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by benoau 1y ago
Earlier this year I submitted a bug to VSCode about sorting Playwright tests in the alphabetical-and-numerical order that VSCode favours, after Playwright told me it was a VSCode issue. Some people rushed to fix this as I'd done some d
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by benoau 1y ago
There's certainly some debate to be had about ingesting a book about vampires and then writing a book about vampires. But I think programming is much more "how to use the building blocks" and mathematics than ingesting narrat
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by benoau 1y ago
Some licenses do. In my experience AI coding is not going to spew out a derivative of another project unless your objective is actually to build a derivative of that software. If your code doesn't do the same or look the same it doesn
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by benoau 1y ago
> — The ends don’t justify the means. IP theft that lies in the beginning of this new wave of applied ML is essentially piracy Isn't "AI coding" trained almost entirely on open source code and published documentation?
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by benoau 1y ago
I think it's because "JavaScript devs" encompasses everything from people building backends that have the infrastructure to manage this stuff, to static websites, desktop and mobile apps and games that don't necessarily
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by benoau 1y ago
The real impact is app users aren't going to be herded towards paying a 30% fee on top of all digital content and services, forever, because the developers are banned from displaying, linking, or mentioning competing payment options. A
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by benoau 1y ago
Hopefully the "Stop Killing Games" movement will create some formal obligations around those activation schemes too since it's pretty much the same problem from a different angle.
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by benoau 1y ago
It's funny to see this holdout from the Urchin days still in use, 20 years after Google acquired them to form Google Analytics!
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by benoau 1y ago
> In a filing to the justices, the company asked them to move swiftly, arguing that the trial court order would harm its business model by making it “substantially easier for developers to avoid compensating Google” for services provided
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by benoau 1y ago
Came across this the other day - set of yt-dlp helper scripts loaded up with flags: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate...
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by benoau 1y ago
I think this is more a testament to how soundly mobile platforms have been gimped for software development in general, there is essentially zero mindshare for development upon these platforms even though the devices have become as powerful
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by benoau 1y ago
Waiting another year. The Pro is interesting because of how much more usable it is for software with the better thermals and more RAM, but even with the DMA the software just hasn't proven exciting yet.
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by benoau 1y ago
The fact that Google has incurred over $3 billion in fines in recent years specifically for infringing people's privacy should be a consideration!
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by benoau 1y ago
I like to pin specific versions in my package.json so dependencies don't change without manual steps, and use "npm ci" to install specifically the versions in package-lock.json. My CI runs "npm audit" which will r
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by benoau 1y ago
What I really hate about testing mocks is you're just testing mocks, eventually your entire suite is just testing one big abstraction effectively designed to pass. I've always preferred unit tests for core logic and "full sys
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by benoau 1y ago
Genuinely surprised this doesn't happen more often and not just from developers.
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by benoau 1y ago
And to that note, Apple testified a 75% profit margin on these fees due to what the judge in the Epic case called out as limited investment in the review process or tools to improve it. Or as Phil Schiller called out years before that, &qu
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by benoau 1y ago
The performance seems to rival Apple's Pro / Max chips but the battery life can only do that for light workloads or videos.
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by benoau 1y ago
It's messed up TBH, the only laptops competitive on battery are Qualcomm which comes with a different set of sacrifices instead!
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by benoau 1y ago
> Do you consider designers part of “we” or is it only the computer people that count? Well you're not going to build a web application if you're a designer, at best you can contribute to one. Of course that's changing in
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by benoau 1y ago
This is a financial dead-end for almost everyone who tries it. You're not just looking for "market fit" you're also asking for "market tolerance", it's a very rare combination.
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by benoau 1y ago
The difference is you have autonomy now - the same autonomy as a person building a web application or app able to put together a serviceable UI/UX without any other person - without the sacrifice of "programmer art" or cobbli
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by benoau 1y ago
Imagine if you had to hire a designer if you wanted to build a web application or mobile app, at a cost of perhaps thousands or even tens of thousands. Would we be better off? I doubt it.
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by benoau 1y ago
Yep this is a huge enabler - previously having someone "do art" could easily cost you thousands for a small game, a month even, and this heavily constrained what you could make and locked you into what you had planned and how much
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by benoau 1y ago
I use both. For me AI is like a broad brush, good for generating a lot of code or making sweeping modifications until it fits my standard and requirements. Then the iterating starts, making targeted improvements, and I think at this point
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by benoau 1y ago
> Google said the app will not be supported after December 16, 2025 That's an abrupt shutdown.
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by benoau 1y ago
You can buy Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne albums on iTunes containing very illicit lyrics and adult themes.
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by benoau 1y ago
Google is a designated gatekeeper carrying all the same DMA obligations for: Google Search, YouTube, Chrome, Shopping, Maps, Ads, the Play Store, and Android. https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en
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by benoau 1y ago
According to the DOJ's antitrust complaint, the improvements are negligible because of lack of competition in premium smartphones insulating Apple and allowing them to deliberately target "good enough" and eschew new and espe
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by benoau 1y ago
There's probably already hundreds of thousands of Jira tickets to fix it with no sprint assigned....

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