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I have a gemini gem that recompresses the expansion that AI causes. It seems to have worked great on this article! https://share.gemini.google/WxEi6Satj7mY Happy to share the gem w…

So true. I think you missed flash. And arguably, to the author's point, JavaScript in browser (not wasm).

Totally. Remember slashdot in the 1990s used to house a dynamic page on a handful of servers with horsepower dwarfed by a Nintendo Switch that had a user base capable of bringing m…

I work at a 20-year-old mid-sized SaaS company. As long as the company has been around, product managers have longed for more engineers and strategies for engineers to ship feature…

It's perfectly legal to train a human on copyrighted work and I think, depending on the country, it's not settled that training ai on the same data is illegal.

American here. My experience is that the US dollar seems to be accepted in tons of stores in countries all over in the Americas Europe and Asia. Trade is trade it seems.

As a regular human who plays games and doesn't know about chip architectures, one woud probably lump the wii and the switch closer together than the game cube based on the modes in…

The bottleneck of most applications is acquiring enough users to hit a technical bottleneck.

Or non native English speaker who pronounces "may" the same as "might" and didn't realize the difference? It is maybe not coincidental that "may" and "might" mean nearly the same t…

For those that haven't read the article yet, scroll down to the flame graph and start reading unit it starts talking about back porting the fix. Then stop.

Isn't there a carve out in copyright law for fair use related to educational use?

I bet Microsoft would do something similar. If Microsoft entered an agreement with another company, Apple for instance, to build a version of word for the Mac, a fork, and part of …

Handspring Trio had a web browser by (before?) 2003 with a touchscreen. I loved mine!

This is EXACTLY what I remember people saying about Cell Phones and PDAs when they were popular in the 90s (people can't remember phone numbers any more), Google when it was first …

The name and address is valuable because it can be matched to offline behavior through a bill you pay or rewards membership you are enrolled in to further enrich the data associate…

... If incentives were properly aligned to make this the correct strategy, then this is probably what McDonald's would do. Unfortunately not. https://www.today.com/food/trends/why-…

Education is a patch. It's very hard to install though.

You monster.

For those that remember Google Notebook, this is also what Evernote did 10 years ago. It's why I've been using Evernote for 10 years and why I'll never use Google Keep. https://www…

The composition of the result of the original hash function and the result of that validation function can be taken together to be some larger function. Call that an uberhash. Such…

I've had an Orbi for some time now. What sold me was that it doesn't actually create a mesh network. Instead, it sets up a 1.7 gigabit wireless backhaul connection completely separ…

>If that's true why do I see so many developers using Macs? There are lots of developers who use Apple hardware with linux. Even Linus (at least as of 2012)! http://www.cultofmac.c…

So long as one executor is executing the recipe/procedure/etc it makes sense to simplify directions to make them appear synchronous. When I turn my computer on and wait for it to s…