The cast is just perfect IMHO. Super green! ;

Also one of my all time favorites.

I thought slightly less of the casting for Fifth Element after I learned about the "Born Sexy Yesterday" thing in conjunction with Luc Besson's personal life. Same with Leon.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thpEyEwi80

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Besson#Personal_life

While I enjoyed watching the movies, I feel like I would have to point out this dynamic if I were to show the movie to my kids.

Hmm, I mean that "thing" appears to be the opinion of one guy on YouTube. Which he is entitled to of course, but I don't necessarily agree.

Especially considering he's using Leeloo as "the most quintessential example" but then also "emphasizes that the Born Sexy Yesterday trope intensifies the dynamic by positioning women as submissive rather than equal partners", which is clearly not really the case here.

Or for example a scene early on where Korben tries to kiss her, to which she reacts with a gun to his head and says "never without my permission". Doesn't really sound very innocent or without agency to me.

I get the point of the analysis and it's certainly not completely wrong, but it seems to be a bit far-fetched and incoherent to be honest.

That's a pretty wild take, but ok. I think you really have to be digging deep and "looking for trouble" to take issue with a fun and relatively wholesome movie like Fifth Element.

Not to mention them getting together for the Fifth Element led to the Joan of Arc movie they did together afterwards (or at least contributed).

Let's just cancel everything.

From here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006411

"At some stage in the future we may be able to move IOKit over to a good programming language"

IOKit was almost done in Java; C++ was the engineering plan to stop that from happening.

Remember: there was a short window of time where everyone thought Java was the future and Java support was featured heavily in some of the early OS X announcements.

Also DriverKit's Objective-C model was not the same as userspace. As I recall the compiler resolved all message sends at compile time. It was much less dynamic.

Mostly because they thought Objective-C wasn't going to land well with the Object Pascal / C++ communities, given those were the languages on Mac OS previously.

To note that Android Things did indeed use Java for writing drivers, and on Android since Project Treble, and the new userspace driver model since Android 8, that drivers are a mix of C++, Rust and some Java, all talking via Android IPC with the kernel.

There was also the Java-like syntax for ObjC but I don’t think that ever shipped.

> there was a short window of time where everyone thought Java was the future

Makes me think of how plists in macOS are xml because back then xml was the future

Funnily enough, there is a (different) DriverKit in macOS again now ;)

I guess having targeted multiple architectures and in the case of OPENSTEP also operating systems early on certainly helped.

If only there was a way to sign software and not depend on a centralized authority, something like a... web of trust?

(and yes I know, you'd need to have the option to have "your" (haha...) OS trust it of course)

Because it's mostly just performative.

Exhibit A:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou...

It's chromiums all the way down.

You cannot really use most Copilot products for actual productivity, even if you wanted to.

Last time I checked, Copilot in Outlook did not have access to my calendar data.

I have plenty of users using it for real productivity purposes. Yes, it has access to Exchange Online calendars.

True, but it's so incredibly fragile. 90% of the time copilot returns sensible things, eg when prompted to list all the f2f meetingsI had last month. 10% of the time it fails to find things, makes things up, etc.

Problem: if I cant rely on it for administrative tasks like this, I end up having to do more work to verify what it says. which makes the tool pretty useless.

Could these be different products, like Home edition vs Pro edition?

I only have experience with the M365 enterprise services. I don’t use M365 for personal stuff, I’m too cheap for that.

Yeah, I gave up trying to find productivity uses for the copilot in office because of limitations like that.

MSHTML.dll reborn

Mostly, yes. But since they upstream Chromium, it is more likely to remain evergreen than MSHTML ever was.