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I agree. I mean, his conflict of interest is obvious, but what he was addressing there has been exaggerated. He made no egregious statement. From a utilitarian perspective the distribution of RAM for local inference purposes is indeed inefficient. I still don't want OpenAI or any other company to be able to hoard huge orders of RAM, but the point applies regardless of OpenAI or Anthropic (or any other company). The knee-jerk reaction from a community that's supposed to be bright was disappointing though.

It largely looks like WinForms. I prefer the looks (and touchscreen-friendliness) of WinUI by a huge margin.

In Serbia it was rather "when this conniving bunch of corrupt criminals gets oustes".

Apart from deeper technical issues: I don't like how wxWidgets look and that touch is seemingly not considered a first-class citizen like mouse+keyboard (yet).

Not everything is flowers and sunshine (got a couple of open issues myself... in .NET MAUI too), but whether one can build a single, compact, self-contained exe does not define the hostility of a framework or platform, IMO. .NET was conceived as an enterprise-friendly development framework and that's where it shines the most. Quick-and-dirty/mean-and-lean/distribute-and-forget development was never its forte. I would appreciate that feature too, but it's largely a non-issue.

While Win32 tends to deliver the most resource-efficient and responsive apps if the complexity is not high, I have settled on the latest .NET + C# + Windows App SDK / WinUI 3. Making an app look good and fit into the modern Windows look is extremely hard with Win32 C/C++ and writing and maintaining it requires energy that I'd rather spend elsewhere. Besides, modern frameworks are making great strides in speed, efficiency and QoL features. .NET 11 is full of optimizations, for example.

I had a similar experience about ten years ago at a German university and I don't get it either. However, I did not dare ask why at the time, as I did not want to start a discussion with a potentially vengeful professor.

So it's a D-measuring contest now? Also, I found the tone of the writing on that site, including the picture of Gabe Newell, kind of obnoxious.

C# has gained tons of features and improvements of existing ones, VB.NET has unfortunately been fully ignored. Not even put in the back burner, just left to die, apparently. Which is sad, because I find it more legible and beginner-friendly than any C-derived languages.

> ‘Absolute s--t’

> The U.S. would “instantly” win a hypothetical tech war, an official moaned.

> Japan is clearly a wonderful society

I don't think so.

> seeing as how many people want to visit and immigrate.

That's true for Qatar and UAE too. Wonderful societies.

The introduction of the Office ribbon was one of the biggest improvements in software that I have ever experienced.

Off-topic: managing @Risk licenses in a fully on-prem, no-internet environment has been such a pain in the neck.

By amount of money it is most definitely Qatar.

German does it too: ein Keks = a cookie

> it was working just fine a few months ago

Admins can reallocate licenses of different types among accounts or change them completely. That it worked fine a few months ago means nothing. Your account currently doesn't have a desktop entitlement at all, be it macOS or Windows.

Talk to your M365 admins and beware of lies they might tell you to cover up the truth.

In this context they don't. There is no license where one can use PowerPoint on Windows, but not on macOS. It would not work on Windows either, because the problem is that his account is only entitled to the web version of the Office apps. The exact wording of the message he got is platform-specific and it doesn't even mention Windows at all.

Thanks for the tip! I've never attended anything like tyis before.

Henrique should take it up to his university. When I was a student, mine used to provide me with an account that could use desktop apps on Windows and Mac. Educational institutions get very cheap license bundles compared to enterprises btw.

(Also funny that he says we should not use proprietary software, but ignores his own usage of macOS.)

Here's your prize:

The writing style is similar to the other articles by the same author. He has been doing this for years. I have no idea what your problem with the actual content is.

I'm not American. You can say that Murica is up to no good, but RuZZia is definitely up to much much worse. It's way more oppressive and repressive by an order of magnitude. Employees at Yandex have to censor stuff about Putin and the war (see egorfine's screenshot) or they risk getting defenestrated, death by polonium, or death by torture. There is no "First Amendment". Putin's wishes are the law. He is trying very hard to destroy liberal democracies in Europe and around the world.

Of course Google is morally much better than Yandex. What sane mind would even question this? The fact that I'm getting downvoted just shows how out of touch this bubble is with real life.

The quintessential HN comment questioning the obvious.

Yandex does Putin's bidding much much further than any western search engine ever meddled with their results for political purposes. Yandex employees' lives would be actively at risk if they didn't.

Sometimes I really wish a hard reality check would meet the people making such comments from the comfort of their programming chair or from thousands of kilometers away.

The remaining users on EoL platforms should move on to supported ones.

No, you don’t need to pay for using on-device models.

This is very condescending.

Can you elaborate on your claims? As it currently stands, I’m only reading meaningless drivel from you.

It is literally the MSN Weather website packaged as a WebView2 app.

Yes, using an already-running Edge instance saves a bunch of memory. Also, this approach has the advantage of allowing all of your browser extensions to modify your Web-App experience. WebView2 doesn't relay Edge extensions.