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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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 =]

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

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I can't believe I'm actually upvoting that statement.. coming from a former windows nerd (until 7).

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Preach brother!

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In before a Microsoft apologist drops in to tell us how much they are sick of Lemmy nerds suggesting Linux. Then, proceeds to cry about the terminal and provide reasons that could be a textbook definition of Stockholm Syndrome. Point them to this comment when they get here, please.

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...Always had been

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Countdown until Google shittymorphs me looking for cooking recipes.

jas0n OP ,

Yeah. This was the problem. i just wanted to copy and paste it quickly but they rounded it off. It's a useless conversion. And I switched it to mebibytes as well since that's what everyone really means when they say megabytes unless you're making selling storage devices. =]

Indeed, I should have just used my calculator program.

jas0n OP ,

Sorry, I changed it manually. I should have cropped out the search.

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Found the SQL developer!

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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.

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For now.

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

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Good. Now, you want to make a bigger impact? Do the schools.

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Found the software engineer.

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Oh wow. Nasal demons in the wild.

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You're just more familiar with windows. You likely grew up with it and depending on your age were taught it in school. You're biggest gripe seems to be having to touch the terminal to install things, but to me, I think it's weird to use a browser to install things. This is where that esoteric knowledge comes in.. you know which download button is the real one that won't download a virus.

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Yeah! Just use a browser. Make sure to click the right download button (not the 50 ads disguised as download buttons) to download an executable (just the installer). Then, run the installer and click "next" a bunch of times. Why would anyone want anything different?

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Not sure what you're on about, but I can't help myself but upvote a "fuck Putin."

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On one hand you have something that has no business existing and provides no value to humanity, and on the other, you have a terrible operating system. I'm feeling conflicted... Upvote.

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Embrace Extend Extinguish

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Joe Biden is running an international money laundering operation with Ukraine right under our noses.

Joe Biden is senile and doesn't know where he is or put together complete sentences.

Well.. which one is it?

Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. (lemmy.world)

People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD comic says won't pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those people only...

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I used to write tons of automation in my previous data role. While time saved matters, the other important takeaway is reproducibility. Other people on the team were writing giant SQL scripts and highlight running each one and then manual checking to see if it worked... I'm talking about tables anywhere from 1-100 millions records. You aren't checking shit by skimming a top 1000. And what a ridiculously error prone process that is. Take the human out of that equation!

If the data came out wrong, it would be because the data came in different/corrupted, not because I missed a query. Speaking of different causing problems.. one time a company sent us data that was fixed width by character instead of fixed width by byte. Smh...

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