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There's an excellent HN thread that talks about this very question (that comes up on HN every now and then - what _does_ company X do that needs so many engineering resources?): ht…

I, for one, found reading the text under the News section quite difficult to read. The combination of the font color and the spacing/kerning made it all appear like a character sou…

While I quite liked Ghostty to being with, the lack of a scripting API quickly drove me to WezTerm before long. See: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2353 I hope …

Only tangential, but I recently discovered that VS Code also picks up paths in `.ignore` to decided whether to include paths in search. I knew that `.gitignore` is automatically pi…

It can be quite useful to check in project-wide shared editor settings so that everyone in the team is using the same linter/formatter editor settings. We do that in my team for VS…

You're crazy if you think the target demo of "business leaders" and "thought leaders" aren't going to dump it into their favorite LLM first thing and prompt their way into a summar…

I just noticed that the PDF cover simply says "© ", not the traditional style of author attribution, which usually is just plain " ". I don't know why, I found it interesting...

Why is so much of generated AI art so... literal? The cover art of this PDF literally spells out what the graphics are supposed to represent. The vast majority of AI visuals on Lin…

In this case, as a solo dev, it's probably quite justified to be honest. I doubt ConcernedApe would have really been able to continue solo-ing it with this level of success if he a…

I bought :( Loved the thing, but yeah batter life wasn't the best. Also noticed that app developers would sometimes not take into account the smaller viewport on the Mini, and so a…

The more you put yourself in social settings (online, offline, whatever), the more you increase the surface area for finding someone through "pure random chance". Just adding a mor…

> Google will sell Google Cloud Services to Oracle to cut their losses Now that is a hot take! I’d like to see this happen just to experience the meltdown this would cause in this …

I have grown to dislike "jugaad" solutions to problems (unless it is forced onto the problem through sheer necessity), mainly because -- if left unchecked -- it fosters a culture o…

That's hardly a crazy stat, you're merely viewing it through a Western lens. In plenty of Asian cultures it is uncommon for people to have sexual experience before marriage.

Plus you can land in a situation where a user might associate bad experiences with an unofficial client with the actual service and thus leave with a bad impression overall.

Kinda going off on a tangent here, but it was a mild "ohhh" moment for me when I first realized that the company Cisco is actually named after San Francisco, followed by a second s…

The availability of cheap, unhealthy junk food is very high, and that combined with the force multiplier that is poverty is a core component in the obesity epidemic. If you are to …

That's not always the right way to go either. A professional using a particular device on the daily will be proficient in its usage regardless of how terrible the user interface, s…

It's not really cooking, but I find it useful to defrost frozen meat in the microwave if I have forgotten to leave it out of the freezer overnight. Defrosting in a microwave usuall…

Well, most of earth’s landmass lies in the northern hemisphere.

> Google or Apple can get away with this kind of behavior, I doubt Atlassian can Atlassian absolutely can in enterprise settings. In my company (a large cloud company), if JIRA goe…

You say you wouldn't want to use this simplified phone-based video editing tools for serious work, but there is an entire industry's worth of livelihoods being made on TikTok and I…

This is quite common for women in tech (particularly engineering), I've heard. If you look "too attractive" as a female engineer, you'd more likely not be taken seriously, not to m…