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That's awful, I'm glad I've never actually used either platform. These companies obviously seem to be employing psychologists et. al. to figure out how to make the platforms more a…

I suspect the energy efficiency correlates with how old it is -- modern silicon in laptops is amazing. I doubt a new PC would take up 45W like this i7 7700k-powered one I've had fo…

I'm curious: what other ideas did the author have, and why were they rejected? I can't find anything on their website.

An interesting experiment. I suppose that if you make things like CAPTCHAs too hard to do, we'd end up struggling as well. I can't imagine Ghost Font would be a good fit.

Is that implementation open-source? I'm sure it's bundled as part of Google Play, not AOSP.

Perhaps the AI boom will encourage / subsidize(?) native development in a way? If it can be made more approachable, then maybe it would become more prevalent...

Isn't Edge slightly more efficient than Chrome on Windows? Maybe it's changed, but that's always been what everyone has said.

I really only enjoyed Windows Media Player for its visualizations. I found that VLC could get close, but not quite an exact match (most likely due to licensing); there's something …

I imagine that the database for the online file association service for Windows XP has been lost to time, but for those who remember it: was it any good? It seems like quite a good…

What was your experience with them?

The "Technology Secretary" is actively investigating it[0]. [0]: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-vpn-...

Many thanks for your link to the article, it was a very interesting read; fascinating to learn how glycerol interacts with lithium salts...

A browser engine maintained by AI with less human oversight sounds like a recipe for disaster.

v8 does have a sandbox feature for running untrusted scripts, and it's quite good. There's also Node's VM module.

I recall them actually marking Microsoft emails as spam. Not sure if that's even changed.

I assume Google are very hesitant to add additional permissions, and any additions get very carefully thought about. Having too many prompts can lead to popup blindness, which defe…

> As an aside, I've noticed a huge drop off in license literacy amongst developers What do you mean by this? I always assumed this was the case anyway; MIT is, if I'm not mistaken,…

It was never going to be perfect. I suspect the goal with things like these is to add additional friction to the process, to make it much harder for the general population to bypas…

Ehh, who cares what the snobs think? Drink what you like! I've been experimenting with coffee for like 2 years, and have found myself really enjoying dark roasted stuff (as well as…

There are definitely speciality shops that sell dark roasts like you might want. One in the UK, Rave, sells the most amazing Italian-style blend with robusta mixed in. It's not fru…

You can actually see what users have told Claude to add to the site, too[0]. The person continuously trying to add hash computation features for the course of 20 minutes provides a…

Some friction is probably wise. I remember them introducing the requirement to individually allow each app you're installing things from. The question is, how much more friction wi…

You don't really need more packages. There's definitely a culture of creating ridiculously small packages, though. If you spend enough time in the ecosystem, you'll begin to realis…