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The planets are just grains of sand in a vast empty space.

yes-as-a-service might be a compliance liability due to popularity with authoritarian leaders.

A few points I find interesting: - in 2022 a decision was made to abolish leap seconds by 2035, by allowing UTC to drift from the time as defined by Earth's rotation (UT1) - negati…

I've tried to use macOS with case sensitive filesystem for some time (before APFS). Works mostly fine but there're applications that break (Steam and Intellij IDEA are the two I re…

There's a plugin for U2F support[1]. I use a Yubikey at work daily without issues. 1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/u2f-support-a...

I'm supper happy about Wire taking this step. Has someone done a security analysis/review of Wire yet? It would be interesting to read.

I'd be a fashion designer. Oftentimes I feel like software engineering doesn't give me an opportunity to fully realize my creative self. Mostly because of people, not because of te…

It seems to me like most of the problems of modern tech are related to quality yet everyone is rushing for new features and quantitative "improvements".

I cannot read a blog post without seeing who of my fiends is online. Now, this is progress!

Let's take a look at GNU tar [1] and GNU social [2] webpages as examples. The first thing they tell a user is what the project is. I would say, both of them are order of magnitude …

Not everyone reads news all the time.

Because DuckDuckGo's index of the yarn's website could be screwed or out of date. Also, because people communicate using language, not axioms.

I went to DuckDuckGo to check out what yarn is. The front page makes no mention of JavaScript at all (at least on mobile). Accordingly to DuckDuckGo the whole site mentions "JavaSc…

I've been writing Java in Vim from time to time for 3 years. Rust is much more pleasant to deal with in a plain text editor. I encourage you to give it a try.

What are good modern books on C nowadays?

Thank you for detailed explanations. Some of this issues could be resolved while staying within plain text, well to some extent at least. There're various attempts to encode metada…

I like the colours and am curious if it's a known colorscheme available for other environments (Vim, Emacs, terminals) or is it designed from scratch. Thanks for pointing to the co…

Why should we break compatibility with plain text based tools to achieve what Lamdu is set to achieve? AST could be an intermediate representation but source should be text. Parsin…

Anyone know what colour theme is used for sample screenshots?

The quote is missing important context. Just want to clarify that author is speaking about microservices specifically. The whole point of microservices is that one could be rewritt…

Why do you decided to use XML as the basic format?