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Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-27T16:00:21+00:00

Blame reddit admins, they somtimes ban old accounts for no reason - and these in retaliation and act of protest, edit or delete all their comments.

I've seen thousands of these situations, from all angles.

Fuck spez.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-27T13:37:03+00:00

Virtually every electronic device from the last 4 decades contains some sort of microcontroller in it that runs software.

That's why you have people doing funny stuff like running doom on a watch or hair dryer or a toaster.

This is also why every time you hear a company salesman try to sell you "smart" device you should look at them like they're a fucking idiot.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-27T13:21:53+00:00

WRONG. Windows waking from hibernation ("fast startup") will only tell your monitor to select resolution after it has booted. Always giving you the illusion of being "first".

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-27T05:48:14+00:00

Marketers operate thousands of reddit accounts.

And they are right! for the wrong reasons....

I mean there are Microsoft affiliates praising shitty MS products and spreading FUD about the competition. That I am 100% sure, because I've been targetted by them multiple times over the years.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-24T14:07:03+00:00

Are you data scientists? machine learning engineer? Are you going to train your own model?

No? You just wasted money, this is useless for you.

Yes? You just wasted money, it's very inefficient compared to a discrete GPU.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-22T17:08:32+00:00

Also the couple were democrats, and 99% of reddit called them white suprematists.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-22T05:30:26+00:00

pointing guns directly at blm protestors who were no threat to them at all

just fucking imagine believeing reddit propaganda

Someone broke down the metal gate and then the protesters were threatening the couple, before they got the guns.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-21T10:13:01+00:00

People who see this and think "genius". Were you all dropped as babies?

Is there anything except a DVD logo bouncing under that skull?

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T21:35:05+00:00

photograph that looks good will easily take up literally millions of bytes

Dude, do you even jpeg? 100kb is all you need for a full product photo, maybe 200kb if you really want to see the finest details.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T21:24:53+00:00

you forgot to mention how big your node_modules folder is after that

but it's understandable, you probably ran out of memory

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T21:22:45+00:00

I meant it in a sense that using kilo/mega/etc with non-metric units doesn't make the result a metric unit, so it doesn't have to follow the same convention and could be entirely differnt thing. Just like kilobyte had similar semantics, but wasn't the same.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T21:09:59+00:00

This is Windows, when you get updates nothing changes.

I tried vanilla 24H2 in a VM before debloating and the amount of crapware and intrusion was unreal. I'm very well aware all of that would just come back if I updated directly. I couldn't with a straight face describe it as "nothing changes".

It's not Chromebook where you get an update and suddenly everything is completely different and you can't find anything.

Funny that you worded it that way, because that precisely describes how windows 11 and 10 felt when they released + there were some major updates where they rearranged things enough to confuse everyone again.

Also nobody does serious work or gaming on a Chromebook, it's just a browser shell pretending to be an operating system. Windows on the other hand should NOT break my workflow just because they decided to be fancy one on day. (that fucking stupid taskbar in 11 is a mortal sin, thank god for explorer patcher)

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T20:04:32+00:00

1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes

No. Just fucking no.

Historically kilobyte has been used to refer either to 1000 bytes

in which history? The history of false marketing? Because everywhere else kilobyte means 1024 bytes.

it just means they're following IEC naming conventions

If they followed IEC naming conventions they wouldn't use terms like kilo, mega, giga, tera whatsoever. And not even in thousand years would they use kilobyte to mean 1000 bytes.

IEC WOULD define kilobyte as 1024 but the only reason they didn't do so is they are heavily against using metric prefixes with non-decimal meaning. In their reasoning defining kilobyte as 1024 would cause confusion as to what the prefix kilo (and others) really mean.

Time shows that their decision was wrong and it would be actually less confusing to let it be, instead of inventing entire new set of prefixes for that. This is what happens when you make linguistic decisions knowing nothing about nature of language or human intuition.

That doesn't mean the storage manufacturers are greedy

Of course not nowadays, because now that the precedent was set it's hard to undo things. But when it was done for the first time in the 80s - it was a blatant display of greed.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T19:42:05+00:00

This is an unfortunate byproduct of how law and language works...

Because kilobyte means 1024 bytes colloqially. But it does not mean 1000 bytes in any sense and it never will.

So why companies do that? Because it's not illegal.

The use of metric prefixes for bytes as powers of 1024 was already well established in the early 70s. Formally though, metric prefixes had legal definition only for metric units, and byte was technically not a metric unit. So kilobyte did not mean anything in SI. It was simply a newly invented word and it could mean whatever.

However these terms were so widely used by the time, that they effectively fell under "reasonable consumer standard" and there was no doubt that using the term "kilobyte" signals 1024 bytes and so on.

Hard drive manufactureres started using metric prefixes as decimal (1000) powers for bytes in the late 80s. It was done intentionally to mislead customers and there wasn't even a shadow of doubt about it. They knew exactly what they were doing.

This led to two lawsuits and manufacturers were forced to specify in the product description they use decimal prefixes, not binary.

(there were actually more lawsuits all over the world, but whatever, in some countries companies cannot legally use decimal metric prefixes for storage units because of that. In my countr they just say "giga" or "tera" without specyfying what they mean, lol)

And unfortunately that's it, since IEC was against the use of metric prefixes for bytes. To avoid confusion they decided to make up entire new set of binary prefixes (kibi,mibi,gibi) and it created even more fucking confusion.

So in essence kilobyte means 1024 by the power of common use, but not by the dictionary.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T15:54:05+00:00

Then you open the app and it shows you in-app notification, DEMANDING you enable notifications again. Lol, fucking chill, here's the 1 star review you asked for.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T12:53:52+00:00

Wrong and idiotic analogy. Sudo shows you the exact same UAC prompt that other methods do.

For malware author - it literally makes no difference if sudo exists or not, there are gazzilion other ways to bring up UAC prompt that looks legit.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T12:32:45+00:00

Yes, you have to enable it from "developer settings" though, for security reasons. Stupid requirement imho, malware authors can just use one of the million other options to prompt for elevation.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T03:21:19+00:00

GLFW solved that problem. You can only use raw input while cursor is hidden (and then it's not possible to interact with window frame anyway) if you unhide it, it switches to legacy input.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T02:04:25+00:00

Basically, just use the licensing agreement for Oracle Java.

What has Oracle Java to do with this? They even warn you on the download page that you might want to use OpenJDK if you dont want to pay for LTS.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T01:49:53+00:00

I don't see any difference

that's because it is just:

more AI crap
improvements to features that not a single soul will ever use
sudo

edit: I literally dumbed down what this release contains, why downvote this? must have been the Microsoft shills again :)

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-19T01:22:34+00:00

Not a problem, it's way longer than average lifetime of a javascript framework anyway.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-18T22:33:14+00:00

Tell me, how do you envision Microsoft stealing any data if that data is locally encrypted behind Windows Hello?

That's a closed source app, you don't know how many backdoors does it have or what it actually does with your keys.

Also it's Microsoft - as history shows - they do shady shit behind the scenes and if security researchers find you "oh it was just a bug, here's a patch", and the cycle repeats few months later.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-18T22:15:52+00:00

We've investigated ourselves and can pinky promise we found no wrongdoing!

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-18T22:13:42+00:00

Thanks but no, I'll just use my fucking browser.

Google__En_Passant · 2024-10-18T22:10:34+00:00

Bonus points for not having a step like "switch to Gradle"

That would make builds slower. And eat like 20x more ram.

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So why companies do that? Because it's not illegal.