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I had listened to an interview with the original cleartype author on a podcast almost a decade ago now. IIRC He said that when Apple got the cleartype patent (due to the Apple/Micr…

Yes, obviously.. It really depends on how much time you have, what browsers they care about supporting etc. There is a tooling out there to assist you and most of the compatibility…

I didn't know what the broken window fallacy was. So I looked it up. It is rather dubious if what I said fits into this fallacy. If I leave my refrigerator open all day, it is guar…

The fact was that I wasn't right. They were doing decent work and their beliefs didn't affect their work. A lot of non-believers (in the past I would have include myself in that li…

When I got out of university I was doing a web dev job that paid me less than a full time super market job in the UK. However after a year of working there I quickly moved on and g…

The problem is with many with your attitude is that everything must be done perfectly now. This is the attitude of an abolitionist. It isn't perfect therefore it must be banned. Th…

Have you thought though that if more money goes into Solar, Wind/etc (via BTC, Eth mining and similar) that more money goes into renewable energy and thus more money can be spent b…

There is a short by Adam Curtis called "Oh Dear". You may have seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM The basic takeaway is that you make it impossible for the averag…

> The friction with typescript is the build environment (speaking as someone who also prefers it, and uses it all day). You can literally do: tsc filename.ts And you will have a ja…

There were many notable people who were exposed as to exposing that we all should be lockdown while breaking the rules themselves. It is quite frustrating when I live in an area wh…

> OP's statement leads straight to "they're out to get me," which is absolutely not helpful, and it's absolutely an indicator of a difficult hire. Not at all. If you've been out of…

I was unemployed for 9 months in the UK. I was a contractor/consultant and had to take a full time position. When Lockdowns started I was literally finishing a contract and was hap…

It called progressive enhancement. You test whether you have a feature and then code around it if you don't. e.g. When createObjectUrl was a new thing. I ended up doing something u…

The difference is that the tech companies between them control a huge amount of online communications. The bakers, florists and small web-developers don't.

> We do see (3) with Typescript and Coffeescript. These create some debugging friction. Also as JavaScript gets marginally better the appeal of these other languages can feel more …

I am not from the US but the core issue wasn't actually solved. There was also another case files against him around a similar issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cake…

Do you think this tax money will be spent on NASA? I would wager not.

Did some research on the case. Fairly in-depth review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoRp3SI2UKM I suspect he won't run into the thermal issues experienced here unless he is doin…

> The stupid RGB LEDs can be disabled in the BIOS/firmware menu by setting “AURA” to “Stealth Mode”, and I unplugged the two 1” fans on the I/O board to keep everything silent. I a…