Merchants need payment processors to make money, and losing one makes a big dent in the sales. I won’t get a Mastercard because Visa isn’t accepted anymore.

If they say that X processor is a dick and lose them, they are worst for it.

Sometimes, people do that. But using 0/1 is explicit enough since you can refer to a line as ‘1’ or ‘0’ for high/low on the hardware as well

I am a lazy dev (not really, clients always want fast code), so I use the provided HAL libraries 99.9% of the time.

But I have seen code where someone would write something like

gpio_write(PIN_X, true) 

and it always stood out to me.

I am working with C in embedded designs and I still use 1 or 0 for a bool certain situations, mostly lines level.

For whatever pea-brained reason, it feels yucky to me to set a gpio to true/false instead of a 1/0.

LLM are prediction engine. They don’t have knowledge, they only chain words together related to your topic.

They don’t know they are wrong because they just don’t know anything period.

LLM are just sophisticated text predictions engine. They don’t know anything, so they can’t produce an “I don’t know” because they can always generate a text prediction and they can’t think.

I have had the same 15ish friends for more than 20 years and we live in different cities, a few hours away from each other.

We don’t see each other frequently because of the distance, but we usually spend weekends together and it feels like we have not missed a beat since the last time we saw each other.

I think it is natural to have more than 10 close friends, it is like having a small community, but modern life made it very hard to keep close friends like that. And it sucks.

Put % on revenue, not profits. Make sure that a fine of that magnitude is a bankruptcy threat.

We haven’t seen antitrust with teeths for a while now.

Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple should have been broken up in a million little pieces a long time ago, but it won’t happen.

The goal is to lose money to capture the market and once it is done, to recoup their loss and bleed the market dry.

It reeks of shitty boss. I’ve heard the same bullshit from old folks 20 years ago that couldn’t use their computers to save their live.

When everyone’s an asshole, the common factor is you.

I was lucky enough to take 3 months off for both of my kid’s birth, so the connection was there pretty fast, but it really started to feel strong after 18 months for each, when they learn what a danger is and I can lower my guard a bit.

Even if my blood boils every other day, I would kill for them. This is really weird. They can bring the worst out of you and, in an instant, flip it on its head and make you feel almost high.

I can’t get anything cheaper than that because it’s a price I got when the reseller started business and as long as I don’t switch, I get that price.

Good for you that you can get better, but coax still has its place until internet providers up their game, but I won’t hold my breath.

I have never thought of it that way and it makes sense.

I still use coax because I buy internet from a reseller third party and this is what they have. I have 400/50 for 35$, which is a lot cheaper yhan the competitors. No reason for me to change.

I am a 4K PC little bitch, but playing games on my 1080p TV reminded me that it isn’t all that important. Fun > Smoothness > Graphics.

I think that xbox controller are the best controllers for PC, so I don’t need all the advanced features, but otherwise, you are right.

Their market is now clearly gamepass + Windows. Microsoft is banking on their market share to sell gamepass and capture the market.

My uneducated kernel take. Flexibility is acceptable and desirable in small projects or low impact projects.

When the majority of the internet and a good chunk of PC are dependent on your project, predictability and stability is much more important than flexibility.

Destiny 2 gun play is god damn good, but the new player experience and the monetization is downright pathetic.

Everything Trump does strengthen his position with his base.

He could probably eat dog poo on live television and his base would cheer him for a dumb reason.