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Meanwhile there are many masters that make these tiles today - I know one personally! - and they all struggle to find clients.

I suspect they make a big model first. In this case it's Fable. Then they run the shrinker steps to make Sonnet and Opus. Sonnet is smaller, takes less time to make, so it got rele…

Just so you know, "move to Europe" is pretty complicated inside Apple ecosystem. You can't move your App Store account from one country to another while you have any subscriptions …

It's less about platforms and more about games themselves. Games on Steam has to follow certain rules that are mostly consumer-friendly. And the fear is that some of these rules wi…

I wish I could edit my post. Somehow everyone wrote to me about baldes. These are not the same, though. Blade servers were mounded into units of 4u, 8u, etc, they occupied a portio…

This design feels very obvious-in-hindsight . Consolidate power adapters and networking, replace cabling with pluggable slots. It's something similar to what IBM mainframes or Sun …

A lot of it depends on what kind of company / industry you work in. For example, in Rust space there's big divide between LLM-heavy users and light/no-LLM users. Main rust reposito…

A lot of corporate speak is developed in the US and then companies all over the world spread it around. Often the adoption happens without deep understanding of the concept, and wi…

> Apple very rarely admits mistakes Excep every time they do a big redesign like this. This happened when they moved away from skeuomorphism in iOS7(?) and then backpedalled hard i…

Something that not many people consider. It is almost certain that C++ "saved" C by existing. Without C++ there would be an enormous pressure to add more features to C itself. One …

To be fair, so are many other UIs. Windows 95-style boxy buttons and bevels make the content look organized. Every possible action gets its button that looks like a button. You oft…

ChatGPT is a word now. People may use Perplexity, or Google, or Grok to ask questions online. And later they tell you "ChatGPT told me this". It's a new "I googled in Yahoo".

AI code is uncopyrightable. If you want to be hygienic about it you would let AI commit code as is, and if you don't like the code and decide to change it manually this should be a…

I'm surprised they even had them in a first place. Doesn't Microsoft have a deep partnership with OpenAI? Aren't all Copilot things powered by various GPT models? I would assume th…

Tokens are current era' "lines of code per month" https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

They lay people off and look good in front of investors. Then they hire people, talk about "growth", and once again look good in front of investors. This would never fly if stock m…

I remember when Mozilla released OdinMonkey that was hyper-specialized for asm.js code, the Chrome / V8 team instead worked on general-purpose optimizations in their JIT that would…

> Alchemy Yep, that's the name. There was a brief period in late 2000s when Adobe was pushing hard to make Flash embedded into web ecosystem. They made Air as a way to package Web …

At least some of the projects in these industries now specify strict no-AI-use policies in contracts. I participate in a few of these, and it’s becoming a bit of a pain, because al…

Let’s be honest. If anyone would be building a brand new company in Poland or any other country with the intention of raising capital or IPOing they would still incorporate in the …

A lot of SMBs use Instagram to connect to their clients, so Instagram build-in messenger is a default option for a lot of people (especially women) in many parts of the world. Some…

> It's a social network that became socially acceptable to browse at work. YMMV. I’ve heard a few stories where opened LinkedIn at work was treated as a massive red flag: “this per…

This would probably push some high-end audio professionals away from Logic. One of the niches Mac Pro has been popular is audio production. And with cheesegrader the ability to slo…

Very good, actually. But you have to nudge them slightly. Tell them you prefer the modern version of the language, with gradual typing† and function signatures, and you'll get very…

That's Reveal.js / Slides.com format. It became very popular in 2010s. The idea behind the 2-d navigation is that you can use left-to-right to move between chapters, and move down …