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I want to run a modern OS with modern features and still run any software that I already paid for 5, 10, 20 years ago. Out of curiosity, have you asked customers to run your softwa…

>And rely on the things the things they have built upon to not be rugpulled from under them at random. So 10 years from now, all popular distros should support versions of Facade 1…

>The problem pointed out is a distro, library compatiblity, packaging, or sand-boxing problem, not a Linux problem. Are you suggesting Windows users switch to Linux and not use a p…

If my employer would still pay me the same salary, I couldn't care less about the license. I'm all for outsourcing this problem to the package managers.

>This is what you do for Flatpack, Steam, or Docker. All these are popular options. Yes, Flatpak is decent, but its a separate runtime with its own sandbox and perms that can somet…

The issue on Linux is that the distro's package manager decides which versions of shared libraries exist system wide, and this works well when you install everything through the pa…

Speaking of portability, As a developer who has shipped software on Windows for over a decade, and then some on Linux. Targeting Windows is insanely easy, because of the ABI. You c…

Every single program has to write logic to parse/store/query/validate those values. A common API with a single store can be type-enforced, backed up, and likely easier to work with…

>No such thing, at least as long as stock number go up. You want your 401k to go up, don't you? /s

I like to think of LLMs as idiot savants. Exceptional at certain tasks, but might also eat the table cloth if you stop paying attention at the wrong time. With humans, you can kind…

Yes, you're correct. To add - companies don't fundamentally care about all the things that we like to think of as "nice things", like good design, lack of dark patterns, robust sec…

Does sitting and closing eyes not do the same thing? That's what I do when I'm overwhelmed.

Screen and battery replacements are by far the number one repair service that people avail. The data is clear. I'm afraid you're completely wrong.

There are various types of triggers for gene activation, some genes turn on/off all the time (housekeeping), some follow the circadian rythm, some are immediate response, some are …

This is true when fresh college grads are building stuff. Experienced engineers know how to build things much more efficiently. Also people like to fantasize that their project, th…

BTW - UAC is not a security boundary, so UAC-bypass is not the same as privilege escalation, and there is no bounty for it, etc, etc. It's a common misunderstanding, probably in no…

I'm not seeing it the same way. Businesses in various industries have several types of moats - money, knowledge, experience, skills, etc. There is ton of competitive intelligence h…

fair. I want to +1 the fact that there is a large amount of data unseen by LLMs.

The amount of private data that is locked up inside private internal databases is huge. This is especially true of regulated industries. There is a wealth of data - financial data …

Sure, If ranking is done purely based on clicks and not quality. I'm just thinking of it as a meta "loss" function in the AI context. So I'd say its the passionate enthusiasts who …

Dystopian future where AI pumps out slop and uses human feedback and comments to correct the output.

>The thing is, LLM's produce better quality one-shots than any of the products that get returned from overseas ultra-budget contractors in India or SEA. Source?

They use data from the poor student tier, but arguably, large corporates and businesses hiring talented devs are going to create higher quality training data. Just looking at it lo…

Since this exodus (year of the linux desktop has been promised every year since 1998) has not yet happened, there is likely an actual reason (or several) that people choose to stay…

As per https://endoflife.date/macos only 3 MacOS versions are under active support. Also I would wager that most people upgrade the OS anyway due to the piss-poor backwards compati…