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by piker 11mo ago
That might be true, but I think Ballmer claims the "Enterprise Agreement" concept where they just tack on everything as available and have a box for every possible product in the EA. [Edit: The note is really more about founders o
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by piker 11mo ago
People forget that Microsoft was in position to compete because of Gates' and Allen's stellar BASIC. They were hand-picked by IBM because the market loved BASIC to the point of pirating it before that was even a thing. They cared
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by piker 11mo ago
The Legal IDE, Tritium: https://tritium.legal/preview
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by piker 11mo ago
Actually the `windows-rs` team weighed in: impl IRibbonExtensibility_Impl for Addin_Impl { unsafe fn GetCustomUI( &self, _ribbon_id: windows::core::Ref<BSTR>, out: windows::core::OutRef<BSTR>
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by piker 11mo ago
Yes, I think we'll have continued difficulty reconciling this understanding. It's almost impossible to get arrested for posting something that isn't CSAM or literal state secrets on Twitter in the US. Even so-called "hat
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by piker 11mo ago
I don’t think you understand. Either of those arrests are unconscionable by American standards. Most U.S. folks would be shocked to ever see such a thing, so it’s necessary to first show it to level-set that non-US jurisdictions don’t have
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by piker 11mo ago
It can be hard to wrap your head around it from the US, but many of these are people that are in fact being arrested for writing posts on social media, e.g., https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-6.
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by piker 11mo ago
This is excellent. Thank you, and that signature did give me pause.
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by piker 11mo ago
These are all great points, and I will update the blog post to reflect them in the morning. I believe this approach can work while retaining the most apparently-idiomatic mapping. What do you guys think? impl IRibbonExtensibility_Impl for A
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by piker 11mo ago
That's what would be reasonably expected, but it's not backed up by the information. > The total arrest figures are likely to be far higher because eight forces failed to respond to freedom of information requests or provided i
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by piker 11mo ago
> While figures show that the total number of arrests for online posts fell to 9,700 last year, down from a record 13,800 in 2023... https://freespeechunion.org/daily-mail-investigation-exposes...
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by piker 11mo ago
Eh, I'm no shill but their marketing copy isn't exactly the New York Times. They're given some license to respond to critical feedback in a manner that makes the statements more accurate without the same expectations of being
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by piker 11mo ago
I actually stumbled upon that toward the end of the exercise, but couldn't figure out where `oleview.exe` landed after I installed the SDK. I only spent a couple of minutes, and at that point I was only looking to confirm what I alread
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by piker 11mo ago
In defense of the LLM here: learning COM from scratch given its lack of accessible documentation would have forced us to reach for C# for this minor project. The LLM gave us an initial boost of productivity and (false) confidence that enabl
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COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in(tritium.legal)
102 points by piker 11mo ago|68 comments
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by piker 11mo ago
That business model exists and appears here periodically complaining about how unfair Microsoft is. We don't care, we'll meet Microsoft where they are and just offer their customers a more specific solution.
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by piker 11mo ago
Yes, yes, everything should be free. Nobody should leave gainful employment to attempt to compete. Everyone should work using hamster and solar powered devices from their apple orchard communes. Understood. > Please be actually better, w
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by piker 11mo ago
Microsoft raising prices on Office?! Must be for all those new useful features brought to your desktop over the last decade. Definitely not monopolistic rent-seeking. No siree. If you or someone you love is a legal user and interested in ch
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by piker 11mo ago
It is pretty clearly labelled with "(Sponsor)". Couldn't be less obtrusive, either. I think on balance it's at least neutral compared with the other nonsense available to both the publisher and advertiser these days.
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by piker 11mo ago
Hasn't this been true for like ever?
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by piker 11mo ago
At least the 500 error announces ownership. Imagine how productive we'll be now!
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by piker 11mo ago
The litmus test for the utility of this kind of thing is does JetBrains prefer to use Air to develop Air--i.e., is it self-hosting?
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by piker 11mo ago
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by piker 11mo ago
Yes. You know, like the kind of 401k a seven year old has.
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by piker 11mo ago
Trivial for a lot of people, sure, but imagine the difference between not knowing what an investment account is and knowing that you've got $250 in one that you can contribute more to.
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Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years(bbc.co.uk)
35 points by piker 11mo ago|18 comments
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by piker 11mo ago
https://clip.cafe/the-departed-2006/our-target-a-major-trans...
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by piker 11mo ago
What’s the half-life of a viral meme?
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by piker 11mo ago
Interesting how radiation issues could be solved in software.

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