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Great episode
Pretty much a good advertisement for Linux or the MacOS !
Mark in Perth
Western Australia
We don’t have Zoom on any of our PCs at work. I’ve used it twice in the last 3 years, once for an interview with a journalist at the beginning of the pandemic and once for the fireside chat with @ant_pruitt , other than that, we’ve only used Teams and I’ve used Amazon’s solution once for a sales call with Amazon (go figure).
Edit: Regarding desktop applications, we still use 99% desktop. Our finance software was updated recently and it moved from a dedicated client to opening a web page (hosted on a server on site) and the users freaked out, claiming the finance software was broken, because it was starting the web browser. The last 2 versions were “moving there”, you could start it in the web browser, or in the “client” software, which was just a web browser window framed in a client program. All that changed this year is that the frame program has gone and it opens in the web browser directly, but it is still “broken” to the users.
Our ERP system moved from a COBOL system to a Java system, with a (really) fat client.
We have moved to Office 365 on the desktop, but 100% local fileserver storage, OneDrive is deactivated, because of GDPR. The same goes for Exchange, we still use on premises, because M365 Exchange is not an option. We are using Teams, but no PII can be stored on it, no recordings can be made (GDPR and other laws make it very difficult to legally do this, so it is just turned off) and no files can be exchanged over Teams - they have to be exchanged via the fileserver or email.
So, it really means desktop applications are here to stay, at least for a while.
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I treated myself to a new whisky for Christmas:
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It is very nice.
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Historical digression: had a nostalgic flashback hearing the comment that Copilot wrote badly structured code. My first programming job in 1980 was on a mainframe site where almost everything was written in English Electric’s version of IBM Assembler, except for a suite of management information programs written in COBOL.
Occasionally, just for amusement, we would turn on the COBOL compiler option which output a print of the Assembler code which was actually generated by those lines of COBOL, so we could be amused by its appalling inefficiency and poor design, compared to what a human would have written. Technically, it was generating machine code to be run, but as there was a 1:1 relationship between machine code and Assembler, it was easy to display the machine code as a stream of Assembler instructions.
Back then, computers were often referred to as “the rapid idiot” and sometimes that image resurfaces today, even though the achievements are a million times greater.
Leo’s disdain for John Carmack keeps popping up in various shows, it’s pretty hilarious - did he pee in your cheerios at some point??
Great show, nice to see someone back in the right-hand panel.
You misinterpret me. I have nothing but respect for Carmack. Doom was amazing.
I don’t have much respect for VR - I think it’s a dead end - maybe that’s what you’re hearing?
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