That is just blatantly wrong. I'm obsessed with staying on top of new music, and go to the cinema fairly often, but many of my favourite movies and music are way older than me. And books? Forget about it. I don't know…
SecuROM can be re-enabled on Windows 10/11 with some reasonably simple steps. But I think that's comparing apples to oranges. That SecuROM game will continue to work fine on a system it was designed for. Playing a game…
That used to be my experience, too, and I always expected the PC gaming industry would have to make some serious progress on ease-of-use if they were to survive against the consoles. What I didn't expect was how fast…
I remember getting some Gran Turismo game for my PS3 back in the day, having to wait for it to slowly copy XX gigabytes of data to the hard drive, then being stupid enough to want to start the game while being online…
Sony's is.
This remains my favourite quote from any user agreement I've ever seen, from the PlayStation Terms of Use: > Use of the terms "own," "ownership", "purchase," "sale," "sold," "sell," "rent" or "buy" in this Agreement or…
It's just a matter of negotiating sensible licensing deals. But that would require the distributors to actually care a little bit about not screwing over their customers. Look how it works over at Steam. If a license…
They may be more susceptible due to the finer grooves alone, I guess? Although so far I've also never had any DVD or Blu-ray go bad. Recordable discs are another matter, though. Much more sensitive because the pits are…
I think we're all agreed on that. What people are upset about is that Sony (and many others) clearly imply in their wording that you're buying a copy when in fact you're buying a streaming license. Same as in the case…
I think it's perfectly clear? If you buy a ticket, it's clear you own that ticket. But the usefulness of the ticket is that it can be exchanged for a service (admission to the concert), which is also clear. Nobody would…
I agree that this is the main differentiator. Software jobs will be fine in those industries where quality, security, robustness, and liability matter. It changes the job where software needs to be good; it replaces the…
> rock solid code I think you'd be the first one, so I highly doubt that. If it's true, good on you. I use Opus daily. It can take some typing off my hands, as long as I keep it to highly specific, limited,…
There's a certain type of Recaptcha challenge (the 4x4 single-photo one) that I have a 100% failure rate on. If Google decide to serve me 15 of those in a row, I will invariably fail 15 times until they decide to serve…
Yes, and using Firefox or having an ad blocker installed counts as extremely peculiar these days.
I report several phishing sites to them per week. They take ages to respond, often close to a week. And often, the response will be that they couldn't find any abuse, because I also report to the host which is often…
Cruz was also an outspoken critic of the FCC pressuring/threatening late night shows.
I felt the same way up until around Vista. The launch of Windows 95 was probably the pinnacle for me. XP already started having a sour taste with the whole activatin thing, and Vista and 7 weren't really exciting…
You've hit a classic "gotcha".
The former has the advantage that there's some person you can go to and ask "what the heck, what were you thinking when you wrote this?" The result can be either or both sides seeing it from a different perspective,…
Exactly. In addition to the price, another thing that sets Hetzner apart from U.S. hyperscalers is transparency and some degree of honesty.
No jobs are gone. The bottom, low-quality, gig economy end of some jobs may have been impacted. Human translation is still very much a business. No lawyer or diplomat who wants to keep their job, no manufacturer of…
My experience is different. I hear a lot of developers, old and young, scaling back their LLM use now that the bills are coming in. And I don't just mean the financial bills, mostly it's about them realising that…
I don't think that putting a text file saying "don't make mistakes" is going to get LLM output to the point where it doesn't need professional input, guidance, review and refinement anymore. They don't make these…
Many software engineers have to get things done not just once, but ensure they keep getting done, reliably. That's what 100% of vibe coders don't understand when they brag about their one-shot toy projects. The tools we…
Come back to tell us how that's been working out 6 or 12 months from now. You describe yourself as a vibe coder. In other words, you don't understand what you're shipping, and somehow that doesn't seem to concern you.…
That is just blatantly wrong. I'm obsessed with staying on top of new music, and go to the cinema fairly often, but many of my favourite movies and music are way older than me. And books? Forget about it. I don't know…
SecuROM can be re-enabled on Windows 10/11 with some reasonably simple steps. But I think that's comparing apples to oranges. That SecuROM game will continue to work fine on a system it was designed for. Playing a game…
That used to be my experience, too, and I always expected the PC gaming industry would have to make some serious progress on ease-of-use if they were to survive against the consoles. What I didn't expect was how fast…
I remember getting some Gran Turismo game for my PS3 back in the day, having to wait for it to slowly copy XX gigabytes of data to the hard drive, then being stupid enough to want to start the game while being online…
Sony's is.
This remains my favourite quote from any user agreement I've ever seen, from the PlayStation Terms of Use: > Use of the terms "own," "ownership", "purchase," "sale," "sold," "sell," "rent" or "buy" in this Agreement or…
It's just a matter of negotiating sensible licensing deals. But that would require the distributors to actually care a little bit about not screwing over their customers. Look how it works over at Steam. If a license…
They may be more susceptible due to the finer grooves alone, I guess? Although so far I've also never had any DVD or Blu-ray go bad. Recordable discs are another matter, though. Much more sensitive because the pits are…
I think we're all agreed on that. What people are upset about is that Sony (and many others) clearly imply in their wording that you're buying a copy when in fact you're buying a streaming license. Same as in the case…
I think it's perfectly clear? If you buy a ticket, it's clear you own that ticket. But the usefulness of the ticket is that it can be exchanged for a service (admission to the concert), which is also clear. Nobody would…
I agree that this is the main differentiator. Software jobs will be fine in those industries where quality, security, robustness, and liability matter. It changes the job where software needs to be good; it replaces the…
> rock solid code I think you'd be the first one, so I highly doubt that. If it's true, good on you. I use Opus daily. It can take some typing off my hands, as long as I keep it to highly specific, limited,…
There's a certain type of Recaptcha challenge (the 4x4 single-photo one) that I have a 100% failure rate on. If Google decide to serve me 15 of those in a row, I will invariably fail 15 times until they decide to serve…
Yes, and using Firefox or having an ad blocker installed counts as extremely peculiar these days.
I report several phishing sites to them per week. They take ages to respond, often close to a week. And often, the response will be that they couldn't find any abuse, because I also report to the host which is often…
Cruz was also an outspoken critic of the FCC pressuring/threatening late night shows.
I felt the same way up until around Vista. The launch of Windows 95 was probably the pinnacle for me. XP already started having a sour taste with the whole activatin thing, and Vista and 7 weren't really exciting…
You've hit a classic "gotcha".
The former has the advantage that there's some person you can go to and ask "what the heck, what were you thinking when you wrote this?" The result can be either or both sides seeing it from a different perspective,…
Exactly. In addition to the price, another thing that sets Hetzner apart from U.S. hyperscalers is transparency and some degree of honesty.
No jobs are gone. The bottom, low-quality, gig economy end of some jobs may have been impacted. Human translation is still very much a business. No lawyer or diplomat who wants to keep their job, no manufacturer of…
My experience is different. I hear a lot of developers, old and young, scaling back their LLM use now that the bills are coming in. And I don't just mean the financial bills, mostly it's about them realising that…
I don't think that putting a text file saying "don't make mistakes" is going to get LLM output to the point where it doesn't need professional input, guidance, review and refinement anymore. They don't make these…
Many software engineers have to get things done not just once, but ensure they keep getting done, reliably. That's what 100% of vibe coders don't understand when they brag about their one-shot toy projects. The tools we…
Come back to tell us how that's been working out 6 or 12 months from now. You describe yourself as a vibe coder. In other words, you don't understand what you're shipping, and somehow that doesn't seem to concern you.…