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And how, exactly, will one acquire this "full EU Digital Identity Wallet"? Will I be able to compile it from source and run it on a computing device of my own choosing?

Thanks for replying, that's an interesting architecture. The idea of using a high-up parallel state seems particularly neat as a way to ensure every part of the page render stays i…

That is not a use cases I would've expected Step Functions to handle; I'm intrigued. You're using express ones, I assume, but how are you wiring them up and why?

Single Instruction, Multiple Data.

So did consumer advocacy sites; this one is slop.

Perhaps coincidentally, it was also around the same brief beautiful moment in time where one could talk with all of one's friends using a single messaging client, possibly even ove…

How much do we trust those guarantees? Apple currently alleges that OpenAI employees have been stealing Apple's trade secrets: https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trad…

USB-C maximalism is great for travel. I personally recommend travelling with a USB-C desktop charger, but use one that accepts a IEC C7 ("figure-8") cable. Then, travel with only t…

This is also something to be aware of when teaching people, too. I've seen advice for designing Anki-style flashcard decks that reminds people to create flashcards for both A->B an…

That'd be https://www.costarastrology.com/why-haskell , if I remember the job ad correctly.

It's such a shame because back then even Windows was motivated by actual human user research and had thorough guidelines. https://ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Mic…

Qantas gave its final 747s a nice send-off too, back in July 2020, flying its final commercial 747 flight as QF7474. https://www.qantas747.com/ They also had QF7474 trace the Qanta…

The problem is that Wayland just isn't a compelling alternative for many people, so they don't move. For me, I see no benefit because I got used to avoiding HiDPI and don't have a …

Not in my experience, because the self-checkouts have to be designed for untrusted users instead of trusted employees. So I spend more time reacting to "please scan item" -> "place…

I used to get paid to scan groceries. I have no intention of doing it for the same companies for free.

Speculation, as someone who grew up with some of those games: We could use Heretic/Hexen as the most direct contemporary example of a "Doom++ engine": it had keyboard look up/down,…

Communities for these old games do an incredible job securing the four freedoms for their favourite titles, and it's truly inspiring. Great work.

I think it's a really cool homage, but that the site could be a little clearer that it's not Fabien's work. When I first clicked through and saw a different name, I was hopeful tha…

Didn't this go through a few years ago? https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/internat... > If you are a non-resident business and you sell goods into Australia with …

Yeah you would, that's true.

I am not very familiar with Go and especially not its generics support. Can you implement the "join" version instead of the "bind" version, where you turn a T[T[a]] into a T[a]?

My experience has been the exact opposite. Python seems to churn its packaging and tooling at an astonishing rate, whereas Rails forced a centralisation of its ecosystem.

I'm so glad it works. If you handwave at the generalisation to quadratics and higher polynomials, do the students follow it well? I assume you don't get into the finite field stuff…

This is such a cool technique, and you could even teach it in secondary schools as a neat thing computer scientists can do with polynomials.

I did originally, when it collected a bunch of obscure knowledge and made it searchable and useful. It was fun and rewarding to put things you knew into the common knowledge pool, …