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by sn_master 3y ago
WinForms in C# was pretty decent tbh. Not so sure about WCF/Metro/Modern and whatever it is now that Microsoft been releasing. They just stopped caring about consistent UI for apps on Windows altogether since ~2010 or so.
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by sn_master 3y ago
Also, most machines did not have the .Net framework installed, and back then it was 20 MB download which was gonna take ~2 hours on dial up back in the day vs MSVMVM6.dll which was on all Windows versions from 98 until 7 at least.
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by sn_master 3y ago
Microsoft stopped supporting it. VB 6 was the last "true" Visual Basic. The .Net Visual Basic was not backwards compatible with the very large code base projects everyone had created over the years and ones on forums and websites
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by sn_master 3y ago
Back in the day, Microsoft figured it was easier to simply erase all the borders. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...
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by sn_master 3y ago
Meanwhile, Windows is still shipping MSVBVM6.dll and the IE-4-compatible OCX files for compatibility with apps made using mid-1990s APIs.
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by sn_master 3y ago
How would they have known that those certificates got distrusted? The article says the certs in question were not on any known revocation list.
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by sn_master 3y ago
Try doing the same in Go and it's even worse.
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by sn_master 3y ago
Wait until you learn what the F7 shortcut does in the Windows Console.
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by sn_master 3y ago
Interesting how they'll react to X. WeChat seems to be the closest thing to an "Everything App" that Elon wants to create.
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by sn_master 3y ago
It won't. People use Twitter because of its free speech rules and this is very unlikely to give the same degree of freedom to the "conservatives".
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by sn_master 3y ago
> Additionally, this doesn't seem to have been a problem when it rolled out on Pixel devices a year and a half ago, Pixels are certainly common enough for that to become a known issue. It absolutely was a problem for me and I disabl
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by sn_master 3y ago
I had this happen because I was (still am) using the vent with an adapter to put the phone. One time it slipped and I was trying to adjust it when all of a sudden it called 911. First thing I did when I parked was to disable it as 911 calle
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by sn_master 3y ago
They're no longer trying to be subtle at all. Movies have become stuffed with outright political lectures, and always coming from the same view. I just want a movie being itself without politics shoved into it.
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by sn_master 3y ago
Because Apple is not selling an "OS", it's selling an iPhone. Their users are using "apps" and not "programs".
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by sn_master 3y ago
It still astonishes me how people can be so naive and believe anything tech executives say without it being independently verified, even after Snowden and Twitter Files and all the revelations about the CCP. It's all bits and since Chi
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by sn_master 3y ago
or the Nasser problem :-) https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1605337499873660928?lang=...
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by sn_master 3y ago
Apple and Google do the same calling the Recycle/Trash as "bin".
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by sn_master 3y ago
Many gas stations in the US still ask for the zip/postal code instead of the actual card PIN code :|
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by sn_master 3y ago
You're underestimating how many average people or below-average hackers find/stumble-upon serious vulnerabilities all the time.
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by sn_master 3y ago
Couldn't it be also because of bots/paid-humans writing the same kind of comments and liking them to make them bubble to the top?
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by sn_master 3y ago
I started watching firearms videos few years ago, mostly Forgotten Weapons ( https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenWeapons ) and the problems and tradeoffs encountered in designing firearms (both politics and UX) are very similar
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Eugene Stoner and Mikhail Kalashnikov Discussing the AR-15(youtube.com)
14 points by sn_master 3y ago|2 comments
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by sn_master 3y ago
But can it be compressed with something like UPX?
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by sn_master 3y ago
The difference between Windows XP SP2 in 2008 and Windows 95 is much bigger than Windows 7 and Windows 11. By 2008 nothing mainstream was supporting Windows 95 at all.
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by sn_master 3y ago
What was wrong with XP? (besides the default "bubbly" UI)
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by sn_master 3y ago
Every time I read things like this I wonder what the managers themselves are thinking since they themselves are employees and have their own managers. And in a company of that size there's A LOT of managers.
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by sn_master 3y ago
Cos(0MC) :P
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by sn_master 3y ago
Why is there CODE running inside of an ink cartridge in the first place?!?! Let alone code that's sophisticated enough that "cheaper rivals" can't just copy it. What is going on in this world?
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by sn_master 3y ago
What's next? We'll have a .exe TLD? Even if the OS will prioritize local files, there's no guarantee all the 3rd party apps old and new will use the same rule.
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by sn_master 3y ago
Wouldn't that make the job of spammers easier? They can create very low quality websites but with very high quality (AI Generated?) ai.txt that fools AI engines into trusting them more than other websites with better content.

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