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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

jas0n ,

Get it in the schools. It's a bad habit from many people's childhood that they need to break. Make that original habit not suck.

jas0n ,

You want to see a picture of me when I was younger?

Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough ( www.xda-developers.com )

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that...

jas0n ,

Guy from '95: "I bet it's lightning fast though..."

No dude. It peaks pretty soon. In my time, Microsoft is touting a chat program that starts in under 10 seconds. And they're genuinely proud of it.

jas0n ,

Just wanted to point out that the number 1 performance blocker in the CPU is memory. In the general case, if you're wasting memory, you're wasting CPU. These two things really cannot be talked about in isolation.

jas0n ,

I'm not sure what metric you're using to determine this. The bottom line is, if you're trying to get the CPU to really fly, using memory efficiently is just as important (if not more) than the actual instructions you send to it. The reason for this is the high latency required to go out to external memory. This is performance 101.

jas0n ,

Then, they look confused when I tell them I don't want the thing connected to the Internet.

jas0n ,

...taking out people before they move in.

jas0n ,

100% this. The base algorithms used in LLMs have been around for at least 15 years. What we have now is only slightly different than it was then. The latest advancement was training a model on stupid amounts of scraped data off the Internet. And it took all that data to make something that gave you half decent results. There isn't much juice left to squeeze here, but so many people are assuming exponential growth and "just wait until the AI trains other AI."

It's really like 10% new tech and 90% hype/marketing. The worst is that it's got so many people fooled you hear many of these dumb takes from respectable journalists interviewing "tech" journalists. It's just perpetuating the hype. Now your boss/manager is buying in =]

jas0n ,

You may also like Odin if you haven't already started zig. It's less of a learning curve and feels more like what c should have always been. It has defer and simple generics, but doesn't have the magic of comptime.

jas0n ,

Preach brother, I don't think that's a hot take at all. I've become almost twice as productive since moving from c++ to c. I think I made the change when I was looking into virtual destructors and I was thinking, "at what point am I solving a problem the language is creating?" Another good example of this is move semantics. It's only a solution to a problem the language invented.

My hot take: The general fear of pointers needs to die.

jas0n ,

But it's a single problem.

jas0n ,

...Always had been

jas0n ,

Countdown until Google shittymorphs me looking for cooking recipes.

jas0n ,

Facebook is almost more effective on adults. So whether or not you're right here is so ridiculously beyond the point anymore. They've lost all credibility and should be indefensible.

Ukraine’s troops withdraw from parts of north-east as pressure mounts ( www.theguardian.com )

Ukraine’s troops withdrew from several areas of the country’s north-east amid mounting pressure from a new Russian offensive, as the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, postponed all foreign trips underscoring the seriousness of the threat....

jas0n ,

It's not good, but it's coming at a cost. ~4500 casualties on RU side in the last 3 days. That's hard to comprehend.

jas0n ,

Not that it makes it a whole lot better, but casualty != killed. Casualty, in this context, just means forcefully removed from combat.

jas0n ,

I believe 40% is under the age of 15. So, during the last vote, 40% were, at most, around -3 at the time. I don't they were.........

jas0n ,

Or, like when China was backing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

jas0n ,

How about display port that looks like HDMI? Oh wait...

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