Since I haven’t seen anyone point it out yet, “la suite” could translate to “the [software] collection”, but is more commonly used to mean “continuation” in the sense of a “next step”.
I find it hard to translate, but the wording implies this is the next evolution, and they’re not going back.
I already thought it was pretty bad but that is somehow even worse. Par for the course I suppose
The new Start menu is also a significant improvement over the old one, with more icons on show, the ability to turn off Recommended ads, […]
Guys, we are allowed to disable the ads now. We might have been too harsh on microsoft after all.
…insanity, I tell you. Ads, in your face, right in the Start Menu, on your computer that you bought, on your OS that you bought.
I agree with the general idea of the article, but there are a few wild takes that kind of discredit it, in my opinion.
“Imagine the calculator app leaking 32GB of RAM, more than older computers had in total” - well yes, the memory leak went on to waste 100% of the machine’s RAM. You can’t leak 32GB of RAM on a 512MB machine. Correct, but hardly mind-bending.
“But VSCodium is even worse, leaking 96GB of RAM” - again, 100% of available RAM. This starts to look like a bad faith effort to throw big numbers around.
“Also this AI ‘panicked’, ‘lied’ and later ‘admitted it had a catastrophic failure’” - no it fucking didn’t, it’s a text prediction model, it cannot panic, lie or admit something, it just tells you what you statistically most want to hear. It’s not like the language model, if left alone, would have sent an email a week later to say it was really sorry for this mistake it made and felt like it had to own it.
The future is now. The future is also ten, twenty and thirty years ago! According to GitHub’s Chief Executive Idiot himself:
the skills that will matter most include system design, AI fluency, delegation, and quality assurance
Except for “AI fluency”, this has been true for fucking ever. No serious work environment evaluates their developers on how quickly they can vomit code (or so I hope): the job is indeed about design, quality and working as a team in general.
Which means a tool that does not help with any of these is already not a revolution. When the tool actively makes quality worse and collaboration more complicated, I get the impression it is actually detrimental.
Mind you, I might be dead wrong. I am personally not impressed so far. It seems to be a better autocomplete, but I don’t want to throw a glass of water out the window every time I press tab.
but at least Abilene was insured against such an attack
Oh, well that’s great. I hope the people, whose identity, medical records, or whatever else was stolen will be compensated accordingly. Would be a shame if the money went into building a new, just as unsafe system.
Not that anyone gives a fuck. At this point the argument is “your data had probably already been stolen somewhere else”…
36% is so. fucking. high. I don’t understand how this is wrapped as good news.
One respondent in 3 approves of what has been going on. 1 in 5 wholeheartedly agrees.
In Germany right now, Merz seems to hover around 25-35%. Macron is at 20% approval and has hardly broken 30% in the past 2 years. Neither of them built a golden ballroom, accepted foreign billions, shat their pants on tv, have their name all over the Epstein files or are actively dismantling their democracy.
Very telling indeed…