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I found two separate bugs in GCP products. One with gVisor where it would sometimes null-truncate large network packets (this was very hard to diagnose – why is my JSON full of nul…

At $DAYJOBSTARTUP, we do hackathons twice a year. At the most recent one, an engineer sat down with a designer and set him up with Cursor. The designer looked like a kind in a cand…

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Many of these package managers get invoked countless times per day (e.g., in CI to prepare an environment and run tests, while spinning up new dev/AI agent environments, etc).

Starbucks is airport drink/food for me. Being able to order as I enter the TSA line and pick it up on the way to the gate is unmatched convenience, and the coffee options at airpor…

Of course! It helped your friend realize what kind of person you are and hopefully spurred them to find better friends who possess actual human empathy.

Making an HTTP request and dealing with JSON data is a weed-out question at best. Not sure if you are interpreting the grandparent comment as actually having them write a JSON pars…

I don’t want to disparage your work, OP, but micro-optimizing text files is often not very effective, especially after gzip. I’m curious to see if there’s any noticeable difference…

Thanks! I hate it!

I highly highly highly recommend the book “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.” It explores the origin, the various social implications across various cultures…

Based on the article, it sounds like this doesn't activate a device's microphone at all. If it did, most (all?) browsers would give a pop-up requesting permission for that.

Pardon the pedantry, but this reflects the casual/conversational uses of “hash function” not the more general definition. To be a hash function, it just has to map a set to another…

It's worth noting that it's much less of a problem in Python due to the lack of ergonomic closures/lambdas. You have to construct rather esoteric looking code for it to be a proble…

Curious to know -- how do these kinds of things affect accessibility for visually impaired people? If you're using a screenreader, do these kinds of things work?

Yep, I think those things are all related.

Go generally is pretty conservative about that kind of thing (namely, compiler optimizations). Go generally abides by a “what you write is what you get” kind of thing, especially w…

I suspect this is a bad-faith argument, but just to be clear, NPR get's a tiny fraction of its funding from the government *and* maintains editorial independence. > The news organi…

We’re not talking about why Seattle is far from Miami. American city sprawl is largely a recent phenomenon (post WWII) and was enabled by the rise of the personal automobile. Even …

Parent comment is concerned with privacy, not authenticity. They're not worried that someone modified their code, they're worried that someone saw it.

The author just spends the final paragraphs… guessing? > TypeScript… JavaScript… Going to guess it's similar. > I haven't touched Java for almost a decade > I don't really know eno…

Oil is a decently interesting “competitor” in this space. They’ve also acknowledged the dual nature of shell as REPL and programming language. https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01…

Since the author is responding to comments here: are there any changes coming soon that necessitated this?

Lot of people confused here -- the "running JavaScript when the browser is idle" part is a bit misleading. It doesn't run stuff when you're the tab is backgrounded (browsers alread…