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bradford commented on Wired headphone sales are exploding   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat
letmetweakit · 10 hours ago
"Bluetooth does not work," Kravitz said in a recent interview, and it's not just headphones, but Bluetooth connections in general. "It's ruining important moments. Imagine the amount of times that you're with someone on a date, you're trying to set a vibe, and then you have to forget the network. On a date!"

The quote above makes absolutely zero sense to me, it's like ChatGPT 0.3a decided to write something about Bluetooth.

bradford · 10 hours ago
The quote resonates with me, even though I haven't experienced the exact "set a vibe on a date" scenario.

I have multiple bluetooth headsets that I use with multiple devices. I have collected a series of tricks that I use when I can't get bluetooth to operate the way I want it to: turning bluetooth on/off, restarting the bluetooth device. "Forget the network" is not one of those tricks, but I wouldn't be surprised if others have learned to use it.

bradford commented on Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers   wpr.org/news/4-wisconsin-... · Posted by u/sseagull
mehlmao · a month ago
Do you have children? Post some pictures of them so Grok can show us what they look like unclothed and covered in "yogurt".

It's possible to imagine LLMs implemented responsibly, but our ruling class has decided against that.

bradford · a month ago
Let's avoid falling into the trap of assuming the worst of people when replying to comments.
bradford commented on .NET 10   devblogs.microsoft.com/do... · Posted by u/runesoerensen
DarkNova6 · 4 months ago
Silly question. If you want the C# experience but more community/OSS driven… why not Java?
bradford · 4 months ago
I haven't kept aware of changes to Java in the last decade, but the things I didn't like about it then were:

1. The overall architecture (with the JVM) made it slower than the equivalent C# code.

2. C# really started embracing modern language features at a time when Java was kind of languishing (lambda functions, async patterns). Java seems like it's been in perpetual catch-up since then.

(Not OP, disclaimer, I work for Microsoft and this is only my opinion).

bradford commented on Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests in Immigration Raid   forbes.com/sites/stuartan... · Posted by u/gok
bradford · 6 months ago
> What do you want for the USA? Completely open borders? Closed borders, but we don't enforce it very well? Something else?

The 2024 bipartisan border bill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_b...) seemed like a good compromise to me. Of course, it wasn't brought to a vote by the house (for reasons that I won't elaborate on), so it's mostly a hypothetical.

And, if I had to choose between the two, I'm more supportive of the Biden era immigration policy than I am of the current Trump policy.

bradford commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
ikiris · 7 months ago
You do realize windows already does this right?
bradford · 7 months ago
Can you explain in what way Windows already does this?
bradford commented on We can no longer run Microsoft Store on 1809/LTSC 2019   github.com/fernvenue/micr... · Posted by u/fernvenue
fernvenue · 10 months ago
Hi, sorry for the late response :)

> The lack of support on LTSC is the least baffling thing going on here but I'm open to the possibility that I'm misunderstanding something....

And yea, you're right, but Indeed, many people need to use the store on LTSC, especially after Microsoft migrated many ecosystem attempts to the store, for example Microsoft Photos and some extensions like HEIC, and now not only UWP applications can enter the store; regular applications can also do so. It actually poses a very big problem that we cannot use the store anymore, at least that's what I think.

Furthermore, it is not just LTSC 2019 that cannot be used; this means that older versions of Windows (at least 1809 or older) are also no longer able to use it. In other words, we can no longer use the store on older versions of Windows. You might say that Microsoft itself didn't intend to provide support for older versions, and yea, I agree, that's true. However, the fact is that many people use Windows largely because of its compatibility advantages. I believe everyone should at least be aware that Microsoft is not as compatible with older programs, especially its own, which is what I want to express.

As for the license, I would like to clarify that it is only to prevent the packaging scripts from being used for commercial purposes and promotion. As you can see, this repository is not specifically intended for hosting store programs, so it does NOT apply to the store programs themselves, but only to the deployment scripts :)

bradford · 10 months ago
Thanks for your response!
bradford commented on We can no longer run Microsoft Store on 1809/LTSC 2019   github.com/fernvenue/micr... · Posted by u/fernvenue
sgjohnson · 10 months ago
> Why doesn't the README file explain what this repository is doing?

It explains exactly what it's doing.

"Microsoft Store package for Windows LTSC."

It provides a Microsoft Store package for LTSC builds, and an install script that allows it to actually work. Windows LTSC builds don't have Microsoft Store preinstalled, and Microsoft offers no official way to re-enable it.

bradford · 10 months ago
Ok, but the brief README links to an actual microsoft.com domain (https://www.microsoft.com/store).

Why would you need a package to wrap a website? Wouldn't the website be accessible on a LTSC build, even if the official package isn't available?

If this is filling a highly useful role that I'm admittedly oblivious to, why are there only three commits in the project history?

(Best I can tell, this is a personal project that somehow made it to HN front page)

bradford commented on We can no longer run Microsoft Store on 1809/LTSC 2019   github.com/fernvenue/micr... · Posted by u/fernvenue
bradford · 10 months ago
Why is a repository called 'Microsoft Store' being hosted on a seemingly random github account?

Why doesn't the README file explain what this repository is doing?

OP, what did you hope to accomplish with this submission?

The lack of support on LTSC is the least baffling thing going on here but I'm open to the possibility that I'm misunderstanding something....

bradford commented on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis   chris-martin.org/2025/the... · Posted by u/dralley
argomo · 10 months ago
Nice take. Don't let the DEI lead-in sway you from reading this observation about tech moguls trying to reclaim their glory days.
bradford · 10 months ago
I agreed with a lot in the article, but I was a bit baffled by the DEI name-drop in the opening.

> "... the guys who had big tech startup successes in the 90s and early aughts think that 'DEI' is the cause of all their problems."

Who is the author referring to here?

(I realize that DEI has been rolled back at some companies, and Zuckerberg in particular has derided it, yet I still feel like the author is referring to some commonly accepted knowledge that I'm out of the loop on.)

bradford commented on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature   herecomesthemoon.net/2025... · Posted by u/Mond_
bnchrch · a year ago
I'm personally someone who advocates for languages to keep their feature set small and shoot to achieve a finished feature set quickly.

However.

I would be lying if I didn't secretly wish that all languages adopted the `|>` syntax from Elixir.

```

params

|> Map.get("user")

|> create_user()

|> notify_admin()

```

bradford · a year ago
I hate to be that guy, but I believe the `|>` syntax started with F# before Elixir picked it up.

(No disagreements with your post, just want to give credit where it's due. I'm also a big fan of the syntax)

u/bradford

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