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by bloppe 11mo ago
I remember a Google cloud outage years ago that happened to coincide with one of our customers' massively expensive TV ads. All the people who normally would've gone straight to their website instead got 502. Probably a 1M+ loss f
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Unnecessarily is the key word here. Sometimes, although admittedly rarely, the benefits do outweigh the costs, and it is necessary. The problem is that if you grow your monolith to the point that it becomes necessary to split it up, now y
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Someone is bound to quote Dijkstra here: > To put it quite bluntly: as long as there were no machines, programming was no problem at all; when we had a few weak computers, programming became a mild problem, and now we have gigantic compu
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Does your employer provide you with a laptop? In that case you should assume they have access to the hard drive at least.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I remember taking an excellent multicore class in college. We studied all sorts of non-blocking data structures and fancy locks with different properties, transactions, etc. Then toward the end, the professor mentioned in a rather offhand w
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by bloppe 11mo ago
While I hate anthropomorphizing agents, there is an important practical difference between a human with no memory, and an agent with no memory but the ability to ingest hundreds of pages of documentation nearly instantly.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I mean ya, if they couldn't do that, then you couldn't even call it Bluetooth. I was asking about multi-device connectivity, which is a slightly more advanced feature that lots of other earbuds can do in a cross-platform way.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
You'd call it a noun phrase, not a compound word. Definitely splitting hairs at this point, but hey that's what gets me off.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Can you see the battery level?
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Really? Even multi-device connectivity?
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I'm not opposed
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by bloppe 11mo ago
You're commenting on a post where a random guy provides this "nightmare of supplying and supporting an app" in his spare time, except he actually has to work around Apple's malicious obfuscation and standards non-complia
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Fair enough, but still worth being accurate.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I'm not saying they should get a pass for being incompetent. I'm just saying we shouldn't lose our heads theorizing malice.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
AOSP is the foundation of GrapheneOS, LineageOS and dozens of other patently non-Google systems. Chromium is the foundation for Edge, Brave, Opera, and every single AI browser being churned out by the dozen. Many of the Chromium forks are s
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by bloppe 11mo ago
True, but you can compare them to, say, Google, which maintains thriving OSS projects like Chromium and AOSP and generally does a way better job at publishing code and research.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
"[Swift] was initially a proprietary language, but version 2.2 was made open-source software under the Apache License 2.0 on December 3, 2015" Darwin is also a bad example: "On July 25, 2006, the OpenDarwin team announced tha
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by bloppe 11mo ago
You mean the language that approximately nobody uses outside XCode, which requires you to register an Apple developer account to function? The same language that only switched to an OSS license after they realized nobody wanted to contribut
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I think Hanlon's razor probably applies here. There's no way the average Wisconsin legislator understands this bill.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Actually you're right. If you view source, you can see `const response = await fetch(`/api/clocks?time=${encodeURIComponent(localTime)}`);`. I'm not sure how that API works, but it's definitely reading the current t
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I think your point basically asks the question "what counts as a word" because clearly German has infinitely more "words" than would ever appear individually in a dictionary. I'm saying that English does, too.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
CSS animation. It's not the real time. Just a hypothetical time.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Some giant portion of English vocabulary actually are compound words. English loves using compound words but only if the roots are sourced from Latin or Greek : words like electrocardiogram ("electronic heart picture", sourced
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Just because we don't want Mozilla to waste precious resources developing clearly unwanted features does not mean we don't want them to experiment. This isn't experimentation. It's being a sheep.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
> Perhaps if they implement this functionality conveniently, more average users will use Firefox. Why would an average user switch to Firefox because it's the 20th browser to release a half-baked AI integration?
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I love Zed as an idea. They built some impressive tech. They're clearly a smart and capable bunch. I tried zed out for a bit, then I switched back to vscode. I'm just too hooked on that OpenVSX ecosystem.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Of course you don't have to agree on everything, but the whole point of joining a party is to coordinate action to maximize power. Whether you agree with the party policies doesn't matter if you vote for them anyway to gain politi
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Assuming there was enough trust to "guarantee" that one bill would pass right after the other, then what's the point of having the single subject rule in the first place? Sounds like you still have riders but with extra steps
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Alaska is effectively a one-party state. At the federal level, you almost always need compromise to clear a filibuster, and it's easier to find compromise if you can draw on more subjects. Maybe the Democrats get cheaper health care wh
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by bloppe 11mo ago
In my experience, there is no such nullification.

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