I used Linux as my desktop exclusive for about twenty years. Jumped ship to Windows because I wanted a convertible laptop (specifically a Surface) and the Linux experience was pretty terrible. Didn't handle high-DPI displays well (it required making separate config tweaks for GTK+ and QT, and per-app for other toolkit), didn't handle multi-point touchpads well, didn't support the digitizer, didn't handle display geometry changes cleanly, etc, etc.

They didn't even have WSL at the time, but since the majority of Linux apps I needed were command line anyways, Cygwin and Putty accommodated my needs well enough, and WSL clinched it.

The level of integration with WSL2 now is incredibly slick, with access between the two platforms almost entirely seamless. I've thought about going back to Linux but honestly don't see the point on my main machine.

You really think that trying to port a thirty-year-old code base written for 16-bit x86 processors with no support for modern necessities like character encoding would have been easier?

Those vehicles don't meet US safety standards and are severely underpowered compared to anything on the US market (vehicles like the BYD Seagull and Wuling Bingo put out something like 70-75hp and have top speeds in the low 80s). Given that the primary aversion to EVs in the United States remains range and charging related, their relatively tiny batteries and low ranges are likely deal breakers as well.

Update it for the market, and you're probably looking at something in the low $20s or maybe just south for a barebones trim. I fully expect established automakers to be hitting those segments within the next couple years (or even next year, factoring in tax credits).

What I find more interesting at the bottom of the market isn't cheap cars; it's cheap car alternatives.

They've had 64-bit emulation for over a year. They supported 32-bit apps from launch, back in 2017.

They also released a new ABI called ARM64EC to aid developers in transitioning x86 applications to native ARM versions.

A base model Bolt is $26,500. More than fifty percent more expensive is not "slightly higher".

Yeah, but batteries and other components are cheaper, as is construction. It's not inflation that increased the price; it's Tesla's profit margins. Appears those are being slashed in order to maintain growth in an increasingly competitive market, though.

Stevia showing up in reduced calorie "natural" foods has been happening for a while, but it has definitely accelerated.

The increasing use of non-nutritive sweeteners in foods not labeled "diet" or "reduced calorie" goes back further than the stevia craze, though. It was probably a decade ago when I bought a bottle of Lipton Brisk tea for my wife, and she said it tasted strange. Checked the label and it had acesulfamate potassium in it. Probably around the same time I bought a package of Thomas' English Muffins (one of the flavored ones, cranberry maybe?) and ended up not eating them because they has a weird aftertaste that turned out to be sucralose (which I found are also in some Pillsbury products, like their honey butter biscuits).

Health concerns aside, I just don't like the flavor of these things, and it is increasingly hard to avoid them, even in "natural" products.

The only thing that would make catching up easy is if they stopped making movies. I think I've seen ... 4 of the 29 MCU films, and none of the shows. And I guess there are another 15 in development? Plus all of the other Marvel movies that are not part of that multiverse, like the 13 X-Men films.

With all of the reboots and remakes and rights bouncing from one studio to another comic book movies are as much of a confused mess as their source material.

It's not just about storage and transfer costs. It's just a shitty ass solution for sharing documents.

Why the hell would I want a hundred and forty-three copies of slight revisions of the same document spread across a half dozen mail threads when you could toss out a link to an online document?

And frankly, people seem awfully dismissive of the cost of storage and transfer here. That shit absolutely adds up, and email is now a predominantly free service with high quotas, meaning it's either razor thin margins or a full on cost center. If you want MORE embedded ads, go right ahead and demand the ability to send 1GB videos through email. And then enjoy having ads injected into them.

If you have a library that simply assumes reliable transport and doesn't handle exceptions your library is broken. And I fail to see how Project Loom creates new opportunities for that kind of brokenness.

The whole point of the approach is that in maintains the same programming models as exist in Java already, with the same error handling frame work, and largely the same concurrency model. The advantage is preserving execution context (e.g. ThreadLocal variables) without unnecessarily coupling it to an OS level resource (i.e. "native threads").

The idea that an arguably more primitive and cumbersome approach is better because it "forces awareness" sounds like a rehash of the arguments assembly and C programmers have levied against higher level languages in general. I tend to think that expecting programmers to (mostly poorly) implement cooperative multi-tasking was never a particularly good solution to the concurrency problem.

Isnâ(TM)t it great that we have police forces so primed to murder citizens that an 18-yro with a telephone can call in strikes?

After many years of using chrome Iâ(TM)ve spent hours playing around with six browsers on this iPad. When I downloaded Firefox Focus to run in the background and set Safari to use it as a content blocker, Safari on my iPad became the fastest browser I have ever used in 26 years. Now if only Appleâ(TM)s voice recognition wasnâ(TM)t 2 orders of magnitude worse than googleâ(TM)s...

It's only been macOS since 2015. Prior to that it was "OS X" for a few years.

I've been an IT professional for over twenty years, supporting exclusively Linux servers. I had a choice when I got my last work laptop, and took Windows over MacOS without hesitation. I can't stand the Apple ecosystem.

I also switched over from Linux to Windows for my last personal computer. I bought a Surface because it was the form factor I wanted, with the expectation that I would install Linux or at least dual boot. Once I started looking into the abysmal state of Linux support for things like high DPI displays, I decided not to bother.

Since virtually everything I do is on remote servers anyway, I've lived in a combination of browser and terminal windows for years. Being able to run Linux apps local with WSL was just extra gravy.

I havenâ(TM)t opened my laptop in months. This year I did my taxes on my iPad, I work with spreadsheets on my iPad, I do a fancy math equations and graphing etc. on my iPad. For most people I donâ(TM)t think they need anything more.