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> To put a bit more colour on this, I think the fear of most devs with an ultra-simple framework like this is that eventually you hit a wall where you need it to do something it do…

> if your source code is based on newer .NET you have to update to a new version each year .NET has a really refreshingly sane release life cycle, similar to nodejs: - There's a ne…

It's good to move to Zigbee/thread/z-wave anyway because they're all better protocols for smarthome stuff. Plus wifi means you might be buying stuff that relies on cloud, which is …

> there’s not good support for very low power devices that use WiFi That's why we have Thread. Wifi just isn't a very efficient protocol for using with deep sleep. The radio takes …

When I first saw the iPhone I remember thinking how silly it was that a device calling itself a "phone" only had the phone function as of many apps. Other phones had internet and o…

It sounds like you think I'm victim-blaming here and that's not my intent at all. Part of being in business is anticipating risks and having a plan -- which could be deciding to ac…

> refuse to let them export it Honestly, it's hard to feel too bad for people making the choices to use this stuff without considering an escape plan or safety net and then getting…

> for example, I've seen N+1 problem sneak past because at the time the performance was good enough but once there was enough data it crumbled This is a super-common problem I've h…

Am I the only one struggling to decipher this? I thought web3 was supposed to be some kind of decentralized compute, where rather than run on your own hardware or IaaS/PaaS you cou…

And you're used to the weight of the glass, which you instantly recognize when you pick it up. If it was a different weight than you were expecting, you'd probably slow down and be…

> It's so shitty and slow because it's a bloatware Bloatware is unwanted software, usually pre-installed or otherwise not installed by the user, that slows down your computer and t…

> As the neighborhood becomes denser, rents might go down, but land values will go up, since a given piece of land can now be used to build a more profitable apartment building. Yo…

Yeah, I was afraid for a second there. I have a few Wiz bulbs and was hoping that ecosystem wouldn't suddenly die

Yep, agreed, and IMHO in a lot of cases, as-is, terraform wouldn't be viable as a closed-source product. At least, I would have got frustrated and ditched it. I haven't personally …

Having debugged this sort of thing before, it's actually really hard to figure that out. The entire stack is kind of bad at both logging and having understandable error messages. Y…

Good point, but it's still a very useful way to ensure it doesn't get swapped out underneath you. Transitive dependencies are still a problem though. You kind of fall back to needi…

> Where you end up in this spectrum is a matter of cost benefit. Nothing else. And that calculation always changes. This is where I see things too. When you start out, all your val…

I echo this. No pull requests is awful. The only time it's worked well for me is with 2 or 3 people sitting next to each other, with the same mindset and coding style. Every other …

5% off your next lunch and 5% off your next car are very much not the same thing.

Yeah, at the core of it I see this as a value problem. If you charge a lot, it's a tough or impossible sell for users who aren't yet sure they'll get that amount of value from it. …

The author's blog also explicitly defines color: #111; background-color: #fdfdfd; which is a contrast ratio of 18:56:1.

FWIW that's not even how Alexa or Google Assistant work. Both listen locally for the wake word with onboard processing, and only when they recognize it do they send the audio strea…

Yeah, the physical barrier is key. It's not that hard, and provides absolute certainty. As indicated by this thread, software experts (rightly) don't trust software by itself enoug…

I'd argue "friend of a friend" is strong transitivly because it's explicitly chosen by all parties involved. Trust in a professional relation - a doctor, especially - is actually v…

Which also means never assume the exhaustive list is 100%.