comparing Linux to Windows is hilarious.

let me introduce you to Richard Stallman, the OG Linux hater. the author and advocate for GPLv3 thought Linux was too corporate, too compromising to corporate interests.

this world of technology is about compromise. life itself is about compromise. if you want to create your own OS, your own programming language, your own set of standards, go ahead. no one is stopping you.

except, you don’t actually want that. you want text editors, browsers, email, and video games. those things depend on standards, and those standards are shared by other interests, whether you like them or agree with them or are morally aligned with them or not. that’s the sacrifice we make to fly on an airplane or drive a car on public roads or use publicly created software.

look into Free Open Source Software. not OSS, FOSS. there’s a difference. you should be cognizant of the tradeoffs.

heck maybe read some Marx/Engels.

it wasn’t the right GPL. pretty sure GPLv3 was a reaction to Linux adopting GPLv2

i always tell myself this. i crashed my bike during a race, and was like “i’m gonna make a slop bowl of mac n cheese and tuna.” but… i can’t just put the tuna in with the noodles; even if it’s canned i can still sauté it in some garlic and butter. may as well add some of this togarashi for a little heat. and everyone knows mustard makes cheese taste cheesier. speaking of cheese, i got some parmigiano regiano. let’s put some of these green onions on top; first bite is with your eyes. and of course some panko will add a textural contrast…

“unhackable” is a bit sensationalized here. the Xbox One is actually a security success story not because it is impossible to hack, but because it’s a rare example of a console that wasn’t hacked in its service lifetime. at the risk of giving praise to Microsoft, the architecture is actually really neat and informed the security features of subsequent Windows releases, ie a hypervisor with sandboxed sub containers (this is why they required TPMs).

(also i’m not agreeing with requiring a TPM for general purpose machines; they make sense on a bespoke hardware platform like a game console)

i bet this hack is nuts, but the blue team deserves some level of kudos

https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo

bruh i know people in their 40s making 6 figures that couldn’t read an error message if it would save ten generations of their family.

i don’t think people in this forum would disagree with this move in 2018, as much as sentiments have changed. if you remove the political context and market moves from the equation, it is truly fascinating how these models work. GPT 2 was a crazy leap forward for language modeling, and the idea that a language model would be threatening middle class jobs wasn’t even on the table at that point. the idea that a pile of floating point numbers could write a React app is incredible, if politically fraught.

also, it wasn’t clear back then what OpenAI would become. they were a non-profit, and as clear as our hindsight is today this was before ChatGPT or any customer facing products were coming out of OpenAI.

i can’t be the only nerd in the room that has been fascinated by AI since i was a child only to face a reality where it’s not what i imagined it would be.

two of our offices have 5 day return to office policies. we’ve been told that those coworkers will have less availability and productivity by management. they also are clearly stressed by taking calls in traffic and commuting generally. and not just gas, but vehicle repair, maintenance, and, as a coworker experienced recently, regular replacement means RTO is a pay decrease. i mean, i’m privileged to ride a bike, but i still need to do maintenance and would have to do more if i was in the office every day.

and when i say “two of our offices”, i mean across time zones, so their day as well as mine involves most meetings being over a video call, for which they are more often late or have to be accounted for.

anyone who thinks this is about productivity gains or employee wellbeing has the kind of job where they’re not really expected to produce anything.

this is one of those facts i have to struggle to keep to myself to avoid coming off as an insufferable nerd

oh wow gee thank you for not… [checks notes]… forcing open source developers to write state mandated spyware without compensation

Users who need to run their application in Python 2 should do so on a platform that offers support for it

damn go off

the semantics of C make that virtually impossible. the compiler would have to make some semantics of the language invalid, invalidating patterns that are more than likely highly utilized in existing code, thus we have Rust, which built its semantics around those safety concepts from the beginning. there’s just no way for the compiler to know the lifetime of some variables without some semantic indication

i know people usually are like, “oh cool new features”

but this has a security patch that will literally unblock my pipelines at work lol 🎉

It shouldn’t have to take fifteen years to deploy effective products that can save lives

this is such a reductionist view.

it should absolutely take decades to make a sweeping decision to fundamentally alter an ecosystem. nobody likes disease or even getting a random bite. i grew up in the swamps of the US, i know. but we should absolutely know what we’re doing to release a genetically engineered or bacterial sterilizing agent into a naturally evolved ecosystem.

this has been “the plan” since 2005. when i was in high school trying to figure out what the heck “cloud computing” was, this is what they were talking about: anything requiring more compute than secure authentication and pixel drawing would be rendered in the cloud and delivered to dumb terminals. this is what netbooks, Chromebooks, and smartphones have been a step towards if not an implementation of.

honestly 8 space indents always felt a bit ridiculous to me. i usually use 4 since it’s more conventional in most languages but could also be happy with 2.

weird hill to die on. use default setting unless you have a good reason not to. the argument itself is a waste of time on projects that want to get things done.

what else would it be? it’s a pretty common embedded target. dev kits from Qualcomm come with Android and use the Android bootloader and debug protocols at the very least.

nobody is out here running a plain Linux kernel and maintaining a UI stack while AOSP exists. would be a foolish waste of time for companies like Rabbit to use anything else imo.

to say it’s “just an Android device” is both true and a mischaracterization. it’s likely got a lot in common with a smartphone, but they’ve made modifications and aren’t supporting app stores or sideloading. doesn’t mean you can’t do it, just don’t be surprised when it doesn’t work 1-1

i personally have pushed back on every “infinite scrolling” feature request from product designers. first, you think you need it; you don’t. second, you think it’s just so nifty! it isn’t. oh is your content is dynamically generated? what was wrong with Reddit’s pager that launched that site into popularity?

it’s unnecessary complexity that hides information from the user, makes API calls (which are, spoilers, paginated) more complicated, can cause the obvious memory/resource consumption issues, and just generally disempowers the user. which i guess on a social media app is the point. but totally counter to the goals of a fleet management system lol

most Zionists i’ve met are white Protestants, and most Jews i’ve met aren’t Zionists…

member when all the big cool web 2.0 companies had public facing APIs?

“radical communism” 🙄

the GOP and even a lot of people on “the left” in the US couldn’t give you half the description of what communism is. this regulation falls squarely under classical Liberalism, and despite their squawking about Libertarianism or whatever Republicans act more like Liberals than their ideology poisoned brains could comprehend.