Eliminate C/C++ in favor of what? Perhaps the plan is to use AI to write plain assembler? Why stop there, maybe let's do prompt in - machine-code out?
If remember correctly, Rust.
Readit NewsZardoz84 commented on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft theverge.com/tech/865689/... · Posted by u/Anon84
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Without a viable MS Office/Google Docs alternative it's all rather performative. If those get blocked the entire bureaucratic machine stops dead. Hell block just excel and entire countries might actually collapse.
Fucking Libre Office!
Zardoz84 commented on Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All aashvik.com/posts/555-rev... · Posted by u/MonkeyClub
I used to salvage components from electronic stuff and was always looking out for 555s but never found any, in a whole range of vintages from 1970's to 2000's. I ended up with the same conclusion - it seemed to be a hobbyist's chip that real consumer products didn't use and felt amateurish for some reason I didn't understand.
I saw 555 being used to implement the "Turbo" buttons in these old 8-bit pads for NES clones and similar.
Also, I think that the mythic Gravis game pad uses a 555 to implement the same function when it is in two button mode.
Zardoz84 commented on Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All aashvik.com/posts/555-rev... · Posted by u/MonkeyClub
Dual gate mosfets were a godsend when building RF/IF mixers or preamps. Luckily I have a small stash as they're almost unobtanium and costly these days, but for most uses such as mixers and preamps they can be swapped with a pair or normal jfets in a cascode configuration like this one: https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Nyhg.gif
Omg... and thinking that my mother throws a huge stash of components like that. my father was an electrical engineer and ham radio. At least, I managed to save a stash of electronic valves and some analog equipment like an old oscilloscope that could be in a museum (I saw a similar model in a museum).
Zardoz84 commented on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/01-_-
I’m mostly not running Windows, but I dislike web apps, so GSuite is out. I could use Numbers, but I need cloud file storage that works on Android, and Office 365 vs Google One are roughly the same price for the storage I need, so I don’t see any particular reason to put the effort in to migrate from Excel/OneDrive to Numbers/Google Drive.
LibreOffice
Zardoz84 commented on Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11 blog.urara.pl/hate-is-a-s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I'm not being factious, but is there any Linux distro with a desktop experience that matches Windows and macos?
Like, yes, I know there are many flaws with both. A lot of sound, technical issues with windows and macos. A slew of UX ones as well. But despite W11 carrying around remnants of Windows 98 still, both of those OSes _feel nice_.
Multiple desktops work well, nice gestures, simple installers and applications. Stuff often just works.
My experience with the distros and desktops Ive tried in Linux have felt like windows 98 with a janky web interface on top, or have missed a lot of features that commercial OSes have, installing programs is a mix of flatpaks, APKs, and building from source.
Often feels like a thin veil on top of a technically-inclined terminal OS.
Is ther eany OS/desktop where you dont pay the "linux tax" when it comes to how the GUI feels?
KDE/Plasma
you only need to change the default behaviour of the mouse selection and you will have a better Windows like experience out of the box.
Zardoz84 commented on Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11 blog.urara.pl/hate-is-a-s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
One thing that is pretty impressive with Windows 11 however is WSL. I can just run a X program and it pops up as its own Window. So for example, I can run Chrome on Ubuntu on Windows, out of the box. On Windows 10, WSL is good for the command line, but Windows 11 takes it much further.
Why the pain of working with W11, when you can run Ubuntu or, better, any other distro in your machine.
Zardoz84 commented on CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024) hawkticehurst.com/2024/11... · Posted by u/zigzag312
Using a expression from Spain : Es mas viejo que el cagar.
This is the right answer. I don't know why everyone is overreacting saying how the US democracy is dead and he will be in office forever.
He's just a narcissistic guy who wants to achieve some goals thw US had previously to show he's the only one who could do it, and to show what this great power can do (Iran, Venezuela, etc...)
I also think he's probably aware of his age and cognitive decline, so that's why he's in such a hurry to do everything as fast as possible. He's not the same as in 2017
like Hitler in 1942
When you fall back to a local model for coding, you lose whatever safety guardrails the hosted model has. Claude's hosted version has alignment training that catches some dangerous patterns (like generating code that exfiltrates env vars or writes overly permissive IAM policies). A local Llama or Mistral running raw won't have those same checks.
For side projects this probably doesn't matter. But if your Claude Code workflow involves writing auth flows, handling secrets, or touching production infra, the model you fall back to matters a lot. The generated code might be syntactically fine but miss security patterns that the larger model would catch.
Not saying don't do it - just worth being aware that "equivalent code generation" doesn't mean "equivalent security posture."