In the early century I’ve seen companies bundle an entire pc (with case and all) inside their own products just to avoid dealing with windows CE.

And people would also track down and document what race people used to be before the change happened so that they could keep on hating too.

At one point long ago (just for a short while), I thought Delphi was destined to take that place. It was much higher level while still letting you go as low level as you wanted- it didn’t have garbage collection but it made it pretty easy to keep track of what is or isn’t allocated, on top of having good tools to find leaks on runtime. But it had too many problems too: the Pascal base and the association with drag and drop coders being some of the first ones, followed by a series of bad decisions by whatever company was responsible for it at any given week.

As long as it runs the same code, yes. But things may change, clients may pre-emptively split the string or stuff like that.

Imagine getting a multi byte character at the right position to get it split so that one byte gets in and the other doesn’t.

A second vote for Core Keeper here. I think it’s a safer option than Terraria, which could also be a good option but isn’t for everyone.

Huh, this sort of issue is what made me leave KDE in the first place. Haven’t had such problems on gnome.

I’m not saying it’s good, I’m saying I expected it to be even worse.

Reading the paper, AI did a lot better than I would expect. It showed experienced devs working on a familiar code base got 19% slower. It’s telling that they thought they had been more productive, but the result was not that bad tbh.

I wish we had similar research for experienced devs on unfamiliar code bases, or for inexperienced devs, but those would probably be much harder to measure.

Worked on a personal game for 7 years nearly every day. Signed with a publisher and gave up on the project the following year.

“what are you saying? That I can quit vim?”

“no Neo, what I’m saying is - when you’re ready, you won’t have to.”

But they also keep you in your toes. Nobody ever worries about what their fish is doing while they aren’t looking.

It’s a completely different launcher, I just like the way they list the apps that are not in your home screen (very similar to windows phone). I still prefer smart launcher for its categories but sometimes for the apps I rarely use I liked Niagara’s list.

I kinda agree with you to some extent. At the time my general reaction was something like: “everything it does, it does wonderfully. But I wish it did more”.

When TotK came out, my first impression was “I guess I’m never playing BotW again”. Mostly because they kind of overlap with each other in many aspects.

But I still thought BotW was a great game, before TotK existed.

My ideal launcher would be a mix of Smart Launcher with the addition of the app list from Niagara.

Depends on your point of view. It’s better than chatgpt, but still bad.

Intelligential Artificence

Intelligent Artifacts?

I remember at one point the front-end guys I knew were laughing that it didn’t even support iframes. But I imagine it eventually got decent enough.

Meanwhile in my company the leadership just thinks that we have a messaging problem after the new AI stuff we implemented made absolutely no difference in the sales numbers.

Windows Vista is Microsoft’s greatest success, because it’s main purpose was to make people forget the promises made for Longhorn.