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Cat smiling and cat smirking are two separate emoji. Why the article depicted them as before-and-after is a mystery.

Maps.me was sold and the acquiring company moved to a new proprietary code base. The quality dropped considerably. That's what motivated the original Maps.me founders to start Orga…

Racket is s-expression based, so it has a lot of parentheses. Racket can claim to have slightly fewer parentheses than most other Lisps because it uses brackets in some places rath…

I'm also surprised that they considered it reasonable to turn so many features off. Seems like some of it could be configurable, like allowed external connections. I also think som…

I think that was a natural outcome of cheaper merges/conflict resolution in distributed version control. It became easier so there were more situations where it made sense. Now LLM…

I noticed this while programming with LLM assistance. It's easy to put effort in for the LLM because there is immediate positive feedback: improving the context gets better results…

I am also surprised that capabilities weren't more widely implemented after mobile OSes demonstrated they are practical. I know Windows made a move in that direction with UAC but h…