You know what they meant by the first one. The second one is about people not being interested in dumb products like the Logitech AI mouse. Corporations are all jamming AI into their products and marketing materials not because users like it (they don’t) but because they hope it will attract investors. So AI is more interesting to investors than to people who don’t want it in their mouse.

Many of our home customers’ feedback indicated a preference for the certainty provided by an annual plan. The annual plan offers assurance that you always have access to the latest version with innovations such as improvements we’ve made in compression speeds and algorithms. It also ensures you have access to critical updates and are protected against new threats and risks.

I think they made that up. I highly doubt their customers expressed any such preference.

The problem is that Librewolf’s continued existence depends on Firefox continuing to exist. And while I like Vivaldi (but not its closed-sourceness), if all browsers end up being Chromium-based, Google still has an effective monopoly on web standards.

It’s just about marketing. People don’t know about what they don’t hear about, and the wealthier companies can make sure people hear about them. There’s no budget for that with regular Fediverse sites.

$20 per month would be enough to discourage me. It’s another relatively costly computer-related subscription and I already feel like I’m losing a battle to keep those minimal. There would have to be some very clear benefits for that price.

Maybe I’m a bad programmer, or maybe I’m just busy and tired, but honestly I don’t often care enough to investigate until I need to build something similar.

They’re looking for something open-source. Draw.io’s readme says:

License

The source code authored by us in this repo is licensed under a modified Apache v2 license. This project is not an open source project as a result.

I haven’t been through the license to see what its restrictions are, but there must be a reason they give this warning.

Yes. They just don’t want the AI being trained on its own excrement.

This should be the splash screen on every distro.

That’s why I’d love to see more developers take another look at Linux. Such that they may develop better proficiency in the basic katas of the internet. Such that they aren’t scared to connect a computer to the internet without the cover of a cloud.

The developers I have come across mostly use Linux if they can, or another OS if they can’t (e.g. when developing specifically for Apple or Microsoft platforms). Are there many that haven’t even looked at it?

Interesting topic but what a terribly written article. Did they just ask ChatGPT a few questions and paste together random chunks of the answers? It keeps suggesting there are downsides, but never even names one.

I’ve been nervous of phoning people since long before cellphones were invented, precisely because it always seemed rude to make someone’s phone ring and demand a conversation when they’re in the middle of whatever they’re doing. It’s interesting to see more people coming to see it like this.

Once it develops further I would genuinely consider using it as my main OS on my laptop.

Don’t hold your breath. In 23 years they have got as far as R1 Beta 4.

I’m old enough to remember the start of eternal September. It hasn’t stopped yet.

my downvotes. They are reserved for low-quality content, not that which I personally disagree with.

There was more of that in the early days of Reddit. At some point everyone abandoned that principle, and from them on every thread became more of a battle than a conversation.

Maybe they should, and also care about the many people still using these processors that are not very old.

Some of the old LG phones (the V series) were known and sold for the quality of their audio. If you can find one of those on eBay it should be pretty cheap.

It’s important to be able to reason about performance, even in ordinary business computing. If you pick the wrong data structure or algorithm, you can create memory problems, speed bottlenecks, etc. Even if you always use libraries it helps to understand the algorithms and structures they use so you can build efficient software.

And in game programming some knowledge of algorithms and data structures is very valuable. You often have to direct the behaviour of many objects at once in real time and, efficiency is really important.

Without this background knowledge you won’t recognize how the problem you are faced with is best addressed by a particular well-known algorithm. Recently, for example, I worked on a business problem that turned out to be tractable by arranging data into a graph and finding optimal pathways through the graph. This wasn’t obvious from the initial problem description. And for a game I needed to learn about N-body algorithms and how to efficiently approximate gravitational forces between many objects.

I wouldn’t say you need advanced math to do these kinds of programming, but you do need to know when it’s time to defer to other people’s expertise and tried-and-tested data structures and algorithms.

Yeah, this one report from Puget Systems doesn’t outweigh the many reports, going back years now, researched in detail by Steve, and confirmed by sources at Intel’s biggest customers, of problems with Intel’s CPUs. This report is just such an outlier. Intel has lost trust by building faulty CPUs for so long, being apparently unable to act quickly to resolve the issues, and covering up the problems to keep its share price up and dodge the cost of RMAs.

I think this is why the “my code documents itself” attitude appeals, even though it’s almost never enough. Most developers just can’t write, nor do they want to.