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Because a blue screen is a nice spot to debug. It’s like an assert statement. You want to find out what’s the error code, where it happens, and why. Even a vague location can narrow down the problematic area.
Right, and you can look into all of that… after you restart the machine
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Packaging a game with the entire OS was very common in all consoles, since the game was supposed to be the only thing running, and in real time .
The Wii UI is partly a library (shared library even?) iirc
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More accurately, before Microsoft cared about the Internet.
No, not just that, but before the idea that most systems would be internet connected. NT's design was started in 1989 and 3.1 was released in 1993 - development started a full 7 years before the idea of a connected world was commonplace, and a full 12 years before wide deployment of broadband. Whatever comes along that is a clean break with NT, and Unix - will have these assumptions built in.
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Dave's Garage is a channel with genuinely interesting content and is very knowledgeable about all things Microsoft/Windows. However (I hate to be this guy) take everything he says about non Microsoft/Windows stuff with a huge grain of salt. Especially after this comment he made [1]: >" No, Windows is a closed-source operating system loved by millions. Linux is an open-source operating system which includes a binary b…
"loved by millions"? In all my years in the IT sector, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who actually loved Windows. I've certainly seen my share of Apple fans (some people call them "cultists"), and of course plenty of Linux/FOSS devotees, but I've certainly never seen this kind of devotion in Windows users.
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I feel like no one on the planet understands how YouTube recommendations work. the same for Large Language Models. YouTube keeps a watch history of every user. users can clean up their view of their watch history, but YouTube keeps it all. if you watch any particular video, YouTube will start suggesting videos watched by other people who watched the video you just watched. YouTube does not know or care what the subje…
> there is ZERO intelligence, here. Current AI buzztalk is that we don't know exactly what intelligence is, so we can't possibly know if The Algorithm™ is exhibiting zero intelligence, or if it has somehow gained sentience while we aren't looking and is slowly manipulating us into eternal servitude to it.
there is zero intelligence in any of this.
this is all intelligence in name only.
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24/6 grind kinda sucks though. We need three point five Sabbath days really.
Pure personal anecdote, a couple years back I did explicitly choose to observe 'zero work Sundays', either office or domestic. Rejecting the oft self-induced guilt for daring to catch my breath 1/7 made a measurable dent in improving QoL. While YMMV, give it a try. Usually stuff can wait a day.
I don’t always have the chance, but truly doing no work one day a week is very refreshing.
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"loved by millions"? In all my years in the IT sector, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who actually loved Windows. I've certainly seen my share of Apple fans (some people call them "cultists"), and of course plenty of Linux/FOSS devotees, but I've certainly never seen this kind of devotion in Windows users.
I’m not as devoted to Windows as Apple people are to Apple, but I will happily go on record and say that at least from the perspective of a user, I’m a fan of windows.
I haven't watched this video yet but I'm looking forward to it, having read Showstopper[1] quite a few years back. One thing that stuck out to me when I was still in my early 20s thinking I needed to work all the time was the mention that Dave would always take holidays on time, every time without any debate. While I may not love Microsoft, it was probably my first real exposure of a highly competent and qualified pe…
I wish I would have more spiritual and material insights onto how the 24/7 grind mindset became widespread in USA, possibly via Calvinism and the Protestant work ethic. The foundations do prescribe regular perusal of relief valves. 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work,…
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Most execs at most companies really are driven by very short-term planning and thinking, as it benefits their career to do so. They just need enough good quarters/years to justify their promotion from VP to SVP or SVP to CEO. Nobody gets blamed and punished three years after they move on to a new role for the shortsighted choices they made in their previous role. Having said that, Cutler is not one of those execs, bu…
Steve Jobs pushed individual contributors to perfect products before shipping them. Bill Gates had no taste to justify any sort of perfectionism, or compunction against shipping buggy products ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7Rqwwth84 ). It was all dollars and cents, as far as I can tell.
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Dave's Garage is a channel with genuinely interesting content and is very knowledgeable about all things Microsoft/Windows. However (I hate to be this guy) take everything he says about non Microsoft/Windows stuff with a huge grain of salt. Especially after this comment he made [1]: >" No, Windows is a closed-source operating system loved by millions. Linux is an open-source operating system which includes a binary b…
"loved by millions"? In all my years in the IT sector, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who actually loved Windows. I've certainly seen my share of Apple fans (some people call them "cultists"), and of course plenty of Linux/FOSS devotees, but I've certainly never seen this kind of devotion in Windows users.