This wasn't even the first time for MS .. Win98SE was a similar disaster stuffed full of junk, most people don't remember Vista fondly either. In each case they redeemed themselves temporarily .. XP following 89SE and Windows 7/8 after Vista. History repeats I guess.
I've never made a lasting connection with anyone I've met online. Not once. It's not that I didn't hang around on BBS's and IRC when I was younger, I did. And I did meet people from there IRL, but no friendships formed. The whole concept just seemed (and still seems) alien to me.
But I did have a point after the end of a 12 year relationship ended, around the time of the pandemic and lockdowns when I realised most of my old IRL friendships hadn't gone ... but those people had moved away, and we didn't talk as much any more.
I still have old friendships with high school friends, old girlfriends, old friends from bands I played in from years past. But about a year ago in a particularly lonely and tragic period I started a pub trivia group on an unnamed IRL meetup platform, which has grown to over 300 members in less than a year (guessing a lot of those are bot accounts).
About half a dozen core members that come to play trivia at the pub almost every week, and then another 10-20 that attend less regularly, rotating in and out.
It can be hard work to build yourself a new social group, but it can be done, and I now consider I have some good friends that come out of it and there are friendships forming between members of the group as well.
At 50 years of age, they're not the kind of friendships that I would count on to last forever, but they're there, people to chat with sometimes, people to catch up with for the odd drink or to go out dancing with. It can be done. And I'm much better off for it.
> GNU+Lisp lovers would support their own desktop and packing layer and Hurd maybe running Linux kernel drivers (the libre ones) on top free from IBM/Microsoft hands.
Then why DON'T they? Probably because in most cases they have more holier-than-thou attitude than actual technical chops. Otherwise it'd be done and dusted by now, and this imaginary 0.01% community would have taken the GNU/Linux world by storm! Instead of shitposting on HN about how inadequate the major Linux distros (which are being used in Enterprise all over the world _as well as_ everyone's personal pet projects) are.
They are basically helping Hurd and there already is an instalable Guix image.
GNU+Linux was just a temporarary patch and it shows.
>This is comedy gold
Ok, where's the Unix support from Ken, Ritchie and so? Are you aware that most of research on that area flew away to Plan9 and Inferno being fed up of X11, virtual terminals from the 70's (rio+rc it's far superior), ioctl's, a hard as hell network stack, POSIX, a shell where you have both aliases and functions?
The list of quirks it's huge. Plan9 tried to solve everything you read in Unix Haters Handbook. walk(1) + grep(1) solved the complexity of find(1).
No one it's bound to terminal emulators where the VT100 frames break cut and paste. You don't have to write 20 lines of code just to start a connection against X or a socket. Yet people praised that obsolete technology.
It's madness.
Everyone tought the same about DOS and Win9x vs Windows 2000 and XP. Where is DOS now? On legacy industry machines and hobbyist Freedos Machines. No one cares about Win9x anymore except for retrogaming. Most of the people working for the Win32 API migrated to C# for a good chunk of custom appliances for companies, leaving out complex low-level C++ code for game engines, drivers and the like.
Think whatever you want, but Unix compared to the clean Plan9/9front design it's like praising the Windows ME disaster when the NT based OSes are many more times more advanced.
Entreprise world? People are getting fed up of containers and tons of dependencies for NPM, JS_change_of_the_day, tons of unoptimized setups just spawning new machines in a cloud grid over and over and the like making most of the efforts today focused on deploying technologies instead of technologies themselves which are the ones doing the actual work there.
I found that helpful for a question but the btw query seemed to go to a subagent that couldn't interrupt or direct the main one. So it really was just for informational questions, not "hey what if we did x instead of y?"
Yesterday it was showing a hint in the corner to use "/btw" but when I first tried it I got this same error. About ten minutes later (?) I noticed it was still showing the same hint in the corner, so I tried it again and it worked. Seemed to be treated as a one-off question which doesn't alter the course of whatever it was already working on.
It's not really the same use case. It's a smaller model, it doesn't have tools, it can't investigate, etc. The only thing it can do is answer questions about whatever is in the current context.
> The authors find that height cannot, in fact, be used to predict changes in GDP. However, GDP can be used to predict changes in height. In other words, the study finds that extreme height is driven by rapid economic growth, but that height cannot be used as an indicator of recessions
Now if they'd just release an update to 26.3.1 (23D8133) which PERMANENTLY broke Apple Carplay for me I'd be happy.
It's been getting steadily worse since iOS 26 was released.
Apple is rapidly becoming the new Microsoft. I mean, Microsoft has fallen so much further, so I guess that just opened up a new gap in the shitty technology spectrum for Apple to descend to.
The web part is the security model and the tradeoffs between security and performance. PNaCL was in browsers but not "web" for this reason.
Like the assembly part means low-level and meant as a compilation target, not CPU instructions.
So websssembly is an assembly language for the web, like webgl is opengl for the web and webgpu are gpu APIs for the web. And behold none of those can access DOM APIs
> So webassembly is an assembly language for the web.
But is isn't, at most WAT is (the WASM text format). WASM itself is a bytecode format. Nobody calls CPU machine code 'assembly' (nitpicking, I know, but the 'web' part of the name makes a lot more sense than the 'assembly' part).
At least the 'web' part makes more sense than the 'assembly' part ;)
WASM was designed as a successor to asm.js, and asm.js was purely a web thing. While non-web-platforms were considered as a potential use case (in the sense of "using WASM outside the web should be possible", it wasn't clear at the time what the successful usages outside browsers would even look like).
It definitly had to do everything with Web, it was the agreement between Mozila going with asm.js, Chrome pushing for PNaCL, Adobe with CrossBridge, Sun with Java, Microsoft with ActiveX,....
Then some folks rediscovered UNCOL from 1958, all the systems influenced by it, and started to sell the dream of the bytecode that was going to save the world.
This is retconning the history of WASM. While WASM was designed to be also be usable outside browsers, nobody could really predict at the time what this usage would look like exactly.
This brings back fond memories of my first job real job in IT, as the sysadmin for a small boutique mom-n-pop ISP. This was dialup/ISDN days though (back in the late 90's).
I appreciate the compliment. I wish this type of knowledge was more easily available for the general public since it represents an integral part of modern day internet. A comment on this thread mentioned other similar ongoing project which I'm very happy about and excited to explore.
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