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by gt0 8mo ago
Neither were mainframes though, Watson and Deep Blue were both POWER systems.
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by gt0 9mo ago
I tried ReactOS a little while ago, in some ways it's closer than it feels to being acceptable as a daily driver, in others it's quite far away. I like the idea of there being more alternatives Operating Systems that aren't j
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by gt0 9mo ago
It's free, it has support for loads of languages, and it's kind of fashionable. Personally I'm kind of lukewarm on VS Code, it's fine, but CLion, Visual Studio Proper, and RustRover are better for me. I see why people us
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by gt0 9mo ago
Small company, < 50 people, industrial automation. Machine not locked down at all, I could install OS/2 and nobody would care.
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by gt0 9mo ago
That's why it's a research OS, a lot of people (or at least some) think that the current range of mainstream OS are not very well designed, and we can do better. I'm not saying Plan 9 is the alternative, but it is kind of ama
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by gt0 9mo ago
Agree, this is absurd, I have plenty of websites I use that are productive or mindful or otherwise tick the boxes this company wants ticked, but the idea that I can't view them on my phone just immediately rules it out. No app store me
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by gt0 9mo ago
I thought this too. At the end of the day, it's CSS, this isn't a large project needing a ton of resources.
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by gt0 9mo ago
Would that be ideal though? Adding enormous complexity to solve a trivial problem which would work I'm sure 99.999% of the time, but not 100% of the time. Ideally, in my view, is that the browser asks you if you are sure regardless of
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by gt0 10mo ago
Swift is probably less than 1% of the what it takes to run iPhone apps, you can get Swift for Windows too, but it is nowhere near able to run iPhone apps. The problem is all the libraries an iPhone app expects to be available on the host OS
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by gt0 10mo ago
In loads of projects you can't just pick a language and it's fine. If I'm making a C#/WPF app, I can't just decide to make part of it C. I get it's just a generalised criticism of vibe coding, but "why not
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by gt0 10mo ago
I think it overstates the complexity and difficulty of Rust. It has some hard concepts, but the toolchain/compiler is so good that it practically guides you through using them.
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by gt0 11mo ago
I've been following this for a while, great looking hardware, but the target market knows how to buy a computer, they don't need custom boxes. For me this is a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. I like the look,
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by gt0 1y ago
Agree, I never used Windows 2000, but I used NT4 in the late nineties and it was rock solid, no less reliable than Windows 11, and of course, snappier on vastly lesser hardware, I think I used it on a Pentium III.
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by gt0 1y ago
Operating Systems are more stable compared to early nineties, but not 2010. I was using NT4 in the late nineties, and it was rock solid. I had a Sun Ultra 1 at home at the time, and that was rock solid too. Stability got good in the mid-lat
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by gt0 1y ago
For me it's not about the percentage, it's that it is a monopoly. If I make an iPad app, my only route to market is Apple. That is before I get into my personal objection to having to ask permission to put software on a computer I
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by gt0 1y ago
I switched to Bruno, it's pretty nice, no complaints.
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by gt0 1y ago
My bank in Australia has a great desktop website, but you have to do 2FA on your phone to access it. That means even though I prefer to use the desktop site, I still need to be able to run the app too.
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by gt0 1y ago
I used REBOL about 20 years for something like this, an interesting TCL-like language with a GUI built in, I found it quite charming to look at, but it was dated even 20 years ago. HyperCard was an interesting way to do this too. Perhaps wi
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by gt0 1y ago
Haiku is a reimplementation of BeOS, they are very, very similar, practically the same in many ways.
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by gt0 1y ago
For legacy stuff, almost by definition, your language is picked for you. If you've got a million lines of VB, then I guess you're using VB, but it could easily be any other language. For everything else, you either go with what yo
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by gt0 1y ago
Agree, the build systems around Java have become absurdly complicated, but as an overall offering Java and JVM remains pretty compelling for lots of work, particular on a large team, as you say, where Java can be the "least bad option&
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by gt0 1y ago
I'd like to see some clarity in these stats, it can't just be me that finds it hard to believe that there are significantly more Python jobs than Java. I wonder if job listings are saying "Python, C++" or something, so t
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by gt0 1y ago
I think developers overestimate how much everyday users care about local-first, or working offline. At home and in the office, we have the Internet, so it's only on the move in places where you phone doesn't work where this matter
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by gt0 1y ago
I always think the same when I see people complain about the price of weird new niche computers (think new Amiga-like computers and stuff) and then you realise it's cheaper than an iPhone. Something created by a cottage industry for a
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by gt0 1y ago
I'm glad an authoritative source has stated this. It's been ongoing BS for years. I first got into ARM machines with the Acorn Archimedes and even back then, people were spouting some kind of intrinsic efficiency benefit to ARM th
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by gt0 1y ago
It is weird. One funny thing I've noticed is that software developers (including myself) seem to rebel against it the most. A surprising number of software developers I know shoot film. No digital cameras, they just take photos, get th
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by gt0 1y ago
I'm assuming they mean the web.
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by gt0 1y ago
Mainframes are not POWER, they are z/Architecture. For AS/400 (IBM i), they're POWER, but come in pretty small models like IBM Power S1012, it's available as "deskside", i.e. a big tower.
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by gt0 1y ago
I find it strange how we talk about "visions" for companies like they are real things. Like when a company has a "mission" or a "vision", do people actually think that's real ? There is no vision other th
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by gt0 1y ago
Agree with the other answer, just no incentive for third party developers. With Apple it really is a transition , with Windows, it's well under 5% of PC sales, so probably under 1% of actual computers in use. Apple is 100% on board wi

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