oblio

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   by oblio 2mo ago

   I'm 99.99% sure your audience is tech people.
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   by oblio 2mo ago

   Turbo Pascal was the go to IDE for small commercial apps for quite a few years after its release.
3. 243.▲
   by oblio 2mo ago

   On what? OS/2 didn't fail due to lacking software optimization.
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   by oblio 2mo ago

   If China makes half decent RAM I would bet more on things like 128GM of RAM being the default on low spec laptops 10 years from now. While I do love optimized software, the hardware side, especially for PCs, has been stagnating for way too
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   by oblio 2mo ago

   It's a bad bet, historically. I'm having an extremely hard time thinking of companies that have prospered due to software optimization. Most of them were swept away by hardware advances, instead.
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   by oblio 2mo ago

   > not even Google can afford to devote enough compute to each query to reliably generate quality results https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-holds-google-liable-for-f...
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   by oblio 2mo ago

   > People created things out of passion, or boredom. We can returned to that scheme. Turns out, people want food and shelter more than entertainment. And psycho billionaires want money more than fun.
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   by oblio 2mo ago

   Incentives. Which is why platforms (such as search) should never be allowed to be in the same company with things built on top of them (such as ads), if the combined company is significant for an important market. We used to know better, St
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   by oblio 2mo ago

   Microsoft was early and late to lots of things. They dominated early smartphones, too.
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    Let's be real here. JavaScript didn't take off because it was functional in the functional programming sense. It took off because it was built in and procedural. You didn't need to muck around with objects if you were a total
11. 251.▲
    by oblio 2mo ago

    Gmail was the original AJAX woah! JavaScript application.
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    I'll be blunt about this: It's probably also the reason statistically no one will be employed to work on a Haskell code base. Same for Lisp, F#, OCaml, etc. They're the hot rods of the software development world where everyon
13. 253.▲
    by oblio 2mo ago

    Libraries and frameworks and package management absolutely matter. They're not some abstract thing, they could be the difference between something being done in 6 months or in 2 years. Why do you think people put up with Spring?
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    Because Jamie Zawinski was right and also wrong. Everything evolves into a browser, which, yes, can also read email.
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    The new Google Translate. They've made it slightly better at translating paragraphs of text but in many cases it's lost the basic function for translation: dictionary. Try it out, fairly sure that if you out in 100 random words fo
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    Demand for the internet was there but it still took 10+ years and a big economic crash to get there.
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    1. Cell phone usage was never free. 2. Cell phone usage was always localized. You had local telcoms and that was about it. Deutsche Telekom Germany didn't have to compete all the time with NTT Docomo Japan. And there are probably 20 ot
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    In the US. With how much they've invested in AI they need the entire planet to pay, and pay lots. What's the capex expenditure of Magnificent 7 just this year? Close to $1tn?
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    DMZ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_(computing)
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    Shut up, future paperclip :-D
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    Horizontal open source modules... And making the horizontal modules doesn't employ many people, both because of FOSS and also because you only need so many reusable modules. When we were making brick houses we needed a few brick factor
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    > Since software is still a winner-takes-all market, the mass-production property of software doesn't really matter. Fairly sure software dev was always an iceberg. Most software and most software devs aren't working on horizon
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    I'm not afraid of you, catman!
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    I have no idea what it's supposed to add to the conversation...
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    > Parent your kids. Ok... > There are countless services to block content you don't want. How easily will a motivated 10 year old work around them? > There are dedicated ISPs and cell phone providers that block content you don
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    LOL. Yes, let's do absolutely nothing, that always works well. This fine also sets a precedent that some will follow. When New Mexico does it, ok, avoidable. If NY, California, etc start doing it, at some point there is no place left t
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    And the "person" answering: 1. Will always answer (even if sometimes wrong) 2. In a reasonable time frame 3. Can be asked in almost any language and answers in the same language 4. Is always polite Most people were never willing t
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    For me it's well done but 90% of meat puritans will skewer me for that. Even after explaining my reasoning. They'll say either rare or at most medium-rare.
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    We already have the solution. Use AI to validate AI agent commands.
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    by oblio 2mo ago

    Has is been a net positive?