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I remember creating a J2ME game back at uni, where the theme was to pour a beer exactly right.

Tested of course on the latest SonyEricsson of the time!

Maybe i can dig that out again and run it somewhere.

Very interesting article.

I too was rather upset about the Python 2->3 shenanigans and I was working on much smaller projects.

Thanks!

I have a few Exchange inboxes and once MS forces the “New Outlook” design, without allowing the legacy option anymore, im gone!

to be fair, im not sure its a conscious choice, since its not really easy to couple lets say data transfer bytes directly to billing data in real time, and im sure that would also use up a lot of resources.

But of course, the incentive to optimize this is not there.

nice, im looking to ditch SES, one of the last services i have running on AWS

Feels a bit like Elons 1tn deal

Yea these market cap discussions are always a bit meaningless actually, stocks can be volatile for many reasons… its not like they actually lost the delta

Even ChatGPT.com is down! Wow!

The mother of all bad infra decisions.

And people are wondering why users are getting wary of updating their systems… seriously?

Every update bloats the system, resets settings and puts more AI bullshit on there.

Whats the benefit of updates? And dont tell me “security”, I dont care, I just want to use my computer without any hassle or bloat.

Not the actual feature being talked about here, but im using office on mac with the latest updates in the EU and havent seen any copilot junk being stuffed in there.

Maybe win11 will be the same?

Great job!

Would be nice if the messages are formatted with just date, sender and message and the metadata is hidden in a popup or whatever.

I also hate it. Cant read it properly on mobile and cant copy it if needed.

But the worst thing is that these are not even real screenshots, the author pasted the text into some terminal window screenshot generator tool.

yea, that's why it's not "pro" grade, and that's my point.

"pro" users need EOL version support because sometimes some client still didn't want to update his age old web app the newest node or python or whatever. sometimes it's not up to the dev himself, and he needs to make money either way.

so in the end brew makes decisions for the most common denominator, and that will be the user that uses it to install youtube-dl and nothing more.

The problem is Whatsapp is now being used more and more in a professional context, even in Europe, and it's just not a pro software by any means. Searching for old messages is a pain, the web version is slow, there is now optimized overview or folders, etc...

And now it seems that there is not even a benefit to installing the native vbersion, they will probably do the same for Mac also now.

is there no way to disable this on mac silicon?

Im still on intel, and its ok here, but once I switch, will there be constant headaches and fumbling around because of this?

It works until PHP officially EOLs the version. Then brew stops supporting it and you have to install some finicky 3rd party taps/repos to get the older versions. A huge pain...

In the real world there are still apps running PHP 7.4 and even older!

yes, docker is a great solution nowadays for this problem, but it wasnt always like that. In PHP land there is a tool called Laravel Valet, which relies heavily on homebrew and lets you switch PHP versions on the fly directly your system. I just remember how much of a pain it was to set up because of homebrew's unnecessary restrictions and deprecations. But once done it worked quite well.

if you read any old issues on the homebrew github you can see how these maintainers are always very aggressive and anti-discussion, especially the main guy.

im talking about developers for example, that may need specific/old versions of php or node or whatever, which then get deprecated and uninstallable via brew as soon as they officially reach EOL. Or once installed, get forcefully and inadvertently updated by brew.

On the other side is some consumer who uses brew to install youtube downloader and doesnt care about versions/upgrades, etc...

Homebrew is not really pro in any way: they force updates, deprecate old software that is still widely in use, the maintainers are always very combative and dont allow any discussions or other opinions.

In the end it's a package manager for consumers that hand holds you and is not really useful in a pro context.

I've been meaning to jump to macports anyway, maybe ill do it now...

But what about the resale value??

The bag will turn blue

You have to go deeper than that, I think in the end our whole species’ goal is growth at all costs and this is subconsciously baked into every decision we make…

Its crazy they didnt even use any expensive materials to maybe somewhat justify the price.

Just the cheapest stuff you can get away with.

Sorry but 500 eur for polyester pants? Not even cotton?

Yea, no desire to ever use this.

You are talking about changing arrows to unicode arrows.

These arrow symbols are NOT identifiers but a specific syntax used in these C type languages, and then you give examples of identifiers being able to be specified in unicode.

This is not the same thing, so i have to assume that you are confused here.

Also, my point is that keyboard layouts are so ingrained that they will never change, and even if they change, it wouldnt be for some niche use like using unicode arrows.

This argument is in the same vein as “chat control because of child safety”.

Its a smokescreen.

You want less liberty because of the “least competent” user?

Yes the keyboard layouts we have nowadays are actually suboptimal for touch typing, but nobody has ever managed to change them on a global scale.

So why would one change the keyboard layouts just because somebody needs an arrow for programming? This is such a niche use case that it will never happen.

Also many programmers will not want to use the unicode arrow instead of ->, thats a personal choice and nothing else.

It would also be fatal to retrofit old languages like this since it would just create confusion for little benefit.