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Comment Fall is Coming (Score 2) 49

Microsoft extended my Windows 10 license for a year - it expires this fall. They did this for a large mess of people. Those Linux numbers are going to go higher in the fall when I, and I'm sure many people, will take the leap to safety and leave Windows behind. For me, it's goodby to 36 years of Windows.

Comment Where's the Proof? (Score 0) 89

Where are the numbers? How about testing a radiologist + AI, rather than each against the other. I'll bet most people would prefer to have both involved in their care. I think they've skipped over the false negatives bit too. How do you ensure you're not missing a bunch of stuff? You'll need humans to find what the AI's miss. I'm not saying keep all the humans, but I am saying the vision and arguments presented are far from complete, and as usual, focus on the upfront costs rather than the overall cost/benefit.

Submission + - COMMAND.COM is back!

kevin lyda writes: Microsoft's best try at an operating system, COMMAND.COM from MS-DOS 3.3, is now a native shell for Unix-like systems.

The project recreates the DOS command-line experience while running on a modern Unix environment. It supports a small, historically inspired command set, .BAT-style scripting, and even maps DOS concepts like drive letters onto the Unix filesystem. You can even experience the joy of editing a CONFIG.SYS file (this time as an INI style file).

Unlike a simple emulator, it’s designed to work as a real shell: it can be used as a login shell or as an interpreter for batch files (within reason, given the differences between DOS and Unix semantics). The result is an unusual hybrid of DOS-style command parsing layered on top of Unix processes.

It’s implemented in Go for maximum portability and aims to balance authenticity with just enough practicality to be usable.

Source and release on codeberg.

Comment Re:TypeScript? (Score 1) 65

JavaScript is actually a pretty interesting, powerful language, but one with quite a few problems. (I recommend the book JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford if you want to learn more about that.) TypeScript solves some, but by no means all, of those problems. From what I've heard, it's increasingly popular.

Comment Re: It will flop (Score 1) 26

Good point, and I'm not here to argue with you -- the problem when we talk about Costco is the Wing drone's max capacity of 5lbs. That's not a Costco trip -- that's barely a trip to a Costco food court :).

5lbs feels like not enough to really replace most trips to actually stock your groceries, unless you break up your shopping trip into multiple delivery flights. It's much better for impromptu consumption (though that said, I feel like most of my trips to the local hardware store are "oh crap, I need this one thing ... " which would be under 5lbs)

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