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That's actually really neat, even without advertising I can serve humans my full page and AI bots a version with some parts removed. Or added.

Just because we can, doesn't mean we have to. I'd prefer to have some more brain-cache free to concentrate on the problem I'm trying to debug rather than doing type resolution in m…

Indeed, we're now one step away from monads. I know https://go.dev/doc/effective_go hasn't been updated for while, but it also seems to have been forgotten. "Go is an open-source p…

This sounds a bit too metaphysical to me. I can see why bot chess is not the same thing as human chess and we carry on with human tournaments, but why does anyone care if the compi…

2028: AI can generate a compiler suite to rival GCC overnight, but faster and with fewer bugs. That'll be fun. (Extra fun if the AI generated compiler is under BSD licence.)

For more on this topic, the book Fields of Blood ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_Blood ) has a couple of chapters on this. It's a fascinating history.

I mean that's a feature of running your community as a bazaar. The one thing Linus himself sensibly enforces though is kernel backwards compatibility - "we do not break userspace".…

> macOS desktop software Which runs on a FOSS kernel, just that it's BSD instead of Linux. > Games, no studio cares about Linux native games Steam deck?

Microsoft managed to build office online, which saves to DOCX etc. - the online version may have reduced functionality, but you can edit the same document with the full office at w…

Which the only sensible decision to make a transition away from MS Office!

Proof: not built with react :) Long may it stay that way.

I have a feeling it splits by gender. I know a couple of professional programmers in that corner of the alignment chart, but they're not "bros".

The whole age verification thing is being pushed by one "techbro", because he wants others to deal with cleaning up his mess.

I had the same experience as the next 100 or so commenters here. Asked about how to do something in Win11, got the question closed as a duplicate because there was already a Win 8 …

They even have their own design system and CSS framework: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/get-started/

I can't speak for speed, but foreign keys and data type checking are on by default.

I think the OP wants duckdb. The first two points are deliberate SQLite design decisions so they're unlikely to change.

My money is still on ARM. They, and their clients who produce the actual processors, have options to fight back if RISC-V ever becomes a serious competitor for, say, smartphones.

In what way do nurses and carpenters not contribute to a functioning democracy?

I would not underestimate the power of a fully mobilized USA. If we really need to, we can do a lot of things that would die to bureaucracy in peacetime - see WWII.

I don't think it's the javascript alone - what if sites don't want a third-party AI sitting between them and their customers?

Quote of the day from a post linked to by this one: "When we opened up the server, we found no NVMe SSDs, no RAM, and especially no processors, which did rather explain the failure…

What is the US legislation on this - I thought providers were already mandated to take action against distribution of CSAM, or is that only for public-facing posts?

This is about 1.0, which sounds ok - it basically allows providers a legitimate exception from data privacy laws to scan for CSAM in not E2EE communications. I reckon gmail, iCloud…