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1y ago
> I just don't think anyone wants to fix it. Why can't apple let us send "spam risk" to voicemail? You can. At least with iOS 26 you can, I don't know if it's new or not. You can have known spam numbers si
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1y ago
I've been running the iOS 26 beta for a while and really the only problem people have had with it is that it's very clear the message the caller gets is pre-recorded, and without fail everyone who's interacted with it was e
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1y ago
> There's still a problem where someone asks to be called (the number needn't actually be theirs) as a way to trick the caller into losing money... But even then, I think it represents an improvement over what we've got no
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1y ago
Why are 'open web standards' specifically deserving of greater name protection than literally everything else?
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1y ago
Azure DevOps is.... okay . It's functional, and it's not really anything unique or innovative; but it never really strived to be anything like that. It started out as the online, service-based version of Team Foundation Server
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1y ago
The one tip for quick success that the Human Developers don't want you to know: You don't have to pay down your tech debt if the company folds because hackers leak your customer database and refund all your income.
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1y ago
She wasn't ousted because shareholders were impatient. She was ousted because under her leadership Yahoo had collapsed to the point that the only thing left to do was to sell it. When a new CEO is brought in to right a sinking ship (w
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1y ago
Perl as a language is pretty mature and rarely sees breaking changes (and what breaking changes exist are in corners of the language that are extremely esoteric even for Perl). You can take a Perl script written 25 years ago and it'll
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1y ago
Most ancient databases can do it too. It's been a standard feature of databases for decades. It's a little horrifying seeing the hoops people are jumping through to solve a problem that's more quickly, more easily, and more
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1y ago
It's unfortunate, but inevitable. Every structured text data format that sees widespread use, given enough time, will eventually be turned into a DSL.
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1y ago
Because Apple makes its money by selling you hardware and services, not by selling advertising. Companies ultimately serve whoever they make their money from; and none of the other big tech players have a comprehensive business model where
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1y ago
> I'd wager that paying customers really don't care whether the images look AI-generated or not. Maybe, but in a conversation about acquiring your first hundred users; you don't have a lot of word-of-mouth backing up the q
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1y ago
I've done something similar to this for my own internal applications, making use of snabbdom to handle the DOM updates. Snabbdom is tiny, robust, proven, and unopinionated; so I didn't see any particular need to reinvent that whe
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1y ago
A stated reason is bringing manufacturing back to the US, just one of many various, contradicting reasons that have been thrown out there. The administration has been throwing so many different justifications at the wall that shift over
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8y ago
That's a moot argument. You may have a right to own a ROM because you own the original hardware the ROM was extracted from. But that's an entirely different matter than whether they have the right to distribute a copy of it to
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12y ago
In order for it to be meaningful that something is "bad", it has to have had intentions of being "good". Anyone can intentionally make a bad movie that's worse than a stinker like Battlefield Earth. That's not