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“It’s like ham and hamster. Totally unrelated. But that’s just JavaScript, other BlahScripts are related. There was this crazy advertising push for Java back in the '90s that they took advantage of for name recognition.”

Still a very succinct and straightforward explanation.

This just gave me the (shit post) idea of an app where VC funders can swipe on projects they want to invest in or not

It doesn’t have to be the whole explanation. It’s not like you get a singular sentence to talk to someone lol.

I’m not splitting a hair, I’m just telling you I don’t feel that strongly about it because I’m not the one who made it. I’d never heard it before.

Nah, I feel bad for them. I was part of a similar minority in that my computer was old enough to not have SecureBoot so I couldn’t upgrade to Windows 11. Now I’m happily on Linux.

Sure, and I never had to manually use that. It just happened seamlessly. So what’s this article talking about?

Wine is a totally different topic and unrelated. But my point is that if it’s so seamless, even if it’s internally launching it in some compatibility mode, why mention it in the article? On 64 bit Windows I’ve never had to actively think about programs compiled for 32 bit Windows (old programs for previous versions of Windows being a totally different topic). That’s why I’m saying this article sounds like AI slop.

Look, I genuinely get what your saying, and I’m not saying people should be allowed to say whatever they want on Twitter. I’m certainly not saying the first amendment protects them. I’m just saying a lot of forms of online communication are critical in today’s society.

Like, if I got banned from Twitter for saying I dislike Elon Musk, does that sound okay? I know it’s currently legal, I’m not saying it isn’t. But it certainly feels like an unjust restriction of my speech. Not “free speech” in the protected first amendment sense, but certainly “free speech” in the sense that people should generally be allowed to say things. The response of “just build your own website and you can say what you want” is missing the point of the reach and power massive websites have. When people say “big tech restricts free speech” this is the sort of thing they’re trying to get at, but it sounds wrong because “free speech” is a pretty loaded and ambiguous term. Treating everyone saying free speech as if they mean something about the first amendment feels disingenuous to me.

And again, let me be perfectly clear, I’m not trying to insinuate that everyone should just get free reign to post whatever hateful content or misinformation they want wherever they want. I’m just saying that private companies being able to silence you on a global scale with no recourse or way to protest it feels very wrong. I don’t have a solution and don’t know where the line should be, but corporations shouldn’t just be able to gag people arbitrarily.

Your hamster analogy falls apart here because it only describes an exception, not a rule.

It’s not my analogy.

They need to fix the minus syntax/feature. That’s my singular complaint.

How is it dumb? Ham and hamsters are two totally different things but sound similar. Java and JavaScript are two totally different things but sound similar. It’s a way to immediately explain to a non technical person in a way they can grok.

DuckDuckGo

This article sounds like AI slop. Aren’t the vast majority of games 32 bit applications and run just fine on 64 bit OSes? What on earth are they yappin’ about? I’ve had a 64 bit OS since at least 2009. I’ve never had to use any sort of compatibility mode to launch a 32 bit program.

Further, are there genuinely a significant number of people running 32 bit Windows? I’m sure there are some, but I really wouldn’t chalk it up to more than 5%. Certainly not more than 10%.

The elephant in the room with statements like this is that many communication enabling technologies are more akin to utilities. Where that line is and how close to utilities they are is debatable (do we include things like Twitter? Or just low level stuff like email. Are they utilities or merely similar to them?). Especially when you consider their necessity to operate in modern society and impossibility to rebuild yourself from scratch.

I get your point. I’m not trying to suggest corporations should be forced to allow 100% actually true free speech on their platforms.

Yeah. I used the BFF version for a bit to try and find folks in my area to hang out with. It’s a really horrible app. When someone messages you, you have 24 hours to respond. If you don’t then the two of you get unmatched. I can understand something like unlatching after some time period without responding, but just 24 hours? Ick.

I have configurable firmware. I have a k type and that black one that looks the same (I forget the model name) https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-x-input-club-k-type-mechanical-keyboard

I mean, the more I think about it, the more I think it might be relevant. They’ve got this very bizarre format (instead of something like JSON) and I wrote a thing to parse it and format it back out.

The joke being “Prison Architect” (especially as a game) sounds very bizarre to be on a resume.

Should I put my Prison Architect mod tool on my resume? /s

Think of your projects as a black box. I think it’s rare people look at how they do things. Only what they can do. From that perspective, I think using libraries.