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dethswatch··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
I've been using it since ~23 without any issues, the ui's have all been similar to Borland's stuff since the beginning.
dethswatch··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
RustRover, my friend.
dethswatch··on Our commitment to Windows quality
#noconfidence
dethswatch··on C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets
The issue is that I want to sound like Iommi when I'm playing that music- so if I can't, then I'm not as interested.
dethswatch··on Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network (2022)
Hey how can I delete this message in future?
dethswatch··on Why aren't people developing for Windows Server more?
It's 3am and I've been woken up to deal with a production problem of reasonable seriousness. After login, I'm assaulted with the appstore's recommendations for things like sports news and various games they think I want to know about.

At the time, I couldn't imagine how anyone thought that putting this sort of thing onto their flagship server OS was a good idea.

I realized about then that Windows was lost, MS didn't have the desire to promote it, and it became clear that their only real play was Azure and spyware.

dethswatch··on ‘My bosses were happy to destroy me’ – the women forced out of work by menopause
Isn’t that where we are?
dethswatch··on Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022
Cries in Phi
dethswatch··on ‘My bosses were happy to destroy me’ – the women forced out of work by menopause
“..compensated more.”

How much more?

dethswatch··on Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack
Your company is the reason images.google is useless unless -pinterest is used.

"100 presents for grandmothers 2019" is just web badfaith, sleazy internet pollution.

dethswatch··on New biosensor visualizes stress in living plant cells in real time
0 detail about the sensor, or did I miss it?
dethswatch··on Prospective employee turned down for job because his name is Jeffrey
uniqueness constraint on first name?
dethswatch··on Learning Python and Haskell has not improved my programming (2006)
The c# code is ancient at this point and doesn’t use linq, which remedy his issues.

The language has added significant functional capabilities in the last 13 years...

dethswatch··on The Smart Gun Doesn’t Exist Because of New Jersey and the NRA
It doesn't exist because the politicians decided (with the help of the person with the patent) to force it on the public by writing laws that said they all had to have this tech when it became viable.

In addition- just as with airplanes- when your life is on the line if a thing doesn't work, you're very conservative about change (oh please add a battery and electronics...)

Third- it doesn't solve a burning problem- if the market wanted it and without #1, it would be available.

dethswatch··on Volvo is introducing a 112mph speed limiter to all its new cars
You've never had a track day...

This whole page is filled with "Doesn't apply to me, so go for it", which seems like a really bad rationale to apply to hundreds of millions of people, potentially.

dethswatch··on Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
> scriptability of CLI tools and pliability of text files >trumps all computer automa

I feel the need to sing, "You may have both.... you _may_ have both.... it's not so hard to imagine... MS even did it in certain products..."

dethswatch··on A Much Needed Etiquette for Sharing Hacker News Links
It'd also be nice to explain what the project you're announcing is in the the link title.

For example, "Foobar v2 released!"- except, I have no clue what foobar is and I'm probably not the only one.

"Foobar- The Magnificent Music Player for Linux, v2 just released!" Would be way better.

dethswatch··on Microsoft is making the Windows command line a lot better
as of win10, but too late for me to care.
dethswatch··on Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (2012)
rats had been there from the start and are a good (imo) explanation for what happened-- the tree and their seeds were preyed upon.

[This explains explains it from an academic standpoint.](https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Collapse-Resilience-Ecolo...)

Saying that they killed all the trees to help the moai get into place (or similar) is ridiculous.

In addition, the first reports from the 1720+ timeframe (first contact and there abouts) estimated the population at a few hundred iirc, no trees, toppled moai.

dethswatch··on Chocolate is a luxury. The people who produce it live in extreme poverty
It's such a luxury that we give it away to beggar kids coming to the house every year in October...
dethswatch··on Apple Registers Several New Mac and iPad Models in Eurasia
touch bar is fine- it just CANNOT be used to replace actual buttons that matter- like ESC!

So gosshake, they didn't even put the stinking ESC in the same place, they had to indent it, ruining the billion times I've trained my hand to it.

dethswatch··on The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
https://www.google.com/search?num=100&source=hp&ei=6ngxW9iYG...
dethswatch··on The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
> the communications will not be directly used against you >in court.

Directly. But via parallel construction...

dethswatch··on How Russians Trolls Won American Hearts and Minds
I too explain my failures by blaming the ignorance, or possibly stupidity, of other people.

If only they knew what I know, and thought the way I do.

Those poor, poor dolts. May they find enlightenment one day.

Surely it will be the death of our nation if they don't.

dethswatch··on IBM's Early Computers
It's not out of print, Amazon will happily sell you a copy.
dethswatch··on IBM's Early Computers
I'm reading this book right now and it's glorious- it goes into a ton of detail on the history and design of early mechanical punchcard tabulators, sorters, multipliers, etc, in order to get you to the motivation to make it all electronic, etc.

Highly recommend it.

Also- this "printing" is really more a xerox of the original- and the "print" quality stinks. I got an older hardcover version off of amazon that was actually typeset and much easier to read.

dethswatch··on Nerves v1.0 Released
This title makes it so that no one who doesn't already have a clue what this thing is will ignore it.

A better title might be: "Nerves 1 released! Create bulletproof embedded software running on the Erlang VM"

dethswatch··on Google Bans Bail Bond Ads, Invites Regulation
I'm aware of how scandinavia structures those penalties and I frankly prefer social economic status-blind policies.

It's reasonable to disagree.

dethswatch··on Google Bans Bail Bond Ads, Invites Regulation
Well, now we're changing the definition of justice based on your income. If I have 0 income and 0 assets, may I do anything I please? Should Warren Buffett pay millions for jaywalking?

It's probably a good idea for the penalties to be the same in society regardless of wealth.

dethswatch··on GNU Mcron
It wouldn't hurt to tell us what this actually is in the title.

"Gnu Mcon- a 100% compatible replacement for Vixie cron"

Would be a -way- better title.

HN seems to love to announce random products and updates without telling anyone who doesn't already know what it is.

"Gnu Squanchydoo v3 released!"

TF is "Squanchydoo"? No idea, not going to bother to find out...

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