I have the same CPU in my primary system, and if you can afford it, it’s so choice.

A big surprise for me, having owned both a Ryzen gen 1 & 3 previously, was that this time my system posted without me needing to flash my BIOS or play around with various RAM configurations. Felt like magic.

Great article. It think it raises a good point. An important aspect of modern programming languages should be to simplify the syntax, to help developers avoid mistakes.

This reminds me of arguing more than once with JS developers about the dangers of loose typing (especially in the case of JS) and getting the inevitable reply ”I just keep track of my type casting.”.

I don't think the syntax has to be simple, it just needs to be expressive

The author makes a good point but for the wrong reason I think. The fact that companies lock down their software, and hardware (looking at you Apple), is their choice just like it is yours to give them the finger.

However, at least in Sweden, a smart phone is practically mandatory since it has become a means of identification used by banks, police, our IRS counterpart etc. Even our physical mail is slowly being digitalised, and these services practically require you to own a smart phone. You can get by without one, but it’s a real struggle.

Therefore there should be laws requiring more transparency of these devices, in my opinion.

Not only transparency, but freedom.

Freedom to use something you bought the way you want, without having a private foreign company decide for you.

I reckon a whole lot of these things wouldn't hold up in court. Either Swedish court or EU court. If not, then German court, or Australian court.

Here in this very thread I'm quite sure there's dozens of people who have pretty much made millions off of the back of this exact thing, i.e. working as developers at the likes of Google, Meta and Apple, part of the machine.

We need those people to atone and start funding lawyers out of pocket and bringing such cases, rather than just chatting about woe is me. In Europe that is, where the judiciary is still much less captured - the US is a lost cause. Such lawsuits are also much cheaper than going up against MegaCorp in US court.

Just one more reason not to buy a Switch 2. Seriously, Nintendo has become worse than Apple when it comes to treating their customers. I own hundreds of Nintendo games and every console they ever made, sometimes in multiples. But when I saw of all the shit they were trying to pull with the Switch 2 I decided I was done with that company for good.

Nintendo was and is primarily a toy company. The deal is if you buy their stuff you get entertainment. You're pretending it's a general purpose computer to make a point about interoperability, but it's neither. What kind of 'shit' do they pull with Switch 2 they already didn't with Switch 1? Both are expensive DRM locked game devices, Switch 2 is just a bit faster.

For example, they retain the right now to brick your console remotely if you go against their usage policies. Which they retain the right to change at will. So, effectively you really do not own that console in any way shape or form. Shame really, used to like Nintendo once.

> What kind of 'shit' do they pull with Switch 2 they already didn't with Switch 1?

The shit that the linked article is about, for one.

The Switch 1 was worse and could even be bricked by a third party dock. So nothing new there.

Whenever my logic said one thing and my gut feeling told me different, I used to ignore my gut. This would more often than not cause some sort of backlash I could not possibly have foreseen. Sometimes immediately, sometimes several days later.

A year or so ago I got tired of this, started doing the opposite, and I will never go back.

Feelings overall are underrated.

I wanted to take a look, but I didn’t want to create an account. An open demo might help bring in clients. Could not see any real content about how it works on the front page, just all the potential benefits it brings.

Congratulations on the launch though!

Hello, thank you very much for your feedback. I will work on this matter.

I’m strictly against collecting data from users unless absolutely necessary, and never without their consent.

As for technology stripping us of our humanity, I could not agree less. I think it’s helped us connect better with each other across different countries and cultures, broadening what was for many a fairly narrow view of the world. Technologies like computers and the Internet are also amazing tools for aiding humanity in our creativity and exploration of everything.

And as for the constraints they may place upon you it’s no different then government, economy or religion. They are all constructs designed to control you. Best you can do is realize that and live with it as best you can. That or go hermit I suppose, it’s a valid choice.

While I am a little tired of the majority of all news being on the subject of AI, I think it’s important to remember that it is arguably the biggest thing that’s happened to our industry since the Internet. Considering how many areas it can be applied to, and how many different ways it can be used within those individual areas. There is so much to be explored.

Also, no one is forcing us to read about it. I myself do not read much about it. I prefer to explore how to make use of AI within my field on my own, and occasionally I will read a post or article if it seems interesting enough.

The author has a point. Obsolete tests serves no one, but deleting a test because it will randomly fail is an indication of an unstable process. Maybe there is a race condition, maybe your code has some dependency that is sporadically unavailable. Deleting such tests is just turning a blind eye to the problem. Unstable tests means you either didn’t write that test very well to begin with, or the process you are testing is itself unstable.