Every single mainstream operating system has metadata and index stores associated with its files and applications.
Linux has locatedb and .desktop files, and many other files that determine how content is presented to you in a desktop environment.
Windows has NTFS alternate data streams, the registry, multiple appdata folders, and a bunch of other kludges.
A file is an arbitrary string of bytes. Removing the ability for the user to handle them like this is so obtuse.
Per the article:
According to the BTRON3 specification, the first two halfwords of an application ID are the data type it applies to, and only the third distinguishes rival handlers for the same type. When a document contained writing, a table, and a figure, opening those parts made the system launch each one’s registered handler to draw its own content inside the parent document’s window. If no handler exists, or the handler fails to draw, the system strikes a diagonal line through the region where the content should have been.
That’s a window manager with application/file associations, with the ‘window’ that the application draws to being embedded within a hypertext document. So, you’d be able to attach arbitrary hypertext to a file and when you open it the window manager presents that information along with the application window. That’s not any less flexible or more limited than any other desktop OS.
EDIT: now, it sounds like you could embed multiple ‘windows’ within the same document, and maybe do something with transclusion, but I haven’t read enough about how BTRON worked to say much about that. Still, that doesn’t fundamentally change what I wrote above.
I’m gonna need someone to empathize with me after I get brain damage from reading these replies.
you don’t appear to be thinking critically about the implications of LLMs/generative AI
You don’t appear to have a functioning brain.
Then you’re not critically trying to think and examine the implications of this new technology.
I’ve been examining and thinking about artificial neural networks since ~2010.
It is pretty fucking simple to not use an LLM.
Dang, I could’ve swore there was something about “he wants social democracy not democratic socialism”, but I guess that was other people describing him.
What you’re describing is dirigism at best. They have billionaires bro. They’re capitalist.
Bernie Sanders is more economically left wing than that and he doesn’t even describe himself as a socialist.
Morons like you that bend over backwards to pretend nazis don’t exist and racism is over is why 2016 happened.
They don’t get to say “sorry it was an accident” when they specifically didn’t send the message to German users (which could get them into legal trouble).
They also don’t get to say “it was one Nazi intern acting on their own” when no one was fired for it.
And by the way, the “it was one rogue intern” narrative is not something they ever claimed or implied in any of their PR messages. They would look a hell of a lot better if that’s what happened, but that’s not the case.
They knew it was a nazi symbol and intentionally didn’t send it to German users where it could get them into legal trouble. They said as much in their “”“apology”“”.
Sorry, but you can’t say “it was an accident, I didn’t know” if I catch you sneaking around trying to avoid being caught doing something.
At the very least more than one person knew what was happening, including, apparently, the person in charge of that PR message.
Given that, and the fact that no one was fired for this, it seems a lot like like they’re infested with nazis to me. Hell of a lot of smoke for there not to be a fire.
The GDPR is flagrantly disregarded constantly. It really needs more enforcement.
I’m American too, and yeah, even most (nominally) leftwing Americans are in denial about how shitty American culture is. They still have the the american civil religion in their head.
Try seeing how long you can suck on a car exhaust and live? My point stands.
And you’d sink and down pretty quickly if the world were made of pudding.
Everyday a single vehicles emits enough pollution to kill countless people.
Considering that since there are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide, I think if each one killed more than one person per day there would soon be none of us left.
Collectively they do cause some 246,000 deaths each year, from pollution alone, with several times that figure being attributable to motor vehicle collisions. So I do think the regular use of fossil fuel vehicles needs to be phased out, along with a drastic reduction in personal vehicle use in general in urban areas and the implementation of systematic safety principles in road design.
Don’t give your money to a nazi organization.
If you’re familiar with this kind of stuff, do you think this could lead to cheaper and smaller hyperspectral cameras?
I really hate the chrome and blue cyber lights they replaced the forerunner architecture with in this and the 343 Halo games.
The weird brushed metal / almost stone like appearance of the original material gave the impression of something monolithic and ancient. Yeah, there were some holograms hovering in front of walls, but these were always hidden inside structures, becoming more numerous as you went deeper underground, as if to imply that you’re entering some sacred space or getting closer to something secret. In either case I think the structures had a quiet dignity that contrasted strongly with the Covenant’s very loud bright blue and green aesthetic (even the aforementioned holograms were pale and less saturated compared to the Covenant stuff).
Instead we get something that looks like it belongs in a fucking gamer PC or some pimp’s car.
That sounds pretty entertaining, reminds me of when DOOM Eternal and Animal Crossing New Horizons came out near each other and people made memes and fanart with both of them.
(art by third_cookie)
And some of the wealthiest people alive are also some of the dumbest losers I’ve ever heard open their mouths.