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This landing page is not good. It's mired in out-of-context jargon and implementation detail. (What does "virtualize the worktree" mean? Git already has "effectively free" branchin…

I don’t need “a varied sense of taste” to save money on gas and non-perishables. I don’t need “a varied sense of taste” to budget and do simple math to determine the membership is …

Right. License pulls happen extremely rarely for digital video games[1] And delisting a game from a store isn't a license pull. Delisting prevents new purchases of the game, but ow…

This more a dig at Sony than a reason Valve can’t also sell their hardware as a loss leader. They are massively profitable from their cut of Steam sales anyway. And part of PS Plus…

AFAIK, Golang's module system (mentioned in the article) protects against this. From [1], The revision must be an ancestor of one of the module repository’s branches or tags. This …

if you go look at any real Go projects they usually use tons of dependencies and they're usually pinned to random git hashes No, they are usually pinned to a git tag, which is usua…

I left the Python ecosystem some time ago. Reasons: The Python 2->3 transition, asyncio package, async/await function coloring, abysmal package management, the GIL and poor perform…

It is because female mosquitos only mate once in their lifetime.

Ah. So multiple billion actions per month, and probably multiple million dollars per year on their cloud, if they can even support that load (plus, the vendor lock in and etc). Mak…

Honest question: Can you use Temporal Cloud? Have you evaluated Temporal Cloud pricing? Ballparking: 200 events/workflow, 200 workflows/per day and assuming 1 event = 1 cloud actio…

Yeah, I'm probably wrong there. GPT OSS 20B is certainly much faster than some other models I've tried. I actually gave GPT OSS 20B a few prompts just now and it seems to respond a…

I could have used this article before I spent the weekend arriving to the same conclusion! Same laptop, and my contrived test was having it fix 50 or so lint errors in a small vibe…

Well, the TI-83/84 are called a graphing calculators for a reason: you can plot equations and datasets with them and look at them right there[1]. Looking at graphs is huge for lear…

Writing the code hasn’t been the bottle neck to developing software for a long time. Code may not be the bottleneck, but writing it absolutely does consume time. Especially with so…

If you’re asking about a population decrease then, no, Austin has not had a declining population count for decades, and not recently either, although growth has slowed. So it’s not…

You are comparing it to other Apple laptops but you should be comparing with its competition at a $600 price point. The aluminum enclosure, touchpad, battery life, display, and per…

I mean, let’s at least discuss this in good faith. “Good” bread according to the majority and bread that is specifically up to your standards are probably two very different things…

They don’t because of at-will employment. It’s just sort of the more moral, empathetic, right thing to do instead of leaving them with no income, no insurance, etc.

Good bread is everywhere in major cities in the US. There are bakery sections at grocery stores and there are many local bakeries.

Oh true. Considering inflation, $60 in 2016 is about $80 in 2026 so really the price has gone down in real terms. (Not actually sure about the price history of the family plan or w…

My family pricing went up by 20%, from $59.88 USD to $71.88 per year. I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing, and I don't recall any down…

It's a good idea. There are many studied benefits to (intermittent) fasting, for example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11262566/

I don’t agree. She has posted publicly about her condition. He is 25 years old and trying to cope with a hard life event. Let’s not act like it doesn’t affect him. It affects every…

Sort of for sake of argument: National obesity statistics don’t necessarily imply anything about the healthiness of the food, nor specifically about the healthiness of $4 lunches t…

Supposedly there is no data shared with Google when using Gemini-powered Siri: Google’s model will reportedly run on Apple’s own servers, which in practice means that no user data …