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Yes, it really does. It means that you can use component style development while having a regular server-rendered app. If/when you want some interactivity, you can add it simply without much effort. With .NET 8's Blazor, you can j
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I think that it takes many years to change a reputation - more than 4. A lot of devs don't like learning new things and they would have gotten deep into a different ecosystem before .NET was really open source. You note that they open
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I haven't completely followed the AOT stuff, but I remember hearing some stuff about some reflection-heavy code doesn't play well with AOT. But .NET has a great option in this case: ReadyToRun. Basically, it AOT compiles a ton of
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I think an issue here is that .NET was closed source for most of its existence. It was only 2019 when Microsoft announced that the open-source .NET would be the future of .NET. That will mean that a lot of startups wouldn't have chosen
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I don't agree with the person's suspicions, but I can speak to your question. If you're making over $1M/year or have more than 250 employees, you have to pay for Visual Studio or the C# DevKit in VS Code. Microsoft has b
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Because if Google doesn't, then it could see its search monopoly evaporate. The vast majority of rich people in the world use iPhones. In the US/Canada/UK/Australia/Japan and many more rich countries, the iPhone is
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Let's say Amazon creates their own OS. Google then makes manufacturers sign a contract that says if they manufacture devices that run Android (with access to Google Play services), they can't manufacture devices that use forks of
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Yes and no. People have figured out how to unlock the boot loader of some Fire TV devices, but it can sometimes involve opening up the device and making physical modifications (like shorting something on the motherboard) or having an older
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At this point, Intel's roadmap seems unreasonably optimistic. They haven't launched processors with Intel 4 yet. They're set to be released December 14th, but we aren't seeing Intel launch a full line of processors with
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One of the interesting things I've noticed is that the transistor count for the M3 Pro hasn't gone up much. For example, the regular went from M1 16B, M2 20B, M3 25B; The Max went from M1 57B, M2 67B, M3 92B. On the other hand, th
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Netflix used to have a rich selection of content because content creators licensed it to Netflix without realizing how streaming was going to eat into physical media sales. $15 Netflix wasn't going to replace a $75 cable TV package, $3
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It's not that baffling. For a time, they were trying to grow their subscriber base and luring them in with low prices. Now that they have their subscriber base, they want to get back to the revenue they were getting before. Realistical
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As someone who worked at a company that hosted content, I can believe it. Malware folks always want to get their content onto legitimate domains where 99.999% of the content is legitimate. The amount of time spent trying to keep your domain
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I certainly thought this back in 2012 when Apple started designing their own mobile CPU cores. How could Apple compete with ARM's designs which would have much greater economies of scale or with Qualcomm who would be shipping way more
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Ultimately, you probably won't have an option - just as one can't disable JavaScript today and still view most of the web. If the vast majority of people leave WASM enabled, companies will build things using it. It seems likely th
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I'd also note that the people around often profit from these things as well. It's not like the CEO is doing something only for the CEO's benefit. The other people involved lived lavish lifestyles with high salaries and were l
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An interesting thing about the M2 Pro and M3 Pro is that they shifted away from being mostly performance cores. The M1 Pro was either 6+2 P+E or 8+2 P+E. The M2 Pro was either 6+4 or 8+4. The new M3 Pro is either 5+6 or 6+6. Apple has been
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Mediocre might not have been the right word. I think we really don't have a word for "it's nothing great, but because the cost is almost nothing it kinda is great." Like I said, it is great because it lets everyone touch
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I think you've kinda hit why systems like the Django Admin aren't more common. At some point you simply need to build custom code. I've seen engineers spend so much time futzing with the Django Admin trying to contort it to t
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It's probably a combination of things. The Django Admin existed before Django publicly existed. That meant that once anyone started using Django they knew that they should constrain their use of Django in certain ways so that the Djang
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If you get popular enough, yes. For example, Apple has a lot of iPhone and Mac users and Google pays to be the default search via Apple's devices. If you build out public computer kiosks and people start using them a lot, Google would
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I actually love the way the Django Admin UI looks, but it does go against the grain of the current trends in UI design by being a bit explicit. For example, the "add post" button looks like a button rather than just being words an
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For me, the advantage of Nix is that I can install stuff without worrying about what it will mean for anything else on my computer. I can type `nix-shell -p <package-name>` and get a new shell with that package. Maybe it's someth
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It is kinda required. The DMCA requires you to implement a policy for terminating repeat copyright infringers. You aren't required to call them "strikes", but you have to keep track of who is a repeat infringer and terminate
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Real Estate. So many quirky things are viable when there's cheaper rent, cheap buying opportunities, or underutilized space. If I could buy space for $150/sq ft, I might have some extra cash, like the idea of investing in real est
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> You have to turn on a foreign VPN (while in America) to even get decent American content Part of that is because American content already has American distribution. If I'm Disney, Paramount, MGM, NBCUniversal, etc., I won't g
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In the US, ISPs are usually pretty good about offering what they promise in terms of speeds. It is shared, but basically everything on the internet is shared. Even if you have fiber to your house, that fiber is ending up in a central office
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I would say that cell signals mostly can't use the same frequencies for sending and receiving. The newer TDD allocations at 2.5GHz and above that carriers in the US are rolling out today do use the same for transmit and receive, but mo
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It's been a technical limitation. DOCSIS 3.1 and below allocate certain frequencies to download and certain frequencies to upload. There's a lot more allocated to download because of how people typically use the connection. DOCSIS
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I'd also say that it isn't easy to pivot to respond to the iPhone. Apple spent a long time developing iOS and the iPhone. Early Android phones were really far behind. If Apple hadn't been an AT&T exclusive in the US and h

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