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A bit of context: Apple is being forced by different jurisdictions (EU, UK, Japan) to allow third-party browser engines. In all other regions it's still not allowed to use them. Ap…

It's not that absolute progress is slow, it's extremely slow compared to the predictions. It might be fast in absolute terms, but the "50% of coders will be obsolete by 2023" has b…

It being a proxy buyer means they don't really support you with issues (at least from my experience using it once). I purchased a guitar for several hundred EUR (before shipping an…

I feel the rug under my feet moving. Is it being pulled?!

The funny part is that I never heard a professional tell me I should use WD40 for a specific task. It's been developed for (W)ater (D)isplacement, it's really good for that; and it…

> We move money, so mistakes are costly and quality is contractually non-negotiable. We build on a twelve-year-old monorepo with structural bottlenecks: bloated test suites, manual…

I read a moderate amount I'd say, about 2 weeks average for a book, and I was using a very old and very beat-up but still functioning 4th gen Kindle until recently. However, I woke…

Important bit of information is further down in the article: OnlyOffice is Russian. I would therefore view any collaboration as a risk. It's not adequate for strategic reasons as w…

Several ideas from this blog post are factually wrong. Additionally, I cannot confirm the more subjective ideas - and I've been running Macbooks for almost 20 years, and specifical…

I guess this image generation feature should never have been continvoucly morged back into their slop machine

The real story here is not how stupid the responses are - it's to show that on a question that even a young child can adequately answer, it chokes. Now make this a more involved qu…

> And what's happening at CISA right now should terrify every American who depends on running water, electricity, and the ability to vote in free elections. The answer is right at …

The cryptography is sound, however, it's also frequently changing, in addition to straying from standards more or less. This makes it difficult to give a firm answer. This ETH (i.e…

> In terms of the Matrix Fdn being incorporated in the UK… I guess that means one shouldn’t use the Internet, given IETF is US incorporated? :) The outputs of the IETF are RFCs. Th…

I was on a team that evaluated moving a significant portion of a product that should be used for government/healthcare onto Matrix. There were several drawbacks that made us NOT go…

This immediately lost credibility for me with this quote: > And vibe coding is fun. Even Bret Taylor, OpenAI’s chair, acknowledges it’s become a legitimate development approach. Co…

You _can_ blame them for several high-impact things they willingly did or at least supported, e.g. benefiting greatly from public spending yet successively voting to restrict it la…

My first instinctual reaction to reading this were thoughts of violence.

At the same time subsidies are being phased out. I was about to get 8kW panels + batteries installed when my country decided to pull them, and I'm not going to spend 10k out of poc…

Still, you are comparing a non-empty program to an empty program.

This is not an apples-to-apples comparison. Python needs to load and interpret the whole requests module when you run the above program. The golang linker does dead code eliminatio…

> The unexpected return of server-side rendering (htmx.org) Glad to know this topic is still thrashing and spasming and refusing to die.