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>Gaming is heading in the same direction that TV, movies and music are. I It's much worse with Gaming. At least with TV/Movies/Music there are standards-based 'offline' formats tha…

>Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks Who thinks they are easy? Elon Musk? The guy that spews obvious (even to him) bullshit like we're going to Mars in t…

>Supporting something is infinitely times easier than building it No it isn't. That is patently untrue. I've had to deal with in-house solutions many times in my careers. Inevitabl…

>And sometimes, especially now with AI, coding your own solution exactly tailored to your needs can be simpler than configuring a complex product designed to match as many use case…

>Critics call the SAT inequitable and say high school grades are a good predictor of college success. Well .. is it? We have decades of data that should either prove or disprove th…

>No country will be truly coal-free Being coal-free is possible. Being fossil-fuel free is harder. Most of Irish energy comes from Natural Gas and Oil - the former is what supplant…

It's not that bad. It's well integrated into Sharepoint, Exchange, and Office, and does the job. I've used both Slack and Teams and if you're using MS365, then Teams is absolutely …

Next up: Raccoons.

> What Mozilla is good at ... Firefox - the one thing they do not want to work on is the only thing that makes them special.

>You don't. When your server crashes, your availability is zero. As your business needs grow, you can start layering complexity on top. The point is you don't start at 11 with a ov…

>It's sure a corny stance to hold if you're navigating an infrastructure nightmare daily, but in my opinion, much of the complexity addresses not technical, but organisational issu…

>I personally wouldn't like to put caching in Postgres, even though it would work at lower scales. Probably should stop after this line - that was the point of the article. It will…

>So sure, you can make a unscalable solution that works for the current moment. You're making two assumptions - both wrong: 1) That this is an unscalable solution - A monolith app …

Or Lake Ontario to Lake New York.

>This is basically an article describing why you can’t just look at an event after it occurs, see that it has some extremely rare characteristics, and then determine it was unlikel…

We're solving real problems now.

Kinda slow when switching sections.

>Being a programmer is not about configuring your development environment. I know what OP is referring to. Back in the day, a programmer was expected to have built their own toolbo…

Oh come on. I'm sure they care about the users, and they were also hoping to build a business. Why the hostility? You don't have to kick them when they are down.

>I’m sure Uber and DoorDash and Lyft and Tinder and Instagram and WhatsApp are regretting the billions and billions they made doing this. I'm not sure which platforms those compani…

>Yeah, if you want to pump oil, you better also build your own railways to distribute it You're being facetious, but OP is right. For software platforms, this has been a constant. …

>Never build your main business on somebody else's platform. Yep. It’s a lesson that keeps being re-learned the hard way.

>That’s exactly what’s rude about it. By the way, I also hate the "hello"-only message. I am, however, guilty of writing "Hey. Do you have a second to chat" - typically in cases wh…

I didn't make a value judgment on the practice, but it is a reason why you may get a "hello" message.