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It actually does touch on this: Built-in line and column tracking. Any movement across a newline updates the line number, including a backwards seek. getLine and getColumn are alwa…

I really like that categorization, but I think you've missed a step (or several): designing and implementing all the extra stuff needed to make it work, but aren't directly related…

Well, you can still have breakpoints, and switch between different structures for e.g. mobile vs desktop, or landscape vs portrait. But I don't think you can cover all requirements…

Cocoa and Objective-C are both great, but I think there's one huge problem that they never managed to solve well: responsive layouts. Classic iPhone apps have fixed layouts, and cl…

If it happens out of the box with fresh installations of both Windows and Cursor, I’d say it’s a serious vulnerability in at least one of those. Sounds like this is a golden oldie …

What’s due diligence? Reading all the code on GitHub? That’s not a great interface, you probably want to clone it and open in your IDE so you can inspect the code properly...

Only if you think opening Cursor.app counts as “using an AI tool”. Most reasonable people wouldn’t expect an AI-enabled text editor to hack their machine right away -- it should ha…

If you can’t download anything safely, the web can’t exist.

Ideally, they’ll be able to look back through the logs and find the original analysis from when the bug was submitted, figure out why it was incorrectly filtered, and use that to i…

It's really ridiculous how little discussion there was about places like Gibraltar and Northern Ireland before the Brexit vote. Looks like NI voted ~55% remain and Gibraltar ~95% r…

Honestly? I don't really mind, and I even quite like it! The thing is, "load-bearing" is a useful phrase when discussing architecture. What would you rather have it say, that has a…

I’m normally one to complain about people complaining about these LLM-isms, but yeah, this one really grates on you. It’s a shame because it’s making an excellent point! It just ta…

Your reconstruction is so close, I'm a little surprised you didn't stick with the original controls! Even though the BBC had a rather weird layout for all the non-alphanumeric keys…

"Compiling" is vague here; for TS I think you need to distinguish bundling from type-checking. If you're talking about bundling the entire app, 120 seconds down to 10 seconds is a …

Typescript's compiler is much slower than Rust's, but it's plenty fast enough for most people and you almost never see complains about it because it mostly doesn't matter But you h…

Points for the consistency of the theme, at least.

How do you mount your phone in a rental car? Do you bring your own phone holder with you?

There are plenty of people who actually do write like that. That’s one reason why LLMs often write like that.

Even if you could understand human cognition to the level required to say, confidently, that it’s done one word at a time, it’s likely not! I think they’re not talking about cognit…

Yep, this is my experience too. I think of it more as a very, very smart and fast intern -- you can tell it’s going places, and in many ways is already way better than you, but it …

You can use it if you want, but the browser doesn’t help you at all. It can’t automatically turn a form into a matrix URI, and it can’t do anything useful with relative matrix URIs…

The main advantage of branding is that it’s a zero-cost abstraction -- the boilerplate vanishes at runtime. Just using a string instead of a containing object can give you a lighte…

jaywalking in front of your house is illegal In most parts of the world it’s not illegal. That’s a seriously draconian law.

Well, the native speakers or otherwise self-diagnosed experts who felt obliged to chip in here!

I'm a bit dismayed by all the negativity you're getting. Thanks for all your level-headed and detailed responses here. I have a hard time understanding why people object to this ki…