I doubt Microsoft will take it seriously enough now, when it's in such an early state. What matters here is if this `wordcraft` app gets serious widespread use and businesses (which is Microsoft's main revenue source)…
that's because it was a full blown relational database - it literally shipped with a desktop variant of SQL server (MSDE) and the WinFS bits were implemented in .NET on top of that. I recall installing the WinFS beta 1…
> XP has no search function in the Start menu. Hell, I don't recall Vista having that, either. Vista definitely had that out of the box; Windows 7 perfected the search functionality - specifically it ended up performing…
> CrowdSec source code consists of two parts: a private one and another that hosts our Free Open Source Software (i.e., the Security Engine), which is public by design and therefore out of scope. The private part,…
yes, actually I do think the phrase 'N times faster' is sensible and logical if I say 'this Apple M5 chip is 3x faster' than this intel chip, it implies two things: - the run time of most operations that runs on it is…
I really wish people would stop saying N times smaller than something when making a comparison; that makes no sense - it's 1/9th (11.11%) the size. You don't get a smaller quantity by multiplying by a number greater…
Windows is built using BuildXL, a very different build system from MSbuild used in Visual Studio: https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/main/Documentation... > BuildXL has also been proven to scale to large…
also another thing people forget is that merely 10 weeks after the first iphone launched, Apple cut the price by $200 in sept 2007. it then launched the 2nd gen iphone (iphone 3g) at an even lower price the next year…
So in other words you have no response to any of the arguments in the link? just some silly ad-hominem attack on the author. right.
it's still an opt-in setting though. Windows and OS-components like drivers and Edge do get auto updated yes, but to enable Microsoft Update, you still need to turn on a setting in the Settings app. even setting up a…
highly unlikely for many of them. SharePoint, bitlocker, Active directory, hyper-v, rdp, DHCP and MSMQ are all software/technologies that have decades of history and long pre-dated LLMs. seriously, do people not realise…
Maybe try reading the writeup? GDID's are 64 bit for one thing, not 128 like GUIDs.
Yep. there's absolutely no way that Cursor is worth that much. for contrast, Elon paid $44b for twitter back in 2022. When you adjust for inflation, Twitter was acquired for $49b in 2026 money. Cursor getting bought for…
well for backend development, yes - I technically never stopped as I had existing projects to maintain. But after trying out Swift a couple times, I've dropped it entirely for backend. For new backend work it's C#/.NET…
As someone who first began using Swift in 2021, after almost 10 years in C#/.NET land, I was already a bit grumpy at how complex C# was, (C# was 21 years at that point), but then coming to Swift, I couldn't believe how…
To be fair, work on Swift began in 2010, which would technically predate Tim Cook's accession to the position of CEO by a year or so.
I recall the source code for Windows XP was leaked some years ago; not just isolated parts of the code base, like with the earlier Windows NT4/2000 source code leak, but a completely buildable repository. If I write an…
> though the "about notepad" dialog shows the windows 11 version for some reason?? For many built in windows apps, the 'about this program' menu item just invokes a separate program, 'winver'. If you go Start -> Run and…
Are you even responding to the right comment? I read your comment and the parent comment you've responded to and this response doesn't make sense - it reads like a non-sequitur.
>Canada dumps good milk down the drain while people go hungry and suffer high food prices I'm not sure if you realise this, but the exact same thing happens in the US.
> The firm gradually grew more contentious, demanding that the RTX 5060 be handed in because the event it was acquired at was part of a business trip, entirely paid for by the company. The employee would never have won…
What name calling? Calling the author 'an unserious person' isn't name calling. Might be worth reading the article: > "If you like Windows 8’s look, you are a bad person. You are the one Steve Jobs was talking about…
That was exactly the same behaviour in Windows 7 though; it wasn't exactly novel. At least Windows 7 searched your apps, and documents all at once. Windows 8 limited you to just apps. Windows 8 was a huge step down in…
They can afford to make a big song and dance about this because chances are they are not selling the hardware at a loss and they have the regular steam store to offset the short term costs. If they were selling the…
I feel like there could be a loophole here for the new-framework-author. Stick to using JSX for the view; JSX is just syntax sugar for built in react functions for constructing a tree, which can be easily swappable with…
I doubt Microsoft will take it seriously enough now, when it's in such an early state. What matters here is if this `wordcraft` app gets serious widespread use and businesses (which is Microsoft's main revenue source)…
that's because it was a full blown relational database - it literally shipped with a desktop variant of SQL server (MSDE) and the WinFS bits were implemented in .NET on top of that. I recall installing the WinFS beta 1…
> XP has no search function in the Start menu. Hell, I don't recall Vista having that, either. Vista definitely had that out of the box; Windows 7 perfected the search functionality - specifically it ended up performing…
> CrowdSec source code consists of two parts: a private one and another that hosts our Free Open Source Software (i.e., the Security Engine), which is public by design and therefore out of scope. The private part,…
yes, actually I do think the phrase 'N times faster' is sensible and logical if I say 'this Apple M5 chip is 3x faster' than this intel chip, it implies two things: - the run time of most operations that runs on it is…
I really wish people would stop saying N times smaller than something when making a comparison; that makes no sense - it's 1/9th (11.11%) the size. You don't get a smaller quantity by multiplying by a number greater…
Windows is built using BuildXL, a very different build system from MSbuild used in Visual Studio: https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/main/Documentation... > BuildXL has also been proven to scale to large…
also another thing people forget is that merely 10 weeks after the first iphone launched, Apple cut the price by $200 in sept 2007. it then launched the 2nd gen iphone (iphone 3g) at an even lower price the next year…
So in other words you have no response to any of the arguments in the link? just some silly ad-hominem attack on the author. right.
it's still an opt-in setting though. Windows and OS-components like drivers and Edge do get auto updated yes, but to enable Microsoft Update, you still need to turn on a setting in the Settings app. even setting up a…
highly unlikely for many of them. SharePoint, bitlocker, Active directory, hyper-v, rdp, DHCP and MSMQ are all software/technologies that have decades of history and long pre-dated LLMs. seriously, do people not realise…
Maybe try reading the writeup? GDID's are 64 bit for one thing, not 128 like GUIDs.
Yep. there's absolutely no way that Cursor is worth that much. for contrast, Elon paid $44b for twitter back in 2022. When you adjust for inflation, Twitter was acquired for $49b in 2026 money. Cursor getting bought for…
well for backend development, yes - I technically never stopped as I had existing projects to maintain. But after trying out Swift a couple times, I've dropped it entirely for backend. For new backend work it's C#/.NET…
As someone who first began using Swift in 2021, after almost 10 years in C#/.NET land, I was already a bit grumpy at how complex C# was, (C# was 21 years at that point), but then coming to Swift, I couldn't believe how…
To be fair, work on Swift began in 2010, which would technically predate Tim Cook's accession to the position of CEO by a year or so.
I recall the source code for Windows XP was leaked some years ago; not just isolated parts of the code base, like with the earlier Windows NT4/2000 source code leak, but a completely buildable repository. If I write an…
> though the "about notepad" dialog shows the windows 11 version for some reason?? For many built in windows apps, the 'about this program' menu item just invokes a separate program, 'winver'. If you go Start -> Run and…
Are you even responding to the right comment? I read your comment and the parent comment you've responded to and this response doesn't make sense - it reads like a non-sequitur.
>Canada dumps good milk down the drain while people go hungry and suffer high food prices I'm not sure if you realise this, but the exact same thing happens in the US.
> The firm gradually grew more contentious, demanding that the RTX 5060 be handed in because the event it was acquired at was part of a business trip, entirely paid for by the company. The employee would never have won…
What name calling? Calling the author 'an unserious person' isn't name calling. Might be worth reading the article: > "If you like Windows 8’s look, you are a bad person. You are the one Steve Jobs was talking about…
That was exactly the same behaviour in Windows 7 though; it wasn't exactly novel. At least Windows 7 searched your apps, and documents all at once. Windows 8 limited you to just apps. Windows 8 was a huge step down in…
They can afford to make a big song and dance about this because chances are they are not selling the hardware at a loss and they have the regular steam store to offset the short term costs. If they were selling the…
I feel like there could be a loophole here for the new-framework-author. Stick to using JSX for the view; JSX is just syntax sugar for built in react functions for constructing a tree, which can be easily swappable with…