Have you used it? It’s a vastly superior model for just about everything I’ve used it for…

There was absolutely no reason to bring up that you were coding longer than I was alive

So since you’ve clearly forgotten, let’s go back in time.

1. I said Windows should be rewritten from scratch because it has a poor foundation.
2. You said you should never rewrite large software!
3. I tell you that I’ve been a developer for decades, and that’s not really true, it’s just the authors opinion, and is entirely predicated on a mistaken supposition.
4. You get defensive and slap your age down on the table like it’s a big ol’ dick as if you could never be wrong because you’re 60 years old.
5. I said that I didn’t say that I was older than you. In fact I didn’t mention age at all. I said that the likelyhood of me having been a professional developer for longer than you have been alive is high and you took that to mean as me saying “haha, I’m older so I’m right!”
6. You misrepresented something your own source said, as something I said, and said it was wrong–which is fucking hilarious to me.
7. You continue to take everything as a personal attack against you.
8. Now all of a sudden unless you work for Microsoft you don’t have the ability to have a professional opinion about the subject matter–you posting Spolsky’s word as the word of God despite him having worked for Microsoft for like 4 years over 2 decades ago. lol

I specifically referenced Gnu tools, window managers, etc. What is wrong with you?

This is exactly what you wrote;

I use Linux. There are frequent bugs that require me to type in a command manually to work around.

I mean Jesus Christ my guy.

I’m gonna look into upgrading, but I’ve implemented this as well. Thanks.

My age isn’t important to the argument.

I didn’t bring up your age to make an argument about it. I simply pointed out that I’ve likely been developing software longer than you’ve been alive and to my credit this statement is almost always true, especially given that very few in their 60s would use a federated social platform, it’s a reasonable assumption. You’re the one who made it about age–and you keep doing so in your replies.

I noticed now that I posted my age you didn’t respond with yours.

Why do you feel entitled to know my age?

You can’t get past personal attacks.

You’re the one fixating on age, and you clearly misread my initial post. You’re counter-arguing against the source you provided, misrepresenting and misunderstanding what your own source said. You’re only arguing against those points because you mistakenly thought I had made them. So, I responded in kind. In typical boomer fashion, you entered this thread dismissive of others, framed everything around your age as if it automatically makes you right, and now blame others for your misunderstandings. Truly a sight to see.

It’s objectively true that building on a poor foundation is a bad idea and it’s also objectively true that sometimes if the foundation is bad enough it’s easier to simply rebuild the whole damn thing from scratch than to attempt to patch bad code. As I said, I’ve been a developer for decades. I’m a subject matter expert here. Just because I don’t work for Microsoft doesn’t mean my critique of their monolithic software is invalid.

Unless you work at Microsoft on the code, you have absolutely no basis for your claim that the entire code base should be thrown out.

It’s an opinion backed by decades of expertise with the product. I’ve not only used every single version of Windows extensively, but I also write software for Windows. That’s not experience you can casually dismiss. I don’t need to work at Microsoft to recognize that its poorly designed from the ground up and that each new version builds on a flawed foundation.

I use Linux. There are frequent bugs that require me to type in a command manually to work around. It would be insane to claim that all of Linux (I’m also referring to all the gnu tools, window managers etc) should be thrown out and start fresh.

Calling your operating system “Linux”–when Linux is just the kernel and not the OS–doesn’t really help your argument here.

Moreover, the various Linux distributions have a strong foundation around the linux kernel. Windows does not. I don’t understand how anyone could seriously argue otherwise.

I never knew. My version of Deluge is 1.3.5, and super seeding requires 2.0+. So that looks like the issue. lol

There’s a massive difference between the average Windows user and the average PHP developer. It’s a false equivalence.

Yeah, except I’m not equating developers to end-users. I’m equating the two situations at hand. Because they’re equivalent situations…

Stating the fact that I’ve been in development for longer than most people I converse with have been alive isn’t attacking anyone. If you feel attacked by someone because they have a difference of opinion, then you need to go outside.

You don’t even know who Joel is.

I know who Spolsky is. I just don’t have an overabundant need to blow smoke up his ass like his word is that of Gods.

Joel addressed your argument that the code is misread throughout the entire essay.

Go get your reading glasses and go back to reread my previous post. It’s not my argument that code is misread. I was literally directly quoting him. So if Joel says it, it’s the word of God to you, but you misinterpret something I’m saying (which he’s actually saying) and now all of a sudden you have an issue with it?

That’s pretty telling that maybe your reverence for Joel is getting in the way of your brains thinky-thinky party.

It’s entirely possible.

I rather think you do.

There will come a point where working around Windows quirks takes up more time than it does to simply seek and learn something else. This is organically how most people seek to find alternatives to software and begin to jump ship.

This is why PHP, as a programming language was replaced. Despite its popularity it became increasingly inconvenient to use. As such, they created other languages to replace it. They took the time to create an entirely new development language to sidestep the inconvenience of using PHP…

The same will eventually happen to Windows. Unquestionably.

I’ve been developing software for likely longer than you’ve been alive.

That article you posted makes a supposition; that the developer is just misreading existing code to be poor when it’s actually really good–which is absolutely not the case with Windows…

It’s the only possible solution. The issue with Windows version to version is they merge shit into the base without worrying about how it affects the codebase as a whole. That’s why we have 2-3 different ways to access different menus.

Is there a list of super-seeding complaint clients? I can’t seem to find one. Hell, I can’t even check to see if my client supports it.

Cold storage is $2 per TB/mo. Could easily be crowdfunded. $410/yr to keep it around.

Correct. If space is such a big problem for you that it’s unconscionable to use a 4U mini rack (which again, like what the fuck), then mounting hardware on the wall is a completely valid option. It’ll take up zero floor space.

Youtube Music doesn’t just serve the audio from a video.

Yes it does. You don’t even need to take my word for it. Look up any song by any artist and find their official video for that song. Take this one as an example: https://youtu.be/kPa7bsKwL-c

Analyze it with yt-dlp or something similar;

249 webm  audio only      2 │    1.51MiB    50k https │ audio only           opus        50k 48k low, webm_dash
250 webm  audio only      2 │    2.00MiB    67k https │ audio only           opus        67k 48k low, webm_dash
251 webm  audio only      2 │    3.92MiB   130k https │ audio only           opus       130k 48k medium, webm_dash
233 mp4   audio only        │                   m3u8  │ audio only           unknown             Default
234 mp4   audio only        │                   m3u8  │ audio only           unknown             Default
140 m4a   audio only      2 │    3.90MiB   129k https │ audio only           mp4a.40.2  129k 44k medium, m4a_dash

YouTube already has access to the audio for that song without any additional effort because of how YouTube works. I’m sure publishers can provide higher quality audio, up to 256Kbps but that option isn’t even enabled for users by default. By default you’re listening to “normal” audio or 130Kbps: https://i.xno.dev/Ow2eC.png

The reason why YouTube Music works is because they already have access to a huge library of music through music videos and the like. They save a ton of time and money by doing things this way and it makes perfect sense that they do…

I mean, I’m sure that it is less supported, but in all the years I’ve been using it I haven’t found one. 🤷‍♂️

That’s just what I like to see from an OS developer. “We fucked it up, but dunno how to fix it…”

IMO, to keep Windows competitive with Linux they need a complete rewrite from absolute scratch. It’s realistically the only way that’s going to keep Microsoft on top in the long term. And they’ll never do it because of how expensive it’ll be.

It all depends. Korea has this, too. You can typically register your facial image with certain retailers that you visit often, and instead of bringing cash/phone with you, you can just use your face. Lots of people seem to use it, but Koreans don’t have the antimocity against surveillance that Americans do.

So it all depends.

Opus is better than MP3 in every way. File size is either better or the same, and audio is better even at lower bitrates. But realistically, most streaming services don’t provide HD audio, so it really doesn’t even matter.

249 webm  audio only      2 │    1.58MiB  49k https │ audio only         opus        49k 48k low, webm_dash
250 webm  audio only      2 │    2.09MiB  65k https │ audio only         opus        65k 48k low, webm_dash
251 webm  audio only      2 │    4.14MiB 128k https │ audio only         opus       128k 48k medium, webm_dash
233 mp4   audio only        │                 m3u8  │ audio only         unknown             Default
234 mp4   audio only        │                 m3u8  │ audio only         unknown             Default
140 m4a   audio only      2 │    4.20MiB 130k https │ audio only         mp4a.40.2  130k 44k medium, m4a_dash

This is YouTube music, which generally serves the split audio from a YouTube video as a song. Most of them I checked either don’t have audio above 130Kbps or don’t even provide MP3/Opus anyways.