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Makes sense to me... leaving to start their company with Google being an investor. Clayton Christensen [1] says (paraphrasing) it's a good idea to spin-off (or invest) in a startup…

of course they are. his original quote says 'political' but often translations or quotes may say 'social' (informally).

>> Ordering, consensus, and mutability policy are application concerns outside this series. [1] Of course, immutable means as-is, but since you're not dealing with ordering etc (th…

> 2. "Happiness depends upon ourselves." he's quiet possibly referring to happiness as a relationship (with family, friends, colleagues, citizens etc) rather than just by oneself /…

> Myth 3: Lines of Code Written by AI... how come lines of code (or expressions) by an engineer aren't a good way to measure progress (Gates point etc) but GenAI tokens must count …

yes. the point in this post was not to replicate their title and/or content, but to point to the the issue.

For some reason, this made me think of privacy & security issues: user fingerprinting, user-type detector (devtools open = dev/engineer) etc. Detecting the difference between windo…

NOTE: BBC is public-funded broadcaster in the UK, so it cannot show commercial ads in the UK. Ads rely on cleaver imagery to hook the viewer. So when a media org (bbc) reports the …

Very interesting. The media tracks may've been em dashed during prod. Spotify seems to use this format "Artist — Album".

Em dashes are indeed amazing! Go U+2014 ! has anyone used/seen em dashes in file/dir names? just wondered — I have't. It's certainly easier to read than a hyphen/minus...but i gues…

I agree with Codeberg, I think they're arguing for some sort of AI Code-Gen Fair Use policy. My take: If ai generated the code, let ai pay for it, unless it has been proved worth i…

Leaving intel? That’s one case where an employee won’t get chastised for

A houseplant with tiny turtles for leaves… very informative if under the influence of some substances. It’s not a Hello World equivalent. So much around generative ai seems to be a…

Makes no sense to sell their entire position on a key infrastructure player, if you’re going all in on ai. That’s very odd.

this is not practical or desirable in my view: de-google, de-apple, de-meta, de-aws etc etc etc What next, become stone masons? nah, that's too corporate, pick berries instead ;) C…

>> doing, or is it about getting things done Who says the thing is done? there is a massive danger now, with the sheer amount of complexity & speed brought by ai, in that it's incr…

Couldn't agree more, if posting on coding sites/forums, they usually have code highlighting. However, a screenshot acts like a print-out / pdf, and very handy for sharing in other …

> the movie 300 In high-tech warfare we're seeing these days your metaphor is reversed. These artisans (potters etc) are tech engineers, mathematicians, chemists. They are quick to…

It is relative, depends on the "type of warfare" being fought, and the countries/economies involved. In a high-tech modern warfare, the countries with a fighting force that has hig…

happy anniversary! > Uses the fast and bloat-free FLTK GUI library [1] Bloat as a moat, is sadly the strategy of much of the web or apps in recent years. High Performance has shift…

Removing html and css would also make the browser more secure - but I would argue also very counter productive for users. Most of read-only content and lite editing can be achieved…

Replaced them with App stores, why one code base when you can have N code bases: web sites, ios, android , tv … cheaper, privacy-oriented and more secure lol obviously not, doesn’t…

Well, by that token, opensource + stackoverflow was vibe coding all along. I can download, pick and choose, mix, modify, run, ship lol how about developing using WYSIWYG? drag + dr…

i think traditional UI should be decoupled from the language - only providing CLI and web UI (w3c web standards). Apple's ui is very nice, but you're stuck with a whole ecosystem f…