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> he's trying to commoditize his closed rivals, it's not out of principle To be fair Meta/Facebook does have quite a strong open source history; React (Native), PyTorch, Btrfs, zst…

Why only one app, and not several and choose the right one for the occasion? Mapy.com and OsmAnd are much better for trail use than Google Maps. Mapy has public transit info (depen…

I think Anthropic/OpenAI do have a moat in the (western) enterprise market. Chinese hosted models are a no-go, and my experience with enterprise IT departments is that they will no…

> Who cares? Someone cares enough to offer $111B...

yes, there are questions like that (steps, ramp, etc). Also questions about road surfaces, pavement/sidewalk, etc

Subjective depending on who you ask, but for me RSC is not really representative of React usage. (I believe) the vast majority of React apps (and the vast majority of dev experienc…

I tried Angular 2+ back in the day. I found it frustrating to learn as the API had changed between versions, and when searching for help you would come across a blog post/stackover…

Just knowing the personal number is not enough to do much with. To get access to services, verify who you are on when talking to companies there is a verification step, most common…

> modify roborock vacuums and load up other software even. Can you provide more info/got any links? I would love to try some open source software on it

Ironically we bought a Roborock (Chinese brand with close links to Xiaomi) and didn't connect it to the internet (checked this would work before we bought it). If you don't want th…

The blue check symbolised (symbolises) being verified, i.e. this account belongs to who it says it does. But it doesn't carry out any/sufficient checks to actually verify that. See…

Sounds like a Samsung phone... no end of dark patterns and pushing Bixby AI and whatever else. And then once you have the phone set up you get to spend the next 10 minutes uninstal…

I live in the EU and can see value in live translation for me personally. However, I'm happy with the decision. Sure, they are not available right now. But it's worth it for the lo…

Most likely not in it's current state as it uses the `chrome.bookmarks.getTree()` API. However the Chrome-specific stuff is in this file: https://github.com/jamesrr39/chrome-bookma…

I still bookmark websites. Just in the standard browser, not in Pocket, etc. I found searching for and finding bookmarks a pain, so made a Chrome extension to natural language sear…

0.2% > Payment service providers shall not offer or request a per transaction interchange fee of more than 0,2 % of the value of the transaction for any debit card transaction. htt…

Hmm, many people writing Java without a PhD...

> Developers (often juniors) use LLM code without taking time to verify it. This leads to bugs and they can't fix it because they don't understand the code Well... is this somethin…

Thanks for these comments, I appreciate it. Although I would point out: > scalability [...] no company would even bother with PostgreSQL at all In my experience, you can get pretty…

I have heard this a few times from different people/places, but why is it the case that at 50+ it is harder to find work? Assuming a regular retirement age, there are still many mo…

Genuine question: I appreciate the comments about MongoDB being much better than it was 10 years ago; but Postgres is also much better today than then as well. What situations is M…

The amount of perfectly functional messaging apps Google has gone through is crazy[1]. Each Google messaging app (GTalk, Hangouts, Meet, etc) is perfectly functional, but with an e…

> Intel reserves the right to ask you to stop using the logo [...] Serious stuff!

At the risk of appearing low-tech, a much more simple, Goroutine-safe solution for dealing with "now-dependent" code: type NowFunc func() time.Time func getGreeting(nowFunc NowFunc…

On a larger scale: Copenhagen and Vancouver both have fully-automated metro systems (i.e. driverless systems). Presumably there are many other cities with such systems around the w…