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awestroke··on By 2028 there must be fast chargers every 60 km on the EU’s key motorways
Sounds reasonable. You are still anonymous towards the merchant when you use the prepaid card
awestroke··on JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going
JPEGX or JPEG2 would be more marketable than JPEG XL.
awestroke··on JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going
I truly think jpeg xl would have done better with a better name.
awestroke··on What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?
It has nothing to do with legality. Valve has a business interest of removing Dolphin from their store, regardless of any keys.
awestroke··on Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock
Then restrict them so that they can only buy/sell once per year, and need to declare their investment choice 1 month before the yearly buy/sell date
awestroke··on Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss
Do you ever have trouble sleeping due to feeling hungry?
awestroke··on Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript
Lots of exaggerations here. But I guess that leads to more clicks and engagement
awestroke··on Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
No
awestroke··on Copy is all you need
First, hate the title

Second, this approach seems equivalent to using larger tokens, which means the problems with using tokens instead of letters are just exacerbated

awestroke··on Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island
Yeah, if they can't scroll tiktok they might die!
awestroke··on Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
React is a great tool for building complex, large applications. Your blog is not large or complex.
awestroke··on Europe’s agenda for undersea internet cables
The US will retaliate if somebody cuts a cable belonging to the EU?

I'd be less surprised if the US were the ones doing the cutting

awestroke··on Europe’s agenda for undersea internet cables
To avoid major choke points like the Suez Chanel and the South China Sea.

For example:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Spotlight/Asia-s-i...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/submarine-internet-cables-eg...

awestroke··on 100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Light-Based Networking Standard Released
Moving between wifi access points is already completely seamless in a modern mesh wifi network.
awestroke··on Istio moved to CNCF Graduation stage
You have not given me one single reason why I would be better of with Istio
awestroke··on Istio moved to CNCF Graduation stage
If I needed a service mesh, I'd probably use Linkerd. What would I be missing out on?
awestroke··on Claude 2
Just blacklist France and Italy instead of whitelisting the US only
awestroke··on Claude 2
Region locking digital services is such a stone age approach
awestroke··on Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
It's literally free. How are you complaining about a free service? Just buy a paid cert
awestroke··on Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
Ain't gonna happen
awestroke··on Breaking Up with SVG-in-JS in 2023
Yeah there is a suspicious lack of performance numbers in the article
awestroke··on Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)
Old engines are very far from the current way is doing things. You might learn a lot, but you won't learn what you need to program modern games
awestroke··on In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change
I don't think the tides are eternal
awestroke··on Should you use Jest as a testing library? (2022)
I've never written such a test assertion in my life. I'll be fine with Jest
awestroke··on Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library
Yeah. It's such a shame that archiving is a zero-sum game. If I archive some books, nobody else can archive them.
awestroke··on Monitoring Is a Pain
Your increased churn rate is probably cheaper than a Datadog plan
awestroke··on Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road
It's been just a few months since GPT4. Calm down.
awestroke··on Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system
This is super cool, and I immediately thought of many use cases. For example:

* quickly find out which files are touched / installed by apt installing a certain package

* find out which log file, if any, a program writes to

* run one of those curl | bash installation commands and inspect exactly what it'll do without reading through a huge script

awestroke··on How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)
Yep, it's great
awestroke··on Building a Slack/Discord alternative with Tauri/Rust
Amazon is also not necessarily an alternative to a local bookstore
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