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I don't follow your second sentence. Doesn't npm have the opposite problem of 'not invented here'? By adopting many external packages rather than developing in-house, npm projects tend to have large, complex dependency trees. It has long been the complaint that packages such as https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-windows create potential vulnerabilities and maintenance headaches, when writing the same piece of code directly is so simple.

I believe push default simple is the default in git now and does not need to be explicitly set.

That statement doesn't stand on its own. For example, the most popular OS for laptops at my place of work is Windows. It has very little to do with what people want or price. It has almost everything to do with ecosystem lock in.

A significant portion of windows laptop market share comes from corporate purchases.

OP seems to be an AI account.

> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

Yes, the account migration was a mess. Support response times were at least 30 days, if you ever actually received a response at all (I never did). I did buy the game a second time in order to play with my kids.

They work wonderfully until you need to do anything more advanced than a key-value store.

I was shocked when ABC laid off Clare Malone years back. It seemed incredibly short sited and sudden, to fire a public figure without ceremony or reason. It marked, at least to me, a beginning decline in quality.

There were specific games keeping me on windows, mostly online PVP. At some point I switched anyway and I don't regret it at all. Now when my friends suggest a game and I'm not able to play it, I just do something else or we choose a different game. There are so many great games out there now, and more release every week. Plus, as I've gotten older, it has become more apparent the fun is in socializing, not the game itself.

My point is, you may find the one or two games holding you back won't be missed much.

There is a time window - https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/unpublish

Not sure what the law is exactly, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't end up working out in your favor.

You aren't wrong. However, this article does offer some additional advice on this matter, and some potential reasons why it might still be desirable to pin your deps in package.json.

https://docs.renovatebot.com/dependency-pinning/#pinning-dep...

Some exerts:

> If a lock file gets out of sync with its package.json, it can no longer be guaranteed to lock anything, and the package.json will be the source of truth for installs.

> provides much less visibility than package.json, because it's not designed to be human readable and is quite dense.

> If the package.json has a range, and a new in-range version is released that would break the build, then essentially your package.json is in a state of "broken", even if the lock file is still holding things together.

In Michigan, refusing the roadside breathalyzer is $150 automatic fine. Refusing the chemical test once at the station is an automatic 1 year suspended license and 6 points, even if you are subsequently let go without charge.

My understanding is the tools that Steam provides as part of it's developer platform are top notch. And there are a lot of integration points such as cloud saves, social, match making, achievements, store, and so on. There is also a robust CD pipeline.

I can easily see this providing value above and beyond most other retailers that would sell video games. For example, Best Buy takes a 30% cut for physical merchandise, without providing any of the above mentioned features.

If you are on github/gitlab, renovate bot is a good option for automating dependency updates via PRs while still maintaining pinned versions in your source.

You are assuming these people were just following procedure. This is not accurate. There is at least one case where data was taken and intended to be improperly used at a private company.

These people are more than useful rubes. They actively committed unethical (if not illegal) acts.

AI is non-deterministic. Can it still be considered an abstraction over a deterministic layer?

> nearly every other project uses it for some reason instead of fetch (I never understood why).

Fetch wasn't added to Node.js as a core package until version 18, and wasn't considered stable until version 21. Axios has been around much longer and was made part of popular frameworks and tutorials, which helps continue to propagate it's usage.

Firefox is still ahead of Chrome in several areas.

    - multi account containers
    - ublock origin (and extensions in general)
    - extensions on Android

Firefox has also recently improved tabs with a number of features. I haven't used Chrome in a long time, so I don't know if these exist there.

Firefox just works, and blocks ads, and doesn't randomly decide I'm not allowed to do things it doesn't' approve of anymore (like block ads with ublock origin).

What features does Chrome provide in the last year (that presumably would not yet be copied by Firefox)?

It had problems in 8. I would frequently type my search term, see it was the number one result. I would then attempt to arrow or tab down and hit enter to launch that result. Between arrowing down and hitting enter, the result list would update/reorder and suddenly I'm launching some unknown program. Happened all the time.

This entire article is based on a one sentence tweet with zero details provided.

"Ya I hate that. Working on it." - Could mean anything, which I would argue in this case, is equivalent to being meaningless. Does this mean Hanselman has a team with tickets lined up for the next sprint to allow offline accounts as a first-class workflow? Or does it mean he sent an email to the relevant stakeholders asking, "Hey guys, what can we do about this"?

I am not encouraged that we will see a change in momentum from Microsoft on this issue.

Hey, sorry I'm a bit lost trying to follow your comment. Who are "We" that you are referring to?

How about Sonar as in SOund Navigation And Ranging?

Outside of sqlite, what runtimes natively include database drivers?

The switch from plan mode to build is not always clearly defined. On a number of occasions, I've been in plan mode and enter a secondary follow up prompt to modify the plan. However, instead of updating the plan, the follow up text is taken as approval to build and it automatically switches to building.

Ask mode, on the other hand, has always explicitly indicated that I need to switch out of ask mode to perform any actions.

This is my experience with Cursor CLI.

The first time I recall encountering this sort of feature was in one of the early sim city games. I wonder if this being a feature of Claude indicates the humanity of some engineer behind it, or if it is a deliberate effort to apply humanity to the agent.

The Windows 8 equivalent server edition also included the upgrade to Metro UI. I don't know, I guess MS figured IT wanted to provision Windows services using a surface tablet?

I actually really did like Windows Phones though. I can imagine a world with a third competitor in that space today... But MS didn't seem to have any understanding or ability to develop an ecosystem that works. Even when they were literally paying people to write apps for their app store, it was just terrible.

I stand corrected. I was thinking of the sequential nature of uuid 7, or SQL servers sequential id.

UUIDs aren't random by design, and the structure is not pointless. Calling something you don't understand "stupid" is probably not a good approach to life.

One example where UUIDs are useful is usage as primary keys in databases. The constraints provide benefits, such as global uniqueness across distributed systems.

How do you safely convert a 2 byte character to a 1 byte character?

I agree with your first point. I've seen this same issue crop up in several other ORMs.

As to your second point. VARCHAR uses N + 2 bytes where as NVARCHAR uses N*2 + 2 bytes for storage (at least on SQL Server). The vast majority of character fields in databases I've worked with do not need to store unicode values.