daemin

9 ms·

121.
by daemin 6mo ago
I asked recently on social media if anyone knows if there has been a legal decision regarding if GPL source code that was used for training an LLM will taint all that LLMs output with the same GPL licence. So far nothing has come up but I t
122.
by daemin 7mo ago
A lot of people don't need general purpose computing devices either, but some people, myself included, do want them. I want to be able to install applications from any source of my choosing, including developing my own software.
123.
by daemin 7mo ago
If you phrase it as "sideloading" then probably not, since it doesn't sound like something they might want to do, it also sounds difficult and technical. If you phrase it as installing your own software then it might garner s
124.
by daemin 7mo ago
What would happen to a normal person's phone when Google decided to revoke their Google account? Will the phone still function? Or is it "just" a matter of creating another Google account?
125.
by daemin 7mo ago
There are processors and platforms where including the standard library feature to print text to standard output significantly increases the size of the binary. In such cases just enabling exceptions also enables this feature only for the p
126.
by daemin 7mo ago
I just thought I'd mention that Khalil Estell is doing some work regarding exceptions in embedded and bare metal programming. In the first of his talks about this topic ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2FlayomlE ) he
127.
by daemin 7mo ago
One main thing that this brings to mind is if an LLM can ever actually create a clean room implementation of a piece of open source software, given that there is a near certainty that the software was used in its training data. Therefore it
128.
by daemin 9mo ago
There was a video by MKBHD where he said that every new phone manufacturer starts off being the hero and doing something different and consumer/user friendly before with growth and competition they evolve into just another mass market
129.
by daemin 9mo ago
That actually depends what kind of application you are building and maintaining. From the sounds of it I assume you're talking about developing and maintaing a SaaS application, where there is no real maintanence of it, and instead wha
130.
by daemin 9mo ago
It still depends on management to determine the culture and what requirements and limitations are most important. I mean take a look at what happened to Boeing, there were people that cared about quality down in the trenches but they were o
131.
by daemin 9mo ago
It is absolutely true that software can be finished, it's just that software appears to be dead if it hasn't had any work done on it for years. You don't need to keep adding features and changing the software ad infinitum. Ju
132.
by daemin 9mo ago
It's because these things aren't priorities for management so they aren't for the engineers, the latest fads like AI are priorities and therefore they get integrated everywhere.
133.
by daemin 9mo ago
Visual Studio Professional did cost about $500 back in the day, although you ended up getting a perpetual licence for the software and some updates. These days they expect you to have a subscription as with all other business software.
134.
by daemin 9mo ago
The question is then do good C++ developers want to go work at Microsoft? With its mandatory use of AI and desire to rewrite everything in Rust?
135.
by daemin 9mo ago
The previous version would have been written in C rather than C++ since as someone else has said it's a very basic Windows application, more of a wrapper around the edit control than anything more complicated. These days it would have
136.
by daemin 9mo ago
You forgot the .Net renaming in the early 2000's.
137.
by daemin 10mo ago
My biggest design peeve of the examples posted is the inconsistent indentation of each section of the menu. Where if any single item in the section has an icon it gets indented, but if none do it doesn't, and seeing them next to each o
138.
by daemin 11mo ago
Intel specifically exited the general-purpose ARM market back about 20 years ago when it sold its XScale division to Marvell. I believe it kept making the ARM chips for use in network controllers and other specific purpose chips.
139.
by daemin 11mo ago
I can still run my old executables that I compiled back in 2002 and 2003 on my current Windows computers. I don't think I could do that with anything that was compiled for Linux or MacOS back then. I wouldn't want to do that with
140.
by daemin 11mo ago
Cue the old adage that if you're not paying for something you're the product not the customer... Though in this case the biggest danger is being the training material creator used to train its models for its paid generative AI off
141.
by daemin 11mo ago
There is a big difference between buying a perpetual licence with extra yearly support packages versus leasing the software with on a subscription model. While the two options may appear to be the same thing, the first one doesn't remo
142.
by daemin 11mo ago
You can remain in control and continue to make good quality software, but that means staying small, very small, like a handful of people small. There are numerous software providers like that still making niche software.
143.
by daemin 11mo ago
They offer it for free to gain more people with a Canva account, where they can sell their other products and services, not just limited to the AI integrations for Affinity Suite.
144.
by daemin 1y ago
The main benefit that I see it of having the source code to the software running on the devices you own is that you can always fix or modify it if and when you want to. Lots of things can happen such as the law changing, the company going o
145.
by daemin 1y ago
These days banking is one of the things for which a phone is required for. It is used as the primary banking device for most people, and for the rest it is required for two factor authentication when logging in on a PC or to verify online t
146.
by daemin 1y ago
It's because phones are not single devices these days they're a (restricted) general purpose computer, that fits into your pocket, and does not use physical input devices. The software is geared towards it being this way rather th
147.
by daemin 1y ago
Or you know, just use a local account for logging into your local machines which are physically present in your home. No need to require an active Internet connection, no danger of your online account being unavailable and thus preventing a
148.
by daemin 1y ago
The biggest issue I have with Windows insisting that I use a Microsoft Account to log in is that I have a long and complex password set up for the account which is stored in a password manager. I don't want to dumb down that password,
149.
by daemin 1y ago
I would wager that most users that left telemetry on are fine with whatever changes Microsoft makes to the operating system and user interface, and that most people that turned telemetry off are the ones which want and need a good start men
150.
by daemin 1y ago
I was just thinking that if something like this ever does get through and become law, then creating open-source alternatives which do not obey these laws would be quite trivial. What would not be trivial would be deciding where to host the

More ›