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New comment by clows in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

clows — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:52:59 +0000

welfare state enabled by cloud services/technology?

I'm not sure if you know less about europe or tech.

> Except France maybe.

sure

New comment by clows in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

clows — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:54:17 +0000

> Can you give me an example of such advanced features?

macros, vba, onedrive/sharepoint/office integration

I think you highly underestimate the Microsoft Office ecosystem and the tight integration in enterprises.

> I'm sure this is trivial [...].

nope.

New comment by clows in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

clows — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:49:31 +0000

I'm in the EU and (nearly) every company runs windows (on desktop). Especially in larger organizations (there's plenty of windows servers still).

New comment by clows in "How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US"

clows — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:26:50 +0000

What entity is the Largest Nonprivate EV Charging Operator in the US?

New comment by clows in "I always knew I was different, I didn't know I was a sociopath"

clows — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:09:29 +0000

I don't know why your definition is _the_ definition. A sociopath can be self aware.

New comment by clows in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

clows — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 07:43:01 +0000

> I know my school has changed IDE recommendation 7 times in 22 years.

Just so I understand you correctly - am I using your comment

> That's cool, I didn't know you were most programmers.

correctly here?

New comment by clows in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

clows — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 16:57:04 +0000

I only wanted to mention that certain IDEs still used today are not coming and going but have been around for decades and are still more or less the same (keybinding, etc).

Maybe I just don't understand your comment - even translated it still confuses me tbh. (I'm not a native speaker). Sorry if you feel offended I guess.

New comment by clows in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

clows — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 16:38:27 +0000

My first java IDE was Visual Cafe by Symantec 1999 - and if I remember correctly I started using IDEA around 2002 (and still do - incl. Rider, etc).

New comment by clows in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

clows — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:35:12 +0000

> There's a strange dance of IDEs coming and going [...]

Intellij IDEA 1.0 was released in 2001 - is still in active development - and as far as I know the keyboard shortcuts are still the same (depending on the configuration one chooses)

The first Microsoft Visual Studio release was in 1997. XCode was first released in 2003.

New comment by clows in "Emu Video and Emu Edit, our latest generative AI research milestones"

clows — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:33:55 +0000

I thought of this Running Man scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVdOr0z6X7Y

New comment by clows in "Oink's Pink Palace"

clows — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:03:56 +0000

Soulseek was pretty sweet - people would chat me up when downloading an album they shared and ask if I wanted anything else they hadn't ripped yet - or recommend something similar.

It was more like napster though and not torrent based iirc.

New comment by clows in "Oink's Pink Palace"

clows — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:25:13 +0000

I was barely on OiNK. Got an invite and I think 2 months later it shut down :/ But I used waffles quite a bit. (I didn't like what.cd for some reason)

New comment by clows in "Oink's Pink Palace"

clows — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:11:24 +0000

waffles.fm maybe?

New comment by clows in "SQLite: the secret behind Apple's success? (humor)"

clows — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:23:26 +0000

> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

New comment by clows in "Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe"

clows — Tue, 16 May 2023 10:51:05 +0000

> Most farmers now won't grow rapeseed, because the risk of making a huge financial loss is too high.

Do you have data to back that up? The only info I could find is along the lines of the article below.

https://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2022/06/16/eu-rapesee...

> EU rapeseed crop 2022 projected at five-year high

New comment by clows in "Slightly Intelligent Home"

clows — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 06:35:10 +0000

> Most user groups have tons of reports of issues, they seem to need to fuss with it every update,

Tons of users with tons of different integrations means tons of issue. That is true I suppose.

I have a very simple Homeassistant setup with a few different zigbee lights and sensors. It has it's issues but 98% of the time it works just fine. The 2% that are frustrating are issues with zigbee connectivity but homeassistant works pretty well. I'm still not a fan of the yaml configuration but that is being worked on.

> lots it can burn out some SD cards.

more of a hardware issue (raspberry pi) than a software issue.

I run it on an intel nuc and have no issues with SD cards.

New comment by clows in "What's the right age to get a smartphone?"

clows — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:18:20 +0000

sounds like you haven't tried tiktok yet?

New comment by clows in "Photographer documents all items that she owns"

clows — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:57:04 +0000

I'm sure there is an OOP joke here but it's probably private.

New comment by clows in "Checkbox Olympics"

clows — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:12:25 +0000

Apple devices are not made for gaming ;)

New comment by clows in "Distributed Actors in Swift"

clows — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:57:50 +0000

I read about the distributed actors and my first thought was "a semi standalone headset that needs to communicate with the phone and/or watch" could probably benefit from this.