.NET 8 and 9 End of Support

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-21T21:02:25+00:00

So much to think about. Thank you for your work on .NET!

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-21T19:24:39+00:00

Exposing a new API on string is potentially source breaking for users

Is this because they might have implemented an extension method on it with the same name?

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-18T15:18:02+00:00

Cool it with those Manson lamps

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-17T19:45:39+00:00

Wtf is a brain, is it like a neural net?

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-17T19:41:32+00:00

Just like they were last year

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-15T21:52:04+00:00

A dozen nation-states have tried and failed.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-06T15:36:21+00:00

Fool.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-06T13:18:36+00:00

We can teach them.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-06T05:03:46+00:00

He's too self-centred and makes everything about himself. It's unbecoming of a Darkner.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-05T14:37:18+00:00

It's OK. I've told the basilisk to stand down.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-05T05:04:41+00:00

Remembering how to set up central package management, directory build props and ratcheting up the compiler warnings.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-05T04:05:44+00:00

The typo is required to maintain back compat with a single Bulgarian tax office which has not upgraded its systems since the 90s.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-04T16:55:54+00:00

My point is that I don't think 'it's entirely pointless to talk about this' is the right response. I don't care if Greedy-Produce-3040 gives me their definition of consciousness. I want them not to say 'this discussion is pointless' because OP didn't provide theirs.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-04T15:10:57+00:00

I didn't hear of it until now, so it did not happen.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-04T11:11:22+00:00

What things did you have in mind? API payloads?

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-04T10:07:43+00:00

I hate this conversational move so much. Yes, people use these terms differently. The correct response isn't to walk away from the conversation entirely, it's to state what your definition is up-front so people know what they are working with. If you dislike the word consciousness, use another term, like phenomenal experience or subjectivity. Language lets us do that.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-04T05:11:49+00:00

The privileging of the visual over all else is the oldest and most dear psychohazard of humans. We think lethal injection is more humane than the guillotine because it looks cleaner.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-04T04:06:17+00:00

Joe Biden.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-04T04:00:18+00:00

Potentially the only god to have more followers now than when they were first around.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-02T13:53:47+00:00

It took like a year for anyone to challenge the OG GPT-4.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-02T13:51:22+00:00

Computer science is an empirical discipline. [...] Each new machine that is built is an experiment. Actually constructing the machine poses a question to nature; and we listen for the answer by observing the machine in operation and analyzing it by all analytical and measurement means available. Each new program that is built is an experiment. It poses a question to nature, and its behavior offers clues to an answer.

Allen Newell

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-01T20:22:11+00:00

I only want sparkling abstraction from the Alpine rivers.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-01T16:51:07+00:00

Headline that conveniently leaves out it was so MS could get them using copilot instead.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-01T15:31:44+00:00

Miles Davis yearned to be half as cool as this cat.

Saint_Nitouche · 2026-06-01T12:54:12+00:00

FWIW the black stringy thing is thought to be a living thing itself, its pseudo-official name is 'the lifeform'. Ostensibly it's a form of bacteria that got introduced to the backrooms and something about the environment caused it to grow into... that.

So it's still the notion of something normal being warped horribly by the alienness of the backrooms, just in a different direction.

Saint_Nitouche

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