miffy900

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by miffy900 6d ago
Windows is built using BuildXL, a very different build system from MSbuild used in Visual Studio: https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/main/Documentation... > BuildXL has also been proven to scal
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by miffy900 7d ago
also another thing people forget is that merely 10 weeks after the first iphone launched, Apple cut the price by $200 in sept 2007. it then launched the 2nd gen iphone (iphone 3g) at an even lower price the next year due to carrier subsidie
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by miffy900 2mo ago
So in other words you have no response to any of the arguments in the link? just some silly ad-hominem attack on the author. right.
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by miffy900 2mo ago
it's still an opt-in setting though. Windows and OS-components like drivers and Edge do get auto updated yes, but to enable Microsoft Update, you still need to turn on a setting in the Settings app. even setting up a new PC/lapto
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by miffy900 2mo ago
highly unlikely for many of them. SharePoint, bitlocker, Active directory, hyper-v, rdp, DHCP and MSMQ are all software/technologies that have decades of history and long pre-dated LLMs. seriously, do people not realise it was entirely
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by miffy900 2mo ago
Maybe try reading the writeup? GDID's are 64 bit for one thing, not 128 like GUIDs.
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by miffy900 5mo ago
Yep. there's absolutely no way that Cursor is worth that much. for contrast, Elon paid $44b for twitter back in 2022. When you adjust for inflation, Twitter was acquired for $49b in 2026 money. Cursor getting bought for 1.22x more is j
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by miffy900 7mo ago
well for backend development, yes - I technically never stopped as I had existing projects to maintain. But after trying out Swift a couple times, I've dropped it entirely for backend. For new backend work it's C#/.NET all th
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by miffy900 7mo ago
As someone who first began using Swift in 2021, after almost 10 years in C#/.NET land, I was already a bit grumpy at how complex C# was, (C# was 21 years at that point), but then coming to Swift, I couldn't believe how complex Swi
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by miffy900 7mo ago
To be fair, work on Swift began in 2010, which would technically predate Tim Cook's accession to the position of CEO by a year or so.
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by miffy900 7mo ago
I recall the source code for Windows XP was leaked some years ago; not just isolated parts of the code base, like with the earlier Windows NT4/2000 source code leak, but a completely buildable repository. If I write an article on train
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by miffy900 7mo ago
> though the "about notepad" dialog shows the windows 11 version for some reason?? For many built in windows apps, the 'about this program' menu item just invokes a separate program, 'winver'. If you go Star
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by miffy900 7mo ago
Are you even responding to the right comment? I read your comment and the parent comment you've responded to and this response doesn't make sense - it reads like a non-sequitur.
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by miffy900 8mo ago
>Canada dumps good milk down the drain while people go hungry and suffer high food prices I'm not sure if you realise this, but the exact same thing happens in the US.
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by miffy900 10mo ago
> The firm gradually grew more contentious, demanding that the RTX 5060 be handed in because the event it was acquired at was part of a business trip, entirely paid for by the company. The employee would never have won the GPU had the fi
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by miffy900 10mo ago
What name calling? Calling the author 'an unserious person' isn't name calling. Might be worth reading the article: > "If you like Windows 8’s look, you are a bad person. You are the one Steve Jobs was talking about w
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by miffy900 10mo ago
That was exactly the same behaviour in Windows 7 though; it wasn't exactly novel. At least Windows 7 searched your apps, and documents all at once. Windows 8 limited you to just apps. Windows 8 was a huge step down in usability.
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by miffy900 10mo ago
They can afford to make a big song and dance about this because chances are they are not selling the hardware at a loss and they have the regular steam store to offset the short term costs. If they were selling the hardware at a loss, I thi
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by miffy900 10mo ago
I feel like there could be a loophole here for the new-framework-author. Stick to using JSX for the view; JSX is just syntax sugar for built in react functions for constructing a tree, which can be easily swappable with your own implementat
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by miffy900 11mo ago
for the longest time, no one in linux land cared about API stability or backward compatibility - then app/game developers realised if they could port a portion of Win32 to Linux via WINE, they could just target the win32 API or at leas
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by miffy900 11mo ago
To be fair, Microsoft has always had a culture of strong backwards compatibility, even between major OS versions - this is something they cultivate internally AND also tell their customers/users about. Apple has had no such culture int
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by miffy900 11mo ago
Just wanted to mention that some basic Windows-OS keyboard shortcuts don't work, like ALT+F to open the File menu. Also things like ALT+SPACEBAR to bring up the system context menu for the focussed window (the menu with maximise, minim
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by miffy900 11mo ago
I think this idealism reveals a naive viewpoint about what users really care about. They care that apps work - that they do what they're supposed to and do it fast or efficiently. Not even Microsoft makes apps for their own platform th
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by miffy900 1y ago
> Charlie Kirk is hardly responsible for the 2nd amendment so trying to blame him for public shootings seems grossly unfair. So anyone who believes in the 2nd amendment deserves to be gunned down in public? Where does this end? Please re
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by miffy900 1y ago
This is still some code, as opposed to no code. It does seem to model everything in the research paper. Aside from the original research paper needing to be included in the repo, it definitely does not need anything more than what's al
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by miffy900 1y ago
Anyone here arguing that we should just let Intel fail in the market needs to understand that Intel is struggling right now partly because Asian nations like South Korea and Taiwan have for years subsidized their own chip making companies b
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by miffy900 1y ago
So, the one bad thing that sticks out about what Trump is doing now, is that he's adding more conditions to the money that has already been legally disbursed by Congress. Under the CHIPS act, Intel is already eligible to receive the mo
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by miffy900 1y ago
> I’m saying that in actuality, you won’t be able to see any damage if somebody drank a beer once, because there isn’t any. Which, again, is not a claim that was ever made in the article. You are literally making things up and arguing ag
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by miffy900 1y ago
Nope. On closer inspection, it's a tablet resting on a stand; it's not mounted with a VESA clamp or arm like most monitors would be. You can see the USB charging cable is plugged into the side of the tablet as well. When you compa
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by miffy900 1y ago
Actually it wasn't too long ago, in the early-2010's, that Microsoft was promoting SharePoint for internet sites; I think at one point some Europoean car manufacturer (BMW? Ferrari?) had their global marketing site on SharePoint.

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