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by ragnese 2y ago
Yeah, snaps are really shitty. And in general, desktop Linux is just as buggy and maybe even more half-baked than it was when I started using it in 2007. But, I own my machines. I don't need to ask permission from a company to be abl
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by ragnese 2y ago
That's also something Richard Stallman said he used to do, IIRC. He said that while he didn't browse the web on his own computers, he would sometimes do it on other peoples' computers or public computers. No point being made.
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by ragnese 2y ago
I'm so sorry that your poor mother had to install Windows on a lab computer. I'm guessing there was a specific piece of hardware in the lab that only works with some shitty Windows-only control software, huh?
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by ragnese 2y ago
I'm probably going to sound like a troll for saying this, but I hate when history gets conveniently "forgotten". Please, don't forget how many people online (including here on HN) repeated the astroturf propaganda about
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by ragnese 2y ago
Most companies "need" to grow, so if you did see 10% more productivity, you aren't going to lay off 10% of your workers--you're just going to enjoy hopefully 10% more profit (grossly simplified). Not to mention that I&#x
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by ragnese 2y ago
> Perhaps the AI boom will decrease the demand from now on. Waiting for better times may be futile? I'm not claiming to be very knowledgeable about AI/LLMs or the job market or "the economy" in general, but I'd b
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by ragnese 2y ago
> Research papers, to be maximally reusable and future-proof, should prefer to present information in as plain English as possible and commonly-used mathematic terminology and symbols rather than obscure forms where possible. Using big w
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by ragnese 2y ago
I remember the giant astroturf campaign when he first took over and Microsoft started "heart"-ing open source and Linux. Everyone/bot on the internet said that Microsoft had really changed and that anyone who was still skepti
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by ragnese 2y ago
Okay. And? I still think it's not in your best interest to do that, but I'm just some guy on the internet and you can do whatever you want. I also recommend that you don't smoke cigarettes, but I'm not going to lose slee
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by ragnese 2y ago
> Can't we just have a peaceful life without wasting time on constantly following and analyzing every single move from these companies? Not if you're using Microsoft products, no. People continue to get irritated when "we&
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by ragnese 2y ago
Documents and emails are probably easier to find via old-school text searching, though.
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by ragnese 2y ago
"accidentally"
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by ragnese 2y ago
> Or Microsoft just decides they need to really market the hell out of AI and it gets turned on my default anyways. This is what will happen. And when you turn it off again, it'll be turned back on by the next update. Enjoy.
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by ragnese 2y ago
> In all the MS Recall drama, I've yet to hear or read one single person utter something to the effect of "Wow - great!!! - I've been waiting for something like this for years! This will solve at least one of the major iss
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by ragnese 2y ago
> And it feels, bizarrely for 2024, that little thought has gone into privacy or security. No, no. They thought about the privacy and security aspect. They decided that it's better for their bottom line if Windows users don't h
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by ragnese 2y ago
> Windows 10 is the maximum intrusion people are willing to take. Statistically, 100% of people are willing to take exactly what they get when they buy a new computer. With the same precision of rounding, 0% of people are going to dig in
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by ragnese 2y ago
> As for "doing something dumb", I've often seem fellow engineers do things like repeatedly insert into sorted data structures in a loop instead of just inserting into an unsorted structure and then sorting after the inser
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by ragnese 2y ago
> The question was, why checked exceptions saw no love. A big part of the answer is that the stdlib did a very poor job showcasing them. Fair enough. I can see that interpretation. I was more focused on their first sentence, which said:
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by ragnese 2y ago
I'll let you in on my cynical take. Warning: it's both cynical and a bit condescending. The truth is that programmers are just as susceptible to fads, cargo cults, and appeals to authority as anyone else. Around the same time that
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by ragnese 2y ago
Swift has the concept of conditional throwing for closures/callbacks. The keyword is `rethrows` if anyone wants to do a search and read some docs. Now, Swift's version of throwing is what I would call "semi-checked", bec
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by ragnese 2y ago
But, you're conflating a language feature "Java's checked exceptions" with bad API design, which is obviously possible with any combination of any language's features. I agree that Java's standard library has a
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by ragnese 2y ago
The problem with all of these rules of thumb is that they're vague to the point of being vacuously true. Of course we all agree that "premature optimization is the root of all evil" as Knuth once said, but the saying itself i
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by ragnese 2y ago
> the pitch "we're slightly more private" is a hard one that they aren't even doing well... if they want to make a commitment to 0 data storage with no suggestions or analytics, that would be one thing, but they refus
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by ragnese 2y ago
Well, when Chrome first came out, it was definitely way faster than the other browsers for websites that had heavy JavaScript usage a la GMail. I imagine the gap has closed quite a bit, but I would suspect that it's probably still ther
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by ragnese 2y ago
I remember being chastised in some Android subreddits years ago for going against the (probably astroturf) opinion that having root access was "insecure". Sigh...
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by ragnese 3y ago
Sure, but did the parent comment say otherwise? This feels like a combative reply.
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by ragnese 3y ago
Off topic, but I recently looked in to playing MtG again because my son expressed interest. But, I was a bit taken aback by how different the environment is. I last played when they still had numbered "base sets", e.g., "9th
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by ragnese 3y ago
I think I have a similar reaction to you, but maybe with a bit of a different spin. For me, it's not so much that I want to see a literal side-by-side of something non-trivial (though that would be nice, too). I personally want to see
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by ragnese 3y ago
I'm a neckbeard and I vastly prefer GNOME Shell to any other DE (including proprietary ones like on Windows and macOS). I still don't consider myself a "fan" and I have plenty of complaints about it- I just have way more
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by ragnese 3y ago
I'm not arguing against their position. Rather, I'm citing their position on theming to argue that it would feel inconsistent for them to hold that position on theming, but then also have a position of encouraging downstream distr

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