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So Panfrost is an OpenGL ES implementation for Mali-type GPUs then? Thank you for that. Still confused about the role of a compiler here because I'm uninformed. So Kraid is a GLSL …

Windows and especially Macintosh UIs from the late 90s/early 00s were by far the most functional UIs we've ever had since the dawn of the desktop era - user research was a serious …

I'm very confused as to what Kraid actually does and who it's for. It's a compiler of some sort, but for what? GLSL? What's significant about it beyond the target backends?

Sanskrit is an amazing language - it is so BIG! Because of its extensive case system (10 different cases, IIRC), word order is highly flexible. The formalized rules of how spelling…

> I'm surprised how few competitors there are in the Dropbox space. There used to be many more - Sugarsync, AeroFS, Syncplicity, just to name a few - all bit the dust. Box.com foun…

Right! Naturally, our Congress is full of technical and administrative expertise and totally has the time, patience, and will to cleanly and carefully craft the wide body of regula…

Nobody pays MSRP at that scale

Gotcha, I must have encountered them later on then - thanks for posting the receipts! I was a happy user for a while, but eventually some bugs drove me back to iTerm2 (in my case, …

Warp was always an AI thing, as I recall - the seem much heavier on AI bandwagon nowadays, but their whole thing was a terminal for teams where you could share knowledge and comman…

The semantics are very relevant, since you presented it as a supply-chain attack. If you call a library vulnerability a supply-chain attack, then your argument has lost coherence. …

Log4Shell was hardly a supply-chain attack - just a latent bug in a widely-used library. That can happen anywhere. Maven to this day represents my ideal of package distribution. Im…

As if Apple doesn't berate you with unskippable notifications to sign up for iCloud, buy more space, etc etc?

I don't see the incongruity. It's one thing to mandate that retailers not sell alcohol to children, but it's quite another to require that all computers must report on the identiti…

If parents want that solution, then the proper thing is for someone to build that solution and make a fortune selling it, IMO.

> while ignoring the fact that these laws provide tools allowing parents to do just that These tools are called "parental controls" and already exist - we don't need laws to compel…

Or, and hear me out, _maybe our computers shouldn't spy on us in the first place_?

In the finest of artistic traditions. Reminds me of the story of one of my favorite pieces of classical music, 'Scarbo' by Maurice Ravel. It's one of the most technically difficult…

Maybe I'm wrong about the state of Java in Android today - it's been a few years since I did that work full-time. But I do remember when Kotlin broke on to the scene in 2015, and m…

Android folks have good reason to have anti-Java bias. Their bias, as it happens, is against old Java, which they are constrained to use as fallout from the Oracle lawsuits of yore…

> what about interop with Java? From the proposal discussion[0], the runtime representation on the JVM will just be `Object`. [0]: https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/discussions/447#di…

complexity in software is invisibly-preceded with "unnecessary", and usually indicates software that is difficult to maintain or even to verify its behavior. A really cool software…

Gemini was so much fun during lockdown - I loved the distraction of a new simple protocol, and the challenge of writing a gui client for it. Can't say I'm surprised that it hasn't …

Lol I "love" that the first benefit this company lists in their jobs page is "In-Office Culture". Do people actually believe that having to commute is a benefit ?

The trouble I have with this approach (which, conceptually, I agree with) is that it's damned hard to do anything with the parse results. Want to print that email_t? Then you're ri…

I don't mean to say one of us has better bona-fides, only that there is an existence proof to the contrary of your post. You claim that rails' lack of discipline promotes unmaintai…