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I'm surprised pjmip is missing the point here. Or maybe I am > Instead of sending streams of bytes to render text, it sends streams of encoded X Windows commands to draw the UI. (S…

It's not hard to believe that we could make self replicating drones in the next 100 years that go from system to system, make a few more, and continue. We've already sent drones ou…

Let me also add, in many other categories, I've rarely found a correlation between price, brand, and quality. Worst luggage I ever owned was Rimowa. It was the most expensive I've …

I'm curious. My previous soft was from Ikea. Of course Ikea makes cheap disposable furniture but this sofa, IMO, was not one of those. It was made of real wood, not particle board.…

my experience was I would not have learned anything without a manual and examples. There was no autocomplete so there was no discoverabliy and there was no internet so unless you b…

the smart way to do it is to name an exit like Exit B5 or A12. The signs in the station, and Google Maps, will generally tell how to get to a specific exit. Or probably better woul…

I think you missed the point. The point isn't that these features don't have a purpose. The point is rather, at every line of code you have many choices that you arguably shouldn't…

Don't know which ones did. TRS-80, C-64, VIC-20, Atari 800, Apple II, did NOT

I grew up typing programs from softdisk magazine, Compute! etc... into TRS-80, Apple II, Atari 800, and C-64. I still think JavaScript in a browser is better. JavaScript is way mor…

I haven't a clue how they compare but a Studio Mac with an M2 Ultra can get 192GB of unified ram for $5700 (PS: not a mac fan, a curious)

I just cleaned out my build folders and did a full build. 40M+ lines, 3 mins and 35 seconds. If you're not getting similar speed then maybe you should look into adding more machine…

That's not the point. The point is you shouldn't need that crap in the first place.

You realize you're talking about a 1bedroom apartment, not a single family home. It shouldn't require an L5 job at FAANG to just barely be able to afford 1bedroom apartment.

tagging doesn't work period because people will tag things to try to get their product in front of your eyes and add any tag they think is popular entirely unrelated to their "prod…

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> today it would be much harder, > It also helps that my SO works as a designer for another FAANG. Thanks for confirming my point :)

They're not affordable for FANG employees. According to levels.fyi an L5 at Google makes $349,163, of that they'll keep 60% after taxes so 209k. It sounds like a lot (and it is in …

and you require a whole OS. I expect browsers to outlast OSes. Browsers ran on MacOS 9 and software that ran on those browsers still runs today. MacOS 9 itself, not so much

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If you've got a 10M+ LOC project and you're not doing some kind of distributed build you're throwing money and time away.

feature phones are not a dominate thing in japan. https://www.soumu.go.jp/johotsusintokei/whitepaper/ja/r04/ht... 86% of the population owns a smartphone. That's higher than the US…

A website works on all platforms; Mac, Linux, Windows, ChromeOS, ... maybe even Android. An app works on a single platform. To me, they could put it on github and serve it on githu…

I posted 2 things recently. One was link to a game, another to an anime (neither related in any way shape or form to wars nor any news or politics what-so-ever. I got zero response…

that would be impossible for me to answer since I already know python. Scratch is programming just no possibility of syntax errors

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