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This article skips a few important steps - how a faster CPU will have a demonstrable improvement on developer performance. I would agree with the idea that faster compile times can…

Whoa! STOP! At no point did anything say when I was creating stacks that this info would be public for other users of the site! I was shocked to find what I’d been ranking (which l…

One thing this article doesn’t mention is how this all falls apart when you spend time in more than one country. My UK bank (Barclays) won’t let me install their app on my US iPhon…

I’m really curious about the number of requests you end up making. I’d imagine that this would get expensive fast in a web app - AWS charge $0.40 per million read requests, so if y…

A lot of this article seems to be conflating two things: 1. The ability for the code to process the error and recover from it 2. The ability to sensibly log, trace, and later for a…

Any randomly selected Linux machine is most likely to be a mobile phone, statistically speaking

Fowler's Law on Unicode: There's always another bug, you just haven't found it yet. Dr Drang's script counts the number of _characters_ not the number of _glyphs_. This matters bec…

50% of the time doing something that has a one percent chance of killing you 69 times will kill you

Before I put down cash I have basic questions, like “how do I type a square bracket?” and “how do I type a backtick?” The on-screen keyboard is pretty good, but makes coding and ty…

That’s actually one of the main reasons I like Obsidian - that I can easily use vscode with it. Obsidian’s backend is just markdown files on the file system which you’re free to ed…

I'd like to apologize on behalf of MaxMind for breaking your CI build. Let me assure you as a fellow programmer, I know how frustrating that can be! As you saw we've tried to reach…

We apologize for not providing more notice. The CCPA was finalized in October, and it contains a number of ambiguities, particularly as it relates to our products. To arrive at our…

The problem with charging a fine is that by providing a mechanism for penance it reduces the pressure for those people who are prepared to pay fines to actually return the books on…

My Grandmother loved the physical paper mail I used to send to her back home in the UK from https://www.pc2paper.co.uk/ She commented once that it took almost no time for the lette…