theandrewbailey

> “it’s not delivery—it’s DiGiorno”

We've had AI output all these decades, but never recognized it. Is this evidence of time travel?

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Maybe PyPy needs a Steve Jobs-like figure to write a "no C extension" manifesto, declaring that all Python apps must be 100% Python.

The title violates HN guidelines. Use the original title of the page.

The title tell me nothing. Why should I bother clicking this? It makes me think this is a low-tier ad that I come across all day, every day, therefore sus and should be ignored.

I'm not into cars, and this is the only car channel I watch.

It's not your English proficiency. I didn't know this game existed, so before clicking, I expected it was about LucasArt's legacy on the games industry, or what former people there are doing now.

I want all my software to use all my cores, because I'll have twice as many within 5 years.

> a Pentium 3 & a GeForce 2

That's the spec of my retro PC. I never had one of those back in the day, but it scratches the itch.

This is one reason why I don't save my payment method for anything. No saved payment method means one less way for surprise charges.

I remember when Microsoft was sued for forcing a web browser into Windows. How the times have changed.

> but knowing exactly in which ways a function can fail is extremely helpful for building robust applications

I've worked on Java apps that have failed in mysterious ways that no exception could explain. Meanwhile, the overhead of having to call out certain exceptions but not others in language syntax is a bit excessive.

For example, decoding a byte array (or URL encoded form field) into a UTF-8 string means handling a theoretical UnsupportedEncodingException. What the fuck? How the hell can one have a JVM that doesn't support UTF-8? Why does my code need boilerplate that will never run because there might be some broken-ass JVM out there that that doesn't support UTF-8? How did it launch a web server, safely load all the libraries, and accept a web request, and route it to my code without blowing up? "But the encoding scheme might change..." No, it won't change. It's always going to be UTF-8. It will always be UTF-8. If it's not, let it blow up.

I never thought of Java being the 'move fast ~and break things~' alternative over .NET, but Java has a faster release schedule to get features out sooner.

Third Amendment is about not quartering troops. Fourth Amendment is protection against warrantless seizures.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-3/

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/

This is about apps on F-Droid, not F-Droid itself.

I went upstream and started using Debian instead. Don't listen to the haters: it updates at about the same frequency as Ubuntu LTS.

I work in e-waste recycling. Most of the PCs and laptops I see are corporate IT decommissions. Most of those have i5 CPUs, and only a handful are i7. Few are cruel enough to afflict their wage slaves with an i3 or less.

Maybe this can be a Comic Sans alternative.

> Till date, there's not been an official Linux desktop build of Microsoft 365, and seeing how Microsoft currently operates, I don't expect one to appear anytime soon.

No one expected SQL Server on Linux, and nobody asked for Edge on Linux. An official release of Office on Linux is not impossible.

My first programming job was an internal line of business application at a mortgage vending company. There was an uncomfortable amount of time wasted waiting for someone to do something in ClearCase so I could commit. I've turned down interviews solely on the basis that I would be using that dumpster fire of lost productivity and UX from hell.

I haven't been professionally responsible for code since before AI started eating everything, and haven't touched AI in the meantime. Is this representative of the BS that everyone else here puts up with on a day-to-day basis? Did we collectively burn trillions of dollars for this?

What a blast from the past, and one of the classic evergreen articles.

The blockquotes made me depressed:

> People are not in control of the technology that surrounds them

For a few years back then, the pendulum was moving towards personally controllable tech, but in between the smartphone/SaaS/IoT walled gardens and whichever poison you feel like blaming today, that's simply not the case anymore.

I would make a quip about game devs will soon be making games for people who don't play games, but I think that's been happening for a while.

Or worse: hardware as slow as any average, bloated Electron "app".

I work in the refurb department of an ewaste recycling company. I had a TV on a roller stand come in some months ago. When I turned it on, I realized that it wasn't any ordinary consumer-grade TV, but a commercial grade one. It lacked any sort of smart functionality, had no apps, and reported DCI 4K resolution (4096x2160) when connected to a PC. I found a remote that worked with it (even though it was a 'smart' TV remote). I listed it as a "dumb TV" for $200 and it took a while to sell.

These days, swapping to disk means your SSD wears out and dies faster. That's very much an issue.

Talk to a lawyer about that firing. You might have a case.

That's a suspicious number of em-dashes for something that's allegedly against LLMs.

I'm a big fan of this format. It sounds great at 96kbit, and is in every recent browser[0]. There's good software support outside browsers, too.

[0] https://caniuse.com/?search=opus

> CERN engineers had considered moving to CentOS Stream as a more natural pathway but ultimately they say "the straw that broke the camel's back" to abandon Red Hat Enterprise Linux for their industrial accelerator-control computers was the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.

Incompatibility with x86-64-v2 means that CERN is running some older machines, over 15 years old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...

I can confirm this. I also add interactive-widget=resizes-visual to prevent keyboards from causing style recalculation and reflow of a page on every animation frame, to keep things smooth.

> The winter season is the most high-energy part of the year and usually the one that interests most people.

Maybe for Europeans. Hurricanes and tornadoes are rather high-energy weather events that favor warmer seasons and North America. Winter is less interesting for Americans.