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Good for you! Some of us are professionals and like to understand our systems and how they work. I don't write assembly instructions by hand either, nor do I design CPUs much, but …

In this economy, if you're playing catchup to competitors you really can't have growth AND large profit margins. Why is that not obvious? XBOX brought in 5 billion, and after all d…

microservices / clusters / zones - really all of these are other "cell-based" architectures as well. there is absolutely no written rule that a microservice was just an API or a si…

> "while also working out how to make AI generated video that's impossible to detect." what gives you that impression? Google is spends millions of dollars researching and implemen…

>> * Moving code off of GitHub doesn't change any of this: AI companies are free to download your git repo no matter where it is hosted, just like they can any other content on a p…

Why would folks be better paying 5.5% fee to OpenRouter ("Open") if most people just use one or two providers? Just use the provider's API.

yeah, the context is federally here; so from my federal income taxes which are MUCH higher than my state, sales, and property taxes combined

Not to mention, that Opus cost orders of magnitude more money. These are VERY impressive and usage. FAANGS love to give away money to get people addicted to their platforms, and ev…

So we spent more on interest for the deficit than we spent on the doubling the combined spending on all of the following: transportation government operations natural resources com…

I'm sure its happened before, but this is the first time i finally get to see some sort of modern hardware in KiCad. Pretty cool to see all 6 layers, paste layers, and adhesive lay…

I use pnpm, but even so: thankfully naming things is hard, and all my env variable names are very_convuluted_non_standard_names for things lol.

That's why it should be rounded for everything. No pennies should probably mean that any final transaction totals are rounded to the nearest nickel. Whether they pay with cash, cre…

1.5 billion used to be an absolute ridiculous number to pay for a company not long ago. AOL? 1990s AOL? But with 5 trillion dollar companies these days that are "worth" more than t…

Huh? Did you read the link? Did you notice the ONE screenshot clearly shows the app has a material-ui look. I'm going to say this because I think you might not know this, but also …

It *is* confusing but in actuality, it kind of works: It's a Windows Subsystem - as in the Hypervisor/VM platform - to boot a Linux VM. And, more importantly IMO, Linux distro is u…

The "demo" is kind of bologna. 1) The code that is running is not what's presented; it executes (non-transpiled) vanilla JS.* Why not just show that? 2) Removing the box shadow mas…

Thank you. Honestly, the "could of" is more of a "sometimes I write how I sound" thing, but anything else, is more of a middle of the night brain mush. I actually re-wrote that bot…

Holy moly this thing has grown. I seen the Apple TV/Android app many many years ago and figured it was just another basic/forked IPTV/M3U viewer but looking at the website and " ht…

I always felt TiVo really did a great job at identifying how important good UX and UI are for consumer products. Partially, the monopolies/cable companies knew/know they were able …

>> "Complexity is not inherent to web development" >> "Hotwire is sort of vanilla rails and it enables you to create very modern experiences with content live updating through web …

This article has been re-written for over a decade. The so-called "complexity" is just a list of tools that each solve a specific problem. Tooling isn't the problem: The complexity…

Unpopular opinion: I think it's wild that ANY ORG would pay $200k for a chat app. If I ever ran an org that needed a chat app and the costs came even close to $200k a year, I would…

Good catch, you are correct. I initially was going post the actual command for checking out a branch at a time: > git checkout $(git rev-list -1 --before="YYYY-MM-DD" master) but t…

Every time I see a something with the ability to import code from Git, especially if they allow specifying a branch (this pack even supports commit hashes), I wish they would docum…

Seems like it was major enough that it was the lone patch[0] in all active Apple OS's: macOS Ventura 13.7.8 | macOS Sonoma 14.7.8 | macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 iPadOS 17.7.10 | iPadOS 18.…