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Ok, let's say 25% growth over 10 years. That is a factor of 9. 9*$50B = $450B yearly revenue. What could be the margin Alphabet makes from that? Last quarter, Alphabet had $100B re…

Is cloud usage really high? Look at all the stuff people do. Almost none of it is automated via software. Look at people on construcion sites, cashiers, cleaning stuff, cab drivers…

I would think that no matter what the percentage of AI in the revenue is - mankind keeps automating their work via software. And so far, we automated only very little. We probably …

Do I understand your logic correctly that after 14 years of 30% growth another year is extremely unlikely and after 14.99 years it is almost impossible? My logic is that we only ha…

Which additional details would you like to see? According to Perplexity because instead of going through 20 earnings reports myself, I outsourced the task to Perplexity and then ma…

I have not looked into Meta, but when I look at the growth of Alphabet's cloud revenue, it looks pretty solid: https://x.com/JonathanBeuys/status/1984882268817519036 That is revenu…

The way I understand the gunicord documentation, this has the same effect as if you set up a script which listens for file changes and restarts the server (or workers) every time a…

If it does not access the opcache, against what is it checking the last modified date?

True. I see a "Zend OPcache" section in my phpinfo(). It says: Cache hits 4746528 Cache misses 38875 Both values go up every time I execute phpinfo(). I wonder why. Shouldn't "Cach…

When a framework "supports auto-restart", that usually means it has its own webserver for development and the auto-restart is supported when you use that. I don't like having a dif…

Imports are also updated the moment you update the imported file. I'm not sure if PHP stores any compiled binary or byte-code at all. Maybe it compiles it all on each request. It's…

You talk about performance, but I think that is another point for PHP. In my experience, PHP handles the same requests faster. Yes, I could build everything from scratch myself in …

Even though I prefer Python over PHP, for web projects, I'm probably down with PHP forever. Because it so nicely supports stateless request handling without long running processes.…

HTTPS is still a pain in the ass, even in 2024. If letsencrypt would offer wildcard certificates with their url based authentification as they offer for non-wildcard certificates, …

Same here. You can't just access my auth data over the internet. You would also have to get hold of my machine and get past it's security mechanisms. You can put as many layers on …

I'm not typing them in my terminal. I have scripts that automate my workflow. And part of it is logging me into websites. Regarding storing them in plain text: That's not much diff…

Yes. The auth part should not be displayed when you hover over a bookmark. Chromium does not display it. In the end, every security mechanism is "plain text". Even ssh keys. When s…

I would like to, but Firefox behaves problematic in regard to auth urls like https://name:password@news.ycombinator.com 1: When you bookmark them, it shows the auth part when you h…

Oh wow, you were right! This solves it: sudo -u desktopuser XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 firefox Sorry for messing it up the first time I tried! Man, you solved it!! Thanks a 100…

That would open the url in the default browser (Chromium for me) with the current user (root for me). The task at hand is to open it in firefox with the desktop user.

Whe don't you test it? It takes less time than to guess and have a back and forth via HN comments.

Please try this for yourself. It does not work. Gives the same "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." dialog.

Correct. I use a script in a root terminal to control a lot of my workflow. One thing is that I start browser windows from it when needed. I start them with sudo -u desktopuser chr…

I don't want to install multiple browser versions. I just want to launch a new browser window. This does not work: sudo -u normaluser firefox example.com So I do: sudo -u normaluse…