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> A 'robust' healthcare system that the government runs is a pipe dream. That "pipe dream" has already been achieved by most EU countries decades ago. Sure, you might argue it's wo…

It is literally impossible to respond to input in 10ms on most platforms, for various reasons. The USB input lag of 12-30ms and the 60Hz refresh rate of most monitors being just th…

The real world operates on single sources of truth. The software merely models the real world - as it should. Saying we should move away from this pattern is synonymous with saying…

I'm saying the opposite - security is so much of a problem that even the most popular browser in the world can't get it 100% right after 20 years of trying to get it right. Subtrac…

I guess the whole idea of "scrolling presentation design" is broken? I certainly wouldn't mind if it stopped being a thing. It feels like 90% of websites that I find annoying as of…

Yes I understand the complaint. It's just that "royal we" means something else.

Very much so. It's one of the worst cases (but not the worst, not even the worst this week) I've seen around here.

I don't refuse to enable JS. I do, however, refuse to use website with broken scrolling. It makes me physically sick.

Never did iOS development. I always assumed it requires active USB connection with a dev machine or an emulator.

I just want to point out this is not a royal "we". It's a regular "we". Royal "we" is when you say "we" but mean a singular person, yourself. Here, the author does actually mean mu…

Kind reminder that in 2026 USA, a millionaire is somebody who paid off their house mortgage and has 12 months of salary in savings but not much else.

What if the keys leak and need to be rotated?

Not 99% of data - 99% of applications. In 99% of applications, 100% of data is such that any piece of this 100% has only one authoritative source. Only in 1% of applications, the p…

You can't sideload iOS applications. Meaning there's no point to doing any of the listed things.

In Firefox reader mode, there's like 5 paragraphs of text. I am unable to digest the content on the website itself. Can someone confirm if the 5 paragraphs is the whole content or …

99% of the time (and all 3 times in the blog post), there is only one source of truth for any piece of data, and state transitions are completely arbitrary. Blockchain is almost al…

Google is consciously making Chrome less secure because otherwise the performance is unacceptable. The end result is about 300 CVEs every year for the last 10 years. That's for an …

I didn't say nothing would work. I said it'd be known as the one where nothing works. Think: IE6. It implemented like 95% of all web standards as of 2006. But this missing 5% was t…

Ridiculous because it's absolutely guaranteed to fail. Irresponsible because if it does succeed against all odds, the internet will actually become a worse place. If you can't impl…

Writing a new browser engine at all is irresponsible and ridiculous. Doing it in anything other than Rust just makes it slightly more irresponsible than it already is.

Servo has always been a purely reasearch project with no intention to be ever used in production.

In webcomic form: https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html

My wife uses ChatGPT a lot for advice on child development and parenting in general. Every so often, it says things like "in my experience, what I've noticed works best is..."

What gives the Turks the right to land they stole from the Tatars? What gives the Greeks the right to land they stole from the Creteans? What gives the Chinese the right to land th…

Up in the air. SCOTUS didn't decide on this specific right. They did rule on other constitutional protections though, sometimes granting, sometimes denying them to non-citizens. It…