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I am always baffled how many people does not know about Amphetamine.

> If you don’t trust the Bun team when they release a Rust version and give it their stamp of approval, why did you trust them when they released the Zig version two weeks ago? I t…

Home distillation is very popular in Poland too. Risk of getting poisoned from it is near zero in practice. In some parts of Poland there is more home-distilled alcohol bottles at …

> I don't think an apple watch would help there? You can authorize via Apple Watch everything you can authorize via Touch ID. You get the notification on the Watch, and you need to…

> For which country? At least one of the authors is Russian. They were giving away Helium stickers to “anyone who is in Moscow”, and not many non-Russians are traveling there nowad…

Box is relevant in enterprise space. It's a very different business than Dropbox.

> because you can go further with fewer people Can you though? From my experience this is just a wishful thinking. I am yet to see actual productivity gains from AI that would obje…

I don’t think anyone is surprised.

Arbitrarily choose an option, but expose the fact that you've auto-resolved a conflict and allow the user to manually re-resolve. This requires even more UI work than option 1. Thi…

Software in Japanese cars is terrible from European point of view, yet people are buying them because of the hardware (reliable engines).

This is great, thank you!

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Few ambushes and you have the heavy equipment. That's how many Ukrainian volunteer groups armed themselves - on russian forces.

Most of these points would apply if you use phone in your car for navigation, and most of them are not a real issue (expect being a distraction maybe). Screen is good enough to be …

> I've been using Copilot for about a year and I can't imagine coding without it again I for example used Copilot for 2 months at work and wouldn't pay for it. Most suggestions whe…

If you worry about "staying ahead of generative AI" in it's current state, then I think you are not a good coder and you should learn more instead of worrying about that. LLMs are …

> The phone distracts from the goa So does life. I think we should lock the children in school from the beginning of the education period, without the access to the external, disct…

> these are children in schoo Policies apply to secondary education, i.e. high school. You are an adult in higher grades of high school.

I am pretty sure that for most developers open source = source code available, and nothing else. Anegdotally I have been a professional dev for 10 years and this is the first time …

> In that case, new developers just don't need to learn the old feature at all That's not true if you want to be a professional C++ dev - you will encounter projects stuck in older…

I think Google is scrapping websites, not using the APIs?

> when they started enforcing that policy. I don't have a real name on Facebook not have any of my friends. There are also a lot of fake/troll accounts on Facebook. I don't think t…

I’ve tried Dvorak and Colemak but went back to QWERTY. Whole software world is developed with QWERTY in mind, and it was too much PITA. Split keyboard (especially with ortholinear,…

Carrying about climate was the zero interest rate phenomenon.

It's a much less chance and not comparable at all. Treating job as a family member is also not healthy.