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This looks like a repost of a Guardian exclusive: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/10/indonesia-clic...

Paying dividends to shareholders used to be a thing

At the very least _big_ tractor (John Deere) is a net drain on society

“Penny wise but pound foolish”?

I guess I'm an LLM then. I've been referring to the structure of types as "shape" for more than a decade and so have plenty of others

There's a reason Where 2 -> Google Maps happened in Sydney. The sheer number of one-way roads combined with the imposition of the harbour and the messy tunnel system make internali…

Cloudflare are neck deep in v8 as their js runtime of choice. I doubt they'll be looking for another any time soon

The cloud is just someone else’s on-prem

They're based in Collingwood, any Australian would tell you that an n year Haskel rewrite is the most normal thing about them

Not op, but in my case a lifetime of colourblindness has desensitised me to colour as an indicator. I have my editor configured with zero highlighting for keywords and syntactic el…

> slop that works Until that slop that works leads to therac-26 or PostOfficeScandal2 electric boogaloo. Neither of those applications required software superior to their competito…

? https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/ ? https://ai.cloudflare.com/

But most of its profit from AWS

The three layers of middlemanagement between engineers and whichever director owns this particular incarnation of RDS

A single cloudflare durable object (sqlite db + serverless compute + cron triggers) would be enough to run this project. DOs have been added to CFs free tier recently - you could p…

Heh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing Hard real time (or just "real time" in firmware/hardware contexts) is effectively a term of art. One that's been increasingly wate…

Just wait till 'slopper' starts getting classified as a slur

They've already got one: https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/analytics-engine...

And now you've pulled in a full sql parser as a dependency (admittedly a dev/build time dependency, but a dependency nonetheless) in a project that has no business parsing sql. In …

Agreed, I feel like the article didn't address the other major benefit of sync calls, namely their simplicity. A system built on purely synchronous calls is infinitely easier to re…

Yeah, 56 minutes late in the end. I would have happily traded another 4 minutes for £35. Next time I'll sabotage a door or two (For the benefit of British transport police, the abo…