One might go on to say that stitching together lumber that someone else milled is still too much work. It's possible to buy prefabricated houses, mobile homes, shipping containers, sheds, etc.

So someone makes skyscrapers buy stacking mobile homes on top of each other. It's too much work to make our own walls! They are already made for us, why re-invent the wall?

And so we get the software equivalent of of a skyscraper of stacked mobile homes, because the developers can't design support columns, pour concrete, or make a wall from OSB.

So they support open source, just as long as it's not a web browser. Then they use their window monopoly to limit competition. But that's not the evil Microsoft of 10 years ago, the one that broke the law doing just that before. Sure. Competition would be making a better browser, but they gave up on that. Now they just force Windows users to use it.

Where's the source to WSL2? How about gvfs, the git virtual filesystem extension? "Support is not available on Mac and Linux". There's incompatibilities right there, staring you in the face, and you won't see them.

Please apply a bit more thought to your post than "yes, Microsoft, fuck me harder, I live to suck Balmer's cock."

Like how they supported open source web browsers like Firefox or Chromium by letting one use them as the Windows default browser. Oh wait, no, they now crush any attempt to make anything but Edge the default browser.

So nice of them of Embrace Linux like that. I bet they'll offer all kind of Extended features for Linux Azure. But that's because they want experience under Azure to be better and it's just too bad these features don't work on Linux that isn't on Azure. Eventually supporting this on Linux will just get to be too hard, and they'll have to Extinguish support on native Linux, but it'll still work on Windows with WSL3! So everyone will have either throw out their Linux Azure services or switch to Windows.

A major flaw in the reasoning here is that engaging autopilot is self-selected. If autopilot was randomly on some miles and off others, then it would be valid. But it's not random. People choose to have it on or not based on conditions. And it's far more often on for easy miles, like freeway driving when not merging or frequently changing lanes, and off for harder miles, like city traffic with many intersections and driveways. The confounding factor - some miles are safer than others - can't be separated out from the autopilot factor.

It would be a like a drug test, in which healthy and sick people get the drug, and you let them choose the drug or the placebo, which of course they do based largely on if they are sick or not! The drug looks bad because only the sick people took it and they didn't do was well as the healthy people who took the placebo.

We know fossil fuels are a limited resources that our civilization is totally dependent on, yet we waste vast quantities flying empty planes to game regulatory rules. We know CO2 emissions are contributing to the destruction of our planet, and yet emit vast quantities for said empty places. The aliens don't want to know us for same reason someone might not want to bother getting into a Netflix series that's been cancelled the day after it was released.

Sampling, how does it work?

You don't have to test everyone to get a very accurate estimate of the proportion.

They were making a new kernel. It was not Linux and differed from Linux in a certain key area that Linus might have disagreed with someone about what back when.

I did however get the idea that they were interested in hiring people who could port Linux device drivers to their new kernel, but I don't know more because that wasn't a job I was all that interested in.

Michael Abrash was there. But he didn't seem to be all that into the OS part and more on the AR side. That was someone, I can't remember who, from Microsoft who was involved in Windows NT. And this hypothetical exchange is about that they seemed to think about it: "Are you sure a new OS is a good idea? New OSes have historically had a very low success rate." "We did it before with Windows NT and we can do it again."

But I don't entirely buy that. I don't think Windows NT would have succeeded without Microsoft's monopoly power and their willingness to use it. And Linux was free. But their new OS had neither Microsoft's monopoly power nor a low cost. Can it succeed without those things? I guess the answer was no.

I also think how to make a "new OS" thing misses the bigger picture. It's not like you make an OS and then you're done. It needs to be constantly maintained, updated for new features and new hardware. It's been 30 years, is Linux ever going to get finished? Almost done now, only a few commit left? That's not how it works! Every year is MORE commits than year before. It gets to be more work, not less, because you need to keep adding new code while maintaining the growing body of existing code.

So you've got to look not just at where the OS is now, but at the velocity and acceleration: how many commits does it get and is that going up or down. Maybe Meta's $$$ allow them to make an OS that they can use at first. Is it going to get even a fraction of people working on it that Linux has and will have? Not likely. So long term, it's going to lose.

Same reason I thought Google's "screw mainline Linux, we'll do our own Android kernel fork," strategy was doomed from the start. Seems like Google has now come to same conclusion. We'll see if the other new OS, Fuchsia, meets that same end as Meta's.

It never says the sold they NFT for $300,000 when the borrower defaulted. Just that they took it, and want people to believe if the sold it they could get $300,000, but haven't actually sold it yet. Would you like to buy it? Great deal, in a month they guarantee that they will tell you it's worth $3mil.

It's like diamonds at a jewelry store. Go to buy and they assure you these diamonds are worth large sums of money because clarity this and color that. Go to sell, and suddenly they don't seem to be worth anything.

The idiot didn't sell the NFT because NFTs only sell to people in on the scam or to Greater Fools, and fools so great they will pay more than $13,500 for a URL that links to a jpg are hard to come by.

This is from Charles Schwab, not some crazy conspiracy theorist:

You don't have to pay capital gains tax on donations. If you never realized the gain and donate the asset, then you get to deduct the asset's current value and escape taxes on the unrealized gains.

They are selling it to themselves. The hope is someone else will think these rocks are valuable and will continue to go up in price and buy one. At which point they will discover this insane demand for EtherRocks was fake and they are the Greatest Fool.

The reason Microsoft is still evil, is that they extended git in a way that does not work with non-Microsoft software.

If they were not evil and not still using their EEE strategy they have used many times before, they would have enhanced the core git code to add new features. Maybe others have done since since git's creation. Everyone can do shallow clones now. That was an extension done in a non-evil way.

But they didn't do that. The made it Microsoft only. They will continue to degrade the ability of non-Microsoft clients to work on github until they kill them off. Their end goal is that github will only work with visual studio and visual studio will only work with github.

It's like sending or receiving email on a Microsoft Exchange server. At first it supported SMTP, POP3 and IMAP and worked with standard email clients. Then they extended it with EAS and EWS non-standard proprietary protocols that are designed to be impossible to properly interoperate with. Now the normal state of affairs is that all "legacy" protocols will be off and accessing Exchange hosted email and calendars from non-Microsoft email clients is all but impossible.

They spent a while trying to make their own stuff, like Zune and Windows Phone, but it didn't work out well.

What git clients do Microsoft's git extensions work on? Hmm...

Tried sourcing cell modules lately? It's a six month lead time at least.