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@edandersen Won't happen. Not in normal companies, might happen in defense or medical software but not in general

Maybe companies will start demanding software engineers are properly licensed before being let loose to randomly spend money on tokens

@DigitalEU Fuck the EU

Our screens have grown. But at what cost? As European Mental Health Awareness Week begins, it’s time to face the impact: Heavy social media use puts young people at ~60% higher risk of depression. #DSA is tackling addictive design for safer platforms: link.europa.eu/G6dyMh.

@canzoncina132 @JGreenriver @AcademicAgent_X You haven't played the game, have you? :) Also maybe you haven't watched the movies

@Eirenarch @JGreenriver @AcademicAgent_X Dollar store Uncharted where Indie gets upstaged by women.

A lot of people have said today that Todd Howard "fell off". Please explain this.

@davidfowl These agents are so good and yet the software is getting worse :( Except Visual Studio, the latest VS is amazing

Pretty impressed at how good these agents are at performance profiling. Raise the software bar people.

@edandersen If it increases productivity by 100x as they claim (which I doubt) then it would still be worth it.

The funny thing about tokens is that they are the same price globally but SWE salaries are not So in SV it might be ok for a dev to spend 2k USD a month, but when that’s 50-100% of the dev’s salary outside the US, say UK or Asia, it ain’t going to happen

@JGreenriver @AcademicAgent_X Indiana Jones was great

@AcademicAgent_X Everything after skyrim sucked.

@edandersen This is the question everyone who actually liked Windows (as opposed to using it because they were forced to or didn't know better) was asking in the last decade

Like why wasn't it this way all along What possibly was going through their heads when they thought using web tech for an OS interface was a good idea It's great they are adjusting course but what a wasted 5 years....

@Daniel_Rubino I would be using WM10 but the batteries are failing :(

Every time I see projects like 8Marketplace or patched apps bringing Windows Phone 8 back to life, I am reminded of how strong that community really was. Microsoft never sold enough devices to keep the platform going, but the people who loved it never let it go. The design, the tiles, the feel of it all left a mark. Seeing developers and fans still keeping the dream alive in 2026 says everything about how much Windows Phone meant to a lot of us. It IS nostalgia, sure, but some ideas deserved a longer life than they got. Anyone gonna fire up their ol WP8 device? Anyone STILL using one (I've seen some people do this on reddit, which is crazy to me). Full story at Windows Central windowscentral.com/hardware/windo…

@Europarl_EN Does this also apply to taxes?

Sex is only sex when consent is freely given, informed, and revocable at any time. Everything else is rape. Parliament is once again pushing for an EU-wide definition of rape centred on the absence of consent.

@grog18b @RazorFist Well she is 62 so the old part is normal

@RazorFist She doesn’t seem to be an old bitter hag at all…

I guess they had to be something, since being funny was out of the question.

@RazorFist I would never understand why Friends is popular. I know why I watched it but when it arrived in Bulgaria we were just out of communism and we were starved for any western entertainment, but even then I thought it was "meh" compared to other western media.

@edandersen They are also crap. For example WTF is "input -> pointer char* -> output buffer" supposed to tell me?

The problem is that the LinkedIn infographic slop peddlers have also figured this out. These graphics are instantly recognisable as gpt-image-2 and anyone unironically using them is basically insulting the intelligence of the reader thinking they won't notice

@headinthebox Being able to open a markdown file without waiting 10 seconds for the editor to start is still useful

"... building that foundation took years, but it was worth it ..." zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0 I feel sorry for these folks, working for years to make a blazingly fast text editor, only to finish it right when we do not care anymore about editing code.

@WindowsCentral Oh, now we're noticing

"If there's one thing that has come to define Satya Nadella's tenure at Microsoft: it's degraded quality." First Xbox, then Windows 11 itself, and now GitHub. Why are all of Microsoft's platforms suffering from HUGE quality issues? windowscentral.com/microsoft/gith… One of GitHub's most staple contributors announced they are abandoning ship due to constant outages. GitHub's COO responds, promising change, but is it all too little too late?

@euromaximal @Michaelmar11iv We're doomed? We somehow lived thousands of years without it, hell, half of my life I lived in the same country but without it but now without it we're doomed?

@Michaelmar11iv Yup. Without it we’re doomed. Seems like a good reason to fight

The stupidest argument against the remilitarisation of the European Union and a common army is that “no one wants to fight for an economic zone”. Speak for yourself. I would gladly fight for something that has brought unprecedented peace, prosperity and geopolitical strength to Europe. Fighting for Europe means fighting for freedom, sovereignty and independence from hostile foreign powers. It means fighting for a land that puts citizens before mega corporations, and quality of life over quantity of trash. A beautiful land worth living in. That’s the power of an economic zone. And it’s worth fighting for.

@euromaximal OK, speaking for myself I wouldn't fight for the economic zone.

@kevdog404 @Lauren_Southern The conditions of marrying a fed

@Lauren_Southern If it doesn’t work then why did it work? I think the reason it didn’t work for you is because the conditions have changed. So we need to change the conditions to make virtue rational once again. To act with virtue under the current conditions/system will not go well

@WalterBright As far as I know it is convenient to initialize to 0 because it is easy to zero blocks of memory. How does it work in D with arrays, fields, etc when the float is part of a larger structure?

Floating Point NaN in #dlang NaNs are a very underappreciated feature of IEEE-754 floating point. In the D programming language, floats get default initialized to NaN, not to 0.0. double y = 0.0; // initialized to 0.0 double x; // initialized to NaN The discussion routinely comes up as "why not default initialize to 0.0?" The reason is a routine mistake in programming is forgetting to initialize a variable. With a floating point 0.0, one may never realize that the floating point calculation results are wrong. But with NaN, the result of a floating point computation will be NaN, which is unlikely to go unnoticed. I don't know of any other programming language with this safety feature. Also, the D `char` type is initialized to 0xFF, not 0, because Unicode says that 0xFF is an invalid character.

@jondelarroz 0 because although I kind of liked The Guild I barely remember the characters after so much time

Felicia Day posted her first draft of The Guild reunion movie is done, and they'll be Kickstarting it soon. How hype are you?

@boevvvv На това аз му викам асенвасилевщина. Разбира се практиката е популярна и сред политици, които не се наричат Асен Василев.

Няколко интересни наблюдения за икономическия „растеж“ в България през последните 6 години. Първо, в периода 2020-2025 г. номиналната средномесечна брутна заплата се е увеличила с 87,2%. Второ, в периода 2020-2025 г. хармонизирания индекс на потребителските цени, или натрупаната инфлация е около 34%. Според мен е много повече, но такива са „официалните данни“. Трето, паричната маса, измерена през паричния агрегат М3 в България се е увеличила с 57,9%, а в ЕС с 22,8% за периода 2020-2025. Четвърто, ръста на индустриалното производство на годишна база в кумулативно изражение за периода 2020-2025 е около 2-3%, като от 2023 г. насам се наблюдават само отрицателни стойности: -8% (2023 г.), -3,8% (2024 г.) и около -6,8% (2025 г.). Базирайки се на тези данни от Евростат, НСИ, БНБ и ЕЦБ мога да си направя няколко извода: Заплатите в България растат много по-бързо отколкото реалното индустриално производство. Същевременно разширяването на паричната маса (новите пари в икономиката) се увеличава значително, а кредитната експанзия в България отбелязва върхове. По данни на БНБ кредитите към нефинансови институции и домакинства през м. ноември 2025 г. възлизат общо на 108,3 млрд. лв. Нещо повече, заемите за домакинствата продължават да растат с двуцифрен темп от близо 21%, а при жилищните кредити увеличението е още по-голямо - близо 28% на годишна база, показват последните данни на БНБ от м. април 2026 г. Вкратце, нашето „забогатяване“ за последните пет години се дължи на печатане на пари, дългове, разточителна фискална политика, бурно кредитиране и инфлация, а не на реална производствена база с висока добавена стойност.