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I don’t get this. You’re basically locking yourself to a single development eco system, and a highly limited deployment eco system. It’s not clear what the benefits of either are e…

There’s more studies than controlled ones. Sociological studies strongly suggest that masks do work. For example, there was a recent study that compared COVID hospitalization rates…

Wasn’t the original Skype that Microsoft paid billions for also based on BitTorrent technology? Not BitTorrent exactly, but close enough that if the blockchain spinoff was bought f…

Premium = Too large to be bullied by Apple

Vivaldi is the true successor of Opera, more so than the Opera we have today.

Right, until random builds start breaking in Visual Studio because some CSPROJ somewhere because visual studio is looking at the wrong DLL since there is no deterministic way to de…

I was without a phone for a out 3 months. After the first week of constant anxiety because it constantly felt like I had forgotten something, it was incredible, getting used to not…

The security stuff for NodeJS is really frustrating. If anything, NodeJS is more secure than something like the JVM or C++. If I include a 3rd party package in the JVM, I have abso…

Sweden’s strategy failed on its own terms. There is absolutely no arguing that. Their first goal was to protect the vulnerable, and they failed miserably at that. Fundamentally bec…

The federal government stopped giving the police military weapons. They also had consent degrees with several departments that helped improve things. These and others are all thing…

They’re arguing that the whole idea behind the web is that different people can try different things with different priorities and constraints. The priorities shouldn’t be dictated…

I think this is true of any “answering engine” in an ideal world. In an ideal world, it would act as a function and return a single output for any input, because any particular que…

Well, Linus has already said he doesn’t care about your (or anybody else’s) accessibility issues. Is the kernel getting impossible to compile on anything less than a monster $2500 …

The 0.5-1% fatality rate would be a LOT higher if all those people did fall sick at the same time. Hospital systems would collapse because of the number of sick people. Doctors and…

In about 3 months. For a disease that was growing exponentially before action was taken and even now is only just stopped growing in countries where action was taken. And no mosqui…

Umm, for one thing because going into lockdown wouldn’t do anything to prevent death by mosquito? You do know that mosquitoes have wings and can move from place to place without hu…

Is there any reason whatsoever to believe the US would help India in a conflict with China? I see absolutely no evidence of this being the case. The US has never in the history of …

Because there was no open source alternative, the web was a terrible app platform (and frankly it’s still not as good as Silverlight was a decade ago). In an alternative universe w…

A lot of people? Relevantly, a lot of developers and ops folks who need overlaps with US hours.

I’m pretty sure the author isn’t teaching anything but is instead pointing out the unfortunately common pitfalls when having someone new start with the JS ecosystem.

If Bill Gates wanted to do that, wouldn’t he have done it through, I don’t know, Windows? It was only the most widespread OS until a decade ago with a market share of over 90% worl…

And he mentions Solyndra. By that logic every Venture capitalist’s Wikipedia page should have a massive section called scandals that lists all their investments that did not pay ou…

Right, because people are gonna provide core dumps in their feedback. Again, if you don’t want telemetry, don’t use the build Microsoft uses specifically to collect telemetry. Don’…

The whole point of an insider build is to collect telemetry.

There are SO MANY Linux distributions that overlapping a name is hardly a big deal (and the registration is not that big a deal either...as the article points out itself, despite t…