(Context: similar to you) I suppose it's similar to how people used to buy things like Directory Opus. The point isn't so much that the default one doesn't work. A bunch of functions like those listed here, e.g. batch…
This article seems to be worse than most, as if someone's deliberately overused the LLM tropes as much as possible. This is not good. It's bad. This is not human. It's AI. This is not nice to read. It's awful.
This is betraying a way of thinking that suggests what's normal now is the way it's always been. Given "there was a time that subscriptions for software were virtually unheard of", it's safe to assume we're talking…
Hah, that makes sense then. Thanks for the followup.
Indeed, unreadable typography (and the need for Reader View) is one of my most common annoyances with sites posted to HN - but I don't see how it's applicable to this site in any way?
"Beyond bizarre"? Why? "3:59pm" (and 7:30pm, regarding the post above) is exactly what's usually written in the UK. Technical use (24-hour) is different from the standard use used by the general population.
It probably does a better job of getting the point across to a general readership than if they'd used overly technical domain-specific jargon about quantity of cases and speed of its spread.
> social engineering was a small part of his work, and it's OK that you don't know that... totally blatant ignorance... Kev was a good person. Full stop. I understand you're defending your friend, but that's a little…
Indeed, no relevance at all. Sorry rob74, that's a misunderstanding of how large applications most often tended to work on the Amiga. They didn't generally open a window on the Workbench screen, they opened their own…
Wow, yes, those are a pisstake. I hadn't seen them when reading the article because I used reader mode.
I opened this comments page wondering if anyone would point this out. The idea that all sales have moved to online is always trotted out as the main excuse, but the reality is that most of the big well-known UK retail…
True, but "Amiga made lots of assumptions about the use that ended up..." seemed an odd way to phrase it, given that it was originally designed as a games machine, although the plans were expanded later in development.…
The release of Windows 95 was weird. There were PC users talking about how amazing Microsoft were, to have come up with all the things their marketing people were shouting about, such as pre-emptive multitasking and…
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I agree with the sentiment, but that's a really weird way to phrase it!
Yeah that was a big part of it, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it more important than preventing immediate bankruptcy. "We'll give you a wodge of cash and we'll keep supplying Office for Mac, so you can continue to…
"Wut" indeed! I was only skimming it anyway, but stopped there. I'm sorry, that paragraph is so effed up, I can't take anything else seriously from this author. This is too often the problem with stuff about Steve Jobs.…
> Apple was not days away from going bust. They were months away... They just... This is historical revisionism, and there's a lot of it around, where Apple is concerned. Since those days, Apple has done a great job of…
Are you seriously suggesting people shouldn't operate with a bit of common decency unless they're going to get some money out of it?
It can be very interesting to read opinions in such places as "Letters to the Editor" in newspapers from the 1800s. The conviction that "things were so much better in the past" and "everything's gone to shit" (in the…
> Rapes have not increased by some 200% over the last 10 years? No. There has been an increase in reported rapes across many Western countries, due to a combination of much higher awareness (especially due to…
Who's using a browser from 2013? When I said I'm running Windows 7, I'm specifically talking about the OS, including an awful lot of updates it's had since 2013, not all software I run on it. Updates added such things…
Just thinking more about how we're told it's "insecure". It's unfortunate that so many tech people are so gullible when it comes to the industry's marketing around this. Many of us know a huge proportion of news stories…
> I still use an old PC on Win7 as my primary machine So do I. I've had to deal with 10 and 11 at work and had the same sort of problems, so I've refused to "downgrade" this PC. It particularly used to really piss me…
Regarding Britain, "conserve" used to mean posh jam, but nowadays it seems to be more of a marketing word - a brand trying to pretend they're posh, similar to how pretentious restaurants use French words for no obvious…
(Context: similar to you) I suppose it's similar to how people used to buy things like Directory Opus. The point isn't so much that the default one doesn't work. A bunch of functions like those listed here, e.g. batch…
This article seems to be worse than most, as if someone's deliberately overused the LLM tropes as much as possible. This is not good. It's bad. This is not human. It's AI. This is not nice to read. It's awful.
This is betraying a way of thinking that suggests what's normal now is the way it's always been. Given "there was a time that subscriptions for software were virtually unheard of", it's safe to assume we're talking…
Hah, that makes sense then. Thanks for the followup.
Indeed, unreadable typography (and the need for Reader View) is one of my most common annoyances with sites posted to HN - but I don't see how it's applicable to this site in any way?
"Beyond bizarre"? Why? "3:59pm" (and 7:30pm, regarding the post above) is exactly what's usually written in the UK. Technical use (24-hour) is different from the standard use used by the general population.
It probably does a better job of getting the point across to a general readership than if they'd used overly technical domain-specific jargon about quantity of cases and speed of its spread.
> social engineering was a small part of his work, and it's OK that you don't know that... totally blatant ignorance... Kev was a good person. Full stop. I understand you're defending your friend, but that's a little…
Indeed, no relevance at all. Sorry rob74, that's a misunderstanding of how large applications most often tended to work on the Amiga. They didn't generally open a window on the Workbench screen, they opened their own…
Wow, yes, those are a pisstake. I hadn't seen them when reading the article because I used reader mode.
I opened this comments page wondering if anyone would point this out. The idea that all sales have moved to online is always trotted out as the main excuse, but the reality is that most of the big well-known UK retail…
True, but "Amiga made lots of assumptions about the use that ended up..." seemed an odd way to phrase it, given that it was originally designed as a games machine, although the plans were expanded later in development.…
The release of Windows 95 was weird. There were PC users talking about how amazing Microsoft were, to have come up with all the things their marketing people were shouting about, such as pre-emptive multitasking and…
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I agree with the sentiment, but that's a really weird way to phrase it!
Yeah that was a big part of it, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it more important than preventing immediate bankruptcy. "We'll give you a wodge of cash and we'll keep supplying Office for Mac, so you can continue to…
"Wut" indeed! I was only skimming it anyway, but stopped there. I'm sorry, that paragraph is so effed up, I can't take anything else seriously from this author. This is too often the problem with stuff about Steve Jobs.…
> Apple was not days away from going bust. They were months away... They just... This is historical revisionism, and there's a lot of it around, where Apple is concerned. Since those days, Apple has done a great job of…
Are you seriously suggesting people shouldn't operate with a bit of common decency unless they're going to get some money out of it?
It can be very interesting to read opinions in such places as "Letters to the Editor" in newspapers from the 1800s. The conviction that "things were so much better in the past" and "everything's gone to shit" (in the…
> Rapes have not increased by some 200% over the last 10 years? No. There has been an increase in reported rapes across many Western countries, due to a combination of much higher awareness (especially due to…
Who's using a browser from 2013? When I said I'm running Windows 7, I'm specifically talking about the OS, including an awful lot of updates it's had since 2013, not all software I run on it. Updates added such things…
Just thinking more about how we're told it's "insecure". It's unfortunate that so many tech people are so gullible when it comes to the industry's marketing around this. Many of us know a huge proportion of news stories…
> I still use an old PC on Win7 as my primary machine So do I. I've had to deal with 10 and 11 at work and had the same sort of problems, so I've refused to "downgrade" this PC. It particularly used to really piss me…
Regarding Britain, "conserve" used to mean posh jam, but nowadays it seems to be more of a marketing word - a brand trying to pretend they're posh, similar to how pretentious restaurants use French words for no obvious…