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Ask HN: Are people still writing commercial software for desktop PCs?

5 points·by gecko6·letztes Jahr·10 comments

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gecko6
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Individual republicans may well love science, but the Republican party is and has been anti-science for a long time, and aggressively so.
gecko6
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Listening to the Christmas lectures was a high point of my childhood, and everyone in my family still remembers and talks about the ones we watched.
gecko6
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
I was startled when I was interviewed by an AI interviewer, since I wasn't expecting anything like that (perhaps I'm naive). It asked a series of questions about my job experience and technologies I had not worked with, then at the end I was informed that my application had been rejected - for a position that was not the one I was applying to. I only regret that I did not think to just repeat "banana banana banana" over and over agin to see whether I could drive the AI into a weird state. That would have made it all worthwhile.
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
CS Lewis on the dangers of caring too much:

"It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning. I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help, and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. (This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do for those we know.) A great many people now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don't think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others; but even while we're doing it, I think we're meant to enjoy our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, your jokes, and the birdsong and the frosty sunrise."
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Is the company DataAnnotation? I ask because the feeling I get from comments on the Internet is that they are not a real company - they might just be collecting people's contact information for their own reasons. Just my opinion.
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
I don't have kids, and will never have kids, but even so I don't see people whose children are being denied food as a problem that the children's parent's caused. I see hungry kids who can't learn because they're distracted by hunger as the problem, and I will gladly pay taxes to see that they don't go hungry.
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Could this be it? TLS 1.3 connection, with every field in the packets labelled: https://tls13.xargs.org
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
That may be the first time I've heard of AI actually creating jobs, rather than abolishing them.
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
This is how I got laid off. Working on legacy software, sole person on the team, eventually management decided that it could be replaced by AI or some such pixie dust.
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
And it was 1971 when the last chemical castration as a 'treatment' for homosexuality was performed in the US.
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Uhuh. Let me guess, you're a heterosexual white male? the Republicans have been very explicit about making my existence a crime since the 1980s. These are the despicable people who made jokes about my friends dying of AIDS, who now want to make just mentioning my marriage 'sexualized content' and therefore prosecutable. Oh, and by the way, they want to eradicate my marriage, which had to be repeated because it was rescinded by a court decision affecting me and 3,997 other couples.

I want to be very clear, so let me say this: you are wrong, and have no idea what it actually means to be on the receiving end of discrimination.
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
> None of that is "opposed to Open-source".

You're quite right. Open-source vs. non-open-source is irrelevant to the question.
gecko6
·letztes Jahr·discuss
I do use a desktop environment. I don't use many additional productivity tools, though, and that is likely why I have a blind spot about that part of the software market.

My question was more geared towards the seeming lack of a robust software ecosystem (i.e., there appears to be at most one leading product in each category, with one or two alternatives), to whit: - there's Xcode/VSCode. - Photoshop/GIMP. - Sublime Text - not sure about DAW software - the field has changed since I was involved

I'll have to check macupdater out, thanks for the tip.