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What are the pros and cons compared to ASP.Net/Blazor?

Who or what is going to fund your retirement pension? Who or what is going to look after you when your health deteriorates?

Are there any coding plans for this? (aka no token limit, just api call limit). Recently my account failed to be billed for GLM on z.ai and my subscription expired because of this.…

What providers offer nowadays coding plans, so no pricing per tokens, just api call limit and a monthly fee. Which are affordable?

I bought a glm-4.7 subscription and paired it with with claude code. According to usage, I have already used millions of tokens, yet I have barely reached the prompt limits for the…

The only medical condition I can think of which they would not disclose is pregnancy. That would lead to further questions and is controversial despite being very simple. Further e…

What features have you used for shaping with pf/FreeBSD? I remember (around 8ish years ago) using dummynet with pf, but it wasn't supported out of the box and I used some patches f…

I learned some Gleam a while ago, my familarity with F# helped, but I didn't find a use case for it. Some while ago I wanted to play with raw sockets so I figured, why not Gleam, i…

Wish it had a tab component.

Not DOS, but I remember playing a copy of Settlers III and was surprised when iron smelters produced pigs instead of iron.

Should one use the result type for handling errors or exceptions or both? What's the rule in F#? When should you prefer immutability over mutability since both are possible in F# a…

I recently had to script reading a large Excel XLSB file. Using pyxlsb it took about two minutes. I found an alternative library with significally better performance - python-calam…

Years ago I was discouraged that there is a lack of a grid component like WPF's Grid or Delphi's TGridPanel. Something that I can specify the number of rows/cols and their sizing. …

pdo is a common interface layer for databases for php, like jdbc in java or ado.net in C# so I can use the same api for any supported database. In python technically dbapi standard…

For scripts I use Python, but I like to use PHP for short quick scripts when a database is involved since all it takes is to install php and php-pdo to have a consistent api for db…

Haven't touched Blazor in 2 years. In the context of blazor server, what's the recommended pattern for state management? Does it make sense to use MVVM (e.g. via MVVM Community Too…

The only gripe I have with PHP is that the standard library while extensive is a total inconsistent mess. Would rather see that addressed first.

Thank you. Just to make things clear, customer from section 7 also equals end user? That is, if I were given for example a /48 from a sponsor LIR then I am forbidden to divide that…

Question to those familiar with IPv6. My company has /24 IPv4 PI blocks. We are not a LIR. Can I request a /48 or larger IPv6 prefix from my sponsor LIR (what is the largest IPv6 p…

I am fearful of adopting Flutter for this reason.

Is OpenBSD still largely single-threaded or have there been SMP improvements in the network stack over the years? The feature set OpenBSD has is impressive, but is there a large ga…

What's the SMP state of OpenBSD's networking stack these days? Can it benefit from multiple cores (if I were to run it on a beefy x86 machine?)