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As someone who was there: nope. This isn't sanewashing. Apple was directly (and IMO arguably illegally) shutting down Facebook teams and products by playing app store chicken on re…

> Docker’s journey reads like a startup trying to find product-market fit, except Docker already had product-market fit - they created the containerization standard that everyone u…

Speaking as someone who once worked at a company where these were real issues that came up - it's very often the case that intermediate parties in the contracts have dissolved. Ren…

To be honest, the Microsoft store was the biggest single impediment to success the project ever had. All of the ridiculous UWP requirements or exceptions and friction to install do…

If you use a Quest Pro and use Steam Link with a WiFi 6E access point, that should accurately represent the experience of using it. It's close to imperceptible in normal usage.

To be fair, assigning the highly competent BDFL of Linux who has listened to a bunch of highly competent maintainers some credibility isn't mindless. Unless you have a specific fal…

it's a lot easier to buy additional gadgets when you can assume or when they explicitly declare that they're usable with the pi 5, and the time saved from "oh just install these co…

nope, python can be interpreted!

DirectX carried the games industry forward because there weren't alternatives. OpenGL was lagging, and Vulkan didn't exist yet. I hope everyone moves to Vulkan, but DX was ultimate…

JIT is still banned by policy on a LOT of mobile devices, meaning that previous usage of yt-dlp on mobile is now effectively unsupportable.

There is a lot to unpack in this. Your #1 is encoding an unexamined assumption that there is a fixed or at least somewhat inflexible amount of violence to be directed anywhere. It …

On the contrary, I am a lot more willing to think through the contours of the problems I need to solve because I haven't drained my mental energy writing five repetitive - but slig…

The association isn't without merit. Google acquired Metaweb Technologies in 2010, acquiring Freebase with it. Freebase was a semantic web knowledge base and this became deeply int…

All iPhones worldwide since iPhone 8, Japanese iPhones starting from iPhone 7. Source: I had an iPhone 7, and was friends with one of the engineers who added FeliCa support to the …

> A significant majority of Americans are medically satisfied with their health insurance provider. Before some life changes that mooted the point, I lived in fear of needing serio…

Meridiem seems to only have ARM builds, no Intel builds. Could you perhaps update it to include Intel?

That's not an uncomfortable question at all. SWE (and all employees) should be paid to the point that the owners of their company, while well-rewarded, are not sucking up a large p…

What's needed to form a contract is an offer, acceptance, and consideration - if an offer was made and accepted and something of value was exchanged, and there wasn't confusion abo…

something of value* granting API access in excess of the free tier would most likely constitute something of value, but yeah - probably wouldn't bother, it would be expensive to pu…

Dismissiveness like this tends to radiate ignorance, not insight. Quests have shipped roughly ~1/2 PS5 sales. Certainly a scale only a handful of technologically advanced product l…

+1. Going from FB to $REDACTED to Oculus was a pretty wild ride, there were a lot of different cultures, though I think generally speaking the best qualities filtered through. (als…

> modern Linux with systemd, Wayland, dbus, and other technologies have deviated greatly from POSIX and other classical Unix technologies Systemd is inspired by/imitating launchd; …

Objective-C++ does exist, so their paths didn't diverge so much that they didn't remain in each others' ecosystems on a permanent basis (on Apple, which is the only place both regu…

Boneworks-inspired name?

Hard not to get all conspiracy theorist about canary removals. If I were to don my tinfoil hat, it seems possible to remove the canary with a boring incident for plausible deniabil…