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I'm wondering whether ReactOS can exploit Claude et. al. to their fullest and "recreate" Windows 2000/95. I may donate some tokens for that cause.
That sounds like a terrifying legal minefield that they would not want to tread
Or would Microsoft like to argue otherwise in court?
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Yet another case where text printed on paper outlived any digital storage.
> struggled with the quality of the decades-old printout. barely It sounds like this printout has deteriorated badly and was barely readable.
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For a very long while now, we had programmers who never understood any low level concepts at all . They have started with js or python, and never looked 'down'. There are no limits to monstrosities they will consider normal. Linus Torvalds, a few months ago, said something to this effect when discussing AI coding tools. That his (also, mine) generation was lucky to have started with low level stuff and managed to ret…
>and managed to retain the understanding of the whole stack No one understands the whole stack. There is too much specialized information.
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They had some old German guy with a big beard, and two interns, running some sort of big contraption that looked like a medieval torture instrument, and the interns would run and put letters in a row and then the old guy move a massive letter and in the end out came a bit of paper with source code on it.
Where can I buy this printer?
I cannot describe to you how jealous I am of the fact that back then writing a few thousand lines of assembly was what it took to launch a successful software company.
I cannot describe to you how jealous I am of the fact that back then writing a few thousand lines of assembly was what it took to launch a successful software company.