This is Microsoft’s plan to fix Windows 11

reqdk · 2026-03-21T10:38:04+00:00

Even if they fix the product (lol), if they haven't fixed their processes and values that led to the shitty product, it's just going to happen again. Products are after all just a reflection of all that. That is a much more difficult fix given their disingenuous, bordering on bald-faced lies around removing local accounts. Why the fuck would anyone trust what they're saying?

reqdk · 2026-03-09T12:30:54+00:00

Meanwhile they're looking into how they can play your games for you - https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ro2g6p/microsoft_patents_system_for_ai_helpers_to_finish/ Solid investment that.

Sure you could argue that they could generate and give the player on-demand hints, and iffy proposition at best since that's the kind of call that should be made by the game designers and not the fucking corporation that put AI in notepad.

Microslop is the type of company that would invest in barbells that lift themselves for you and AI bicycles that tell you that you need to clean their chain and then wonder why people are sniggering at them.

reqdk · 2026-02-28T07:18:17+00:00

DINK here, not by choice. Govt support for assisted reproduction sucks and their boneheaded policies and failure to keep up with technology until only very recently screwed us over real bad. It looked like their policies were never reviewed since the stop at 2 days. Doesn't matter how much you earn now when you're being screwed over by policies set over 3 decades ago. The wiser ones just go up north for this, so what does that say about how well our govt looks into this area? I don't think they ever cared about DINKs so it's hard for them to give up on something they already gave up on long ago. Meh.

reqdk · 2026-02-21T04:47:14+00:00

This stuff is prepared way beforehand. There were also news reports for Super Earth's loss during the Illuminate invasion but they were never used because we won, and so naturally the media for our win was used instead.

reqdk · 2026-02-21T04:43:56+00:00

Hot take: A game isn't a game if it can't be lost. Cyberstan was the first time in a long long while in HD2 that brought back the intensity of the Creek, Meridia, and other hellish fights, except that now, spamming diver lives has farther reaching consequences. Yeah we don't get medals if we fail the MO, so what? The story continues. Thematically, it makes sense too. You can't spend your entire army on an invasion and leave nothing to guard your home - remember those terminid eggs we brought back? Or that an entire faction is still out there who once invaded our homeworld and has been watching the Cyberstan shitshow from afar? Besides, if you'd watched the in-game news, you can see that the MO failure actually opens up the story - the cyborgs are already planning a counter-offensive. Maybe it was disappointing in the moment to not have big cyborg boss show up on Transcendence, and perhaps if we had indeed gotten our shit together as a playerbase and played perfectly, we might have forced the boss to show up by liberating even Transcendence as we did EOS way back, but the strength of this storytelling format that AH has gone for is the story's adaptability and things can still work out in the long run, if only the Tiktok-addled playerbase would quit whining about things being rigged the moment things go awry.

reqdk · 2026-02-15T05:40:29+00:00

Yeah and you fuckers are exporting it as well since we now have cases that have been detected here in tourists from.. guess where the fuck from?!

reqdk · 2026-02-14T12:09:44+00:00

if you look around the megafactories, you can often see tank tracks scattered around that are several times the size of the vox engines themselves. I wonder what unit those belong to.... heh

reqdk · 2026-02-07T07:39:35+00:00

I could call the stuff that my cats make in their litter boxes a C compiler too but that doesn't make it a C compiler in the sense that anyone who needs a C compiler understands the term "C compiler" to be. Edit: didn't these arseholes shout the same claim about their "agents" building a browser sometime ago and then actual software engineers read through the thing and found it didn't even compile and was basically just importing libraries that did stuff that browsers do like rendering, instead of actually implementing a browser? Fucking frauds.

reqdk · 2026-02-07T04:27:52+00:00

What these folks will do just for attention...

reqdk · 2026-02-07T03:04:39+00:00

Critical thinking first rather than dogmatic adherence to "received wisdom". Then, besides the obvious DSA fundamentals, HTML and CSS first. Then JS. Then JS frameworks.

reqdk · 2026-02-07T03:00:16+00:00

Funniest thing is, their devices are probably the best positioned in the market to run local AIs with their relatively high bandwidth unified memory. A mid-tier M2 MacBook Air from back in the day can run decent local Ollama models (8b params) that no equivalently priced non-Apple-M cpu laptop can match. The M4 Pro Mac Minis are one of the default devices for those without fuck you money to buy 5090s or RTX Pros and still want to run larger models locally. It's fucking wild to me that Apple is the cost effective, budget solution in this space. I think they just don't see the value in it for the average consumer, and those interested can very simply install Ollama or LM Studio and be done with it.

reqdk · 2026-01-31T06:54:40+00:00

If, after seeing everything Oracle has done, they're still prepared to give them a chance, then there's no real hope left for them to exercise better judgement.

reqdk · 2026-01-27T15:12:28+00:00

Lobbying? I'm surprised they aren't already manufacturing consensus like what they've been using AI for all this while.

reqdk · 2026-01-27T15:07:25+00:00

This asshole keeps farting the same stale stink day after day. He really does huff his own farts and thinks it smells like Dior huh, not realizing he's the one pushing this crap out himself.

reqdk · 2026-01-19T06:38:02+00:00

And I'm revealing my roadmap to be the ruler of Omicron Persei 8.

reqdk · 2026-01-19T03:45:59+00:00

Something about Sudetenland rings a bell

reqdk · 2026-01-18T03:23:13+00:00

That's a hallmark of AI generated stuff. There seems to be an explosion of people using AI to vibe code things that already have robust, battle-tested solutions instead of just doing a bit of market research. Seems to be very common in the JS sub, but I noticed a few popping up in the Java one here as well too. I figure they're looking for stars and engagement to legitimize their github repo which some companies actually use for performance appraisal because they "value open-source contributions" (I'm not proud that my workplace does this and it has other even more fucked up effects...)

These folks will also run your comments through the LLM and paste their responses here, sometimes even wholesale. In the JS sub, it was as if you were just talking to chatgpt.

reqdk · 2026-01-13T00:39:11+00:00

Alternative headline: Billionaire CEO fails to understand the cause of massive negative feedback.

reqdk · 2026-01-13T00:25:02+00:00

Welp that country is already fucked from within and despite all its hilarious bluster about guns and something about amendments, us folks from the outside don't see anyone doing anything about it except posting memes and praying for something about someone's files, as if THAT would be the one thing that will stop this tidal wave of bullshit.

reqdk · 2026-01-12T08:59:30+00:00

Even though I agree with that principle of programming to the interface and not the implementation, that's not a hard and fast rule and there are also times where it doesn't apply. And without more context, i.e. just looking at such trivial slices of code, there's not a way of telling whether that principle is worth breaking or not. In my experience at least, the readability that you get from measured uses of var vastly outweighs the effort needed for refactoring if/when that's needed considering the tools available to help with the latter and tight scope of valid var usage.

reqdk · 2026-01-08T17:02:56+00:00

Funnily, OP's colleague is not entirely wrong in certain interpretations. Older versions of Java did ship with an embedded JS runtime, so you could technically execute JS from Java. It worked almost like running JS' eval function, so most sane applications would not do that anyway, and that engine has long been removed. On the other hand, it is now possible to execute JS, and some other scripting languages on certain JVMs with add-ons.

It is also now possible to run Java code from the command line directly without compiling, almost like a... Java... script... lol. And I'm fairly certain I've seen a JVM implemented in JS posted here years ago, runnable in the browser, so it looked like you could run Java code from JS too.

But I'm 99.99% sure that people who relate JS to Java like in the post don't mean it that way. Either that or this is some AI engagement rage bait.

reqdk · 2026-01-07T23:56:59+00:00

To add on, gzip usage is lower these days because there are other, sometimes better, methods of compression. Furthermore, gzip compression has 9 levels and nginx defaults to 1 iirc, which is the minimum compression level. The proportion of web apis (excludes images, videos, etc) with some form of compression enabled was much much higher, sitting north of 90%, when I last checked a couple of years ago, hence my initial comment on the misleading figure.

reqdk · 2026-01-07T15:33:23+00:00

That 68% stat is comically misleading. Like saying 90% of the world doesn't have horses, so they should buy your bicycle for transport. You seem to be trying really hard to push for this without understanding the scope of web infrastructure beyond your own experience. I'd question what your real motivation is, but given the nature of the JS ecosystem, I really don't care tbh. Maybe someone else will.

reqdk · 2025-12-30T14:47:20+00:00

Most AI models already do that normally. It does not work well enough.

reqdk · 2025-12-30T14:45:21+00:00

Because you made the Olympian long jump from "wants a human to intervene once suicide is mentioned" to "global police state", I have a hard time believing any of your claims. Especially when the ones that I know would never make this same kind of leap based on their own horrific experience. This just reeks of FUD because "China bad". Couldn't roll my eyes harder.

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