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by Krssst 10mo ago
Unreliable code is incorrect thus undesirable. We limit the risk through review and understanding what we're doing which is not possible when delegating the code generation and review. Checking output can be done by testing but test co
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by Krssst 10mo ago
> Remember that high level programming languages are "merely" a sop for us humans to avoid low level languages. High-level languages are deterministic and reliable, making it possible for developers to be confident that their h
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Their website makes their definition of portable very clear in "What makes a portable app special?". It's quite clear they mean more a (much) stricter variation of the "no installation" definition than the "eas
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by Krssst 11mo ago
This was ~2 years ago, but it didn't work on my side. Closing the lid would put the laptop to sleep then quickly wake it up, fan spinning at full speed even if unplugged. I think I used their diagnosing tool and one cause was some non-
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Uncontrolled fire in a plane is almost certain death if you don't land within minutes. You cannot land once the fire takes out the cables necessary for flight controls. Airplanes can still operate until landing after various mistreatme
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by Krssst 11mo ago
At the time I got the feeling that the presenter got the genuine impression that players would at least not be completely disappointed by the announcement. Here it's hard to understand Microsoft's surprise when almost everything W
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by Krssst 11mo ago
> Servers I understand because they're exposed to the Internet at all times. Not PCs And, for reference, updates are not forcefully installed on Windows Server. Well, forcefully restarting a server without asking its owner does soun
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Masks were necessary to save lives at a stage where risks were unknown and pressure on health systems was high. Missing Windows updates does not kill anyone. Plus, installing Windows updates may cause high frustration because "feature&
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by Krssst 11mo ago
For reference: you can get the regular notepad back by just uninstalling Notepad from the control panel (the new one, with big buttons and less features). Since it's possible using the regular UI without particular shenanigans, I assum
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Thank you. Actually the registry entry on 24H2 behaves somewhat similarly: alt-tab still switches windows (of all apps) but the UI is just gone (which is a problem for me because knowing how much time I need to press tab in advance leads to
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Thank you, I was not aware of either of those. SimpleWindowSwitcher looks like a good alternative, unfortunately on my side I think I would prefer switching between all windows of all apps rather than have two different shortcuts for "
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Disabling animations makes everything better no matter the OS. When executing a sequence of actions, not having to wait 100-300ms for the device to show some random animation before inputing the next action is a time saver and a removes the
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by Krssst 11mo ago
They mostly exist with IoT LTSC being the first one. (well, to some extent, it still has the "two control panels, two context menus, non-deterministic start menu search, hiding scrollbars by default" issues). But they only sell th
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by Krssst 11mo ago
> The Mozilla team seems to have struck a perfect balance with that so far, even going so far as to add "turn this off permanently" options directly in every AI-related shortcut and menu. It's weird that so few people poin
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by Krssst 11mo ago
I think the option to disable the context menu item is right in said context menu. Best place to put the option honestly, I wish all AI features had a disable button right next to them.
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by Krssst 11mo ago
With Firefox generally, no means no. You can disable something and it won't pester you about it. So I don't think this counts as throat-shoving. While Chrome periodically asks the user to be set as default browser with no option t
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by Krssst 11mo ago
This means not running infra for half the day (and when the weather goes bad), halving the return on investment of anything relying only on solar. That's definitely a choice but not sure if people are ready for this. Of course storage
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Shitty food has been around for a long time. Some virus known for causing long-term effects in non-negligible parts of the population has been around since 2019. > The increase in disability prevalence from 2016 to 2022 is likely attribu
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by Krssst 11mo ago
This is not sufficient for me, I keep getting surprise AI dubs for videos in languages I declared I understand (same for video titles). Fortunately there's a Firefox extension that solved the issue for me but I keep encountering the pr
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Where can one buy a key? I got denied when I tried buying one because I was not a company.
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Interesting, I wonder why DEP would degrade process creation performance. My understanding is it's just a flag in page table entries to forbid execution, I am not sure how this could impact performance so much (except that data and cod
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by Krssst 11mo ago
I don't think Windows Server has ads by default in the menu (don't remember for the weather though), the default are pretty sensible there since it's a minority OS that has to compete while desktop Windows is a monopoly free
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by Krssst 11mo ago
The end result will still be that we'll have less forests to eat some portion of atmospheric CO2 and more CO2 because we burnt wood. What's important is what puts us in a good direction to fight climate change, and burning forests
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by Krssst 11mo ago
Plus there are many contexts where you don't want to use your voice (public transport, night time with other people sleeping, noisy areas where a mic won't pick up your voice...). And there are people that unfortunately cannot spe
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by Krssst 1y ago
10 was the beginning of forced updates, forced telemetry and disregard for user consent. 10 is the boundary. For me it's the beginning of when consent started being ignored by default everywhere. Microsoft sets the example, and the exa
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by Krssst 1y ago
> Work with spreadsheets more complicated than two cells. I work with spreadsheets made of more than two cells with LibreOffice. The lack of dark patterns to trick me into cloud saving, ribbon with random buttons everywhere and animation
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by Krssst 1y ago
Post-consent computing. Welcome to the 2020s.
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by Krssst 1y ago
Which one turned out to be true?
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by Krssst 1y ago
I often din't realize when I accidentally flag something with my big fingers; when I go to my flagged page later I am often surprised to see a few pages I have no memory of and no reason at all for flagging.
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by Krssst 1y ago
Even with YT Premium, sponsor announcements are still an annoyance. Firefox with SponsorBlock helps with that, not sure if that's usable on iPad.

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