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Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:19PM (#50293588)
Bless your heart but the world is full of evil people, my friend.
Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:28AM (#50287342)
If the carrier is compromised an attacker could destroy millions of phones and cause humongous economic losses no?
Re:Improving site performance by shipping more CSS on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:03AM (#49866343)
I would like to half agree to this.

Saying "Performance is not complicated" is not wrong. People and the systems set up for an application make it complicated. Its harder to check and verify.

I work in UI performance and the biggest thing slowing me down is always people

Re:Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @05:08AM (#48119531)
I am cursed that I always have to work on legacy products that were built many years ago and didnt consider these things.

I hope we eventually get a good/simple language/framework that can compile to native code. Even react native for mac/windows is good enough now.

Re:Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:05AM (#48118063)
Im not sure if people are getting the biggest problem in electron desktop apps.

Its RAM usage not the disk!!

Why are they all making the same thing in different ways?! I have never worked on an electron app where the executable size was an impediment to the business. Its always the RAM/CPU usage. If we are going to work on the same webviews like electron and others, how will this make any difference?

Re:Vite 8.0 Is Out on Friday March 13, 2026 @03:18AM (#47361535)
This is for tooling.

Node.js has been extraordinarily useful for building build tools. We're outgrowing it's capacity and rightfully moving to a compiled language. Also faster tooling is essential for establishing a high quality feedback loop for AI agents

Re:Vite 8.0 Is Out on Friday March 13, 2026 @03:16AM (#47361524)
It's not a good piece of software. Breaks in many places
My dad if he was alive would have shouted "I told you so"
Re:Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML on Sunday December 28, 2025 @05:20AM (#46410010)
What would make this super easy to adopt?

A simple page which shows what native components are available with/without the need for polyfills for a given browserslist config

Re:AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @02:58AM (#45885067)
The diagrams generated are arbitrary and make no sense. This needs improvements
This is beautiful!
My shower is theory is that there are infinite universes getting created all the time and we can never know about it because we're restricted in this universe. I love having these talks with my daughter.
Congratulations on the launch!

Have you considered any sort of templating like htm or JSX? Because it's a bit harder to read and I believe to work in a team it would be much simpler if there was a template syntax.

Re:Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:10AM (#43854554)
Yeah and it has no effect because its done by companies not countries. This is gonna continue for a long time. Its an incredible time to be a middle man
Re:Hypertext TV on Saturday April 19, 2025 @08:51AM (#43736065)
This is just beautiful artistry. I absolutely love it! Only thing missing is the click/clack sounds on those buttons
I have a naive question here.

Could this have been avoided if they had used Rust? Or is this a bug that can happen even in Rust code too?

Yet they've had astounding success and is the most widely used operating system. Maybe usability and ease of access are far more important than beautiful design
Re:Crabtime: Zig's Comptime in Rust on Sunday March 23, 2025 @10:27AM (#43453162)
Now that I'm older I agree with you, but I would have been furious hearing this ten years ago :)
Re:The Frontend Treadmill on Thursday March 20, 2025 @09:41AM (#43423246)
Go for web components. It's guaranteed to last 30 years
Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:31AM (#43263870)
Works fine on Brave
There begins the downfall. Any great product who jumps on a hype train always ends up crashing
Beaver dams are like step dams. The bad ones people talk about are the huge dams which alter the environment drastically often creating artificial lakes.

Beaver dams on the other hand slow down water flow to some extent and alter the direction of water flow slightly. These smaller natural dams are so good for little species to thrive.

Re:I still like Sublime Text in 2025 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @06:42AM (#42863849)
Have y'all considered something like vscode's extension experience in sublime. The current one is not really intuitive or easier to setup
Re:I still like Sublime Text in 2025 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @06:40AM (#42863836)
possibly restarting the System
Re:I still like Sublime Text in 2025 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:25AM (#42862489)
They are a company and they are still good. They changed their licensing model for v4 onwards. I have been using it for most of my note keeping and lite code editing tasks and its excellent as always. I think they can still get back to the old hype if they choose to use typescript for their plugin system. A lot of vscode plugins can be ported that way I hope
Re:Hologram: A full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework on Sunday January 19, 2025 @07:18AM (#42756390)
Oh that's super interesting. But won't that be a super heavy wasm binary?
Re:Hologram: A full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework on Sunday January 19, 2025 @06:11AM (#42756024)
I really like the idea and it aligns with my thinking. Its missing some basic docs though
Re:Elon Musk could be China's pick to buy TikTok, report says on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:55AM (#42708826)
Okay this is crossing a line and gives too much power to one person.

He already got Twitter and made Trump the president. With TikTok I have no idea what he's gonna do

How do big tech companies build their infra?

I always see that the engineers in big tech companies move really fast to deliver features. How does one get to this position? What sort of infrastructure is required for this? How do we get the buy in from management for building a culture like this? How long does it take to build such an infrastructure?

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Re:India's food shortage filled American libraries on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @12:10AM (#42564111)
So if they digitally scan the books and publish on the internet for free then there wouldn't be any knowledge gap. These purpose of a library is fulfilled after that in my opinion

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