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I think the main selling point of Windows Search is spying and manipulation. Turning off websearch just leaves a carcass.

It works versus serious companies cold calling you. Scammers and semi-scammers still call. There is some need to adress what it doesn't solve too.

Nvidia and constructions companies certainly are. And a lot of middle men...

Yeah. Should be possible to do those proceduraly to save ram and some clever animation design to not use too much CPU. Anyways it is a bad trade off for the users to make and most …

Seems very wasteful to help MS make their closed system better.

Yes something like that. Devs are in the position of apprentices and helper boys in the context of blacksmiths. Equity is mostly not handed out in a way that grants power but the o…

The WFH aficionados that emerged during Covid had no concept of bargain power or power structures. Dunno why there was such resistance from the owning class afterwards with return …

Yeah. A bit overused by now I refrained from quoting it. Someone here on HN crowned Sam Altman as a "sociopat sociapat" i.e. playing sociopats for money. I think that was the insig…

Except the strange dysgenics reason for the downfall of high civilization in Idiocracy it is a interesting movie. It should have talked more about cultural enshittification.

They take warnings in popular culture as instructions or inspiration.

Blacksmiths were petite bourgeois. We are not.

How about that they do bad stuff and feel bad about it? You make it sound like they are taking a bullet or something. Desillusion is probably way worse.

Don't forget NES, SNES and Genesis. 2d games are way easier for small kids like 3-4yo. I personally would recommend Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in World of Illusions as you do Coo…

Zork comes to mind. I am pretty sure there are plenty more really early.

I guess customer lists might be the most valuable data in most Jira setups. Sales data ...

So they will harvest trade secrets from 10000s of companies and there have been no panic mass flight about this? How companies entrust SaaSs with their data is beyond insane to me.…

Does compatibility with M64 imply N64 compat?

> When I checked to see what 4K ultra looked like, the graphics latency caused a bunch of scripting to fall apart and the game glitched really bad. That is ... interesting. The gam…

In "actual fighting" the losses are such that the units are weakened not like leveling up experience. I don't think soldiers survive any meaningful amount of combat to get experien…

Enshitification is a problem when the power structures are not in the user's favour.

Eyeing Wikipedia it seems like it sold for about raised capital. Probably very little product value but some b2b contracts to milk?

> No one argues against compilers, build tools, IDEs, task runners, deploy and orchestration tools. Uhm ... I've heard quite alot arguing against IDEs. And I feel IDEs are too much…

There is no way bicycling is not less effort unless it is very hilly or bad roads? Random people have no problem keeping up with marathon runners on bikes.

The hard part is that LLM code looks like there is some sort of flow. It is like a nice statistical smooth flow. It looks very convincing at a glance. No one would write code like …

Another theory is that things has gotten worse as more and more petite bourgeois prospects for class travel lose faith in the invisible hand and turn to pure grift. And when it com…