Centre click is a godsend though. I recently had to start using Windows again and I keep instinctively hitting it.

Serious question: Why hasn’t China cut trade with Israel?

Gotta check off all the items on the BITE model /s

Interesting! Thank you!

Also worth noting that some of the workflows that were available in languages like CL or Smalltalk back in the 80s are superior to what most languages offer today.

In what ways? I don’t have any experience with those so I’m curious.

I get what this is saying but on the other hand…

Programmers now:

💪 Can spin up a minimum viable product in a day

💪 Writes web applications that handle millions or even billions of requests per second

💪 Remote code execution and memory related vulnerabilities are rarer than ever now

💪 Can send data across the world with sub 1 second latency

💪 The same PCIe interface is now 32x faster (16x PICe 1 was 8GB/s, while PCIe 6 is 256GB/s)

💪 The same wireless bands now have more throughput due to better radio protocols and signal processing

💪 Writes applications that scale across the over 100 cores of modern top of the line processors

💪 JIT and garbage collection techniques have improved to the point where they have a nearly imperceptible performance impact in the majority of use cases

💪 Most bugs are caught by static analysis and testing frameworks before release

💪 Codebases are worked on by thousands of people at the same time

💪 Functional programming, which is arguably far less bug prone, is rapidly gaining traction as a paradigm

💪 Far more emphasis on immutability to the point where many languages have it as the default

💪 Virtual machines can be seamlessly transferred from one computer to another while they’re running

💪 Modern applications can be used by people anywhere in the world regardless of language, even things that were very difficult to do in the past like mirroring the entire interface to allow an application that was written for left to right languages to support right to left

💪 Accessibility features allow people who are blind, paralyzed, or have other disabilities to use computers just as well as anyone else

Just wanted to provide come counter examples because I’m not a huge fan of the “programmers are worse than they were back in the 80s” rethoric. While programmers today are more reliant on automated tools, I really disagree that programmers are less capable in general than they were in the past.

How long has the 919 been out? Is it longer than the time between the 737 max coming out and the first crash? As far as I know the 919 has not had a fatal accident yet, so if it’s been out longer than that time, then it’s statically safer than the 737 max.

Palestinian children: Stop bombing us

Israelis: Best we can do is silence

When I heard about schools using Chromebooks literally the first thing I said was “Linux can do more than a Chromebook can and is free, why the hell aren’t they using that?!” Linux running on the cheapest OEM laptop (make sure you get ones without the prepaid Windows license so you don’t spend more than you need to) is a better experience than the most expensive Chromebook.

I’m surprised they were invited in the first place

Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

SMH you do one ethnic cleansing and suddenly all the woke journalists are biased against you /s

If it’s this easy to destroy, it was all theater in the first place.

Loops

X - Doubt

Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?

Isn’t .NET open source and cross platform now? Isn’t there an official Linux runtime? Or is it just the most basic subset of .NET without any of the GUI libraries or other things Windows .NET apps routinely depend on?

What the hell does the bottom post even mean? Is she saying she prefers segregated bathrooms? I knew she is a TERF but she’s apparently also racist?

Unauthorized access is for white people only, basically.

No matter what your opinions about Ukraine/Russia are, can we all agree that deporting a top scientist that already supports your side in a conflict, who is essentially defecting to your country from your biggest enemy, is dumb as hell? Like that’s literally how the US got Einstein.

Even worse, they’re straight up just selling people into slavery by sending them to a literal slave labour prison in a foreign country.