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You're missing the parts where: 1: Roblox hosts your multiplayer gameservers in its pops for free, with a generous amount of free persistent storage and memory 1.a: Roblox handles …

Roblox games are all multiplayer - you get a game server running in their POPs and a generous amount of persistent storage and memory. How is that not a developer operational cost?…

| then they went back and said no, you need to remove those safeguards to which Anthropic is (rightly so) saying no. So one thing to call out here is that the assumption that DoW i…

What a failure as a species that parents are not trusted or believed to be capable of raising their children. Therefore let's build out the panopticon.

CEL is useful for any custom computation you want to do on your critical path without having that blow out in a ridiculous fashion. Yes you can embed other languages however constr…

The actions of the government should always be publicly observable. This is what keeps it accountable. The fear that a person might be unfairly treated due to a long past indiscret…

The only logical end of this is that they should ban 3d printers and cnc mills to unlicensed individuals. Which, is probably the goal. Things like 3d printers, drones, GPUs, genera…

Every service provider dropped them. Cool weapon, let's use it more. Thanks for proving the point.

New?! This isn't new. You just haven't been paying attention. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55615214 Or maybe it is fine when it happens to people you disagree with.

Id agree if it were a VP of Eng (total mess) or Product (should know and be bought in on the dev process) but this is a VP of sales. Depending on the company they can be much more …

| My personal take is that folks involved with the change severely underestimated the societal impact that it had. The fact that proper build support is non-existent to this day sh…

J2ME was an alphabet soup of incompatible implementations stuck somewhere between Java 1.2 and 1.3. Getting code to run across device manufacturers was a huge engineering burden. I…

| Android being Google's .NET, after Google being sued by coming up with Google's J++, Android Java dialect. The Oracle v Google was specifically over copyright infringement concer…

That ship sailed decades ago. Too much software and middleware expects GET to not have a body and who knows how itll break when you start sending one. Obviously you can do it today…

The author of the article obviously didn't read the paper. The paper's finding focuses on goal adjustment/flexibility being a functional response when encountering difficulty meeti…

Yeah you're right, Coinbase is definitely insecure as evidenced by this. The fact that lax security has never caused them to loose billions of dollars of customer funds is just luc…

Coinbase didn't halt trading or withdrawals during the Bitfinex hack. Somehow I think Nathaniel Popper would have been able to put that fact directly in his NYT article instead of …

That's a pretty big stretch of definitions. Whatever operations Coinbase had with Bitfinex were either to support market making activity or as a service for Coinbase's institutiona…

That is a great ancedote. Not saying it is untrue, but it is definitely true that Coinbase has never lost customer funds while operating in an environment with 0 safety nets and be…

Yes no dynamic memory allocation, however there still are many ways to ABEND your COBOL program. The reliability aspect comes from the fact that these systems have been running for…

Having COBOL sources which match whats running in production is a load bearing assumption :).

In my journey to Christianity I have found that as my faith grew my anxiety and depression became much more manageable. This really wasn't intentional on my part but Ive transition…

This is one of the reasons to embrace crypto - having an intermediary with direct control over your finances is absurd.

Id wager high frequency trading applications.