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> attitude towards user experience was more prevalent in mainstream OSs. > It's little things like errors automatically prompting you to open a graphical debugger If this is the co…

But but -- the New York Times had said this is just fine for over a year: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/picking-smart-deadbo... Notice that they essentially rake (with th…

Oh this again. The idiots at the WireCutter already covered this and they think it's just fine. Mass market smart locks are a dumpster fire and they have the full support of the ma…

> Mostly everyone else seems to define the bitness of CPUs by their capacity to add numbers in one go, not by the address space they can address. Nah, only historically. Yes, "8-bi…

> They went from 95 and XP, some of the best operating systems from a user's perspective I mean that's some rose-tinted shit if I ever heard it, 95 especially. 98 OSR2 improved qui…

> when was the last time you heard about someone having file corruption on their local OS due to using a bad filesystem technology? Quite frequently. It's not that uncommon at all.…

> don't all modern file systems do that? Define this. But the simple, practical answer is no.

> the original process The "original process" of integrated circuit design was cutting rubylith - this was well into the 70s. The venerable MOS 6502 was done this way as was the In…

> Namecheap immediately resold the domain to a squatter No I don't see how their post allows one to infer that Namecheap "immediately" resold the domain. Their policy is a 30 day g…

> My register doesn’t allow registrations longer than 1 year. Ummm.. then maybe get a better registar? It's not like there aren't many to choose from.

> When the 801 shipped, almost no system had hard coded microcode. 1990? No system without soft microcode? That's a very restricted definition of system for the field of computing …

> I think what I'm saying is that calling file I/O "blocking" is also not a useful definition of "block". Because I don't really see the fundamental difference between "we have to …

> My argument is that disk I/O is more like memory I/O than it is like network I/O It depends on your network and disk - and yes SSD and "slow" ethernet are the common case, but th…

> Sure it does! Main memory is much slower than cache so on a cache miss the CPU has to stop and wait for main memory to respond. The CPU may even switch to executing some other th…

> If you really think about it, the only real difference between main memory blocking and disk blocking is the amount of time they may block. This is a somewhat confusing analysis …

> If you can't take pride in a job well done as a store clerk, why the hell does anyone think you'll take pride in a job well done as a developer? That motivation is internal. This…

Lol, are you trying to make a convincing argument? And if not, why bother replying with such nonsense. That short list provided is not "most software", thats a smattering of infras…

> we are in a world where open source is the way. I think you're in a bubble. The world still runs primarily on closed source and proprietary software and services.

If you're going to use language like "patently false" it helps to be correct. Keyless car fobs are not constantly transmitting. If they were, the battery would die quite quick. The…

Someone owns a lot of TSLA.