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Sorry, Bill, it's already game over. The Dark Side won. Witness Lavender and Where's Daddy used by the IDF to target extended Palestinian families for execution. The "most moral army in the world" has devised an AI system which removes the agency and morality of mass murder. Game over.
Re:Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @08:32PM (#49354988)
I predict 2027 will be the year of the PWA ... and desktop Linux.
Re:RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:16PM (#48667172)
AirBnB.
Re:RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @02:28PM (#48663885)
Codebases like Stripe?
Re:Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @08:05PM (#48377926)
Proton Mail is excellent as is their password manager and VPN.
Macbook Pro rival running ..... Windows?! I'd take a bottom of the line Macbook over anything running 'doze.
Re:The Website Specification on Sunday May 31, 2026 @09:09AM (#48345399)
CSS, especially the box model, was not consistent across browsers.
Re:The Website Specification on Sunday May 31, 2026 @07:35AM (#48344920)
Nothing has changed. The "flashy web" of the 2000s was ... Flash. Corporates paid premium rates to Flash Designers who couldn't write a line of HTML.
Re:The Website Specification on Sunday May 31, 2026 @07:26AM (#48344872)
Responsive design out of the box? Were you actually there? Back in 2000 you could make a career out of scripting browser polyfills or "DHTML".
Joker, Janet, Glojure and now Let-go. Am I missing something?
Re:GPT-5.5 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @08:04PM (#47883844)
Maybe people will finally take Marx seriously.
Re:If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad? on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:23PM (#47881339)
It must be hard to remain sane, let alone happy, after 2 terms of Donald Trump.
Re:Help Keep Thunderbird Alive on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:09AM (#47701562)
< It all seems totally insane.

This is Microsoft we're talking about, right?

Re:Help Keep Thunderbird Alive on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:03AM (#47701510)
I used TB happily for years on Mac OS but its font rendering on Linux was one of the main reasons I never switched.
Typescript, isolates, Cloudflare dynamic workers, serverless. You've already lost the market WordPress serves.
Default EmDash size: 483Mb. Default WordPress size: 70Mb. That's progress?
Re:Code has _always_ been the easy part on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:03PM (#46997603)
Perl is incredibly elegant once you take the time to grok it. The real issue is today's limited attention span.
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Friday February 06, 2026 @07:15AM (#46911897)
The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, as we all know, is 42. Who needs Claude when you have Deep Thought.
Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:38PM (#46495106)
... and is built with Next.js including no less than 12 enormous x-font-woff2 chunks of data at the top of the source code and another big __NEXT_DATA__ JSON chunk at the bottom. Hardly lean, vanilla HTML and CSS.
Re:Ruby 4.0.0 Released on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:48PM (#46388771)
MVT for testing mobile spyware? There are whole sectors of industry, such as cybersecurity, where Python shines and Ruby is nowhere to be seen.
Re:Ruby 4.0.0 Released on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:30PM (#46388690)
Try Clojure. Macros make method_missing look primitive.
Re:JSDoc is TypeScript on Sunday December 14, 2025 @08:05PM (#46269075)
Sounds like Scala type fetishism all over again.
Re:Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:10PM (#46129091)
iWeb was an utter monstrosity. Worse than MS Front Page, which I didn't think was possible.
Re:Compiling Ruby to Machine Language on Monday November 17, 2025 @08:02PM (#45960253)
Making dynamically typed, single threaded languages faster via JIT usually comes at the cost of a significant increase in memory consumption which for businesses smaller than Shopify is a much more significant factor.
"We're only making plans for Nigel" (XTC, 1979)
Teach your kids how life is about getting something for nothing. Great parenting.
Re:SuperSonic: SuperCollider in the Browser on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:22PM (#45741503)
I look forward to another of Sam's brilliant creations. It's a shame Overtone was abandoned as I think Clojure is the perfect language for this type of project.
Smart fridge. Get a life.
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:00PM (#45645417)
MTBF?
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:57AM (#45645379)
Yes, I remember when Kubernetes hit the scene and it was only used by huge companies who needed to spin-up fleets of servers on demand. The idea of using it for small startup infra was absurd.

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