Posts by idler

This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service

It all makes sense when you read it like Dodgy

How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC

PureBasic is alive and kicking 20+ years If you want, easy to use, easy to learn, quick to develop with and still want bare metal performance with the ability to use inline c or asm, take a gander at PureBasic. Cross platform, comes with with ~1600 built in commands, compiles x86/x64 Win Linux mac OS and for Arm Mac and Raspberry PI.

Maybe it's because I've been using it for 15 years but it's just so easy to develop with compared to c which is a dyslexics nightmare.

Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth, just 1,100 job losses

"One workload from which Google itself is benefiting is code generation: Pichai said a quarter of the Chocolate Factory's new code is now written by machines and then reviewed by humans. "This Helps our engineers do more and move faster," the CEO enthused."

And after they've laid off all their senior engineers and it fails, the CEO won't be so enthused once he realizes all they have left are script kiddies who can't code shit.

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

Thankfully we can still block certain DNS requests to Microsoft domains and be sure not to receive an unwanted update at an unwanted time.