materialpoint

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by materialpoint 2mo ago
Isn't Microsoft heavily invested? As one should know, Microsoft are experts at confusing and contrived naming with no connection to reality: Windows Home, Windows Home Premium, Windows Professional, Business, Premium, Small Business et
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by materialpoint 2mo ago
The (not so) interesting part is how inefficient it is. Marketing by ads on the internet has less than 0.5% hit or click rate, and even then it is mostly accidental clicks due to the over-saturation of ads. It's not a real economy. It
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by materialpoint 2mo ago
That's just pedantic, because you know it is not the reality they choose. Most sites don't want to not track you. So they pretend they care about your privacy, and then proceed to collect and share data on you anyways.
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by materialpoint 2mo ago
Since you did not understand the point at all: There are regulations in place to force sites to "ask" for permissions to use cookies and track you. The point is that the regulations completely fail to force the sites to not blatan
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by materialpoint 2mo ago
This goes a long way to prove that Microsoft does NOT care about your privacy, even if the header of their cookie consent claims so. They absolutely do not care, and this should be said about every big-tech vendor, not matter how lame it se
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by materialpoint 3mo ago
Goes a long way to prove that industrial air conditioning is absolutely abysmal. If air conditioning actually worked satisfactorily, opening a window should never be necessary unless you want the cold waft of air, while the air conditioning
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by materialpoint 3mo ago
You seem to conflate different facts that have nothing to do with each other to arrive at a conclusion: There is nothing preventing Apple from not using said click masks while icons retain their distinct shapes. iOS is for mobile, its lesso
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by materialpoint 4mo ago
That's just asinine. You understood the point perfectly.
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by materialpoint 4mo ago
A company could get more profits from formally teaching employees the function of the Fn key on their laptops. It is staggering how most people, even among developers, don't know what it's for, and consequently, nearly everybody s
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by materialpoint 4mo ago
AI harbours evil, because unskilled people tend to trust it blindly. People have already been evicted, arrested and harassed by police simply because they choose to trust technology that flags or "recognizes" them, with no proof t
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by materialpoint 5mo ago
Did you compare AI companies to parents and engineers actually delivering value to toddlers? AI companies cannot, in any capacity, be regarded as caretakers.
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by materialpoint 5mo ago
"For the first decade of his career, he lived in an apartment and worried about paying for vacations. Then, in his early 30s (...)" ... here is America, without paid vacation guaranteed by law since the government does not truly c
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by materialpoint 6mo ago
If AI was truly profitable Microsoft wouldn't need to cover their expenses at every other corner.
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by materialpoint 6mo ago
This means that you can ignore any part of licenses you don't want to and just copy any software you want, non-free software included.
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by materialpoint 6mo ago
Well, there are many legitimate cases for using the equality operator. Insisting someone is doing something wrong is downright wrong and you shouldn't be teaching floating-point numbers. A few use cases are: Floating-points differing f
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by materialpoint 6mo ago
See, AI was used to accelerate arrest and jailing, but not to follow through. It was not used to ensure her well being. Clearly this demonstrates that AI contributes to treating humans inhumanely, and demonstrably AI is not used to improve
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by materialpoint 7mo ago
It doesn't matter if the icon is ever so slightly ambigious compared to other systems, the label text next to it removes any ambiguity and makes the message perfectly clear, as long as it is consistent within a product. To any newcomer
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by materialpoint 8mo ago
This should be compulsory for pitching architects and entrepreneurs. Prove that your design can withstand real weather and the washed out decay of time. Classical architecture withstands weathering and littering remarkably better. Architect
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by materialpoint 8mo ago
How is that different from today's SA, like CodeQL and SonarQube? Most of the feedback is just sh*t and drives programmers towards making senseless perfections that just double the amount of work had to be done later to toggle or tune
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by materialpoint 8mo ago
The "Microsoft gave" framing is the exact right wording!, because Microsoft should never have had these keys in the first place. This is a compromise on security that sidesteps back doors on the low level and essentially transform
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by materialpoint 8mo ago
It's still the foundational underpinning of everything Microsoft does. It's just that the other revenues dwarf it. What still shocks me is that the current developers and management on the Windows teams are so extremely bad at eve
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by materialpoint 8mo ago
Well, we sorely need something better than the current static code analysis tools, like sub-par products SonarQube and CodeQL that see massive overuse, because these tools do not understand that living and evolving code needs imperfections
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by materialpoint 8mo ago
So you missed the point too. The post depends on versioning being diffs only.
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by materialpoint 8mo ago
Who's gonna tell the author that Git doesn't do diffs, but snapshots? Deltas are just an implementation detail, and thinking of Git as diffing is specifically shunned in introductions to Git versioning.
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by materialpoint 8mo ago
Apple has had 30 years to make UI focus and input stable, and not let something invisible steal input focus. Fortunately for mac, this is much worse on Windows.
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by materialpoint 9mo ago
The problem with Windows after Windows 7 isn't really ads, it's the blatant stupid use of web view to do the most mundane things and hog hundreds of MB or even GBs for silly features, that are still present in enterprise versions.
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by materialpoint 9mo ago
The fact that they considered transmitting only keyframes speaks volumes about how inept they are. It can be a cool baseline test, but celebrating trendy choices, like Rust, and not understanding that keyframes and efficient differentials a
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by materialpoint 9mo ago
It is not out of memory, with 32GB it is just slow even on a fresh start. It all goes to say that Microsoft willingly chose to use UI kits with 100x overhead compared to real functionality and rendering. It needs to die, when FOSS can make
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by materialpoint 9mo ago
You are conflating awkward auto-generated backing fields with plain backing fields. A proper serializer handles these cases. Yes, serialization should and must depend on names, how else to put things back together? The onus is always on the
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by materialpoint 9mo ago
The removable nose is a power move from the engineers who built the thing. You cannot possibly believe that the animatronic contribution here is 100% contingent on a carrot?

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