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Is this "don't vibe" code, or "don't accept" code written with agents? We have a philosophical (and potentially legal) aversion to code written by models. I can appreciate not want…

Absolutely: I said something similar recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766649

This is becoming a wedge issue. It should not be. As an industry, we can solve this. As an industry, we have too. If we don't, legislators will do it for us. And they'll make a bad…

Imagine if Boot2Gecko / FirefoxOS had someone kept going, I wonder if I'd have evolved sufficiently enough to be commercially viable?

I think the creeping invasion of privacy argument is backwards here. What we have today isn’t privacy, it’s abdication. Platforms are externalising risk onto parents and pretending…

I think we need to accept that age verification makes the internet safer. What we cannot accept is age verification's use as a mechanism to pry too far into peoples lives. When we …

That's an epic polemic. If the cost of operating in Italy isn't profitable, exit Italy. If it is, then adhere to the laws of Italy. If Italy makes the cost of business too high the…

Yes. And Windows. https://zed.dev/docs/linux

I literally said this three days ago: https://hachyderm.io/@ed_blackburn/115747527216812176 But in all seriousness, LLMs have their strengths but we’re all wasting tokens and burni…

Microsoft are really sweating GitHub now aren't they? It wouldn't be so bad if it improving but there is certainly a perception that it is costing more for a poorer product, irresp…

A UK organisation with treasonous, multi-generational experience, that's cited in the article, that people refuse to read or believe? Thanks for re-sharing <3

After 2008, others pressed Keynesian stimulus. The UK chose Hayek. Austerity. Councils took the hit. Services vanished. Early-years centres. Youth work. Local welfare. The safety n…

I'm using sqlglot to parse hundreds of old mysql back up files to find diffs of schemas. The joys of legacy code. I've found hypothesis to be super helpful for tightening up my par…

Indeed. It's sacrifices engineering cost for customer experience.

I agree with this. cat is great for "cating" bat is great for throwing shit on the terminal in a fashion that makes it semantically easier to reason with, two different use cases.

I’m on a Mac, and some of the default tooling feels dated: GNU coreutils and friends are often stuck around mid-2000s versions. Rather than replace or fight against the system tool…

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Thank you :-)

Thank you :-)

Do business in the UK? Then accept we prioritise our kids over your costs. Toodle pip.

I keep asking, surely, I'm not the only potential customer: where's my ARM 64, Linux Mac mini equivalent? I'd settle for a laptop form if I must.

I just want an ARM Linux MiniMac equivalent. At a reasonable price.

This. Absolutely this. The PR should be the final step in the process. Never the first. Ambushing people with PRs and then demanding their attention is a massive time and mood sink…

WhatsApp has been relatively feature stagnant for a long while now, and it's certainly being almost ubiquitous for a long time too, but we're seeing an explosion in features and pr…

We are really happy with GitHub, that's our source control and CI platform: I think editors are fungible but not source control,ALM,CI etc. I hear your point though and I see how t…