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by wvenable 1y ago
Search will become AI. It might be that there be zero "AI" players involved though as Google is just as capable of doing AI.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I love having an Eero router for the simplicity but I hate that I cannot do all the Linux routing tricks that I used to do.
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by wvenable 1y ago
The US unemployment rate was 4% in 2024. Why does America even need manufacturing jobs?
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by wvenable 1y ago
> but it was too complex to maintain and Microsoft decided to take the easy road. The insurmountable problem was file system semantics. In Linux, files are dumb and fast. On Windows, files are smarter and therefore also slower. Linux
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by wvenable 1y ago
I read an article from someone doing a similar project and if you don't do a full refresh every so often then you'll actually wear out the display faster (he burned one out real quick). It actually needs those full refreshes afte
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by wvenable 1y ago
Even forums eventually die out.
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by wvenable 1y ago
It seems likely that this will be defeated by AI generated video.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I fail to see the distinction, for documentation purposes, of this versus just giving it that `getFullName` function name. A more complex example will probably return a more complex type that is more self-documenting. If the type is a sing
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Because code LLMs have been trained on the syntactic form of the program and not its execution One of the very first tests I did of ChatGPT way back when it was new was give it a relatively complex string manipulation function from our
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by wvenable 2y ago
I hate searching for vintage computer stuff only to find broken hyperlinks to lost pages that once contained useful information or software but is now gone forever.
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Nope. Netscape 4 did very well. I didn't say it didn't do well, I said it was a buggy bloated piece of crap. And it was. It was also the de facto way that many small businesses did both web browsing and email but the writin
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by wvenable 2y ago
> What I always heard was that Netscape was the better browser Netscape was SO bad that they literally threw away all the code to make Firefox. Before IE3, Internet Explorer was not really competitive but with IE3 you could fully use it
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by wvenable 2y ago
You: Vague over-exaggerated unsubstantiated claims without even being able to say what decade you're referring to. Also you: "Why are you making stuff up." I lived through this entire time. You're right you don&#x27
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Completely false. Windows was already a monopoly, and the US government successfully sued Microsoft for using their Windows monopoly to leverage sales for Office. The government lawsuit was specifically about Internet Explorer, not Off
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Windows was always horrifically buggy and crash prone At the time Mac OS didn't have memory protection -- Netscape would make your whole computer go BOOM at regular intervals. IE was even a hell of a lot more stable (and faster) t
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by wvenable 2y ago
> This really seems like looking back with rose-colored glasses. It works both ways. It's hard to look back at the time while ignoring all the paths the road has taken since then. Microsoft has always been company that is very good
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by wvenable 2y ago
I also did the 6502 and added a Pi Pico for VGA output and USB input. I'm still working on ways to add more to the design -- it's been a fun hobby. I actually enjoy cutting the wires and physically putting it together.
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by wvenable 2y ago
> if Windows ABI is so stable that 20-year-old programs are guaranteed to run That's not actually true; there are no guarantees. Microsoft does a best effort to ensure the majority of applications continue to work. But there are b
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by wvenable 2y ago
I'm building a 6502 system to build a 6502 a system -- it's a hobby. The challenge is accomplishing things using limited technology. It's art. I'm building the computer (with paging and "kernel mode"), an op
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by wvenable 2y ago
What's the fun in that?
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by wvenable 2y ago
I build my own 6502 from Ben Eaters kit -- expanded it quite a bit now with more changes in progress.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Except we have all these low ASCII characters specifically for this purpose that don't turn up in the data at all. But there is, of course, also an escape character specifically for escaping them if necessary.
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by wvenable 2y ago
C# is easily my favorite language and Java is one of my least favorite languages.
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by wvenable 2y ago
The desktop experience has been secondary for years now -- Microsoft is only now catching up to that trend.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Microsoft is moving away from the single-platform; they want their apps to run on Windows, web, Mac OS, iOS, Android, and maybe even Linux. They do not want to maintain radically different versions for all these different platforms.
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by wvenable 2y ago
> This happens more and more often, and there is a fairly easy + popular workaround (which also comes with 99% ad blocking as a bonus). Just either set up pi-hole locally OR use a hosted DNS service that does essentially the same thing.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I'm not the person you replied to but the solution, in my opinion, is computer vision lenses. I have progressive lenses and, at my current prescription, I really can't use my computer well with them. It's basically a necess
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by wvenable 2y ago
Some rose-tinted glasses looking at the past. There was a time when your entire computer would crash if you just looked at it funny. Raw stability of software is much higher -- there are just more minor annoyances because there is also muc
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by wvenable 2y ago
If instead of WASM you decided to emulate a different DOOM target like a PC then you'd have to emulate the actual VGA graphics hardware and enough of the other PC hardware to run the game. That level of emulation is a difficult projec
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by wvenable 2y ago
But that's all CPU -- he doesn't have to emulate the rest of the computer (video card, IO systems, etc). You provide WASM with your own interface to the outside world.

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