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Isn't Microsoft heavily invested? As one should know, Microsoft are experts at confusing and contrived naming with no connection to reality: Windows Home, Windows Home Premium, Windows Professional, Business, Premium, Small Business etc. Now it is Copilot: Copilot, Copilot Plus, Copilot 365, pretty and Copilot Copilot too, I guess. And ofc Microsoft points, the currency for Xbox. And yeah, anything is Xbox too.

The (not so) interesting part is how inefficient it is. Marketing by ads on the internet has less than 0.5% hit or click rate, and even then it is mostly accidental clicks due to the over-saturation of ads. It's not a real economy. It is just simply not actually worth it.

That's just pedantic, because you know it is not the reality they choose. Most sites don't want to not track you. So they pretend they care about your privacy, and then proceed to collect and share data on you anyways.

Since you did not understand the point at all: There are regulations in place to force sites to "ask" for permissions to use cookies and track you. The point is that the regulations completely fail to force the sites to not blatantly lie, and wrap the "consent" with "we care".

This goes a long way to prove that Microsoft does NOT care about your privacy, even if the header of their cookie consent claims so. They absolutely do not care, and this should be said about every big-tech vendor, not matter how lame it seems to say so. It is long overdue that we all say what needs to be said: they do not care about your privacy, your independence, or your well being. They DO NOT CARE.

Goes a long way to prove that industrial air conditioning is absolutely abysmal. If air conditioning actually worked satisfactorily, opening a window should never be necessary unless you want the cold waft of air, while the air conditioning actually delivered high-quality, low-CO2 air without smell. Instead any room at > 20% capacity is quickly filled with CO2 and the putrid smell of bad mouth and body odour. I get it that perfect ventilation would be way more expensive, but at the current level it is just bad, and the windows are sealed shut. It does not make sense from a human perspective.

You seem to conflate different facts that have nothing to do with each other to arrive at a conclusion: There is nothing preventing Apple from not using said click masks while icons retain their distinct shapes. iOS is for mobile, its lessons don't transfer to desktop, and this was proven by Windows 8. That "squircles aren't ugly because they are functional" - how on Earth can those be mutually exclusive even in recognition? Functional very often is at the cost of making things ugly, the history lesson is that Apple more often than others managed to be both functional and beautiful. You also conflate convex pixel area with visual weight, but that is false too.

That's just asinine. You understood the point perfectly.

A company could get more profits from formally teaching employees the function of the Fn key on their laptops. It is staggering how most people, even among developers, don't know what it's for, and consequently, nearly everybody suffers from not being able to turn volume up or down, or accidentally disconnect from meetings by having turned on airplane mode.

AI harbours evil, because unskilled people tend to trust it blindly. People have already been evicted, arrested and harassed by police simply because they choose to trust technology that flags or "recognizes" them, with no proof that they can trust it. This happens automatically. Thus, AI should be treated as potentially malicious, especially when it is sold as neutral.

Did you compare AI companies to parents and engineers actually delivering value to toddlers? AI companies cannot, in any capacity, be regarded as caretakers.

"For the first decade of his career, he lived in an apartment and worried about paying for vacations. Then, in his early 30s (...)" ... here is America, without paid vacation guaranteed by law since the government does not truly care about the middle or working class. It's amazing how serious media can write articles about economy, while the blatant obvious deficits slip right by their nose..

If AI was truly profitable Microsoft wouldn't need to cover their expenses at every other corner.

This means that you can ignore any part of licenses you don't want to and just copy any software you want, non-free software included.

Well, there are many legitimate cases for using the equality operator. Insisting someone is doing something wrong is downright wrong and you shouldn't be teaching floating-point numbers. A few use cases are: Floating-points differing from default or initial values and carrying meaning, e.g. 0 or 1 translates to omitting entire operations. Then there is also the case for measuring the tinyest possible variation when using relative tolerances are not what you want. Not exhaustive. If you use == with fp, it only means you should've thought about it thoroughly.

See, AI was used to accelerate arrest and jailing, but not to follow through. It was not used to ensure her well being. Clearly this demonstrates that AI contributes to treating humans inhumanely, and demonstrably AI is not used to improve anyones quality of life. Stop making excuses for "AI not at fault here".

It doesn't matter if the icon is ever so slightly ambigious compared to other systems, the label text next to it removes any ambiguity and makes the message perfectly clear, as long as it is consistent within a product. To any newcomer to a new system, most icons don't make sense, so the text next to it is an invaluable hidden tutorial. OP didn't stop to see that the circled checkmarks look like clocks, so it just highly opinionated.

This should be compulsory for pitching architects and entrepreneurs. Prove that your design can withstand real weather and the washed out decay of time. Classical architecture withstands weathering and littering remarkably better. Architects are even using corrugated steel sheets intended for ugly shacks as the fascade of new buildings intended for people to live in. It couldn't be worse.

How is that different from today's SA, like CodeQL and SonarQube? Most of the feedback is just sh*t and drives programmers towards making senseless perfections that just double the amount of work had to be done later to toggle or tune behaviour, because the configurable variables are gone due to bad static code analysis. Clearly present intent and convience like: Making a method virtual, adding a public method, not making a method static when it is likely to use instance fields in the future --- these good practices are shunned in all SA just because the rules are opportunistic, not real.

The "Microsoft gave" framing is the exact right wording!, because Microsoft should never have had these keys in the first place. This is a compromise on security that sidesteps back doors on the low level and essentially transforms all Windows installations into Clipper-chip products.

It's still the foundational underpinning of everything Microsoft does. It's just that the other revenues dwarf it. What still shocks me is that the current developers and management on the Windows teams are so extremely bad at everything they do. It's not like they could not serve ads and shove CoPilot in your face, without making the UI so so sloppy and slow. It's not like they couldn't make Explorer use less memory and start faster, even with preloading, which was introduced in Vista, opening Explorer remains painfully slow.

Well, we sorely need something better than the current static code analysis tools, like sub-par products SonarQube and CodeQL that see massive overuse, because these tools do not understand that living and evolving code needs imperfections and that _most_ programmers have already thought through their code and made decisions that can't align with poor text book examples of "correct code".

So you missed the point too. The post depends on versioning being diffs only.

Who's gonna tell the author that Git doesn't do diffs, but snapshots?

Deltas are just an implementation detail, and thinking of Git as diffing is specifically shunned in introductions to Git versioning.

Apple has had 30 years to make UI focus and input stable, and not let something invisible steal input focus. Fortunately for mac, this is much worse on Windows.

The problem with Windows after Windows 7 isn't really ads, it's the blatant stupid use of web view to do the most mundane things and hog hundreds of MB or even GBs for silly features, that are still present in enterprise versions.

The fact that they considered transmitting only keyframes speaks volumes about how inept they are. It can be a cool baseline test, but celebrating trendy choices, like Rust, and not understanding that keyframes and efficient differentials are key to achieving high video compression makes me go completely numb.

It is not out of memory, with 32GB it is just slow even on a fresh start. It all goes to say that Microsoft willingly chose to use UI kits with 100x overhead compared to real functionality and rendering. It needs to die, when FOSS can make 12 year older hardware outshine 8x more expensive hardware in every single aspect, without any tweaking. It's the very definition of insanity.

You are conflating awkward auto-generated backing fields with plain backing fields. A proper serializer handles these cases. Yes, serialization should and must depend on names, how else to put things back together? The onus is always on the programmer to not break serialization, or provide migration.

The removable nose is a power move from the engineers who built the thing. You cannot possibly believe that the animatronic contribution here is 100% contingent on a carrot?