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> Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon Ribbon also has a similar research behind it, just like Windows 95. For what they designed it, allowing beginners to discover all the functionality that's available, it works perfectly. I think most of
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Here is Bleachbit, a GTK3-based disk cleanup utility. It is a blurry mess and GTK3 Window headers are completely out of style and behavior with Windows. https://imgur.com/a/ruTGUaF#ntnfeCJ https://imgur.com&
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Flatpak is basically running an isolated separate distro. A software inside a Flatpak has to communicate with the outside world to do anything useful which is yet another API surface that needs to be maintained and it will be dropped just l
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The average developers suck. The distribution is also unbalanced. It is bulkier on the low-skill side. Great UIs are written by above average or even exceptional developers. Such experience is tied to the real-life reasoning and combining u
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Cross platform GUI libraries suck. Ever used a GTK app under Windows? It looks terrible, renders terrible, doesn't support HiDPI. Qt Widgets still have weird bugs when you connect or disconnect displays it rerenders UIs twice the size.
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Or -hear me out- we can put these long I beams on the ground and put some cables above. Then tie 50 trucks to each other and they can get whatever kind of electricity from anything you can make electricity out of.
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I think those two things are orthogonal. I'm not against somebody bundling up nice Rust libraries and providing a pre-install package or providing nice GUIs around (like Borland used to do and Qt still kind of does). Or an OS providing
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It is not the economies of scale but entry cost increase per each new player entering the same market. The real world markets are guarded, price fixing oligopolies. The most important thing a startup is expected to do is not to get profitab
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Non-system programmers like to trivialize choices of system programmers yet again. .NET is a GC platform running on a virtual machine. Bytecode compatibility and absolute performance are not that big of a deal on such platforms. You cannot
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and facilities went to China's Inspur.
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... and then figuring out where the hardware company cheapened out and created a whole unfixable mess (extra fun when you first ship your first 10k batch and things start failing after the vendor made a "simple revision"). Then fi
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Formal instructions paired by tables are almost as rigid as code. Btw normal engineering disciplines have a lot of strict math and formulas. Neither electrical nor mechanical engineering runs on purely instructions.
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The most is owned by Big Telcos, previous national monopolies. Deutsche Telekom from Germany, NTT from Japan, AT&T and Level3 and Lucent from US, Vodafone from UK, some private lines for Big Tech. There are lots of privately owned compa
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> We can build such a society. I am not sure why you think this is never possible. Where does such informed political and economic interest and power exist? With whom do we construct such society? Do they have the power and will to fight
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However, the US government has / can have control over Micron's production. They are headquartered in the US. They have the intellectual property and know-how to erect a vertically integrated supply chain. Europe doesn't have
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My worry there isn't (just) Europeans who directly work for American companies but Europeans who work in the _markets_ that US companies created. For example almost all digital marketing agencies are almost pure resellers of big tech p
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Guess who bought Qimonda's patents?
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American companies are driving global economy insane. Currently the American political administration sides with the AI companies since it gives the inspiration that the economy is doing well. If things start to go side ways, the US governm
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This doesn't solve the issue that globalism caused. Europe doesn't make DRAM nor has the know-how to quickly bring factories online which usually take 10+ years. We are tied to American economy and if AI companies start driving pr
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I am not old but started programming early. It also triggered "Perl??" and "PHP??".
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Google needs to put hard evidence that they are doing it. Sorry but just saying something isn't enough proof. Talk is cheap show us the code.
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You are overinflating how useful AI is. Moreover most FOSS people actually don't want any AI written code unless the human driving it has done equivalent amount of work understanding and designing it from scratch.
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That's where democratic governments at a disadvantage. Europe is also more integrated into US market. For example, killing access to Google ads ecosystem will make 100s of thousands or even millions of people unemployed. Apple and Goog
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Is this actually surprising? Once you use stuff like vectorization you want to get as much performance out of a system. If you're not natively compiling for a system, you won't get any performance. Using AVX2 and using an emulator
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And also majority of European businesses and governments and schools. Europe is well integrated into US. Quite a few STOXX 600 have US wings or acquired US companies. Basically a substantial (non-software) enginerring or financial work is d
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I would love git-bug project[1] to be successful in achieving that. That way Git forges are just nice Web porcelain on top of very easy to migrate data. [1] https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
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Which of the current players is closer to being a fascist dictatorship: US, China or EU? Fascism loves unregulated, consolidated conglomerates.
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You need to update stuff somehow. `pacman` is a beautifully simple package manager. It covers the complexity just enough without going overboard.
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I do appreciate it as a daily user of MSYS2. However the bigger thing that enabled them is indeed Cygwin project since it unlocked the path to build things that are using strict Unix tooling. autoconf, Make, bash etc cannot run under a pure
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They all have to use MSVCRT or UCRT to stay compatible with other Windows programs and APIs like COM. And AFAIK nobody has developed a C library that's purely dependent on Win32 system APIs (it is possible just really hard). The differ

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