SlowTao

I wouldn't say they tasted like crap, but they where a novelty. Try it once or twice then never go back.

Absolutely, I do appreciate that the developers are so honest about the performance issues. That it is lslightly faster than half the speed is impressive when you consider the sheer scale difference contributors.

And focusing on the users is a very smart move. It is better to do average expectations somevery well than to do pure ideological design poorly. Haiku is focusing it just right I feel.

It has been said that England is a 3rd world country attached to London. That kind of dilemma will come out in odd ways like this.

Pretty much. The more they fear the blowback of the actions of civilisation, the more this in power try to hold any semblance of normality in place by force.

I love how Haiku feels like it has its feet in two places at once. That it is both in the year 2000 and 2040 at the same time.

It does feel a lot more user ready than a lot of alternatives. Although I did find it funny that on their last release a big milestone is that it can now compile code a little faster than half the speed of Linux. So performance is still lacking but gaining. Considering their team size compared with Linux, that is a big achievement.

It feels like the internal interest in Windows ARM comes in waves, that they keep letting it slide backwards.

I mean they have been trying since Windows RT on the original surface tablet 13 years ago.

We certainly are in a predicament aren't we!?

Now I am what you would consider a "Full Stallman" free software guy, but you can imagine my mixed feelings when I ended up being interviewed by Business Insider on why Microsoft shouldn't be giving up with web engine for a Chromium based browser. Yes, things like Safari are proprietary junk but they still keep things like Chrome dominance at bay. Alas I feel we are better having a few proprietary systems than a singular monolithic one. Once Apple lets that one go, it is only a matter of time until Google almost single handled controls the framework of the internet.

Save us Ladybird, you are our only hope!

Microsoft has for the longest time been about business only. Any virtue signaling was just marketing.

Years back they were gloating about how their AI systems (pre-LLM stuff) could allow for great oil production while at the same time talking projecting the image of a clean green future.

It is crazy how they managed the bungle the Xbox One launch at just the right time to cause this cascade of issues over a decade later. It doesn't help that MS haven't had a huge AAA exclusive title in a very long time. Now that they have started cutting in hard on their game dev teams, they may end up more like the Microsoft Studios before Xbox was a thing.

Yep and that is part of why I don't use them either.

I don't think this is the last generation of Xbox hardware but they definitely are not going to push the next iteration hard. I suspect they will start to license out the OS and have a broad set of hardware specs to follow. Treat it like the Surface, it will co-exist with other machines.

Essentially, the business model of the 3DO has finally been proven correct 30 years later. Do keep in mind a lot of the 3DO team did end up at Microsoft... maybe they played the long game...

Unfortunately for their timing, the Zune HD was them finally getting their idea of a music player spot on. It just happened to be 2 years after the release of iPhone.

Hey! I liked my Windows Phone. Original Xbox and the first half of Xbox 360 where also cool. End of list of good things however.

In terms of a carrier, maybe. For a lot of things, it is who you know not what you know and that is a big foot in the door. The only downside is that you have to sell out all morals and ethics.

I get the sentiment but I have to give it to DF, they have been taking the slow and steady route. That is a path to success in their field.

The more I think about it the more I find it kind of odd yet somewhat endearing that we have so much of our lives determined by the orbit of the planet. Not so much things that are actually affected by it like seasons and its impacts on ecology, but on a yearly scale we had software updates, new hardware and financial reconciliation. Things that all feel so abstract and yet are tied to the cycle of our rock spinning around the sun. The druids approve!

So I have no issue when something like a laptop being pushed back, it was all very arbitrary anyway. Can they release is a Mars based yearly cadence?

Can you imagine the argument for 8bit bytes if we still lived in the original 6bit world of the 1950s?

A big part of the move to 8bit systems was that it allowed expanded text systems with letter casing, punctuation and various ASCII stuff.

We could move to the world of Fortran 36bit if really needed and solve all these problems while introducing a problem called Fortran.

As others have pointed out, it is a dye used in poisons to show it is there.

To quote George Carlin "I am always thinking big questions like, Why is there no blue food?". This is also why most food handling gear in manufacturing is blue coloured. Easy to see.

Vaguely related,there was a small chemical spill near my house about a month back and it made it to the local creek. You could tell because they add that neon blue dye so that it is obvious when there is a spill.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/17/banyule-...

When it comes to this test... no I am not.

It doesn't help that nowadays you can have an LLM dump out a rough draft in a few minutes. The pessimistic take is that "Publish or Perish" will be the epitaph of modern science.

That authoritarian populists can use this as anti-intellectual leverage is partially the fault of this thinking. They can highlight a real issue but fan the flames.

I suppose the idea that it is based more on feeling of what needs to be done than intellectual construction of the code. That is a drastic simplification because even with the 'vibe code' you still need to have some form of overview.

It does lean into the idea that vibe code is 'Increased productivity, reduced understanding.'

As a life long Melbournian, I absolutely loved how intensely Brisbane Bluey is. I know from the outside many see oz as the unified thing but the differences between cities can be drastic. Even between Hobart and Launceston in Tassie is significant.

It is like the works of Stuart McMillen (https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/), and how they depict Canberra in a way the locals can really appreciate.

It is a good start of an idea but it kind of feels like it is just a search engine but you need to use more words to get the same result.

The real magic could be once the various elements start interacting with each other. In having to use natural language questioning, the reward from the effort needs to reflect this. Just asking for a cat picture is nice, but if it is context aware of your previous questions like "Use that picture of the cat in a document about cat care and change it to reflect the context of the document", then it could be something really cool.

I do like how things like CAPS would have been insanely difficult to do at that time simply due to the hardware limitations, not even going into the horrors of software on that era. And yet a decade or so later you could do similar stuff on the desktop.

For instance by 98/99 Futurama was doing this using SGI systems (I think?). Still hand drawn cels but entirely digitally coloured and composited.

It feels like it is something that could show broad long term accuracy over say a decade but short term the noise level would make it difficult to extract a signal.

Even then I would guess there would be a lot of other leading signals than lighting that would also correlate.

Ignoring the hyperbole of the title and that I cannot access most of the article, all I have to say is this. Mark, if that is the case, do it. I don't mean that in a mean spirit or as an accusation. Just that there is a lot of talk in the industry and not always to most action. I know it can be fun to talk about the future but at a certain point it has to actually be done.

And to compare anything to the iPhone, at least when Job's got on stage to show off the latest iWhatever, at least they knew they were 90% of the way there for release. G5 Laptops excluded and even then they acknowledged the mistake.

This is more a general statement, keep in mind it has been almost 25 years since I used ME.

More it was at the mercy of the software industry of the time. Development of complex utilities from video editing to web browsers being more than just HTML viewers and fighting over limited memory trying to manage a high stack of rapidly more complex drivers and ME just didn't handle it that greatly. The modem, printer, high end GPU's and audio systems all fighting to work together.

It just seems like the whole Windows system pre-NT was struggling to stay together. Cue the famous Win 98 demonstration crashing the system via a Plug and play scanner. Win 98 SE was in a bizarre stable state, ME wasn't and the differences under the hood could have been something that appeared fairly minor.

I do really like that Apple is trying to bring some depth back into the desktop but they need to refine the Liquid glass look a lot.

Unfortunately, this is becoming a common issue with Apple. Great ideas released a little under cooked. Like Vision Pro, great idea just needed a bit more refinement.

You could argue that conceptually, Windows hasn't changed drastically since Windows 95. Yes, there are a lot of quality of life improvements but the start menu with task bar, drop down menus and three window controls at the top are basically unchanged.

UI's for the most part are a mostly solved problem. You either go the dock path of Mac/Gnome or the task bar path of Windows/KDE/Cinnamon. There have been other attempts but nothing has really stuck.

I suspect with Windows 12, they will move the start menu back to the left and management will have met their KPI's and happy days for them. Time to integrate Co-pilot into the command terminal.

I have found that these "Is it up" sites to be only useful in the most extreme of outages. A site can be functionally dead but still responding to a requests, for instance a down stream CDN is out of action. Thus shows it is up while being of no use.