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"Win32 is the stable Linux ABI" is, incredibly, a concept that predates both Win32 and Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Programming_Interface_for_Windows

oh dear fucking lord microsoft have lost the plot

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/my-goal-is-to-eliminate-every-line-of-c-and-c-from-microsoft-by-2030-microsoft-bets-on-ai-to-finally-modernize-windows

I am nearly always in favour of rewriting things in Rust, but "we must rewrite the entirety of Windows in 5 years in a radically different language and we will achieve this with AI" is a recipe for a fucking catastrophe

a side effect of the psychotic break is that we've been forced to confront our psychoactive drug use and how it affects our personality for better and for worse

the strange part is that that drug is caffeine, a drug so normalised that people don't even think of it as a drug

some orthographic borrowings from Japanese in modern Chinese

re: https://pinafore.social/statuses/01KD44CR437VA442HJ64BQ7HW6

this will become a cursed linux distro if for no other reason than the fact we need it

i want to mod a Harley Benton JA-60 Lake Placid Blue to have a real offset tremolo

i do not have any good reason to do this

i can't play guitar worth a damn

and yet, i want to obtain a Harley Benton JA-60 Lake Placid Blue, and mod it to have a real offset tremolo

did you know that communist party cadres in china even today have access to an exclusive food distribution system with fancier products, and which allowed them to not starve during the great leap forward

gonna watch this exciting new anime called "angel beats"

do you ever wonder what miu subahibi is up to

so fucked up that Ibanez is called that because they used to import guitars made by a Spanish guy called Ibañez and then when they started doing their own guitars they stripped the ~ off the n and changed it to have the world's worst white guy pronunciation, eye-ba-knees