moomoomoo309

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[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sure, but them stonewalling KDE for months with libadwaita theming preventing gnome apps from using the breeze theme properly on KDE is a bad decision - one that should never have happened. They eventually worked it out, but they shouldn't have first told the KDE devs to essentially pound sand, especially given KDE goes out of their way to make their apps use gnome's themes correctly no matter what, so your gnome system looks right when using KDE apps. The same courtesy should be expected from GNOME, at least to provide the scaffolding for that.

That is the kind of bad decisions I thought of when they brought it up. Or heck, why isn't dash to dock built into gnome at this point? Like a quarter of the gnome users (and yes, they checked their telemetry and found this to be true) were using it - that's obviously something that even if it goes against their design philosophy the DE should have built-in at this point. I think if you're not in the GNOME weeds, you won't see the kinds of boneheaded decisions they have made over the years.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

All of those languages will convert numbers into booleans, 0 is false, all other numbers are true.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I understand what you mean here, but how can KDE realistically make commercial software vendors port their software to Linux? What group or groups could incentivize this, and how can it be done without creating significant user growth first? (it's a chicken and egg problem, so you can't wait until the users are there if they're waiting on software to be available)

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

No, you're not understanding what I'm getting at here. Linux is not windows. It cannot and should not aim to recreate it exactly, that's a stupid idea from the get-go and will fail if attempted. Making every windows program work on Linux is also very difficult, but also, that's the Wine team's job, not KDE's - KDE devs don't have the expertise or knowledge to do that work. MacOS isn't bad because it's not identical to Windows, Linux should be judged similarly. It not being identical being seen as an issue is a mode of thinking that cannot lead to success. KDE has to be worth using because it's good in its own right, not because it's Windows without Microsoft.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 13 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

To be fair, a lot of the things you listed are impossible for KDE to fix. You can't make every single windows program work on Linux, you shouldn't make KDE have exactly the same workflows as Windows, KDE isn't gonna make it easier/better to install Linux on NTFS, and they have no control over tutorials that instruct people to update their software - How could any of these be used as a roadmap?

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It has an integrated browser in Ultimate, not in Community.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

If they're on android, try revanced. It's a patched YouTube apk, so the interface is the same (unless you change stuff, like, for example, disabling shorts - but by default, it's the same).

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's C, NaN is never equal to itself in floating point, that's not just a JS thing.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Or a wireless winch, if I were to hazard a guess.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Creates a whole game in assembly" is probably referring to roller coaster tycoon, which was written by a man. (lots of other games were written in asm, like many NES games, but I'd wager RCT was what they were alluding to)

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And you think there's not bias in those rules that's notable, and that the edge cases I mentioned won't be an issue, or what?

You seem to have sidestepped what I've said to rant about how OpenAI sucks when that was just meant to be an example of how even those best informed about AI in the world right now don't really understand it.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sure, who will it impersonate if you don't? That's where the bias comes in.

And yes, they do need a guide, because the way chatbots behave is not intuitive or clear, there's lots of weird emergent behavior in them even experts don't fully understand (see OpenAI's 4o sycophancy articles today). Chatbots' behavior looks obvious, and in many cases it is...until it isn't. There's lots of edge cases.

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