packadal

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is that ?

  My computer is not compatible with windows 11, but is still running factorio perfectly fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨abandonware empires⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding “the company made the new tech incompatible with the new tech to force people to buy the new”, I’ll invoke Hanlon’s razor.

  I worked for a software company that was bought out by a microscope company, because they realized making a new software from scratch for each microscope was very expensive.

  They did not have the know-how to reuse the software.

  And yes. They were that bad at software, when they bought us out, colleagues of mine audited the software they were writing for their newest microscope, and it was so bad they threw out the whole thing to start from scratch, with proper software engineering practices.

  Also, there is an open source toolkit that is pretty good at reading microscope data called VTK (IIRC it’s developed partly by Zeiss, one of the two main microscope manufacturers).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've lately been making my git commit messages with AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  but it started splitting my commits in chunks

  Wait, it can split commits ? I thought you “just” used a LLM to write the messages, but it can also act on the commits ?

  How did you achieve this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've lately been making my git commit messages with AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really curious to see examples of commit messages.

  And more details on how you achieved it, I’d like to give it a go myself, as some of my coworkers commit messages are less than stellar.

  Does it write in the conventional commit formalism ?