trillion dollars off their market cap.
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by hn_submit 6d ago
I'm personally a big fan of garbage collected languages. It's just unfortunate that Microsoft chose C# not to be Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compiled but running on a virtual machine like Java (after which it was modeled after). Alas, tha
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by hn_submit 6d ago
I've dumped all cross-platform frameworks as well. I tried many of them but they just weren't good enough, even for simple stuff. There were always glitches and teething problems that marred the overall quality compared to the nat
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by hn_submit 7d ago
The service wouldn't be illegal because companies can store customer data and even use that information for marketing and advertising purposes. They just can't sell or share it with anyone else.
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by hn_submit 8d ago
There are dozens of TV manufacturers in China and the competition is intense. I'm hoping that one manufacturer will come up with the USP to make a TV that doesn't spy on you, doesn't show ads and uses secure software like a m
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by hn_submit 8d ago
The Koreans are taking a huge risk destroying the trust they've built over the last 30 years with this incessant spying and adware. Both LG and Samsung are engaged in this and it could open the door to Chinese rivals like TCL and HiVis
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by hn_submit 8d ago
Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. Not having / using A.I. may even become a unique selling point in the future.
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by hn_submit 8d ago
I assume Microsoft would be able to rewrite the monolithic Windows kernel to a microkernel. So far, they haven't but it wouldn't surprise me if they experiment on Azure with a custom microkernel version of Windows. Linus Torvalds
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by hn_submit 8d ago
Silvergear.
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by hn_submit 8d ago
Minix can run Ngnix.
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by hn_submit 9d ago
Or we could just dump Linux and Windows and switch to a microkernel operating system, which is much more secure. These endless patching cycles are simply not going to work in the long run. Operating systems get orphaned all the time, especi
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by hn_submit 9d ago
Like I said: there will be scams where lab-grown diamonds will be sold as natural ones which will ruin customers' willingness to pay more for them.
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by hn_submit 9d ago
It also implies that Google,Meta and others can't put trackers on other people's websites. That kills about 99% of all tracking on the internet. Foreign companies would also be banned from placing trackers to close any loopholes.

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