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by eek2121 1y ago
IMO intent is everything. Selling at a loss isn’t bad. Selling at a loss to build marketshare or kill competition usually is. The issue is that previous companies usually use this aspect to build marketshare, so there is no other way to com
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by eek2121 1y ago
Win16/Win32 is going the way of the dinosaur. Many of those devs have retired or moved on. I am personally a huge fan of win32. I was even a ReactOS contributor at one point because of this. That being said, it wasn’t scalable without
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by eek2121 1y ago
Thankfully, it is open source! Dig in! :D You guys really should gift some kudos to Microsoft. As crappy as they can be, they often open source stuff. Also, TIL that this apparently been open sourced for years.
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by eek2121 1y ago
Unsure if what you posted is true because I don’t know about water based systems, however this has been proven false for heat pumps. Specifically, setting a fixed temp vs turning things up/down/off when you are leaving and reversi
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by eek2121 1y ago
“Your viewport concerns me. Hey! You're seeing this message because of your screen- specifically, the width of it. I'm hyped you're here, but this game wasn't designed for small screens, and you will not enjoy attempting
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by eek2121 2y ago
Terrible idea. Why is it that all the big browser makers are doing stupid stuff? I don’t want to specify styles for all my content. For some content, I want to use browser defaults. Sure, now it is just H1, but just wait…
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by eek2121 2y ago
Win32 says hi. I know a lot of folks here don't like Microsoft, but it is the one API that refuses to die.
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by eek2121 2y ago
Disagree. many old features have been dropped. The blink tag, for example.
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by eek2121 2y ago
Agreed, however, I took the headline to mean software devs are willing to drop money to a friend/colleague, and only after the fact. Probably just me though.
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by eek2121 2y ago
NGL I like it. Definitely illustrates the bubble we are in. AI has it’s uses, and vibe coding isn’t one of them (except maybe basic prototypes ) and based on the nightmares I’ve seen, not even that. The majority of a developer’s job isn’t
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by eek2121 2y ago
That letter was written decades ago lol. I am a bit upset that you didn’t say that and made some of us look it up. Gates has many faults, but his current life consists of mostly positive stuff (such as fighting climate change, global hunger
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by eek2121 2y ago
I would love to work for a company like that. It seems like my experience with companies that have “people” vs folks with engineering experience is worse overall. My favorite jobs had all engineering talent, and management was smart enough
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by eek2121 2y ago
I was in this space (out of work now) for 20 years and at the end things just got bonkers. The best companies I have worked for don’t even have a hands on coding project. At worst they have a SIMPLE take home project to test critical thinki
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by eek2121 2y ago
They needed a study for this? My lovely wife hasn’t stopped talking since the day we met, and we’ve been together 20 years! =D
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by eek2121 2y ago
Your argument assumes there is meaningful competition to begin with. In the case of groceries, a few big companies ultimately control nearly all of it. They know you “need” groceries, so they will happily pass along the increased cost. What
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by eek2121 2y ago
From the perspective of an end user, I subscribe to hey, have done so since public launch, and I am quite happy with it.
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by eek2121 2y ago
lol no, I have worked with companies that do that. Many developers have very specific personality types, and they also think in technical terms rather than customer terms. It isn’t a bad thing, it is why they are good at what they do. The m
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by eek2121 2y ago
You only got that half right, fyi. Companies will choose to settle if they think there is a good possibility to lose if it goes to trial. If they suspect they will win, they will absolutely pursue, because they can counter-sue in many areas
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by eek2121 2y ago
Disclaimer, I know nothing of the internals of Microsoft RDP, but it does not appear to use an image representation like VLC, etc. do. My suspicion is that Windows APIs are intercepted and used to build the desktop experience. Don't ge
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by eek2121 2y ago
Agreed.
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by eek2121 2y ago
You honestly should have searched to see if they had a trademark. Unlike copyright, trademarks have to exist. I suspect you were probably played. They appeared nice, sure, but they don't appear nice to me. If it were me, I'd h
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by eek2121 2y ago
Thanks! I actually did not like that OP did not include the full story, but rather a small part of it. I love reading stuff like this.
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by eek2121 2y ago
Disagree. Most of my web browsing is done on mobile (iPhone). iOS has many different ad blockers, including system wide ones that are VPN based. I use a good one that even blocks Youtube ads.
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by eek2121 2y ago
Apollo was disabled by the developer. It now shows a thank you screen and stuff. There is no way you could be using it.
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by eek2121 2y ago
There are still 3rd party apps. One for iOS is called Hydra, which looks and works similarly to Apollo.
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by eek2121 2y ago
Uh, if we do finally invent AGI (I am quite skeptical, LLMs feel like the chatbots of old. Invented to solve an issue, never really solving that issue, just the symptoms, and also the issues were never really understood to begin with), it w
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by eek2121 2y ago
This whole conversation is depressing me. when I left work a couple years ago due to health reasons, AI was just beginning to become a problem. Now, thanks to a clinical study, I may possibly be able to return to work, and it sounds like th
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by eek2121 2y ago
They used to give away premium apps like Epic does on PC, so even I have used them.
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by eek2121 2y ago
Their tool got it mostly right for me.
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by eek2121 2y ago
Win or stalemate? because a stalemate is the likely scenario against a somewhat competent opponent IMO.

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