aleph_minus_one

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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Bear in mind, this is software that basically just displays text Displaying text is surprisingly hard, as one can easily find out if ones dives into the big rabbit hole of font rendering.
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Or when IBM renamed everything Websphere. You mean "Web's fear"? ;-)
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
.NET Core does not exist anymore: it was renamed to .NET with .NET 5.0 (skipping version 4.0): > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=.NET&oldid=134276...
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
Microsoft should add a new game to Windows to accustom Windows users to Copilot.
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Microsoft .NET Copilot Not to be confused with "Microsoft Copilot .NET". :-)
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> That is basically redefining the word defense, though. I guess that dogemaster2026 wanted to express this in a little bit more indirect way. :-)
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
Rather: the "victorious" countries of the Second World war were afraid of a re-militarization of Germany. On the other hand, they wanted to re-militarize the Western part of Germany just a little bit so that West Germany could bec
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> For decades they have alienated their own native population, especially men. And now they want to conscript them as their approval ratings are around 15℅. In particular concerning the military conscription (laws), there exists a cross-
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
I didn't write anything about pricing. I just claim that people would love an offering without the discussed restriction, and because there is clear evidence of such a demand, it would make sense for Anthropic to prepare such an offeri
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Why "should" they? Because it is clear that there is a market demand for it.
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> the original "clean, overengineered" NT design has been buried under a progressively bigger truckload of crap year upon year and is no longer as clean as it once was. The original UNIX model has (considering the current state
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> File descriptor, handle. Potayto, potahto. Under Windows, a lot more concepts are handles than just files, directories, symbolic links, pipes, mail slots, ..., e.g. - processes, threads - synchronization objects (mutex, semaphore) - ev
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Is there value in having a "working ReactOS" as of 2026 _for workstations_? The ideas behind the NT kernels are much deeper than what many Linux fans think of it. Just to give some examples: - the NT kernel is build around su
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
Now that you mention it: in addition to your mentioned Active Directory and ActiveX: - (Microsoft) Active Accessibility (MSAA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Active_Accessibility - Active Channel: https:&#x2
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
In the past, Microsoft named everything ".NET" [1] or "Windows Live" [2]. And before naming everything "Copilot", Microsoft named everything "Microsoft 365" [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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Claude Code has two cache bugs that can silently 10-20x your API costs(old.reddit.com)
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Maybe resources shouldn't be distributed purely using a free market that can easily be manipulated Which kind of resource allocation do you suggest? At least one can clearly tell that existing experiments with planned economies we
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Oh yeah, the phone OS! Remember what the flip phones used to be like? Mobile phones were always tracking bugs, but smartphones/Android made the surveillance much worse. > Global Street View coverage! At least in Germany still
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> software couldn't be called intelligent - they just follow rules! Software from this time wasn't intended to be highly non-deterministic as LLMs - and this was seen as a feature.
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> > The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads > What a waste. If you consider "what people (un-coercedly) spend money on" as "what people actually want", the situation gets
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> The only possible relief I can envision is that computers become so proficient at driving our cars that there are essentially no accidents. Then we may be allowed to sit unbuckled holding our children! Laws are about control[ling citi
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> There's not much to be gained by writing everything in assembly which means it doesn't interest people as much as in the 90s. There is a lot to be gained from writing your code in a way that makes use of SIMD instructions. Al
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> C-evo development shifted to forks, New Horizons and Distant Horizon. What was the reason for this?
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> The demo scene died when the constraints were gone The problem was in my opinion not that the constraints were gone, but the fact that the PC did not provide a very stable platform anymore on which you could do some crazy low-level opt
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
... and not the solver for mixed integer (linear) programming (MI(L)P) and mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP): > https://www.scipopt.org/
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Apple's mobile chips are now delivering perf that AMD & intel desktop never could or did. Most applications don't make aggressive use of the SIMD instructions that modern x86 chips offer, thus you get this impression. :-(
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Is that by convention or is there a good reason that it’s so CPU bound? A lot of commercial CAD software exists for a very long time, and it is important for industrial customers that the backward compatibility is very well kept. So,
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> If only. At work I've got a new computer, replacing a lower-end 5-yo model. The new one has four times the cores, twice the RAM, a non-circus-grade ssd, a high-powered cpu as opposed to the "u" series chip the old one ha
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> The $200 per month subscription comes with a ton of usage. 200 USD/month is a number only really affluent programmers (e.g. in the Silicon Valley) can perhaps pay easily.
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by aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> 2000 was the first windows one could use the word 'stable' with Windows NT4 was also very stable (once you installed the Service Packs), but had a lot less convenience and modern features than Windows 2000.

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