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Is that the same guy who used to write The Long View blog? I miss that edit: guess not, but if you liked that check out http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2010/4/17_OpenDoc.html ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 13:34 on May 15, 2024 |
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Cat Hassler posted:lol I worked on an emergency OLE demo for Bill G to give at Comdex in 1992. We had to outsource getting a Starbucks logo turned into a digital image. In the demo there was a Starbucks coffee mug embedded that when clicked on would play the sound of coffee pouring but everyone laughed because it sounded like someone peeing back in the nineties comdex was a semi-annual trade show where cat the hassler worked on an emergency ole demo
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So I recently asked copilot to build me a model of baller, allen, and gates so I can understand why bill tried to steal the company from his best friend. I told it to include something called "ethical mana" With no prompting it gave bill gates half the ethical mana of paul allen and ballmer was somewhere in between. Even copilot knows Bill is a dick.
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May 15, 2024 17:08
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I am OLE, he is COM
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May 15, 2024 19:48
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infernal machines posted:did you select a line of text next to a bullet point or numbered list? don't worry, we'll make it a bullet point or numbered item no matter what you're pasting it into! infernal machines posted:like, holy gently caress, i would like software to stop guessing what i'm trying to do use vim
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May 15, 2024 19:51
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Origin posted:it had to have come back sometime around the 6.0 days. i had it on my 486 that shipped with 6.0 and win 3.1. i remember it being available on at least one of my win 3.x systems too, but i have no idea if that was an OEM add-in or anything. i didn't have any IBM computers until much later, though. by the time i got a thinkpad (with win 98), dos was nearly on its way out the door entirely but it also could've just been a remnant from a dos 5.x upgrade or something too i guess. idk, it's kinda hard to remember how i had things set up as a literal child nearly 30 years ago lol infernal machines posted:there were also a bunch of competitors to ole at the time, opendoc, basically opendoc was pretty drat cool, too bad programming for it was such a nightmare
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Cat Hassler posted:lol I worked on an emergency OLE demo for Bill G to give at Comdex in 1992. We had to outsource getting a Starbucks logo turned into a digital image. In the demo there was a Starbucks coffee mug embedded that when clicked on would play the sound of coffee pouring but everyone laughed because it sounded like someone peeing bill “here comes my piss!” gates
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~Coxy posted:Is that the same guy who used to write The Long View blog? I miss that thanks! i love this stuff
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May 15, 2024 22:51
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but Windows is going to whine and cry at me because I don’t have their most aggressive energy saving power plan selected
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May 15, 2024 22:53
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Branch Nvidian posted:but Windows is going to whine and cry at me because I don’t have their most aggressive energy saving power plan selected everyone has to do their part while microsoft burns gigawatts to run spicy autocomplete extensions in products you've never even heard of
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Branch Nvidian posted:but Windows is going to whine and cry at me because I don’t have their most aggressive energy saving power plan selected I believe windows uses the data from that to in a small percentage add or remove to their corporate emissions, hence. But it is true most people used to keep their computers at full blast everything while searching on google, mostly because older computers were slow to ramp up and down their power saving which was pretty bad if you were running productivity or gaming as it'd lag then not lag then start lagging as it thought you were donme with your resource intensive task. but new systems do that seamlessly, however I believe the best option is balanced as that doesn't cap max anything, power saving does which will make people complain or promptly change it to high performance. or if you go to the old control panel and change power plan to high performance ( different from the one you mentioned in windows 8/10/11 in settings which is actually called power mode lol) it turns off power modes and is at full blast 24/7. so yeah lmao windows but the alternative is linux for pcs as hackintosh is dead. in conclusion computers bad
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https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/112441432214302110quote:If you're a developer who works on a machine running Windows 11 and whose work involves lots of operations across many small files -- think things like building/compiling, npm package updates, git commits, etc. -- Win11 has a feature that lets you carve out part of your storage as a "Dev Drive," using a different filesystem that's more optimized for file I/O than NTFS is. Microsoft estimates putting your code into a Dev Drive can speed up these operations by 25% or more. *honking clown noises*
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lmao https://twitter.com/Zeko369/status/1791141890106290670
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https://twitter.com/SauceX22/status/1791198493911949599
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Sapozhnik posted:https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/112441432214302110 i dont want my git pulls to go faster though
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its litterrally one of the worst parts of windows 11
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this is no surprise however Shaggar posted:its litterrally one of the worst parts of windows 11 but with so many bad parts it's hard to pick one in particular as the worst
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Sapozhnik posted:https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/112441432214302110 instead of reading and writing files, NTFS is optimized for ...?
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Clark Nova posted:instead of reading and writing files, NTFS is optimized for ...? new technology, it's in the name
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May 17, 2024 16:39
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Clark Nova posted:instead of reading and writing files, NTFS is optimized for ...? "anti-virus" software although that's more to do with the design of nt's filesystem layer than ntfs specifically
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I wonder if windows antivirus scans waste more electricity than ai or crypto in tyool 2024
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lol https://x.com/aaronontheweb/status/1790719941282255251
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Sapozhnik posted:"anti-virus" software it boils down to like 95% bad tools w/ unoptimized/naive i/o and then like 5% defender scan on close. ntfs itself ends up being fine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8 easier for microsoft to create a file system hack to workaround bad tools than get bad tool writers to fix their poo poo
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I will say that if the coworker was talking about the "have a list of web sites, sorted by category" part and not the visual design, yeah he's right that it's become utterly impossible. Hell, even if you magically threw out all the spam and trash sites, business culture has forgotten how to hire humans to do anything they automate to be worse but cheaper. Also, I appreciate that you can tell what year that is just by the news headline up at the top.
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remember being tantalized by pages marked "Cool" or "Whats Hot" and always disappointed by the contents
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i'm telling you friend, stand up some off-the-shelf full text search cluster with a curated allowlist of domain names be the change you want to see in the world. surely somebody somewhere is standing up something like this.
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Akratic Method posted:I will say that if the coworker was talking about the "have a list of web sites, sorted by category" part and not the visual design, yeah he's right that it's become utterly impossible. Hell, even if you magically threw out all the spam and trash sites, business culture has forgotten how to hire humans to do anything they automate to be worse but cheaper. https://x.com/JeremyTate41/status/1680356847306383360
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Akratic Method posted:I will say that if the coworker was talking about the "have a list of web sites, sorted by category" part and not the visual design, yeah he's right that it's become utterly impossible. Hell, even if you magically threw out all the spam and trash sites, business culture has forgotten how to hire humans to do anything they automate to be worse but cheaper. idk, if you hired enough competent people to curate the list of content then i don't think it'd be that difficult, but that concept is apparently completely foreign to today's tech companies (just have GPT do it!). the html/visual design is not difficult at all, either, but i'm sure management wouldn't be able to resist jamming a billion ads in there, making every other link some clickbait scam ad, and also making everything a referral link so they get a cut of the traffic even if it were as barebones as the 1998 yahoo page though, it'd probably be sparse. the age of everyone having their own site is dead, universities don't even give people publicly accessible storage (that isn't from some stupid cloud vendor) anymore, so it'd probably be a bunch of corporate garbage you'd probably have to end up paying for to get what you really want
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cathedrals took like 50-200 years to build and that's if they didn't fall down or run out of money which they did a lot definite survivorship bias in that example
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we cant build cathedrals any more (please ignore the magnificent gaudi Sagrada Família cathedral currently finishing construction in barcelona right now)
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we absolutely know how to do it we just refuse to accept how labor intensive the work was and how long the timelines were.
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leave it to yospos to kill a good joke deader than the searchable web
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infernal machines posted:leave it to yospos to kill a good joke deader than the searchable web I completely forgot that meme post. 
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this is the microsoft thread, soul crushing ineptitude is par for the course
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Clark Nova posted:instead of reading and writing files, NTFS is optimized for ...? being future-proof against any possible corporate customer feature-request, from a 1980s vision of the future Shaggar posted:it boils down to like 95% bad tools w/ unoptimized/naive i/o and then like 5% defender scan on close. ntfs itself ends up being fine Dev Drives use ReFS specifically because NTFS sucks poo poo pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 18:57 on May 18, 2024 |
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pseudorandom name posted:being future-proof against any possible corporate customer feature-request, from a 1980s vision of the future no they use it because linux tools used on dev drives suck. refs has hacks to make bad tools perform better
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