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by msla 4mo ago
> amazing how you understood nothing from any of my words, how about using the clanker to vibe your understanding too? "Coding is a pseudoscience" makes sense like "plumbing is a pseudoscience" makes sense: Fluid dyna
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by msla 4mo ago
> coding is still a pseudoscience. Amazing how you said that like it made any sense at all.
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by msla 4mo ago
Eh, programmers used to be people who'd desk-check their flow charts before hand-translating them into machine code to enter into a front panel. There's been decades of growth in abstraction since then, and LLMs are just one more
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by msla 4mo ago
> IMO, if c++/cfront didn't ride on the tails of c, I'm skeptical it would've seen widespread use Obviously. C++ was a "better C" in that you could keep a lot of your "legacy" C code while improvin
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by msla 4mo ago
> "The best kind of science is magic, and the best kind of magic is science." Who has ever used that phrase?
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by msla 4mo ago
No evidence of that, of course, but your comment stands.
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by msla 4mo ago
Original title: Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products The change in the title of the post makes what happened much less clear. Interesting how that just chanced to happen. Pure coincidence, I'm sure.
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by msla 4mo ago
Interesting how this has generated such negative response. I wonder why Microsoft has so many defenders here. Also, the change in the title of the post makes what happened much less clear. Interesting how that just chanced to happen as well
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by msla 4mo ago
Every time someone imagines a country going after Microsoft in a serious way these days, I wonder how much that country's government depends on Microsoft software and cloud infrastructure, and if that country imagines Microsoft would c
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by msla 4mo ago
> I'm not sure what you mean by separating review from criticism. Can you expand on that? Let's start with applying both to "Eraserhead": A critical approach might have a thesis on how it links with Lynch's inter
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by msla 4mo ago
The problem with "criticism" from the perspective of the average person is that "Is this film worth my time and money" isn't really a question criticism answers. The linked article touches on this when it bemoans &q
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by msla 5mo ago
> WHY javascript code is even allowed to see all these actions of the user? Because the alternative is UI/UX Designers and Visionary Managers insisting on keeping Flash and Java Applets and Microsoft Visual Silverlight .Net++ around
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by msla 5mo ago
More formats here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8581
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by msla 5mo ago
If we outlaw plagiarism, we've just killed culture. Everything is "stolen" from other art. Every piece of creation takes inspiration (read: steals ideas) from things that came before. This is how creation works, it is how cre
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by msla 5mo ago
OK, is there a horrible speed penalty for writing your SIMD in pure assembly functions and then calling those functions? If you're writing assembly anyway, just drop the "inline" part.
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by msla 5mo ago
Being against nuclear only kept the world on coal longer.
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by msla 5mo ago
It's close to true about personal computers. The poorest can't afford Apple computers, but you don't need to be that rich to buy Apple hardware and what's up from that in terms of mainstream status? Nothing, as far as
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by msla 5mo ago
> It cost about $600 USD to release, mostly due to two initial security reviews. Can someone expand on this? I've given software away free and it didn't cost me anything.
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by msla 5mo ago
If you've noticed, Disney has stopped doing that. New stuff is entering the Public Domain. Like "Steamboat Willie", which I believe was mentioned here recently.
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by msla 5mo ago
> People say it's not true because people confuse copyright and trademark. It isn't true for copyright at all, but it is true for trademark. People believe so many dumb things about copyright, trademark, patents, and trade secr
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by msla 5mo ago
There's precedent: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2140747-laws-of-mathema... > “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia,” said Turn
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by msla 5mo ago
If you think that's terrifying, imagine all of the essential code written in COBOL and FORTRAN. Skippy the Intern, now retired these thirty years...
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by msla 5mo ago
Like how GNU Emacs is completely saturated with AI now? (That's sarcasm, in case anyone wants to pretend I'm being serious.)
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by msla 5mo ago
For the same reason we, in 2026, are still talking about Java.
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by msla 5mo ago
Then it's my responsibility to feed them fake data. They didn't opt out of my data, after all.
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by msla 5mo ago
Hey, it's a list of services to feed fake data to!
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by msla 5mo ago
This isn't 1998 anymore.
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by msla 5mo ago
The other part of this problem is the idea that if you disagree with someone about the facts you're interpreted as disagreeing with them about the thing they're mad about: You disagree that AI somehow destroys fifty billion-trilli
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by msla 5mo ago
This is generational. Of course, the generation of Westerners who played a lot of four-hand Mahjong is dead now, but still... https://bamgoodtime.com/blog/history-of-american-mahjong > What followed was one of the b
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by msla 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Manifest_V3_2 > However, DeclarativeWebRequest is limited in the number of rules that may be set, and the types of expressions that may be used.[336] Additionally, the pro

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