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The question is whether it's possible for a genuinely new competitor to arrive. Back in the earlier days, before Apple and Google were so entrenched, competitors weren't able to do…

It can explain, but it can’t excuse.

The criticism of monopolies is that market forces aren't able to let a failing system fail. The App Store doesn't compete on its own merits because Apple actively prevents competit…

Defining “it all” is exactly the problem here.

The instructive part about the comparison is that believing "AI is a bubble" doesn't mean saying that AI is worthless. After all, after the dot-com bubble burst the internet still …

The takeaway is that everyone makes security hard. Everyone does this anti-pattern of having these other domains that defeat all their own security recommendations. GitHub for ages…

I suspect most developers don’t care too much about cost because they’re just using what their company is just paying for whatever enterprise subscription/billing.

Two out of three of your points - the first and last - are just incorrect.

The latest version of all node package managers (npm, yarn, pnpm) now deny this by default. pnpm was ahead of the curve.

I mean, they are dealing with it in the courts, right? This is the press picking up on public court filings https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73602437/49/apple-inc-v...

Is there any doubt this is exactly what happened?

The problem is that it’s even easier to be stupid and lazy now, which encourages more people to do this more often.

“there’s no way I could do this better than Tailscale” is a much higher bar than "at least as good as I could do."

"tests" here could mean have a benchmark the agent can run to determinately evaluate quality. I don't strictly mean junit unit tests.

Tests! Unit tests, integration tests, random adhoc scripts. You know - TDD! I’ve been working on UI component improvements and it was doing a lousy job until i specifically told it…

it's basically a UI for a well-curated set of commits, and reviewing per commit.

you're not wrong. there is a part to this that does feel like a devolution of engineering when we're just asking the computer really really nicely to do the thing we want. on the o…

So, the phones arrived locked? You can't use them with any carrier you want?

People are keeping their phones for longer and longer. This makes it as attractive as possible to pay for a new phone at a more frequent rate. The bet here is that Apple would much…

Doesn’t encryption shift the attack vector to the key and/or the method?

It seems like an innocent mistake to me. I think there's a difference between actively ignoring something (like assigning an error to _), and ignoring something through omission. I…

I'm actually not all that fussed about Result or Option types. I don't mind Go's approach to error handling. I think it should just have language/analysis features built it to ensu…

> So, you handle the error in the end, or forcefully and intentionally ignore it. Again, if the code goes boom, it's on the developer, not on Go. Except Go doesn’t actually require…

> * paid for directly by the user hahahahah. Games are steering further and further to this not being true. Where each player explicitly doesn't pay for it, and instead they contai…