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I saw RT was already speculating/fearmongering about France giving Ukraine secret nuke components. This all seems like it could get quite bad.

Horrible.

In UK, was redirected to russia today. Cannot recall which domain(s).

Tax breaks, operations of state owned industry, other incentives etc are guided by five year plans implemented by a party bureaucracy.

If the size of state and bureaucratisation are the main issues, one wonders how China got so far :-)

I know enough about Unix that shipping an outdated binary in the base system is entirely unsurprising :-)

macOS switched to zsh a while ago. i don’t see what that minor choice has to do with being or not being UNIX.

OpenAI aren’t using their cloud directly, but have signed data center partnerships with them that are effectively huge amounts of debt not backed up with revenue. That’s all liabil…

don’t forget oracle!

> vying with Microsoft for the “worst maintainer of links on the entire Web” trophy Anybody who has tried to read Microsoft’s dev blogs know they’ve earned that trophy. Raymond Che…

The Expanding What We Measure section was very nice to see. Thank god somebody is attempting to measure more qualitative metrics like the experience of contributing rather than ann…

asked it who it was > jeff epstein, financier > just chillin rn lol > u? hilarious project, an awkward omegle chat with a dead pedophile

They would want to learn Winforms/WPF/WinUI/whatever if microsoft could settle on one and use it. I suppose part of the react native stuff is that Microsoft hasn’t done a good job …

Microsoft has the resources to train people.

+1. even blocking keywords could be nice, e.g. i don’t use AI for coding and don’t care much for news about claude code. captcha would make it more of a hassle to post comments.

Apple maps was the only GPS app that correctly routed me in rural England; others would occasionally tell me to drive straight through a no entry sign. It’s an interesting exceptio…

> almost any bugfix at the level of an operating system kernel can be a “security issue” given the issues involved (memory leaks, denial of service, information leaks, etc.) On the…

What exactly does “one shot” mean here?

even when there are alternatives, sometimes it makes sense to use a library like Qt in its native language with its native documentation rather than a binding - if you can do so sa…

windows 11 for ARM, as bad of an OS it is in many aspects, is an incredible experience for backwards compatibility. I can run a 32 bit game built for windows xp in parallels and no…

herb sutter and the c++ community as a whole have put a lot of energy into improving the language and reducing UB; this has been a primary focus of C++26. they are not encouraging …