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Re:Wrapping My Head Around AI Wrappers on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:24PM (#45997206)
The potential customer rarely cares whether a service provider is running their business well. What matters is the product's value added and risks added, as compared to just using the underlying tech directly.
Re:Google Antigravity on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:59PM (#45974535)
That's a big name for a slop fork. So many possibilities (with LLMs and without) but Google just can't bring themselves to do anything creative, let alone transformative.
Re:62 chapter open-source Zig book on Sunday November 16, 2025 @06:34PM (#45949474)
note that the front page also says: "61 chapters • Project-based • Zero AI"
Re:62 chapter open-source Zig book on Sunday November 16, 2025 @04:26PM (#45948548)
I don't think so, I think it's just a pompous style of writing.
Re:Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18) on Sunday October 12, 2025 @08:19AM (#45557674)
I wish the author explained the difference between pipelines and multi-statement queries
Re:EU age verification app not planning desktop support on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @05:00PM (#45365887)
You're right, for example age is useful when picking targets for scams. It would also be great for groomers.
Re:Boring Is Good on Thursday September 18, 2025 @04:47PM (#45294816)
Hot take in regards to the good old statement taken literally: the boring<->exciting dimension is irrelevant in terms of something being good or bad.

Yes I know, stable things are stable

Re:Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters' on Sunday September 14, 2025 @05:55PM (#45243651)
The meaning has changed very quickly for some reason, but I think the original meaning was that you evaluate the result in a superficial manner by checking if the program seems to work fine. So "vibe" here is as opposed to any methodical or formal approach. No code review etc.
Re:C# Language Design Meeting for June 30th, 2025 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:15PM (#44617928)
The second one seems very similar to the "using static" feature, but less verbose.
For this specific case there's a "Nitter Redirect" extension
Hasn't the blue light affecting circadian rhythms been debunked at this point?
Re:“ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:43AM (#44049509)
To your point, ValueTask is less safe than Task. For example, it's important not to await it more than once.
Re:Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM on Saturday May 17, 2025 @07:15PM (#44017710)
I can't find the actual decision, but there was some discussion here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/77 Microsoft later in 2023 said that that discussion "is the current state we are in. We will keep eye on wasm GC in the future."

edit: found a more concrete statement https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/94420

Re:Binary Formats Are Better Than JSON in Browsers on Saturday May 17, 2025 @04:07PM (#44016634)
Re:Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM on Saturday May 17, 2025 @03:53PM (#44016541)
.NET doesn't use WasmGC because Microsoft found it too different from how .NET's GC works. Which is quite unfortunate
Re:Android and Wear OS are getting a big refresh on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @07:55PM (#43979209)
I've been using Pixel 8 for nearly a year now and I agree that it's surprisingly buggy. Also, the chip is excessively power-hungry, especially for the performance it offers. In addition: the modem is bad and very power-hungry as well. And the cherry on top for me was the subpar fingerprint scanner. Can't recommend.
Best he could do was DEUS I
Re:Show HN: Hyper – Standards first React alternative on Saturday May 10, 2025 @07:21PM (#43949838)
attribute names depend on the implementation, Solid uses JSX and `class`
Re:Show HN: Hyper – Standards first React alternative on Saturday May 10, 2025 @07:19PM (#43949825)
what's funny is that there are 2 libraries called hyperscript
Re:WebGL Water on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:19PM (#43949469)
Some features of Kiwi were merged to Edge, which means it now supports extensions (any extension if using developer options in Canary)
Re:WebGL Water on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:14PM (#43949437)
Same on a not-old Pixel 8
Great job! Does anyone know which one was first: Slime Volleyball or Blobby Volley? I fondly remember playing Blobby Volley at school
Re:Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play on Sunday April 06, 2025 @04:11PM (#43604565)
There's also Paddle (who's a Merchant of Record)
Re:Koto Programming Language on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:40PM (#43518031)
Also the Units of Measure are a great feature. I think they're a zero-cost abstraction that Rust users love to mention.
Re:Koto Programming Language on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:36PM (#43518003)
To be fair, my knowledge of F# is a bit superficial, but I meant stuff like classes (including abstract ones), interfaces, and the ingrained interop with C#.
I have to say, I laughed when I noticed the framerate, in what's (in a way) a hardware ad
Re:Koto Programming Language on Saturday March 29, 2025 @10:05AM (#43515640)
I'd say F# is closer to filling that gap than OCaml. It's a bit less insistent on being functional and has a more familiar syntax. I find it more practical in general.
Re:IO Devices and Latency on Friday March 14, 2025 @10:18AM (#43362874)
I'm on Chrome on Android and AdGuard blocks all your visualizations, just FYI
Re:Deploy from local to production (self-hosted) on Saturday March 08, 2025 @07:11PM (#43304831)
There's also a long standing issue of random peaks to 100% CPU, that they don't seem to be able to fix.
Re:FlakeUI on Monday March 03, 2025 @04:20PM (#43246907)
This is very similar to the idea of Zooming User Interfaces (ZUI) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface

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