Hence "when optimization was a lot more primitive."

I don't recall this being an issue in Win7 either. Or XP. Or 98. Or 95.

Not saying it was the snappiest experience ever, but it was rare for me to need to wait more than 10-15 seconds at most for things to be usable.

Then again I didn't install a giant pile of garbage, and I would remove stuff I didn't need. It was the bloatware that caused the issues for me, not the OS itself.

It's so sad to see modern Slashdot filled with lazy commies. Old Slashdot would have had an intelligent discussion about free market economics, maybe name drop Hayek, talk about allocation of scarce resources, discuss supply vs demand economics, etc.

Instead we just get whining from brat who can do no better than "lol ok boomer lol" and blame absolutely everything but himself for his problems.

Yeah, life is hard. And it's harder now than it has been in decades. And yeah, the boomers got lucky. But economics is not a zero sum game.

Sounds like you're a humorless BlueSky user.

You must be a lot of fun at parties.

For a very long time it was the best we had and things cannot change overnight. This will all take time. Your attitude is unwarranted.

Recently released. This model is amazing, and has already helped me narrow down a neuropathy issue in my arm.

But mostly I use it for planning TTRPG sessions. The recommendations are good and it takes instructions quite well.

I agree with all of this.

DEI is an outgrowth of
Critical Race Theory, which is a direct application of Marx's Critical Theory.

Marx mostly applied it to class since that is where he saw a power imbalance; the racists here in America and abroad have applied it to race.

In school we wrote primarily in C and Java, but as long as you completed the work, the professors didn't actually care what you used. I would do some assignments in Perl and early 2000s JavaScript for a change of pace.

I did take a "Comparative Programming Languages" class though, and that was interesting. We learned a lot about what you mentioned: the pros and cons of different languages, why some languages are better for certain problems, what limitations they have, etc., etc. Also how to solve the same problems in very different ways.

Useful class.

Yes, C can be dangerous. But that's precisely why it is an excellent language to learn. It exposes low-level guts. For example, it forces you to allocate memory, use it, and later de-allocate it. Implementing data structures must be done carefully. And if you don't do it correctly then you don't actually understand what you're doing - or what the OS is doing. It provides you with a deeper understanding than what you get with Python or Java.

Then you can appreciate (and better understand) what a higher level language like Rust or Java is doing. It will make you a better software developer.

I have not written C in a very long time, but the lessons learned are still with me and are, on occasion, still useful - lessons that the newer developers never learned. And sometimes they struggle to understand and therefore solve problems because of that.

If you cannot handle a semester or two writing code in C then, afaic, you should probably drop out of school. If you just want to sling code then go do that in whatever language you want, contribute to some open source projects, and land a job that way. Don't waste your money.

I do love my cast iron cookware. It will outlast me by hundreds of years too.

The new administration doesn't enter office for a few more months, but okay.

Just curious about the dimensions of something like this. It's probably much smaller than I would think.

And consensual.