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Quick, someone release Chatbot 2000! (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 18107@aussie.zone 227 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bar graph of Windows versions. Most are unreadably small, 95 and 98 are visible, and Windows 2000 is the only tall column.

[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 40 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Where is XP and Vista on this chart. Millennium edition is missing but we don't count That one anyway.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're all NaN and were discarded at outliers... Yeah, they're that bad compared to 2000.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about my first windows, the 3.0 😭

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[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If you could get *Windows ME to install without crashing.

[–] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

get YOU to install what?

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[–] blackshirt@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Chrome bumped its versioning numbers to overtake Firefox back in the day, that’s how we ended up with stupid version numbers like 124.1.2 instead of meaningful versions.

[–] Morlark@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

And then Firefox changed its version numbering policy to "catch up". I lost a shred of respect for them that day.

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (12 children)

I've started using CalVer (so a relase in October 2026 would be numbered 26.10). This is just so much better for end-user applications.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (10 children)

What's the benefits here? Why is the semver even bad to begin with? I'm not sure why I'd care that it's in the hundreds. It's a number, right?

Dates - I can just look at the release date if I want that.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only correct system is 0ver.

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I honestly love this idea unironically because its not really 1.0 until the bugs are gone and all desired features are present. If there are ever 2.0 plans, those are actually 1.0 plans and you were further behind than you thought

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[–] horsesaysweird@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

It depends. If your software lives in a rapidly evolving ecosystem and gets buggier with age, CalVer tells the user how important it is to update. If the ecosystem is stable and you want to inform the user about feature sets and bug fixes, SemVer makes more sense.

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[–] kubica@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Will the trend stop before we have to start using scientific notation?

[–] blackshirt@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

version 1.345435e+12 just dropped, time to upgrade.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is a joke right? tell me it is please

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 89 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It is worth noting that the same metric is the exact reason that web browser version numbers are so ridiculous.

What's that saying? Something about the moment a metric is used to measure performance, it ceases to be a good metric.

That's what's happening here. In one of the stupidest ways possible.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Here's an episode of the excellent "99 percent Invisible" design podcast that interviews a philosopher who ho has written about this topic! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I listen to 100 percent invisible, thanks

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, Firefox used to take years to change major version number, then they changed to... what was it now, a 6 week schedule? To keep up with Chrome's versions.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

I hate their versioning schedule so damned much

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

It's gone to a 4 week cadence, now down to a 2-week cadence.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 96 points 2 days ago (5 children)

So... apparently Dragon Naturally Speaking (version 16!) has them all blown out of the water....

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (8 children)

God that app was such trash. Voice recognition simply did not work in the 2000s yet everybody and their mother tried to push it upon us 20 years too soon, just like they're trying to do now with LLMs.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember when windows vista itself came with a voice to text assistant / keyboard thing?

I remeber trying to train that software for hours as a kid just for it to still not understand me half the time lol.

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 days ago

Important info: Sashi is supposedly a shitposter.

[–] inbn@lemmy.zip 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are not ready for my Xbox 360

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Meanwhile, Atari is off the scale

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm literally the oldest I've ever been in my entire life!

[–] a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

More people have been to Berlin than I have

[–] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Has anyone checked on Bonzi Buddy lately, I think it's time to unfreeze him

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 8 points 2 days ago

Also, Clippy was special, but he wasn't evil.

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[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago (6 children)

This is also why I use AMD over NVIDIA.

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Shit like this would be laughed at by my professors. What a bunch of goons

[–] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Windows 2000 has entered the chat

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

crushing at saying stupid shit? both are gleefully sloppy

[–] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I would like to welcome Sashi to try my new Ollama modelfile, HehoAI 69420

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