The donut hole!

I’m only aware of it due to a music video

Oneohtrix point never - on an axis

Become?

How about we don’t build dystopian digital panopticons?

Anyone else see Vinnie Jones in lock stock?

Honestly you shouldn’t need to break the bank at all to be better than the built in speakers in most cases. I don’t want to say definitively because I’m sure there’s some basically scam products out there, but pretty much any sound bar will be an upgrade in 99% of cases.

A quick search shows a number of well known brands with offerings under £100, and one from a company I don’t recognise that apparently seems to have a number of positive reviews and available for £40

You’ll obviously get a further improvement if you go above the budget level, but that’s definitely not to say you can’t get a decent improvement over not having one at all.

If we’re boiling water why not skip the middle man and get a solar kettle?

TBF this always ends up with a lot of misplaced blame on the consumer

TV manufacturers decided/figured out long ago that Joe public cares more about a screen being thin, at time of purchase, than it having any semblance of audio quality. And they assume anyone who cares about audio will buy a set of speakers or (increasingly) a sound bar anyway, so they just need the bare minimum included.

This has gotten to the absurd point now where the speakers included in your average TV aren’t much better than a particularly loud phone speaker.

It’s basically impossible to get something that sounds even audible on those speakers, without doing what adverts do and compressing the shit out of the signal, which has the bonus of sounding loud and bad for everyone, there’s no bringing the detail back that was squashed out. Movie studios aren’t going to mix a movie that sounds bad on a system designed remotely properly (e.g. a cinema or reviewer’s TV), so we’re in the current situation.

The unfortunate situation today is you basically need some kind of separate speaker(s) with a TV because the manufacturers all have cheaped out across the board and don’t include anything good enough any more. The consumer shouldn’t be expected to know this and have to pay extra, the TV should come with speakers capable of producing audio properly.

As others have mentioned Go and rust are nearly old enough to drink.

And the answer is pretty simple, if an existing language does something differently to how a group of people wants to work, someone will eventually write a language to do it that way.

There’s no single way to solve a problem, and that’s a good thing. If someone wants to whip something up quickly there’s a host of high level languages to do that in, it just probably won’t be especially quick. If you really care about performance, there are low level languages with varying levels of safety measures. Then there’s the whole code style thing, you might be a functional programming monk who is truly at home in APL, others may still long for something a bit more LISPy.

stuff that used to work fine in whatever old language it was in is now rewritten in a new language.

This is an illusion. If a project is moving from one language to another, that’s not a lightly taken decision, and almost definitely means they’ve had it with all the issues brought by the first language. I’m assuming you’re referring to the movement from C/C++ code to Rust that I’ve seen a fair bit.

This one particularly is because in C-like languages, any engineer will make mistakes, and those mistakes may never be obvious enough to be fixed. These kinds of mistakes are what cause those random crashes that never get fixed, but more severely, they often also give an opening for a security researcher (or someone more nefarious) to exploit. No one typically wants their software to be used for making people’s lives worse, so a lot of effort will be put into trying to catch those issues early, and manage the situation when one isn’t. With the advent of AI many projects have seen an exponential increase in the number of security issues they’re dealing with.

Or, they could bite the bullet and move to something like rust which keeps the performance benefits, but removes the ability to even make the mistakes in the first place.

Focal length motherfucker, do you choose it?

If you don’t, you’re letting your focal length choose your photos

I more meant a classic example of a situation where someone wouldn’t usually use systemd, even if there’s nothing stopping it, that most people would be familiar with

I’m not talking about the merits of containers

The main practical reason to not use it is if you don’t need it and have an environment or task that would benefit you going for something else.

A classic example is containers, if they do have an init system at all, it’s usually not systemd but something much simpler, because the environment/task doesn’t need it and there’s a memory and storage benefit to not shipping the extra bulk

Void uses runit because they want to optimise for quick and lightweight without caring about wide compatibility, so that’s a choice aligning with their philosophy.

Well you’re clearly not sleeping

James Cameron distracts you and steals your money in increasingly elaborate ways

It’s not every day you get to use a word like dilettante, so I figured I’d make a salad

Flukey dilettante regards stochastic parrot as unfathomable prodigy

Read all about it

Yeah, but as someone who grew up down south and has lived in the north for the majority of my life:

Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Very clear, no fucker doesn’t know what you’re talking about

Breakfast, dinner, tea

What the fuck are you playing at, skipping lunch and having a drink to compensate?

Get in the sea

Tea is important enough in this country to not use the word again, especially not for the second most important thing: dinner

He wasn’t impressed and I didn’t make it to the next round.

Poor Stockholm syndrome afflicted fool

Breaks my heart to know people are still suffering this particular hell

That was always the fake dream that was sold, about 15 years ago there were a lot of people writing cukes

I never saw a single business analyst or product owner ever open even one of those text files that ostensibly primarily only existed for their benefit.

The closest we got was copy and pasting the user story from the ticket and hammering it into the shape of the existing regexes

Then we all woke up from the fever dream about 10 years ago and I’ve basically not seen one since.

Tbh with this AI bubble it’s only a matter of time before someone tries it again

Oh I’m aware we don’t have one global standards org, but generally at ISO, IETF, IEEE, ITU & IEC are all some that come to mind with some level of shared interest, however I wouldn’t say they act competitively to each other and tend to work collaboratively rather than competitively.

I suppose interestingly, to use your HDMI example, this is kind of what happens when you don’t have a central standards body handling this stuff, HDMI came from the television industry and DisplayPort came from the computing industry. There is no technical reason for both to exist, and one could have been adapted to fill the needs of both and become the one standard if it wasn’t for industry groups ultimately trying to profit (HDMI carries licensing fees and requirements, so does DP to a lesser extent).

I guess you’re right though, I probably should have thought it through a bit more before my last comment

Mostly posting this because holy shit what a jump to blame schools distributing laptops being the cause and not psychologically addictive social media algorithms having a total domination of their attention

Definitely nothing to do with the fact that schools giving out laptops disproportionately benefits less wealthier families