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by dgxyz 8mo ago
What are you moving to out of interest? I’ve seen people talking of moving ours to Electron which seems to just be more problems waiting.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Well a number of them have horrific bugs in them which have zero attention. At least win32 has an abstraction level which allows you to work around them. There’s a fun bug on WPF and form backgrounds for example which means on fractional DP
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
You can install the LTSC toolchain without a license. Just not the IDE.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
It’s not the environmental campaigning that’s the issue. I am very much aligned with that. In fact I’ve done a fair bit of that myself and you’ll occasionally find me at demonstrations. I think most people are well aligned with that. It’s
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
We still use win32! (granted we made our own MFC around it)
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Keeping CI entirely out of windows desktop development is the biggest efficiency and cost improvement I've seen in the last 15 years. Our CI toolchain broke so we moved back to a release manager doing it manually. It takes him 20x less
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Yes. Any user interface toolkit that isn't at least 10 years old should be ignored on windows unless you want to rewrite everything one day.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
This is harder than what I do. Just install LTSC Visual Studio build tools from [1], then chuck this in a cmd file: cl yourprogram.c /link user32.lib advapi32.lib ... etc etc ... I've built a load of utilities that do tha
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Oh completely. I think you missed my point. Divisive narratives are almost entirely always wrong. The truth generally sits way away from the fruitcakes somewhere in the middle. The problem these days is we give fruitcakes a stage. Or they b
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
This almost as bonkers as Thiel. Just the other way around. Truths are always somewhere in the middle.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Yeah got a nice desk and a trinitron out of it. Covid got me an Aeron :)
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
It certainly feels that way. I was there. Fortunately had just waltzed into the tech side of things and scurried off back to my professional career for a couple of years. I watched a lot of stuff burn. It was horrifying. We are nearly there
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Totally fair point.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Sounds like the first step of a galactic scale fuck up
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Sod it all. Just give me a decent email client again. Business instant messaging is electric shoulder tapping and that makes me want to punch people. I literally feel Slack drains me every day.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
I'm seeing a worrying pattern in this space. Some engineers I work with treat LLMs like unquestionable machine gods. I've rejected PRs which are quite frankly trash piles and have received responses which are clearly LLM generated
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Still someone else's control point.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Exactly. That's time to pull the plug on the technology companies enabling this situation.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Not sure how you managed to get it to do that. Mine doesn't!
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Android is more "here's a pocket panopticon we hope you won't unconfigure" Apple is more "here's this refined product which we designated as refined after a heavy session snooting cocaine off a toilet seat&quot
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Cloud services change. Politicians change. Once the data is in someone else's hands it is at risk. Imagine our current data corpus in the hands of the Stasi for example.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
I know this is not constructive, but fuck 'em and their convenience!
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Corners are great aren't they! :)
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
Yeah well aware of that stuff here. Two companies I worked at had entirely airgapped infrastructure because they knew the adversarial situation wasn't winnable. Everything was checked for implants at goods in. It's shocking some o
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
It's bad when stock Gnome is better. That's where I am now.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
We've got an analogue video phone on our apartment. Works flawlessly. No digital path other than the ring selection. Has a flat monochrome CRT which is kind of cool. I made it half a century without a doorbell in my phone. I don't
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
The tech industry is a bloody Spider-Man pointing orgy at this point.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
This is a temporary rollback while there’s a choice to speak against it. Cloud connected doorbells must die as well as dragnet surveillance.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
No it didn’t. Discord killed itself.
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by dgxyz 8mo ago
I would agree. The stuff that hasn’t been updated in the last 3-4 years seems to be pretty solid still. Almost nothing else is.

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