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Not trying to sound alarmist at all but I am wondering if ultrasounds are safe to be used like this? My understanding is it's basically a high-frequency sound wave which is probabl…

it specifically addresses this in the "The escape hatch" section...

What an ordeal, this stuff really scares me, like the post about the Gitlab founder having to diagnose and treat himself. Great to hear you are recovering. If you find yourself in …

This looks pretty neat and the anti-AI hate in here is getting pretty tiresome. From what I can tell looking at the codebase compared to Django's, the top-level modules are structu…

Right, and I agree with all of that, but that's not related to my point. You are saying "if you leave the AI attribution in the PR/commit description, it HAS to be a slop PR that w…

These are odd takes to me. > was submitted by someone so lazy they couldn’t even edit the commit message. You can see the vibe coded PRs right away. As others mentioned, this is ve…

>I heard about how beautiful it is This used to be the case around Swift 4, but since then they've added so many features and keywords to the language. Now the simplicity and elega…

Flutter still doesn't support liquid glass on iOS so it doesn't seem like a serious contender to me at this point. And due to the nature of how Flutter is implemented, it's going t…

There are a couple issues with that definition: - quality is not always correlated with "cheaply made en-masse" - actual slop, assuming you are talking about the food, is more abou…

Is it slop if enough people enjoyed it to be on the top charts?

telkins.com I have an endless list of blog posts to write and so little time :(

I'm dealing with a severe health ailment with my cat right now and ChatGPT has been pretty invaluable in helping us understand what's going on. We've been keeping our own detailed …

Yep, localization is a huge size bloat for enterprisey apps that support many locales. There is no Apple provided way to dynamically download select localization packs based on the…

Not sure if this is quite what you are getting at, but the SQLite folks even mention this as a great use-case: https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

I agree, latency is very important and 300 pops is great, but seems more for marketing and would see diminishing returns for the majority of applications.

Good luck getting 100+ devs to all use the same logical commit style. And if tests fail in CI you get the inevitable "fix tests" commit in the branch, which now spams your main bra…

Thanks for sharing, that is a neat in-between.

The treemap screenshot doesn't look correct. Nearly all charting libs (like Apache Echarts) will group nodes with a heading name, so not sure why they claim it would be hard to not…

Yea looks like Chrome ships a universal binary with both x86_64 and arm64.

This was the same epiphany I had in college when I learned how to actually study. Previously I would try to go fast and cram as much as possible into my head and hope my decent mem…

Yea that was my thought too. I like the idea in principle, but these magic thresholds can really bite you. It claims to be P(99), probably off some historical measurement, but that…

> What I’m unsure about is whether diff-only context is actually sufficient for meaningful reviews, or if this becomes misleading without deeper repo and architectural awareness. T…

Sorry I wrote that hastily and my wording seems to have caused much confusion. Here's a rewrite: > The job is to help the business solve a problem, not just to ship code. In cases …

No, what I meant is sometimes the solution is not delivering any code at all. Many times in my career, after understanding the problem at hand and who initiated it, I realized the …