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Happy Kagi subscriber here! I just wished Apple let them integrate into Safari without the need for silly hacks.

For now at least, it seems the paying customers don't see ads. Who may see ads We do not show ads to users on Plus, Pro, or any Business plan, or to any users who tell us or we pre…

Maybe it's not practical for day-to-day use but the way this hacks the font to produce something completely different is amazing!

Money. Typical amount of commercials time per game: NFL 60-65 min NBA 40-50 min MLB 40-50 min NHL 25-35 min MLS/Premier League/World Cup 10-20 min

> I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore It's highly reminiscent of "IBM Watson" a few years ago. Basically the add-on brand to make them look cooler.

One of my favorites being Micros~1, in reference to how Windows had to mangle file names for DOS's 8+3 character limit.

A more appropriate signature would be "Please excuse any auto-correct errors that my ducking phone might have added."

> We ultimately need optimized DSLs and aggressive use of stateless sub-modules/abstractions that can be implemented in isolation to minimize the amount of context required for any…

This is a fun app. One way I deal with people talking on speakerphone, is inviting myself into their conversation and making comments as if I were an active participant. That usual…

> You can write boring code in Scala, but in my (limited) experience, Scala developers don't want to write boring code. They picked Scala not because it was the best tool for the j…

This is Postel's Law, aka the Principle of Robustness: "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

In a similar vein, as the industry matured, we went from having teams of wizards building products, to teams of "good-enough" developers, interchangeable, easy to onboard. Perl cul…

Only in France. For some reason, the names for Gruyère and Emmental got swapped there.

You're being downvoted but yes, this is about risk mitigation. The IT department at a health care organization has to balance matching the requirements of payers, admins and clinic…

Same here. Perhaps what I've enjoyed the most about Perl was the humanness and art of it. Cleverness and expressiveness were at the service of elegance. Sure you can write amazingl…

The setup that I adopted 15 years ago and still use today is the "bar desk". It's a standup desk that's positioned in such a way that my elbows rest naturally when I'm standing. Bu…

Perhaps you can add a product in there "Contribute to this fun site" in various amounts, and let that one take a real payment.

The author made that point, in considering frequency of use as a criteria for whether to use an animation or not.

When expressing nuanced ideas, a series of short sentences is harder to follow. Not always but often. The short sentences are less connected. The connection between those sentences…

That stood out to me as well. Bell Centennial† used that for phonebooks; here I suspect the light-on-dark display has some visual bleeding that this compensates for, especially for…

That's a different mechanism. There are rubber "feet" at the bottom the of the carts. The wheels are thin slices that sink into the moving sidewalk grooves, therefore the cart rest…

The irony is you can scan a URL with a phone camera and it's clickable, with the nice side-effect that the domain is human-inspectable. Just make the font a little bigger and it sc…

Even without any AI stuff, it's a fantastic editor for its speed.

This is an Opinion piece, not a news article. The distinction between the two seems to be lost on most people nowadays. One way I leverage opinion pieces for things with which I di…

I remember being on sensitive zoom calls and seeing Otter.ai join. Had to track down which person was using it, and even they were clueless as to how it got there, and the client k…