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It's brutal but true. Either have a revenue model or expect no income. That is the reality. The fuzzy grey bit in the middle is where all the garbage is.

Your idea sounds a fantastic way to make a system incredibly complicated with no actual gain other than a billing dystopia.

Yeah nothing wrong with that. This is how it goes for me though:

1. Company stuffs ads down my throat.

2. I use adblocker

3. Company blocks me

4. I ignore company.

The whole problem starts at (1) which is "create a business supported only by advertising revenue". That says your actual product is worth fuck all.

I’ve found that for basic service stuff it takes less time and cost than futzing with garages.

Exactly this. My Duster cost me 6 years of Mercedes service fees to buy outright.

Yeah mine is doing ok (2018 Duster). Hasn’t needed anything major doing to it other than tyres brakes and normal service stuff. Driving it to Iceland this year from UK via Norway so will probably kill it at some point.

Own a Dacia. At least when it breaks the parts are cheap :)

New wing mirror cost me £25!

99% of people don't seem to care.

Granted that's a problem but really it shows everything is a matter of perspective.

I don't think this is really a problem. Communications have always been a messy thing over time, from language issues to reliability issues to incompatibilities and costs.

Regardless of what stands, it's pretty damn good at the moment. I have a pocket computer that talks to people all over the world. So I have two messaging apps on it? I'm not even bothered.

The thing is I don't actually really dial anyone with their phone number any more other than close family. Most of the time I will use whatsapp video calls because said other person is usually somewhere that roaming doesn't work and is tethered on a WiFi hotspot instead. Granted that uses name resolution via phone number but it doesn't need to.

Myself and my ex wife are quite tall. All my kids are short. YMMV.

I despise this perspective. It’s pretty much finished. What more crap do you want shovelled onto it?

I’ve got a mathematics with stats degree. You’re talking rubbish.

Nowhere near that. They’re a totally unproven tool with a lot of bad side effects. They just don’t want to go to market with that.

I mean they do truly useful stuff already using ML just not LLMs

Since they got rid of Jony, it's been great. That's all I'm saying.

I think your expectations are wrong. They sit there in silence with a few leaks here and there and some github projects, people speculate and get all excited about extrapolating those things. Then Apple deliver what works which may or may not be related to it.

What they don't do is sell you a lie a year before release then deliver shit (like every other fucking vendor).

No irony in this comment at all.

The point is bad news spreads to "I won't bother".

Good to see people are working on getting rid of down slowly. Hopefully they can work out how to scale this up.

I actually have a cheap Columbia synthetic down jacket and it's lighter, packs better and warmer than the really expensive proper duck down one I had before.

It's always the accountants.

Those big ass SQL boxes cost serious money.

Why would you put yourself through it though? It's stressful. I spend enough of my time on the phone to Amazon through AWS and because my stuff is stolen.

Not very reliable. The only two people I know who used one of these stores both got mischarged and never went back again. That news travels fast.

Yeah just teaching my 17 year old to torrent stuff. That was a learning curve and a half for her. So you don't know what File Explorer is?

As other people have said, there's an NMI line. But that's not usually how it's implemented because you tend to want to mask it if the thing is doing a real time or time critical task. The Z80 CTC was the canonical solution.

Back in the dark ages had an "OS" which had a simple "task table". This was a circular linked list with enough space after each pointer to store the CPU state for a task and some stack. There was one element per task. The task interrupt would fire every 100ms, the registers/stack pointer/PC would be dumped to that, the list followed and the next task picked up and loaded into the CPU, then it'd return from interrupt and off it'd go again. You could call YIELD at any point if you didn't want the rest of your time slice. If you had something that needed to handle an interrupt from the CTC or an NMI, it would disable interrupts until it was done.

Notably you didn't tend to create new tasks. They were hard coded in at assembly time!

Edit: we also had an 8031 version as well.

I made my own version of AWS workspaces inside AWS because workspaces is a buggy piece of shit and the client sucks. It's just an EC2 instance which can be started and stopped by a makefile that runs awscli and I query the IP address and open it in MS RDP!

That's not even an analogous argument.

Eventually. At the end users's cost of time, memory, CPU and laggy ass performance while the JIT process is running. This is done on potentially millions of machines multiple times a day.

Which is my point about it serving the needs of the publisher, not the end user.

Exactly that. "Build it and they will come" is one of those stories only the victors tell. My own approach was to tell everyone to go away who was asking stuff and finally give in to the most persistent person, then reluctantly build something and sell it to them because I couldn't be bothered to deal with it. This gets you a comfortable life but not rolling in cash and you get to retain your sanity, your dignity and your ethics.

I bet that one has the conspiracy nuts going.

Yes that. Lines up with the meme going around. They call me 007. 0 coding skills. 0 social skills. 7 Udemy certificates.

As purely an end user, yes.

I don't want to run another virtual machine that eats up RAM, has worse performance and battery life than something natively compiled and generally serves only the interests of the person servicing it to me.

I want apps that are 100% native and work when occasionally connected. And I want the www to go back to servicing content, not apps and garbage to me.

I don't want a gigabyte RAM footprint Electron app that ships Rust in webassembly to read emails when my current mail client used 77 meg of RAM and just works. I don't want 50 browser engines running on my phone.

I think as an industry we've lost our way and turned to crack smoking crazy.

Apple photos is wonderful for this. I can search for “cows” and I get photos of cows. All on device in the middle of a mountain with no internet 50 miles in any direction.

Kyrgyzstan roads. I was nearly killed by a Chinese truck swerving around a donkey which was chilling in the middle of the road in the middle of the night.