output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs)

We've known measuring output by lines of code is counterproductive for a long time.

"Party of small government" was always marketing rather than reality.

Sounds like you're saying you're quitting threadiverse entirely? Sad to hear. I enjoyed your history stuff particularly

Not saying it will definitely help, but if you're not even feeling it the caffeine dependency might actually be making you feel worse rather than better

They didn't understand the only reason people used it was because it was really cheap before they raised the prices. Most aren't super hardcore and play games over a few months so it became cheaper to just buy games again. It's stupid because they had no reason to try to make a sub model except that MBAs are morons and value recurring revenue more than just revenue in general

This is really sad, but one has to wonder if it's actually prevalent enough to warrant news or the typical "everyone panic the youth are doing blank" when someone just said something on the internet once.

Another site allows users to pretend they are taking a smoke break with other people without actually smoking or physically being around anyone. The site displays an image of a cigarette, a "start" button, and messages from other logged-in users, creating the feeling of an online break room.

That's kind of neat actually, but nothing that didn't already exist on AOL in the 90s

Shower beer

hammering Wikipedia’s servers and using it as a training ground.

They could just efficiently download the freely available archive instead of being assholes but nooo

There is a fundamental difference this post is pretending doesn't exist.

Trusting the abstractions of compilers and fundamental widely used libraries is not a problem because they are deterministic and battle tested.

LLMs do not add a layer of abstraction. They produce code at the existing layer of abstraction.

“While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use.”

Lol sure. If that was the real reason they'd simply let you create a local account. The audacious lying is just insulting.

But we already had tools that gave us 90%

More reliable ones.

The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.

This actually probably make sense, but they could still be cool and have pixel drivers be open source in a different repo if that was the only reason.