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Ban distillation of our outputs, but our distillation of the sum-total of civilisation's intellectual output – proprietary or otherwise – is fair use? Either everyone licenses, or …

The price increases for dedicated servers are reflected in the higher setup costs. For example, I believe AX102 setup was EUR 39.00 now EUR 269.00.

Price would be a bit more bearable if their reserved instance discounts were more generous

Agreed. If the CFC (controlled foreign corporation) rules still apply for founders in EU-member states, it will fail. I’m hoping they can be creative and find a way to distribute r…

> Of all the challenges you face as a startup, the legal entity you choose is possibly the least consequential. The amount of founders who choose to domicile their company in Eston…

Totally agree. If I don’t understand the code as if I’d written it myself, then I haven’t reviewed it properly. And during that review I’m often trimming and moving things around t…

Fairly subjective, but personally I find all apps being within the browser quite constrictive. I'd much rather have my apps unencumbered by browser chrome and unintended keystrokes…

No. In Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic style – pretty much a bible amongst typographers – he states: We should “[u]se spaced en dashes – rather than close-set em da…

With a warrant from a judge people should be compelled to provide access to their encrypted files or be in contempt of court with all that entails. Anything else is overreach.

Scaleway has a broad range of services, but their price competitiveness/reserved instance discount is a bit lacking.

Hetzner's great, and I'm a customer, but we're missing lots of stuff there – and some of the stuff that is there isn't reliable. For example: * Object storage: lots of horror stori…

Maybe not possible with today's SOTA AI but I have no doubt it's within reach.

Just because we're unable to compensate many millions, perhaps billions of people, for using their work without a) permission, or b) remuneration, doesn't justify giving a blanket …

Exactly. This is the argument that I find lacking from today's discourse: AI companies are already extracting generations worth of human intellectual data into their models. If the…

I think the audience who can appreciate handcrafted code will be vastly smaller than the audience who appreciates hand carved wood.

You're right. When I first watched it, I was under no doubt they lived and breathed that philosophy. It matched my perception of their output 100%. Watching it again now, I'm remin…

It's crazy that marketing hasn't worked out that quality and reliability can be spun as a feature. In fact, I remember with OS X, that was the baseline word-of-mouth feature when t…

Hetzner is great value, but their networking has a few issues: 1) Networking is mostly limited to 1Gbps. Even private networking. You can request a 10Gbps NIC, but it has to be hou…

It will be fascinating to see if the protectionist foreign policy that's been adopted by the US will lead to an improvement in the quality of services available elsewhere. Previous…

Thanks, I’ve seen bits from their engineering blog that have been really insightful, so that’s what got me to wondering if there’s more literature buried away on YouTube or elsewhe…

Does anyone have any resources that go deep into the stack/architecture used by the Figma desktop/web app? I'm not so interested in the server based syncing/CRDTs side of things (g…

Try Decibel Meter Ultra ( https://www.decibelmeterultra.com/ ) if you have an iOS device. It will give you a graph over time and you can leave it running over night. Free version i…

> and happens a lot more frequently on Airbus models to the point that Airbus modified the door latch. So you’re saying Airbus resolved this issue? Why hasn’t Boeing?

Actually, it's used pretty heavily by SwiftUI. The DSL for SwiftUI relies pretty heavily on n-element tuples that were previously limited to something like 10 children. So you'd ha…

Beyond reading old code samples, knowing obj-c provides diminishing returns these days. All relevant obj-c libraries provide an auto-generated native swift interface, and you can e…