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It's not a "deep dive" of the power adapter - it's part of a "deep dive" series of the laptop model, writing an article each about individual components.

The page has a link to activity from 2008. OpenStack started in 2010. In other words, this project had the name before OpenStack.

Which in turn reminds me of: http://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/16/efficient-pagination-us...

That's fair but in a lot of cases you verify the email for your account and there is activity associated with that account. There are many reasons other than to send unwanted marke…

Ignoring every other benefit and concern, verification in the way proposed is a bad idea because part of the verification process in most cases is verifying that the service can se…

Slightly off-topic, but according to that page, the project has "-1246658 Bytes Project Storage".

Grammar is not the most important thing, but it's hard to exemplify tone and voice without having the common language to talk about them and grammar is that language. I'm guessing …

JavaScriptCore is a constituent part of WebKit, which is pretty much available on washer-dryers these days. But the macOS/iOS/etcOS framework part of JavaScriptCore that adds Objec…

Fossil is an SCM system - https://fossil-scm.org/ . Are you suggesting that every piece of software ever kept in, say, git repositories are therefore maintained by the same team?

Where does it say that the authors/contributors of LumoSQL is the SQLite team or from the SQLite team? There are meeting notes at https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql/file?name=doc/meet…

I understand the pedagogical example as a stark contrast, but this choice is immediately turning me off the product. Startups and the companies they grow into have spent decades he…

Many designs does this implicitly. At least one, the original iPhone keyboard autocomplete/suggestion algorithm, did it explicitly. Ken Kocienda's book Creative Selection has a ver…

Sounds like you're re-making the arguments in the article without realizing it. No amount of work will make the inherently complex less complex, but doesn't have to be more complic…

Implementation may be strictly mechanical if you have everything planned out NASA-binder style, but surely there'll still be a need to adjust the plan from time to time? Then there…

That's not an exclusive or.

No points for "based on LLVM" and "opt-in as you please side by side with Objective-C"? (Side by side with Objective-C probably does not require the Obj-C runtime, but it's hard to…

I love Siracusa, but what he's been saying is "well, they're gonna need something or they'll fall behind". Which is a fine bet and was a prescient analysis even in the rounds befor…

Yes, I may have been wrong on that part. Or it was planned but not started yet. Or Chris Lattner read that post and thought "we've gotta get on that". Or whatever. Regardless of th…

This news post is from January. Nadella was appointed in February. Although he's been leading that department for years, so I guess you could say that, but it's not due to him beco…

Thanks, that's very kind. As you say, it all hinges on every single one of their big mistakes being correctable now and avoidable in the future. Microsoft doesn't have to figure ou…

Beacons are passive. They have an ID and you're supposed to know what that ID means by some other band of communication or intrinsic knowledge. I can't find a use case for telling …

I never said they'd make a watch. I said it's curious that they're so obviously aiming it at a very resources-constrained device (or optimizing out the wazoo for energy efficiency)…