They keep bending over for these antiquated companies that have a terrible development process that traps them on old versions of software.
This is Microsoft’s bread and butter, this is exactly how they made it this big and this is where the money is at (nowadays they probably earn way more on Azure tho), the problem is not the business model (even tho I imagine it’s grueling shitty work for the devs), the problem is the management cutting corners wherever possible.
The latest affected Excel version is 2024, hardly “old crap”. This sounds more like a severe QA issue, that department has been deteriorating for years.
I mean he can refuse to perform unless they also let Macklemore perform too, the fuck are they gonna do hold him at gunpoint on stage?
Damn that’s crazy can’t believe China survived through 20 economic collapses in the last 30 years they must be really resilient people huh.
Why is it mad at me?
I know TikTok poisoned people are a bit out there but this case awoke some deep slumbering demons in these people, my feed was fucking wild the past week or so.
The frontend is ass but under the hood it’s still the same old Windows. Microsoft’s unwillingness to make major changes under the hood keeps it usable for the most part once you disable all the spyware and bloatware (or as much as you can anyway).
Obviously you shouldn’t be using it at all if you can afford to and are knowledgeable enough.
Well the USSRs economy was turning to shit during the 80s, that leaves plenty of room for theft/drugs/domestic violence etc…
It’s literally just Arch with a bunch of preinstalled bullshit not sure what the hype is about.
But just by the way you ask the question, seems to me like you are on a personal journey that won’t feel satisfied until you’ve basically transformed yourself and the way you think about the world.
Didn’t expect to be clocked like that lmao but yeah kind of I guess. Thanks for your input the answers in this thread definitely clarified some stuff at least a little bit.
Then only they will be able to afford a platform that hosts local models because the rules make it impossible for anyone else to host these models.
That just means the models will be on torrent trackers, the infrastructure is already there.
That actually made a lot of sense, thanks. Didn’t cross my mind to frame this kind of stuff as responses to trauma but it makes a lot of sense to frame it that way.
Yeah I guess “choose” was the wrong word here, I understand this didn’t happen in a planned and intentional manner, what I’m asking is why didn’t they cool the frog rather than boil it, why did so many civilizations drift into hierarchy and class and not the other way around? Conceivably rather than drifting slowly into class society they could have continued nurturing a more egalitarian form of being.
As this social capital concentrated within a group, the informal divisions hardened into castes, called Gentes. There was still respect and fraternity among the members of the Gens, but Gentes are now starting to act according to their own best interests. The egalitarianism still exists informally, but its more like a principle or value than a need in order for each little Gen society to function. Cultural momentum, not a necessity for survival.
Yeah I guess the core of my question is exactly what makes this kind of process tick. How come the cultural momentum swung in that particular direction rather than the other.
which gradually transformed into social leverage and an actual class, state, and more.
Yeah this is my question I guess, why exactly did this social leverage appear? Conceivably they all could have collectively chosen not to form social classes but rather distribute what they had more equitably however little that surplus was, why was it absolutely materially necessary for slaves to exist in those times for example? Couldn’t the same labor be performed by free people?
Well it is just 1% it hardly indicates a trend yet but I’m hoping it does actually indicate one. The biggest economy in the world managing to turn around their CO2 emissions trend for good would be huge.
Every old time software dev knows that sometimes you have to resist management and go do the thing that makes the software actually work
Yeah but the management nearly always wins in the end and makes you do the quick and dirty solution. The amount of decades old absolute ass legacy code I’ve had to deal with in my early professional days was insane and the same code is probably still clanking on. It’s always easier for management to get results quickly and then pay the price in man hours and misery of the devs later.
It’s less accurate than copy/pasting shit off Stack Overflow, the thing we used to say was the sign of a bad programmer. Everyone using it is miserable, and nobody using it has actually delivered the results they keep saying they’re getting (it’s been 6 months since you all said you’re 100x more effective, where’s the 50 years worth of new software, AI bros?)
I dunno that wasn’t my experience in the last 6 months or so. 2 years ago yeah it was basically this but nowadays I can get the thing to do some medium complexity work on our codebase and it’s pretty much gonna get it right like 95% of the time with maybe some tiny code quality reduction in the form of some duplicated code or such but the thing is pretty much going to work.
Also I built a personal project with it that I wanted to do for a while but never got around to it and it pretty much did it as I wanted it. Granted it was a lot of back and forth and lots of debugging/testing passes but in the end it actually works. Not sure what the overall code quality is but the overall project structure makes sense and the little code I did look seemed solid enough.
Sometimes it can write good code, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it summarizes some info for you well, sometimes it makes shit up. It’s a mixed bag overall, probably not worth the hype and the resources but here we are anyway.
That’s absolutely not true at all for the vast majority of domains. For example there’s a reason a lot of financial computer infrastructure still runs shitty old COBOL code and it’s not just laziness and lethargy, there is real cost to rewriting it and then extensively testing the rewrite.
Sure maybe you’re right, maybe the risks and upfront work would pay out in the future but it’s not like being conservative with these things is highly unreasonable and just a result of laziness.