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aaah, the 90s price crash. Good times.

proton.me? That is in Switzerland, not the EU.

Seriously? We're going to complain about a couple megs in a text editor in the year 2025?

> we're undertaking this more as a port that maintains the existing behavior and critical optimizations we've built into the language. Idiomatic Go strongly resembles the existing …

I'm in the Netherlands and the used market for Tesla has already dropped like a rock. It is flooded with cars from leasing companies who after 5 years now want to sell them on for …

From https://www.sgoc.de/pentium.html Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people. Q: Wh…

I contribute to NodeGui, Qt on Nodejs. It doesn't try to emulate the C++ API by allowing subclassing. Instead it exposes most methods on QWidget classes/subclasses which process QE…

Is it possible to extend/subclass an existing QWidget and customise it?

garbage in, garbage out

There is no company size threshold here. This is GDPR related. You and Gruber are both mixing up GDPR with the EU's Digital Markets Act. Digital Markets is the one which has a "gat…

That's right. It can't be pushed down from above. The team has to want to do this and take the power. A manager can start work on this kind of culture shift without even saying the…

The rarely discussed cornerstone of Agile is trusting the team and letting them organise themselves. For most organisation this represents a huge internal change in power structure…

Yes, it kind of is. But the whole article talks about the extremes but spends zero time describing what the desirable middle ground looks like.

23% did, just to be clear.

I prefer desktops because is something breaks I have a chance of working around it immediately (e.g. screen), and if not then I can have a replacement part sent to me in about 24 h…

I've found LLMs great for vague questions about functions and APIs whose details I've long forgotten. Recognising the right answer when it appears is often faster than digging thro…

A similar tool is `task` https://taskfile.dev/ . It is quite capable and also a single executable. I've grown to quite like it.

TermKit was one of the inspirations for Extraterm ( https://extraterm.org/ ). It separates command output, allows for reuse of previous output, as well mixing content types. The te…

Design patterns, for example, really should only be studied once you have quite a bit of experience with complex code bases under your belt. You need to have done battle with some …

Synthetic images like generated graphs with fine lines and text (i.e. not photographs), need pixel perfect rendering otherwise they look terrible. This is likely to be a far more c…

https://gdpr.eu/fines/ For Facebook is would be either 2% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, or 4% of said revenue. A bit bigger than a round…

Where in the world is this?

It's really not that hard. Under GDPR you have a right to privacy, and companies can't demand you give it up as part of some kind of condition to gain access to their service.

Cosmopolitan is cool and I have some uses in mind for it that I wish to get to. But what I don't understand is the use case for an exe which supports both running as an user app on…

Of course MS asked for it. They created and sustain this situation where software needs to signed for it to easily run on the Windows platform. Who do you think put the signature c…