Thank you for demonstrating why I should put a ban on AI garbage. Your input has been invaluable.

Do you get excessive RAM usage?

I've had three hard system crashes because something spawned an endless amount of winedbg and conhost.exe processes until the memory is full and I can't figure out why.

Oh cool, they've replaced the bird with an orangutan! I didn't know they were native to North America.

Did you start at the correct end? Your answer will have consequences.

Sideways from the middle, then?

Someone should use a sticker with the first amendment's text on it.

Thinking back to the sins I've committed in C# as a high schooler... maybe I should start publishing my works. Put some poison in the soup.

A blackout is just a loss of power. Nothing complicated about it. There are obvious human and societal consequences, but as far as the infrastructure is concerned, a blackout usually means that protection devices have been tripped and the system has protected itself from greater damage.

A brownout means that the electric grid (or interconnection), for some reason, can't supply enough power to satisfy the demand, but protection devices haven't tripped yet. It can result in momentary power losses, drops in voltage, drops in frequency, or some generators getting desynchronized with the rest of the grid. If reactive loads (like HVAC motors) go offline momentarily, they can cause spikes in power consumption, which can overload circuits and trip safety devices.

A UPS needs to immediately switch to battery power when there are signs of an imminent power loss. A brownout might cause a consumer-grade UPS to switch on and off repeatedly, which the inverter circuit probably doesn't like.

This channel is run by a real civil engineer, he's released some great videos about the challenges of maintaining an electric grid.

Brownout once fried my UPS. My guess is the inverter circuit.

We are the pig, professor. We are all the pig.

Don't be silly, chmod o-w your $WILLY!

At the same time, I liked .NET's no-nonsense naming of namespaces. When I see something like System.Threading.Tasks, I can immediately recognise that it's a namespace that deals with task-based parallelism. Then you have tokio in Rust and I want to stab the person that came up with the name. Same for clap and serde. They mean nothing unless you already know what those packages do.

most BIOS updaters

I've had to RMA plenty of otherwise perfectly usable motherboards because Windows had fucked up their firmware with unprompted updates, bordering on zero-click malware behaviour. The farther that shit stays from Linux, the better.

Popularity does not imply quality.

I've played the recent Zelda games. They're okay. But also disgustingly overrated.

What you described is more or less consistent with Schrödinger's views.

In the Copenhagen interpretation, a quantum system is described by a wave function (the probability density of all of its possible states; the cat is maybe dead and maybe alive) until it is observed, at which point it collapses into one of its possible states (the cat is definitively dead or definitively alive).

As far as I can tell, in Schrödinger's views, there is no superposition and there is no collapse, and a system is described directly by its wave function, which changes over time.

But this is all just interpretation. I don't even know where to start looking for empirical evidence that supports one or the other, or whether there's even a point philosophizing about it.

jiff

Rust developers come up with the worst fucking package names.

.NET is branding that Steve Ballmer came up with, and yes, it was originally meant to be a set of network and internet frameworks. The .NET Framework was an underlying interface that other .NET products would use. It was then superseded by .NET Core, which was later renamed to .NET.

Who needs their files closed and disks synced, anyway?

Our business-critical internal software suite was written in Pascal as a temporary solution and has been unmaintained for almost 20 years. It transmits cleartext usernames and passwords as the URI components of GET requests. They also use a single decade-old Excel file to store vital statistics. A key part of the workflow involves an Excel file with a macro that processes an HTML document from the clipboard.

I offered them a better solution, which was rejected because the downtime and the minimal training would be more costly than working around the current issues.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is being review bombed

No, it's not. Review bombing is a reaction caused by an extrinsic factor. DD2 is being reviewed negatively because of what's built into the game.