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Does it make Matrix "proprietary" or "silo"? Did the IRCv3 WG have any results in 2015?

Like Matrix (the one at https://matrix.org )?

So... Usually it's claimed that one of the advantages of IRC is that it doesn't depend on a single server, so using a single server feels a bit like cheating. Replacing the server-…

Netsplits, missed messages and bot wars over channel and nick ownership were an integral part of IRC UX, and they were direct consequences the IRC protocol. If Discord was run on t…

Everyone probably has thought "what was the person thinking when they wrote this". Now you know that they probably didn't think (and since 2025 or so, it might not even have been a…

I can totally understand why. I tried fixing ag around the time Ripgrep was first published and once I learned about rg I never looked back. On a related note, it's now ten years s…

For me it was trying to add a filter to search CMake files to ag and then realizing that the code had some rather stupid design decisions that prevented it. I wrote a pull request …

I'm not completely convinced. When I was a teenager I pirated games because I didn't have money (and games were incredibly expensive back in the day). The people who I copied them …

I think every every company I've worked at that had R&D had some kind of reward system for patents. Yes, most of the software patents were nonsense but those who have their names o…

Suunto, Polar and probably a lot of others were doing the same. Android was attractive because it would be a huge saving on software development costs, have maps out of the box and…

> "Peeing yourself to stay warm". Which in-house OS this was about? For Symbian, "burning platform" was at least honest.

Make it idiot at algorithms and I believe you.

Did you actually look? Typical websites are not static and include a huge amount of JavaScript and other stuff from different ad networks, analysis tools, etc. It looks like most o…

No article sorry, it's just what the bandwidth display on my home router shows. I could post some screenshots but I don't care for answering to everyone who tries to debunk them. M…

> The vast majority of internet bandwidth is people streaming video. Shaving a few megs from a webpage load would be the tiniest drop in the bucket. Is it really? I was surprised t…

To each their own.

How much did you get paid for this comment? And if not, why was it worth writing?

CMake has fetch_content, and CPM is a package manager built on top of it. They are not great.

It's missing one important distinction: Below 0C: Freezing, probably slippery, not raining water. Above 0C: not freezing, probably not slippery, rain comes as water. They are as un…

Don't you remember how hostile people were to ripgrep just because ag or find + xargs + grep existed? Or the same with meson because cmake exists and cmake because autotools exists…

No, drunk people who do stupid shit or have passed out in public are just locked up for night and then let go unless they injured or killed someone.

Cool project! I understand mass producing these doesn't much sense, but would a build kit that has just PCBs with SMD components in place and the rest of work left to user work? I …

I doubt that it would be good business for Microsoft though. The people who use them, and the people who buy them and force others to use them are two separate groups, and anyone w…

> apple finished the transition fat binaries are useless again? Is the transition really finished? I'm writing this on a x86_64 Macbook with a browser that is distributed as x86_64…

Yes. The problem is that the field is insanely competitive, as in there are so many beginner pianists and so few paying gigs. Yes, there are many people who have made it as concert…