That's how I tend to describe AI to a lot of non-technical people (I actually generally say it's like having an really fresh intern who can read technical docs insanely fast but needs a lot of supervision).

1. D had a split similar to python 2 vs 3 early on with having the garbage collector or not (and therefor effectively 2 standard libraries), but unlike python it didn't already have a massive community that was willing to suffer through it.

2. It didn't really have any big backing. Rust having Mozilla backing it for integration with Firefox makes a pretty big difference.

3. D wasn't different enough, it felt much more "this is c++ done better" than it's own language, but unlike c++ where it's mostly a superset of c you couldn't do "c with classes" style migrations

Also largely cause devs/publishers honestly just don't really think about it, they've been doing it as long as optical media has been prevalent (early/mid 90s) and for the last few years devs have actually been taking a look and realizing it doesn't make as much sense as it used to, especially if like in this case the majority of the time is spent on runtime generation of, or if they require a 2080 as minimum specs whats the point of optimizing for 1 low end component if most people running it are on high end systems.

Hitman recently (4 years ago) did a similar massive file shrink and mentioned many of the same things.

Can you expand on what you mean here? I only somewhat follow Wayland/X11 migration/development, but from what I understand gnome is on Wayland, enough so that they apparently dropped x11 support from their upcoming release in march.

A large amount he's lost is also ceremonial, it sounds like he won't be removed from the line of succession cause that would require approval from all the separate countries the monarchy reigns over to do so (and he's like eighth in line so extremely unlikely given his age).

He's been excluded from a lot of official events already so a lot of it is just making it official.

He's still not being criminally charged with anything from the government.

Having the "You have X hours of PTO" made the expectations clear. Especially for less senior people who might not want to rock the boat or seem greedy. And while use it or lose it policies are overall bad, they do push people to take breaks instead of "saving it up for something good/important".

It also heavily depends on management. There's definitely some companies that do "unlimited w/ manager approval" with the manager expected to find ways to deny and those are 100% shit places to work, but not everyone gets a lot of choice on that.

I think a lot of people miss that the changes that combined a ton of stuff into autism was because we had a ton of different disorders that had super similar treatment plans, but it could cause issues when your doctor didn't know all of the related disorders to be able to know to try different treatment plans.

The combining was an acknowledgement that we don't know what causes these combinations of symptoms to occur but they seem to be related when certain combinations of them occur and these treatments can work to lessen the impact on the person experiencing it.

This is the really big part that a lot of people seem to miss when complaining about the changes in DSMV.

Previously there were dozens of conditions that had nearly the exact same symptoms and super similar treatments that may work.

The change basically said, for these given symptoms here's a bunch of treatments that may work.

I've known a few people that were diagnosed as something that would now be under autism, but because they had that diagnosis that didn't happen to include some of the treatments that actually ended up working for them they ended up not finding them until they happened to get a doctor that said "you know these diagnoses are really close, lets try this instead".

From talking with doctors I don't think I've heard anyone disagree that autism is almost assuredly a cover term for many different things similar to cancer not being a singular disease. The difference right now is that we don't have any concrete test to differentiate between any of the autisms yet, just various sets of treatments that work to varying degrees for different people.

Unfortunately dropbox has been in the Enshittification phase for quite a while. They had a good while where they had extra features but no one used them cause no one wanted random feature 'x' from dropbox, they just wanted to sync files so dropbox began pushing them in your face and making you work to get what they had working perfectly 15 years ago.

It's heavily implied in LOTR that the ring is able to change it's size to cause itself to slip from a person's finger, though that's somewhat out of scope and the illustrator may not have read that.

Two phase power is not the same as split phase (There's basically only weird older installations of 2 phase in use anymore).

It'd be all new wire run (120 is split at the panel, we aren't running 240v all over the house) and currently electricians are at a premium so it'd likely end up costing a thousand+ to run that if you're using an electrician, more if there's not clear access from an attic/basement/crawlspace.

Though I think it's unlikely we'll see an actual need for it at home, I imaging a 800w cpu is going to be for server class CPUs and rare-ish to see in home environments.

I'm not a fan of chat bots on random websites, but also my work is pretty regulated so as far as AIs go we're only supposed to use ones we have direct agreements with.

While I can just not put in anything protected I much prefer being able to point one of the bots we can use at docs and be able to provide it context for what I'm working on.

Especially bad in 100% documention requirement shops where you get stupid things like '@param foo - Control ' where having some examples would be much more useful than a wall of those parameter 'descriptions'.

> Being special to just / doesn't make sense to me.

and explaining why being special to / can make sense. I too often feel like people see comments like that and decide to let perfect get in the way of better in their own work.