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About 0.1% is inherent complexity

How can the change be a genuine improvement, if it does something unexpected that needs to be figured out?

> There is a reason why systemd became the default and other niche init systems have faded into obscurity.

Yes, it is part of the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy

He probably just doesn't like having to use poorly written software

This article is why I see LLM's as a dead end and not real AI. LLM's are somewhat useful for things related to language. LLM's are a decent search engine. But LLM's are not AI.

Updating glibc is a huge pain.

Using a new version of gcc or clang can cause a lot of problems. I try to avoid updating those.

I dread Linux kernel updates. Still running a 4.4 era kernel. Kernel versions have always been hit or miss, some are good, others introduced a new bug. Sometimes it's necessary to upgrade glibc as well which is a huge pain.

So far the Iranian response has been very strategic and calculated. So much so, that the majority of the west especially the Trump administration is not even capable of understanding their strategy.

I don't think it serves a strategic purpose to bomb Mar a Lago at this stage in the game.

Russia has officially declared they are at war with Ukraine

It's like that scene in Moneyball where they have to tell the player that they've been traded/cut

With a high-vis vest and a clipboard, you can get almost anywhere. Almost.

Companies would simply move away from the US. Kind of like how Britain killed it's own car industry back in the day.

AmigaOS 2.X is pretty much a copy of NeXTStep, visually speaking

I think the Gravis Ultrasound is in the same category as the Apple IIGS sound card, which came out in 1986. And I put the Apple IIGS sound card much further ahead than the Amiga Paula.

Being able to simply write to the SPEAK: device was nice

I think that AI will be a tool for Governments and the Surveillance State, and will be used to implement Communism 2.0. People in countries who shun AI will enjoy more freedom.

There is a good chance you will be wrong, but it's not like you will actually check whether or not you were wrong. You are assuming that you are correct, and have already come to the conclusion that the coffee shop is not good. But even if it is good, you will not admit that it is good, because then you will have to admit that you were wrong.

Hopefully, your daughter just politely nodded her head, and did not actually listen to you.

I think you're making a lot of assumptions that don't really hold up in reality.

Generally for restaurants, the better the menu looks, the better the decor, the worse the food is. The 'hole in the wall' places are always the hidden gems. The slick-looking places are always a disappointment.

Of course, everybody knows that the X68000 is better than both the Amiga and Atari ST

In hindsight, I think it was. The built in MIDI is extremely useful. The high resoution B&W monitor with high refresh rate as well. My main complaint is that it should have came with the YM2203 sound chip, or at least had an optional card slot for it.

It turns out that the Amiga chipset design did not age well, once CPU's became faster than RAM. The Amiga had a design flaw where it could not be used reliably for MIDI, because every so often an interrupt would get masked, resulting in dropped bytes from the serial port.

I've always said that having a goal is the first step towards failure.

I remember saying this when I was 5 years old

Those cheap 2006 Mac Pros also had 32 bit EFI

I think it's easier to implement with sprites, but the complex trig and math is unnecessary either way.

I wonder how FreeBSD X11 compares to Linux X11

It will end up being like the Star Trek TNG episode about Aldea (When the Bough Breaks) Nobody will know how anything works, so nobody can fix anything, and eventually it collapses

Rock and roll is for people with limited musical ability. Heavy metal is for people with no musical ability. Your comparison of rust to heavy metal is apt and holds up well.

Some people made videos with LLM's playing Poker.

The LLM's were terrible at poker.

TLDR; There was a guy who sailed west. Other people didn't like that guy, so they sailed the opposite way.