What a lot of people forget is that in the early days of Linux there was no software that targeted it. Everything you would want to run on Linux was intended to run on something else like Solaris, BSD, AT&T Sytem V, SCO, AIX or something else. As a result, Linux APIs were the most generic flavor of Unix possible. Almost every thing meant for a Unix would compile and run on it and there was rarely a dependency problem.

I still miss that.

Even MS hates nmake. Visual Studio has had native support for cmake since 2017.

I bet nVidia loves this kind of solution. Let’s just run another AI to watch the first.

ActiveX was such a bad idea. If your business depends on some custom ActiveX components you built into your workflow MS should just let you enable that and let darwinian forces take care of the rest.

Computer programs need lots of separate pieces to operate together in subtle ways or your program crashes. With art on the other hand I haven’t heard of anyone’s brain crashing when they looked at AI art with too many fingers.

It’s not so much that AI can’t do it, but the LLMs we have now certainly can’t.

I’d have gone with Ghost, Nymeria and Shaggydog.

I think frosty pieces is salty because their pieces are cold and dead. Sounds like they got a lateral “promotion” to a place where their toxic bullshit would be someone else’s problem.

Well you’ve definitely made one thing clear: that you’re an asshole. I will just disregard everything else you’ve said because I don’t respect the opinions of assholes especially ignorant ones.

AI has sucked for years and that didn’t stop companies from trying to replace customer service with AI.

Well if it’s forbidden and wrong it sure didn’t stop one company I worked for from throwing all the strings in their app into Google Translate before giving the humans a crack at it. Maybe try being less hostile and accept that your experience isn’t universal.

One of these delivered the customer requirement: an egg. The other is still working on an egg incubation framework.

I work with Qt and that framework has preferences for avoiding a lot of modern C++. I generally agree that it makes better code.

Also, I started with C++ in like 1992 and some part of me still feels like templates are newfangled nonsense.

Im no more inyalowda, sassake?

Choosing a distro based on what it says it does is not on you. Recommending it to your wife without even having tried it is. When I put Ubuntu on my wife’s computer, I know what to expect because I’ve installed on just abuse every pc I’ve ever used in the past 10 years.

Off to search and replace “mRNA” with “messenger ribonucleic acid” in grant proposals.

Any “customers” landed are going to be friends and family, if not just outright fakes invented by leo.

Trump has failed so many times I can’t count them all. I have yet to see America succeed at anything under his “leadership”

I suggest a tariff on the use of US-based social media. They’re all bad.

I can hear this.

I’d also add that re-engineering this is not impossible but these things are pretty much the pinnacle of engineering innovation from before the use of electronic controls. To redesign it you’ll probably end up having to relearn all of the genius that went into its design by trial and error.