Posts by J27

Re: "the ability to use operators on generic types."

Generics are not a Swiss army knife, there are times where they make sense and others where they don't, combined with being able to limit the types accepted there are a lot of good uses of generics... As to handing over the issues to the compiler? I disagree, generics are strongly typed in C# and they don't impact code reliability... They're mostly a way to improve compile-time checking by having the correct type for things instead of having to coerce everything to object and then back to whatever type you need (not type-safe).

P.S. If we were talking about dynamics, well that's a whole other issue. Dynamics just move your compile-time errors into run time and perform terribly to boot.

They always imitate the look, which is something no one cares about, application comparability is the key to Windows' control over the desktop.

Re: windows on M1 8GB afster than surface ProX

We'll only know what's quicker after someone runs the benchmarks. I'm interested to see.

I think it's because Microsoft has gotten better at blocking cryptocurrency miners abusing Azure DevOps free trials, so they've moved on to abusing Windows 365 free trials instead.

Re: Free Supercomputer!

Old supercomputers are also really bad for power consumption. Probably would have eaten your organization out of house and home.

Re: "and in a few short years we were liberated."

I've run into this many times. It seems like a lot of people aren't capable of recognizing market domination if it isn't Microsoft. Android all but forces you log in with a Google application, and iOS an Apple account. When Microsoft does it, everyone complains.

If you care about this you should be standing up against it BEFORE that point, because generally, by the time Microsoft gets around to it, it's already been done everywhere else.

Try finding an Android that doesn't have Google Play, Gmail and a variety of other Google apps bundled in, I could say the same about Apple, but we all know there no way to avoid their bundled apps.

Re: But wasn't the cloud supposed to simplify things?

You should see my deploy scripts. I think it took me about 2 weeks to write ALL of them. I think every generation of devops systems gets more complex and the documentation gets worse. Kubernetes requires you make packages to deploy your images you already made and configure all the inputs and outputs manually. It's great functionality, but it takes forever to set up.

Re: W11

Just switch to the release track.

Re: Spaced-GenX?

Yeah, but putting it on the roof would have been legal and then we would never have read this story.

Re: Better hope they sort out the CPU and TPM support

Modern AMD and Intel CPUs contain a TPM, you just need to turn it on on the BIOS.

Re: Fool me once

Me neither, but how many people actually bought Windows Phones? I mean, I did, you did and 3 other people. I even wrote some apps for Windows Phone... that were very hard to sell.

Re: Chinese government is not stupid

Perhaps, but this particular idea is very smart. It allows them to control their people much better. Keep all of their money in the Chinese system and force them to use their new fedcoin the Digital Yuan.

Re: Freenode is sinking

I'd say it's impossible. Lee seems to have forgotten that he's operating a volunteer-run service and that he only has volunteers and users if they want to use the service. Without the people, all you have is an IRC server.

QNX is small, but it still carries a bit of cruft with it because it's a POSIX compatible OS, Google probably wanted something lighter.

Re: It makes sense

You can remove IE from the add/remove Windows components feature, new installs also don't include it by default.

Re: No Keyboard detected.....

Most bios settings screens have an option to turn off the keyboard check, but it does the check if there are any other errors.

When you see something like this it probat means they just got someone to knock it out instead of paying for real developers... Or the people who commissioned it were so out to lunch that they hired frauds to do the work, this happens a lot in software.

Re: Fully Automatic my arse!

It only works on roads with lane lines, so it wouldn't be suitable for huge swaths of the UK. It's mostly designed for motorways.

Re: Thumbs up from me!

I wonder if I could get away with that. Right now I have a whole Linux install hidden in WSL2 behind Windows.... Could I flip the table?

Re: Anything but YAML

I'm not a big fan of YAML, but you can get an editor that validates your file to avoid things like that.

It's not the language, or even the design of packages. What you're describing is just poor or overworked developers. You can misuse even the best tools.

Re: Doom

All modern Java toolchains (yes, you need a bunch of tools to "build" JavaScript now), are designed to strip out unused code. Now, you might think I'm defending this practice, but I'm not. The JavaScript ecosystem is now so heavy and complex that you absolutely NEED an entire toolchain to strip out entirely unused code to ship a half-decent website.

Unfortunately, JavaScript is the tool we have, not the tool we want. Maybe changes are coming with Web Assembly, or maybe it's another dead end.