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by onion2k 11mo ago
Assuming Oracle did decide to go down that route, who would they sue? No one really uses the JavaScript name in anything official except for "JavaScriptCore" that Apple ships with Webkit.
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by onion2k 11mo ago
"Servant Leadership" is a term was coined by Robert Greenleaf in his 1977 book "Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness", which is very specifically about being a church leader.
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by onion2k 11mo ago
It depends on what purpose you think prisons serve: - If you believe that they're a punishment, then probably nothing. - If you believe that prisons are there to rehabilitate people into being good members of society, then things like
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by onion2k 11mo ago
not via marketshare That's not an entirely fair measure though, considering Microsoft lost an antitrust case that was brought because they were unfairly leveraging their monopoly in operating systems to give them an advantage in brow
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by onion2k 11mo ago
In all the previous job market contractions the root cause has been money - increasing costs, less investment capital, etc. This is the first time the root cause appears to be tech (if you believe the announcements about layoffs). That make
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by onion2k 11mo ago
Your logic is flawed. You can be a developer and not be interested in AoC. Not being interested in AoC only shows you're not interested in AoC.
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by onion2k 11mo ago
In order to complete AoC you need more than just the ability to write code and solve problems. You need to find abstract problem-solving motivating. A lot of people don't see the point in competing for social capital (internet points
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by onion2k 11mo ago
The probably of there being life outside of Earth is likely non-zero. The probability of us ever encountering it is effectively zero though. Space is too big for anything to travel around it.
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by onion2k 11mo ago
they just need to know Google, which they most definitely do The way that Google is rolling out AI is confusing, and I imagine a lot of people who can access Gemini don't actually know they can or how to use it. Among those that do k
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Some parts of the books are based on expended versions of blog posts.
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by onion2k 11mo ago
No matter how good a keyboard we might be able to invent it'll always be slower than a direct brain interface, and we have those, in a highly experimental way, now. One day we will look back at improvements to keyboards and touchscreen
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by onion2k 11mo ago
It's not great for the teacher though. They're the ones who will truly suffer from the proliferation of AI - increased complexity of work around spotting cheating 'solved' by a huge increase in time pressure. Faced with
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I think those people are taken into account, and on balance are ignored because their argument is far less reasonable. "Slavery was one of the most awful things humans have ever done so we shouldn't continue to use the language of
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by onion2k 11mo ago
trunk as in tree, not car. Cars don't have branches.
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by onion2k 11mo ago
We didn't need for another argument against Scrum, but that's a very compelling one.
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by onion2k 11mo ago
I'd read it more generously than that. I think Chrome trying to stop the server choosing the language for you. By sending an accepts-language header (which your browser does regardless of what you use; it's not a Chrome thing) t
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by onion2k 11mo ago
The creation of 3D content is complex, time-consuming, and — quite frankly — out of many people’s reach. This is true for high-fidelity environments that people expect from AAA games or movie virtual sets, but it's not really true fo
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by onion2k 11mo ago
In 50 years, the proportion of the budget allocated to food, halved. Did people choose to do that, or why they forced to by increased costs in other areas?
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by onion2k 11mo ago
Troika text (a font-to-signed-distance-functions tool) can do a lot of the heavy lifting of using fonts in WebGL apps. It can also do the process of converting from font data to SDFs in glsl, so it's fast. No idea if it supports variab
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by onion2k 11mo ago
I ask because I think the price is only as high if the item in question is still cultural relevant. Les Poseuses Ensemble by Georges Seurat was sold for $149m. Very few people have heard of it, care about it, or even like it considering i
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by onion2k 11mo ago
No one should even notice the payment flow. This isn't Stripe where the polish on the payment experience is a selling point for the service. At Google, paying for something should be a boring but quick process that works and then gets
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by onion2k 1y ago
if the service running your actual business logic dies In a modern tech business that's everything from the frontend to the database though, including all the bits to keep that running at scale. That's too much for most companie
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by onion2k 1y ago
You can't build your own Cloudflare in any meaningful sense. You can choose not to have the functionality Cloudflare provides because you prioritize the risk of a Cloudflare outage as more important than the benefits Cloudflare gives y
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by onion2k 1y ago
There is a lot more money in selling a tool to manage a problem rather than solve a problem.
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So the error messaging is wrong, giving the user the impression it's their fault for not paying. I think that's worse..
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by onion2k 1y ago
There is a legal minimum standard for vision to be able to drive in the UK (basically you have to be able to read a number plate at 20 metres, not have double vision, and have a normal field of vision in one eye.) The punishment for failing
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by onion2k 1y ago
That drives exactly $0 of Apple's revenue. It's only a win if you care about things that don't matter.
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by onion2k 1y ago
So I start using it for my project and after about 20 mins - oh, no. Out of credits. I didn't even get to try a single Gemini 3 prompt. I was out of credits before my first had completed. I guess I've burned through the free tie
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by onion2k 1y ago
Developers spend most of their time reading long Markdown files, hunting for basic mistakes hidden in overly verbose, expert-sounding prose. It’s exhausting. Those requirements exist regardless of whether you write them down in Markdown f
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by onion2k 1y ago
A lot of people don't want to be bombed with fake content. People don't want to be bombed with obviously fake content. If the content is sufficiently good enough for them to accept it they'll happily click Like on it. And

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