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> Editor’s note: SFGATE recognizes the importance of diacritical marks in the Hawaiian language. We are unable to use them due to the limitations of our publishing platform.
I'm struggling to imagine how this can be the case in 2026 on a news website covering, of all places, San Francisco. What COBOL mainframe do they have rendering this page?
We live in an era when you can simply clone the repo and ask the agent of your choice to port it to Android for you. I'd be shocked if it cost more than ~$10 in tokens from any provider on the market.
What’s notable about this article is not its literal conclusion, which is obvious to any casual observer, it’s the publisher - I haven’t been following it lately, but for decades National Review was the preeminent Limbaugh-school right-wing magazine in America, so for its editors to be taking this position so clearly feels significant. These days the Trump Right has rags like The Epoch Times, so maybe they don’t need Buckley’s soapbox anymore?
It is - it ‘cheats’ by reading off the NTFS MFT, similarly to another indispensable piece of Windows software Everything Search, both of which I miss keenly on my underprovisioned work Mac.
Based on the author’s choice of websites to mention blocking in the Readme, they seem to be Dutch, where “world cup” is “Wereldbeker”
I wouldn’t have taken this project seriously without the byline on this post of Drew DeVault. Glad he’s doing ok.
> We have a blip in March / April every year; these cyclical patterns aren’t relevant to explain here.
The 'blip' post-AI is up ~30% for the months in question. There simply isn't enough data here to prove or disprove the thesis that "customer issues remain broadly stable" - you could equally argue something more along the lines of "AI engineering does not increase issues under ideal conditions but amplifies issues under external pressure."
The very first image is captioned:
> An image generated by artificial intelligence
If you share this link on another platform, that image is the one that gets embedded, without the caption.
This is shockingly bad. There should be laws against this.
Friend. You gotta write your own comments. It feels so gross to get a response that’s so obviously from an llm, I would rather you not have replied to me at all. I will not be using your app.
This is a compelling idea, but it doesn't seem to work. Running it on a yml I'm working on currently, it skipped all my setup actions and then failed because the dependencies it needed weren't set up (why did you think I wrote them?) There doesn't seem to be a way to force-run a skipped step.
> Don't people know stuff anymore?
No, no one has ever known anything, and every day people are born knowing even less. This is a strangely aggressive way to share this interesting information, especially for MacOS programming, a platform requiring such byzantine arcane knowledge I'm amazed people write anything for it at all. At least for Win32 people wrote books you could buy and not blog posts.
Anyway, thank you for the introduction to the very cool SwiftScripting project [0], extracting programmable interfaces directly from app bundles. It's just like COM, right? nice to see MacOS catching up (/ragebait)
[0] https://majestysoftware.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/swift-scrip...
It's the same file, you just rename it to end in '.html'
Standard always struck me as kind of scummy - it tries to present itself as something bigger than what it really is, which is a tiny CLI wrapper around one guy’s ESLint config. You have to scroll way down the FAQ section before ESLint even gets mentioned. The author is just squatting on the “standard” namespace and using it to blag his way into relevance. Think how much more good it would do if the sponsors of this project were actually supporting ESLint directly instead of this useless middleware.
This is normal, most people are like this. The idea that there’s something out there that you’re just amazing at without even trying very hard is a trap and believing it will destroy your life. You just have to pick something you want to be good at and do it until you are.
I think the specific trap the author is arguing against is where you try to make your classes model 1-1 some external domain model without tailoring them only to the functionally that your specific application needs. If you’re writing a FooClass, it’s easy to get caught up in giving it everything a Foo would have, even if you won’t actually use it.
If you’re not familiar with the experience of browsing the internet and then suddenly having deeply-held parts of your identity deemed undeserving of respect, it’s the kind of thing that the mind naturally develops habits to avoid, in much the same way that you might start to walk differently through a city after getting mugged. It is indeed tiring for everyone, but the solution is not to blame people for doing what they feel like they need to do to protect themselves.
Note that GP didn’t say Meta, the trillion-dollar company, they said Facebook, the social platform that won its generation of social platforms. One of those platforms was bound to win, just by the interconnected nature of social networks, and I think reasonable people can disagree on whether that success sets you up inevitably to make a trillion dollars or not.
There are things that are worth being patient about. Jira isn’t one of them.
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
As the saying goes, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. There are any number of ways a firm can do things that, in isolation, are bad for business, and still do very well overall if they’re protected by other factors (such as, case in point, the money printing machine that is Google ads). I think what the GP is saying is that sitting back and leaving things to the market to work out is essentially resigning the issue not to be resolved in our lifetimes.
> A recent security breach on our platform brought BotGhost to Discord’s attention.
The breach in question is documented here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lUiLBBab1RY
I don’t think there’s a text write-up, but tl;dw a combination of missing input sanitization and no-code UI trickery made it possible to leak other users’ bot tokens, and despite patching the exploit pretty quickly on exposure, BotGhost’s developer tried to cover it up and refused to reset potentially affected tokens.
Very interesting! Is this the state of the art for accurate OCR of tabular PDFs, or is there other work in the space to compare against?
Unfortunately there are no web search providers besides Bing for them to show in the search screenshots.
It may be different on the Android side, but the listed prices on the iOS app store are $2/mo or $20/yr for the individual plan and $4/mo or $40/yr for the family plan.
Have you measured how much latency it adds to each query? Naively I'd expect adding in an extra network hop to be a pretty big hit.
If it feels snappy, why would it matter if it’s a webview? Native apps are a means to an end, they’re not virtuous in themselves.
This seems like such a no-brainer architectural choice that it makes me wonder if there's some tradeoff I'm not seeing. Why would Nix have cached failures in the first place?
I don’t think that follows. Most users of a translation app don’t have any ability to judge the quality of the translations it produces, so the only distinguishing feature is ubiquity - if every language you can think of is in Google Translate, you might never go looking for other apps.
Plus if you want to keep the best linguists employed, you have to give them fun things to do. Hard to write papers making Spanish translations a fraction of a percent better.
It has nothing to do with Facebook providing a service. It's about what I choose to do with the service they do provide.
> Professor Ethan Zuckerman seeks to release a browser extension that would give Facebook users greater control over their platform experience ... Users who download the tool would be free to use the platform without the feed, or to curate the feed by refollowing only those friends and groups whose posts they really want to see. Professor Zuckerman has not launched this project because, when another developer released a similar tool called Unfollow Everything, Defendant Meta Platforms, Inc. threatened that developer with legal action. Professor Zuckerman files this suit to obtain a judicial declaration that Unfollow Everything 2.0, as described below,is immunized from legal liability by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Because Taco Bell has the right to sue me if I buy a burrito and then decide to pick the lettuce out of it.
It would work the same for me, if only because I'd redirect the email to my RSS reader (via Feedbin[0] or Kill the Newsletter[1] or similar)! I suspect most people who care about RSS would do the same, but the Webflow docs[2] show it being pretty straightforward to set up, and (imo) it's an easy backup hedge against all your comms getting stuck in spam filters. Plus, it just feels more ADHD-friendly to me to reduce ping noise as much as possible.
[0] https://feedbin.com/
[1] https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
[2] https://university.webflow.com/lesson/rss-feed