I’m in the US and have had problems with C-level douches misreading dd-mm-yyyy dates in some system we had that logged in that format and freaking out (and also missing that the log time stamps were in UTC-0, causing further confusion/freakout)
Anyway, this is part of why I always use yyyy-mm-dd, because nobody will confuse that date string for any other date, and everyone who can understand dates at all will be able to read it.
YYYYY would be something like “The Year of Our Lord, Two-Thousand and Twenty-Six” (or probably just “Twenty Twenty-Six”, but the other is more ridiculous so I’ll go with that)
Y would just be “6” but I can’t think of any context where that would ever be used
Then there’s the problem with “smart” sorting like Windows Explorer does: in a folder with hex based naming, such as the gpo policy folders for an AD domain, it blends alphabetic and numeric in weird ways where it treats number strings as whole numbers in the middle, where a123e would show up after a19bc, as an example, even though it should sort first
(Sorry, tangent)
Word has been doing that for decades and I’ve always hated it and turned it off
Nvidia’s really fallen hard, too, they’d reached the 9000s over 18 years ago and just plummeted after that
I hate their versioning schedule so damned much
Honestly, this isn’t even an AI issue, people have been doing that long before AI became a thing
Getting a ticket “I need you to change blah” and the request is either nonsense or “fixes” something unrelated to what the user is actually experiencing, but they’re so sure they know
This weirdly is way worse when you support technical teams, it makes it pretty clear how much Dunning Kruger is going around in IT… But yeah, AI is making it so much worse
A lot longer than that…Y2K was the result of corpos prioritizing doing things as cheaply as possible and kicking the can down the road for 4 plus decades at that point, and when they finally decided to fix it before it blew up in their faces, it was almost too late and the software engineers were forced to hack a solution to buy another decade, then promptly got canned when “nothing happened” (leading to Y2K10 actually causing some problems when it rolled around)
We’ll have another reckoning with this same class of error in January 2038 when the 32-bit UNIX epoch ends, and I have no doubt it’ll be a shit show with a lot of pushback against anyone trying to fix it because we “whined” so much with Y2K…
Sorry… Don’t drink and rant…
Honestly, I think Windows 8 Beta’s theme was the best looking (if you ignore the issues with the start screen): pairing Aero with the squared windows actually looked really good.
That they not only removed Aero in the final version but also soccer their lawyers on anyone who tried to bring it back was just incredibly shitty on their part
You mean the Fisher Price theme? While it wasn’t as bad as people seemed to think at the time, it really was kinda ugly and childish looking (but still an improvement over the corpo-boring '95 era theme)
I only keep Windows at home because simulator peripherals can be more headache than I’m ready to deal with when I just want to pretend to drive a truck or a tractor for a bit
I mean, they can be set up, but without the vendor software that only runs on Windows, it can be really kludgy
Hey, “bad performance” is still a kind of performance!
Gentoo. It is, after all, the fastest penguin.
Yeah, liking zypper so far, except that it decided I must have forgotten to install the games and kde-games patterns which I deselected during install because I’ll never use them (my games are pretty much all on steam, I’ve got no real interest in the built-in ones). Blocked them but now it’s warning me about that every time I update, which is a bit obnoxious, but I’m sure I’ll either figure it out or learn to not care about that
Yeah, the sneaky crap with snaps makes me want to avoid them all by itself, I left Windows to get away from that kind of forced decision. The Amazon thing was pretty bad too.
The last straw came when I evaluated it vs Debian for a home server, first update after install and it threw a scare warning making it sound like my system would be insecure if I didn’t pay for pro, and I’m just so not into that kind of manipulative bullshit. I shut down the VM and deleted it immediately and I’ll never touch them by choice again.
Dammit, learning about this right after switching from Mint to OpenSuSE
Didn’t think I’d like it that much but so far I’ve really been happy with it
It does also update Cinnamon add-ons (spices I think?) and Flatpaks, which apt doesn’t handle
If I understand them correctly, doesn’t boosting 1% lows have a bigger impact on the smoothness of the game than the overall? Boosting the high of 60 up to 80 if the lows are around 30 is still going to feel a bit jagged, but boosting that 30 to 40 is going to do a lot more to smooth it out.
I haven’t read the article, being perfectly honest, but it targeting 1% lows makes this better, not worse, like OP seems to suggest
Weird Al didn’t write that, he wrote “It’s All About The Pentiums” which is what OP is riffing on
They based it on these two phrases:
And
Along with the chorus line “It’s all about the Pentiums, baby”
Also, the rhythm of the Weird Al song is fine, it’s worth watching even if a lot of it is pretty dated since it’s thirty years old now