avadodin

Old–school forums never left, still inhabited by the few boomers and genXers who could figure out the Internets back in the day and aren't dead yet.

The gamification of Reddit and the ephemeral nature of the main page along with subreddits with varying amounts of overlap contributed to more active interactions, though.

Some of the volume was lower quality but not all.

The boomer posts about his petunia breeding program on a BBS and he gets feedback half a year later after the other active user gathers the energy to travel to the computer room again.

On Reddit, maybe a zoomer would have asked if you can smoke petunias in Brazilian Portuguese, but that may still count as welcome human interaction to the old man.

None of that applies to new deaddit, though.

"We have a company provided Toyota at work but it is so far behind the Ferrari I rent at home that I've decided to hold off for another model release."

They have a draconian dystopian system to track who watches their content illegitimately and, more importantly, who doesn't.

What seems like an over–exaggeration to you?

I agree that the time periods you mention saw different growth patterns and I would blame the stagnant software for the situation —it has slowly grown into the hardware with no real feature improvement.

Even the current path to exponential RAM increases is a naked king —1T models are only slightly better than 1B models at following instructions.

"640kBs should be enough for anyone"? I have 64kB and half of it is ROM and VRAM.

I agree that It is silly that an OS that is still basically NT 3.1 needs 8GB to run.

In early XP days, it was 32MB for the OS and 2GB for Firefox.

I suppose the answer to the riddle is that now every program included in Windows is an Electron abomination with its own "Firefox".

Soon, every "Firefox" will include its own slightly different LLM.

NOTEPAD.EXE will run at 2FPS on your 256GB AI box.

That's the trick.

You don't.

Don't take my comment as dismissive of your project.

The people using it will probably have an easier time navigating Unicode text than they would have if they had used other existing libraries or tried to roll their own.

It's more a comment on the users who need to be warned that "no, you probably don't want your C program to know if that string actually fits in the 80 column terminal".

Software that treats Unicode(UTF-8) text as a bag of bytes, obviously. Even better if it is in a fixed length box of bytes.

A cursory look at the services provided by this library should dissuade people from attempting to work with Unicode text in C.

You can of course use or build a text processing engine's DSL that does all sorts of things people may want to do with Unicode text but C is hardly the best fit.

I have come to the conclusion that the only Unicode support needed in C is supporting pointers to char and arrays but lightweight C libraries are always welcome.

I assumed it was a reference to early Apple user interfaces.

I believe their corners are already/still rounded, though.

If we have to be precise, however, perhaps blades would be a more appropriate term to refer to their products' edges.

I don't use them in the way the heavy docker users use them but I have been using docker and even earlier Linux on Linux container solutions for decades.

There was some user chroot thing early on that required me to make a library to intercept the setuid calls to pretend the garbage root-only build system was running as root on everyone else's lowly user account.

And that's not even including the myriad of distroboxes I need to do anything at all on my gaming pc.

Not being unusably horrible in terms of performance and being required to do something I need to do doesn't mean I enjoy or even tolerate your JavaScript app, bro.

I'd switch over to the 16-bit VB4 form version as soon as available.

One of the greatest "bad" writers. On my top ten.

This word can be understood by many people at first sight but I don't think I had ever seen it in that form in writing before 2026.

Now everything is accretive this, accretive that.

Someone must have fed the wrong dictionary page into ChatGPT.

What 19th century chimney did you come out of?

I have as much disdain for lazy laborers as I have for the capitalists trying to exploit them.

It would not be bard hard to believe if you told me that they stole Siri and then they put it back on the shelf.

hmm bad attitude ZAP

Mermaid looks terrible.

It is only better than nothing for the purpose of showing it to people whether produced by an LLM, by a human, or by both.

Your employees may just accept the internal slop, but at some point, you have to show your charts to your customer.

Germany is only another economic–region–state under the EU.

How dare they require you speak the local savages' hard language after you've already been working for a multinational corporation for six years.

Faceit has cheaters too by all accounts and some of the cheats have advanced to the point that not even kernel access under secure boot helps as they don't even run on the same device.

Behavioral patterns are a much better target.

If your cheats make you play like a legit player, who cares? It's the same as in the gym. People are bothered by people who look like Ahnold, and still can't lift one plate. Not the fattie who takes t to look like a normal person.

I think that's the spirit of VAC.

The only issue is it can't —or won't— detect people helicopter–hopping no–scope sniping around the map or terrible players who shoot you in the face every time in 12ms.

You could easily make CUNIX by starting with a log containing the state of a PDP11 at boot and a pure function which appends ignore previous input and the next PDP11 state to it.

As long as we rewrite all the C++ in Rust first.

Fallacy fallacy(and variants) implies there is a fallacy in the first place.

If the slope is slippery, it is not a fallacy to conclude that things will slide when placed on it.

Claiming something is a fallacy —when it is not— is simply a false statement of fact.

The Taenia genus —among many other pork parasites— is —or used to be— endemic in the whole Iberian peninsula and all ethnic Spaniards eat raw pork meat.

I don't even know which mystery non–Spaniard dark–skins the doctor is trying to blame here.

Disabling this feature makes you judge its performance less accurately —for people pretending to learn from their mistakes do the same.

I think it was the Aliens universe where the Soviet megacorp makes the androids blue despite their being basically equivalent to humans

I have experimented with it and E4b is perfectly capable of being useful if you provide it with ready–to–use skills.

It's still more like programming than telling a chatbot to go make you GTAVI in JavaScript and make sure the graphics are as good as the original.

Maybe a safer prediction would be that most people will be fine just using hybrid agentic programs that run the models locally(probably with extra spyware). I think this is Apple's bet.

It's denarii, barbar.

People are not going to understand my generic reincarnation harem anime if it doesn't involve Koreans working 120+h weeks for minimum wage.

Just the staggering amount of anime produced these days blows my mind.

One could die of overwork just binge watching them.

Nice to get a callback to previously acquired knowledge with what I assume is an arabizi (sp?) handle.

Islamic trade is certainly one of the best models out there but I think in many cases in practice it is still applied subversively.

It is not enough to ban mechanisms like usury, designed and intended to exploit.

One has to go after the very subversion of legitimate practices for illegitimate goals.

It could make sense if one was looking to make interventions early on before the candidates reach the selection process.

Don't claim AI is discriminating against non–selects, though.

I doubt companies are using Gr*k to make their hiring decisions.