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Microsoft plans to build 100% native apps for Windows

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4 points·by kbelder·hace 3 meses·3 comments

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kbelder
·hace 5 horas·discuss
Everywhere I've ever worked, if I went to management and said "hey, I've got some files from my last job, if you want to see them," they would say "absolutely not, please get rid of them RIGHT NOW," and probably fire me.

But, I don't work in Silicon Valley.
kbelder
·hace 6 horas·discuss
I was thinking that somebody (Me? No... Somebody.) should start a foundation to start making archive copies of models... not for usage, but because every model is a (somewhat flawed) snapshot of the state of global knowledge as of the time it was trained. In fifty years, you'll be able to talk to Gemini 2.5 flash and get answers from the perspective of 2025. It might be a valuable for historic and sociological research.
kbelder
·hace 6 horas·discuss
I'm guessing this was initially '1.5 metric tons', and through a number of helpful and friendly conversions, ended up at 3,300 sugar bags.
kbelder
·hace 6 horas·discuss
But AI generated linked content was explicitly not disallowed. At least not at this time.
kbelder
·hace 10 horas·discuss
No, there were plenty of other reasons as well. I didn't downvote, but I wanted to at the second word.
kbelder
·ayer·discuss
There were consumer 8-track writers, and you could buy blank 8-tracks. But it was more expensive and less common; just never caught on.
kbelder
·ayer·discuss
>But I won’t let a discussion about X, Grok et.al ever focus on anything technical.

Highlighting this sentence, because it exemplifies so much of the contemptable behavior in this thread.
kbelder
·ayer·discuss
I kind of doubt that Twitter/X is any sort of net benefit. Boring company was a wash, Tesla is a net positive, although it also has some issues. Paypal was a huge advancement, although it's still deeply flawed. Grok may end up important, but right now it's kind of just hovering around 'acceptable' second-tier.

But SpaceX has the potential of driving some of the grandest and most revolutionary accomplishments of the 21st century. That's going to be what determines if high-schoolers recognize his name two hundred years from now.
kbelder
·anteayer·discuss
I actually don't believe that, considering the way you're defining that salute. In fact, somebody mentioning it is a clear indicator to me that they're engaging in bad faith... similar to seeing someone say "Trump told people to drink bleach" or "immigrants are eating our pets"
kbelder
·hace 3 días·discuss
But at every point, your product was better if you still understood the lower level. Your Python is better if you understand Assembly.
kbelder
·hace 3 días·discuss
"Less than 5% of Microsoft’s half a billion commercial Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot features"

Seems to me that 4.5% of 500 million isn't necessarily terrible. What should the rate be?
kbelder
·hace 3 días·discuss
How do you judge the caliber of a philosopher?
kbelder
·hace 4 días·discuss
>9 degrees F would be already be wild, but 9 C sounds crazy!

Honestly, that shifts me firmly into the "I don't believe that for a second" territory. If anybody can actually show the studies with measurements where that happened, though, I'd be interested.
kbelder
·hace 4 días·discuss
It does a lot; just not any actual accomplishing of goals.
kbelder
·hace 8 días·discuss
When I was younger, I read that stars tended to have a bimodal distribution of rotational periods... many have a period measured in hours, and then another large group (like our sun) have a period of many days. The thought at the time was that the slower-rotating stars lost their angular momentum to planetary systems.

That makes sense to me, but that was before we had discovered exoplanets. I wonder if that theory still holds up?
kbelder
·hace 8 días·discuss
Plus, an important aspect of capitalism is that the employer/employee relationship is freely entered into or exited from on both sides. In communism, that typically isn't the case.
kbelder
·hace 8 días·discuss
I don't like how somebody is flagging/downvoting all your comments. This is about your product; it's highly relevant, whatever somebody might think about it.
kbelder
·hace 9 días·discuss
Well, restricting posts to those actually accessible isn't unreasonable. Allowing them is HN's worst policy, in my humble opinion.
kbelder
·hace 9 días·discuss
An important compilation target for Godot is mobile, since it's obviously a very large games market.

And, since the Godot IDE is, itself, an app written in Godot, porting to mobile is almost free. More a question of tweaking than rewriting. That's the same reason there's a version of Godot runnable in a browser... it's a consequence of Godot allowing webapps as build targets.
kbelder
·hace 10 días·discuss
https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2026/06/like-an-explosi...

$3.86 million claim from a pothole. I'm normally pretty skeptical of damage claims, but that is a pretty nasty pothole.