[-] wischi@programming.dev 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I probably hate Microsoft roughly as much as most people here but in a lot of ways Windows is way more polished than Linux. The second you try something "unconventional" in Linux the shit is going to hit the fan. Fractional scale DPI - half the apps crap their pants. On screen keyboard - and don't get me started with OSK over Firefox in kiosk mode (for example in touch screen settings). Also try to make a custom shortcut on your gnome desktop to run some application with some arguments without writing config files in random directories you have to Google and reloading some configs via a terminal.

Microsoft really went downhill fast and certainly adds a lot of crap to windows lately, but sadly in the Linux world we don't have 1-3 well polished distros, we have hundreds of them. All good at one or two things, but suck at everything else. There a so many options the choice alone is probably the biggest reason everyday people will not switch to Linux if their device doesn't already come with Linux. Even people thinking about switching end up with analysis paralysis because everybody tells them stuff like, try it - if you don't like it try something else. As if they have nothing better to do than trying Linux distros all day long.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 83 points 2 months ago

Ad for an ad-blocker. Genius 🤣

[-] wischi@programming.dev 61 points 2 months ago

Yeah, like Nero ... burning Rom(e).

[-] wischi@programming.dev 74 points 4 months ago

Probably US-Americans confusing anything that's not predatory capitalism with Russia and China.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 56 points 6 months ago

Intelligent design. Same with our eyes 🤣 just put them in backwards and thread the cables through the retina; genius. Octopuses are clearly gods chosen "people".

[-] wischi@programming.dev 60 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure if "strongest currency" is a good wording here because the absolute exchange rate has nothing to do with how strong a currency is. It's the relative exchange rate (what was the exchange rate last year and what is it know) that would be a better fit to gauge how "strong" a currency is.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 73 points 11 months ago

Best thing is, they introduced some settings to turn that auto-conversion off and they don't work 🤣 can't make that stuff up.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 66 points 1 year ago

0/0 is undefined because everything would be a valid result. 0/0 is basically finding solutions for 0*x=0 and everything you put into x would satisfy the equation.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 66 points 2 years ago

So finally they have a bot that closes everything because "duplicate" or "opinion"

[-] wischi@programming.dev 81 points 2 years ago

Jesus, take the ~~wheel~~ legs

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I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.

This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It's about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.

Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.

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https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)

[-] wischi@programming.dev 56 points 2 years ago

Could also be small hands, so he probably would also have to take someone else's fist to really prove it.

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Our kids really liked it, thank you kind stranger.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 59 points 2 years ago

What is Musks obsession with the letter X?

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