ChrisRR

Interestingly Windows 95 was supposed to be Windows 93. Raymond Chen wrote an interesting blog post about how when you plot the ship date predictions from internal emails against the release date, you got a factor of about 2.3x

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150824-00/?p=91...

The web page is a bit borked, so here's the table pulled out by claude

https://ibb.co/W49sj1Rc

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Peppermint oil is a known laxative, so I wonder if that made a difference

Isn't that rule 3?

Sounds extremely wasteful to me. What's a new machine going to offer than a 2 year old machine doesn't?

Maybe I overestimate people if I assume that when someone thinks of something they want to do with their phone, they google how to do it, rather than just assume they invented it and write a blog post about it

I'm not american

Studies: Investing in green energy would reduce our reliance on the middle east for oil and create jobs locally

America: Sounds like communism

Of course it's to make profit

It's already been everywhere for years. The most obvious one is any time someone says something bad about Russia or China, a load of comments pop up to say "Yeah but what about when america does <x>?". Never actually attempting to discredit the statement, just to steer it towards the US

The sheer volume of comments make it super obvious when it happens compared to normal conversation

Why do you consider this enshittification, just out of interest?

Because I say this as an ex vegetarian, meat tastes good.

From the post "There's a better name for it somewhere but it's not my job to find it"

You think if they couldn't even be arsed to google the name, that they'd google to find out their idea has already existed for years?

From what I remember it wasn't anything out of the ordinary, like TV shows or software or something.

As far as I remember the issue may have been that archive.org already had a copy of what had been uploaded, but they deleted it without warning and then refused to offer an explanation

So it may have been a legitimate deletion, but poorly executed

Unless I'm misunderstanding, isn't that what app pinning on android is?

https://support.google.com/android/answer/9455138?hl=en

That assumes that children/teenagers are logical creatures. They're not

You can follow every parenting guide under the sun and still be left with a moody teenager that argues back at everything you tell them

Don't trust Internet Archive as your only backup method though. There has been instances where they delete files without warning with the only explanation being that they don't meet TOS

The issue was that it was "learn to code" and not "learn to program", as if the only thing you needed was a month of training and then you were just as good as someone with 20 years of experience.

It's similar to why there's hundreds of books about learning the basics of a language, but comparatively few books about good software architecture/design

> There is a notable percentage of people who regret having kids, despite initially deciding to have them.

I always say that people choose to have kids, they don't choose to have teenagers

I consider myself a power user, and I still can't find a use for my watch beyond fitness tracking when I have my phone in my pocket anyway

Windows improves every other version. Windows 11 is bad, Windows 12 will be better

Embedded dev here too. I work in 32KB RAM and even that's massively overspecced for my current usage. I can't imagine what kind of data I'd need to store to fill up a GB

You're complaining that it didn't give you the information, and then gave you the information?

Jesus, who thought loading hundred of MB of images in a single page was a good idea?

Normally I hate the pointless use of javascript in basic text and image websites, but lazy image loading would probably stop this server having been hugged to death

Because I guess if it's not proven to be effective if they use some known test cases, then they won't roll out to the whole network

I suspect the data may be misleading. Unsolicited sales calls from genuine businesses are not the same as spam/scam calls

You would think that the US would be all for energy that reduces its reliance on the far east, regardless of the climate change benefit

I must be out of the loop because I thought all ARM devices needed a device tree

A phone is heavy while running?

> There's also the fact people will probably look down on me for it and assume I'm incompetent because I used an LLM

I've seen so many arguments (mainly from non-developers) claiming that anyone who uses an llm to generate code doesn't know how to program. They can't understand the difference between people using an LLM to blindly churn out code, and people developing with an LLM to generate the boring bits