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Comment Re:Not Constitutional (Score 1) 58

What's next, Microsoft has to continue to support Windows XP?

It's not what the law means, but... it would not be a bad idea... Stop Killing Windows anyone?
But by the law MS would be required to at least let you activate the product, being by activation servers or phone, releasing a "forever key" or a patch.
Honestly, no biggie for them.

Comment Re:Delphi (Score 2) 30

There are still a few cases where Delphi/Lazarus/OP is a solid choice, like native desktop applications and lightweight and high performance microservices.
In my previous job we used Delphi to make a set of multi-language, multi-platform libraries for electronic tax documentation.

Comment Subtitles are bad but (Score 1) 100

Closed Captions are even worse. It's in many news outlet Youtube channel.
It's like it was translated to some other language and back to English with a 90's translator, with lot of missing words, in all capital letters and with a 15 seconds delay.
Mind you, are the authors that provides the content of these hateful CC's.
They're supposed to be at least decent, because they're (supposedly) human-made and directed to hearing impaired people.
Oh and Youtube don't let you fallback to regular automatic subtitles. It's those atrocious CC or nothing.

Comment Re:Hey, that's not nice (Score 1) 113

Well, being a reacher of the top of the building is an almost impossible mission, a pretty risky business specially for outsiders. I'd join a few good man, train all the right moves, and avoid any collateral damage, so we can get there and become legend. I bet the guards will be losin'it.
I wonder what secrets are up there. Maybe vanilla skies? The mummy of Ron Hubbard?
But I suspect that after that, days of thunder will be upon us. Scientologists have an endless love for their secrets. They'll hire the best law firm to sue us into oblivion, night and day, so we'd never see the color of money again.

Comment Re:Documentation (Score 1) 23

That's why I personally despise a lot of the "clean code" nonsense. Oh, "no comments, your code must be self-explanatory" my ass. You just cannot explain complex concepts in a subroutine or variable name. Comment your code, with good sense. In extreme cases, if it's too long or needs images, you can very well include other documents along with the code in a "doc" folder. But never let yourself or others alone with just code.
And Git commit messages are documentation too. And a pretty good one. When you're doing a "blame", it's just wonderful when the "what, who and why"s are right there in the commit message, no need to scramble around looking for information. I just hate when I stumble in a lasy ass "fix: bug fix" message (no shit Sherlock), specially when the perpetrator is not available anymore.

Comment Re:Zero obsolescence. (Score 2) 51

Well, in recent news, they've found a 52 years old tape containing pretty much the only known copy of Unix v4 and they managed to recover its contents, in an almost artisanal way. The thing is, we still know how to read magnetic tapes, even if the specific format is unknown we could make do.
Also, we still can play those olde gramophone disks, because even like more than a century after we still know about how they works.
So it's safe to assume that in 100 years or so, such media will still be readable, even if the means to do so were lost, if the knowledge to do so is still there, there'll be a way.
In a more dramatic scenario we now know how to read 4000 year old Egyptian hieroglyphs thanks to the Rosetta Stone. So along with the media, some kind of "Rosetta Stone" would help a lot. I think a laser-engraved titanium plaque written "hey guys, just use lasers to read these glass slabs here" would do it.

Comment We'll see about that (Score 1) 62

I like my g'old reliable HDDs, but HDD technologies seems pretty much stagnant since more than a decade. Today's a 2TB HD cost pretty much the same as a 2010's 2TB HD, same speed, same everything.
Meanwhile I heard a lot of promises but none of them did hit the shelves.
Plus, SSDs got more robust and were getting close to same $/TB of HDs, this trend only stopped due to the recent RAM/Flash shortages (thanks AI big techs).
I'd love to see HDDs to make such a comeback, but I'm not holding my breath.

Comment Re:Upgrading to Linux (Score 2) 116

I don't have the same luck. I have a RTX 3060 (NVidia) video card, it doesn't play well with Proton and Bazzite (AFAIK). Also, the games I play the most have anti-cheat software, which again doesn't run on Linux.
I had to accept privacy invasion and log on Windows 10 with a MS account and setup backup, which game me one more year of security updates. Let's see what happens until then, maybe these problems would be solved (go go Wine/Proton devs!) or maybe I dual-boot Win 10 just for gaming these Windows-only games.
I'm not even a Linux guy, as I think Windows is (was, until 10) much more friendly and "just works" than Linux. I played with Linux occasionally, nice and good but hard UI/UX, compatibility issues and Linux nerds (yup, they're hateful) drove me out of it.
But Win 11 is cancer. It sucks so hard it's the first time I'm really considering migrating 100% to Linux, with all it's problems.
I'll resist Win 11 as much as I can. I'd only use it (dual boot for gaming only) if someone make a hacked version of it, with all the BS/spyware/bloat cut-off.

Comment Re:If only they didn't burn so much fossil fuels (Score 1) 89

Check out Meltwater Pulses 1a and 1b.

Just did, from what I've read, MWP 1a took around 500 years to happen, 1b took even more. Not as fast as what's happening nowadays, nature had more time to adapt.
But I'd not even compare both events to the global temperature rising which is currently happening, they're different phenomena. Global temperature rise is more troubling, and this rhythm is, AFAIK, unprecedented.

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