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Comment The problem isnnt AI (Score 2) 45

recently admitted to inserting untested AI-generated code into the GZDoom codebase.

Wait we are putting untested code into the codebase? I dont care where untested code is coming from - it is never Ok. If AI code passes tests, then I don't care. If Linus Torvalds develops code himself and puts untested code into Linux... FORK immediately

Comment Re:How's the general prosperity? (Score -1, Troll) 153

You're talking about measures that INVESTORS care about, and I'm not one.

That is a shame that you are in the rent paying class. The easiest way through life is to start young with nothing, spend less than you make and eventually own assets. You might start with a car rather than renting one (or borrowing money for one) all though cars are very bad investments. You might then start funding a 401k (in the USA) and start putting assets away for retirement in HORROR stocks and bonds of companies. You may want to stop paying rent and purchase your own home. Finally you may finally have enough money flowing into your retirement accounts that it is worth opening a normal brokerage account and investing into your future. You may find out that eventually your assets are generating more money that your labor and at that point you are in a good place.

Why would you decide to follow a path that only allows you to convert your current labor into things that you need - seems like a lack of foresight on your part

Comment Upcoming? (Score 4, Insightful) 50

Upcoming? The iPhone 16e was released last year. These are schematics for a phone that has been out for a year.

The problem with this document's release is that it's technical information that was supposed to be kept confidential forever.

I'm assuming this is just an error on the FCC's part, and that they automatically released it after a year. Though with the current administration, Hanlon's razor is getting harder and harder to apply.

Comment Re:Active desktop returns (Score 1) 85

This... was the worst part of the outcome of the anti-trust loss... Microsoft had to remove active desktop from the UI, and now 25 years later they are getting a shittier version back. In the day it was fun to throw dilbert on the bottom of the screen, random stock quotes down the side and slashdot on the other side. This would just show you things you would want to see on a daily basis and didn't take opening a window. You just embedded the browser rendering engine into a chunk of your desktop.

Of course the best thing was to grab someone and put hamster dance as their windows desktop - especially if they had sound anywhere. Always fun at the office

Comment User Problem (Score 5, Funny) 243

I have a gaming laptop with two USB-A and USB-C ports, and it's a constant struggle to connect all my devices simultaneously without needing a hub. I use the two USB-A ports for my mouse and wireless headset dongles, while a phone charging cable and portable monitor take up the USB-Cs. This setup stresses me out because there's no extra space to connect anything else without losing functionality.

That's entirely why they inventing docking stations.

Comment Re:Bet on the hackers (Score 2) 39

Not too long. It's defense in depth; it's not meant to be outright impenetrable, just very (very) hard to get through.

Someone with enough drive, enough time, and enough resources will eventually put together an exploit chain that doesn't require an invalid tagged memory access. But if that raises the manpower requirement by 10-fold (to pull a number out of my ass), then it makes it that much more expensive to attack a phone. At some point, the Apple juice won't be worth the squeeze.

Comment Developer Identification? (Score 1) 24

Given these changes, how does developer identification work? Is there even dev identification at this point?

My understanding is that Microsoft followed Apple for the same reason: a financial trail allows the stores to better authenticate that a developer is who they say they are, and conversely, it makes it harder for bad actors to get into the store. If Microsoft is no longer charging, do they still have an effective means to ID devs and to screen out fakes?

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