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dajtxx
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I agree but I think the problem will be if the consequences are that dire then entire classes of business will cease to exist OR the cost of doing things properly will be passed on to the consumer.

I struggle to see how data brokers, social media, etc are a net benefit to society so would be happy to see those sorts of businesses cease to exist, but I suspect I'm in the minority.
dajtxx
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
It's a nice thought but think of the cost!

You do have to wonder what the hell the people in charge of the Windows UI are thinking. They seem to have got it so badly wrong. But so has Apple in macos.
dajtxx
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
Don't kwow why you're getting downvoted, seems like a reasonable comment to me.

I agree, JavaScript and all it has enabled is a curse.

If one wanted the good bits of JavaScript I'm sure there are languages they were copied from that could be used instead.
dajtxx
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Still not feeling any sympathy. These people are actively working to make society worse.
dajtxx
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
I had a job in the early 90s where another team were using Wang 2200s which I'm sure were coded with line-numbered BASIC.

Could be one of those with the everlasting ERP type software running on an emulator.
dajtxx
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
I think Fusion360 is one of the worst things I've seen. It presents as local but it feels like every mouse click causes a web request to happen.

Something that should be local and snappy is just an awful experience.
dajtxx
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Such a weird and absurd conversation to be having from the PoV of someone who started using computers a long time ago.

Offline first apps 'sound like the future'? I agree they're far better than the trash we have now, but it's not like we can't build them now.

We should be building them now. The web was never meant to be an app delivery platform :(
dajtxx
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
6502 zero page instruction vibes.
dajtxx
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
I saw this yesterday. I was asking it to update an SQL query and it was saying, 'I did this' and then that wasn't in the query. I even saw it put something in the query and then remove it, and then say 'here it is'.

Maybe it's because I use the free tier web interface, but I can't get any AI to do much for me. Beyond a handful of lines (and less yesterday) it just doesn't seem that great. Or it gives me pages of javascript to show a date picker before I RTFM and found it's a single input tag to do that, because it's training data was lots of old and/or bad code and didn't do it that way.
dajtxx
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Shorter, Milchick!
dajtxx
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I can imagine the effort of open source Windows would be prohibitive.

Having to go through every source file to ensure there is nothing to cause offense in there; there may be licensed things they'd have to remove; optionally make it buildable outside of their own environment...

Or there may be just plain embarrassing code in there they don't feel the need to let outsiders see, and they don't want to spend the time to check. But you can be sure a very small group of nerds will be waiting to go through it and shout about some crappy thing they found.
dajtxx
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I’m finding ave harder to watch as time goes by. He’s got some conspiracy stuff going on and while he’s clearly intelligent & educated I wonder if he all that much smarter than most of us or if he’s just bluffing sometimes. He’d be fun to be friends with and hang out with for sure but I think a lot of people consider him some sort of know everything genius. He seems to play up to his audience more and more.
dajtxx
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I’m not sure where TOT sits. He’s not particularly ‘how to do it’ like mrpete222 or maybe Presso, but he’s not trivial dumb stuff either. He’s entertaining and I think YT would be worse without him.