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To Google execs, a browser is a rectangle on your screen that you click on while it delivers you ads.

Grand Mullah of GDPR Compliance

FOSS support for Windows ARM has been hampered by Github (owned by MS) not supporting free Windows ARM runners. They may be finally getting their act together but are years late to the game.

There is a similar episode of Frasier where he and his brother Niles keep trying to get into ever more exclusive tiers of the “Empire Club” in Seattle. One of my faves. https://frasier.fandom.com/wiki/The_Club

ohhh… so thats why my coffee keeps spilling everywhere. I just thought my mug was defective. Hole faces upward: got it. These things really should come with an instruction manual.

"Seniority-bias" is the wrong word. It's "skill-bias", or better yet, "tacit-knowledge bias".

The reason why old hands (who have been in the game long enough to be promoted to something approximating "Senior") are so deadly with AI is because they know all the traps/pitfalls to watch out for. Sure, the AIs may become good enough in 5-10 years to have learned all these pitfalls, but make hay while the sun is shining!

"Senior EMs" who are pure HR managers/non-coders will be priced-out of their jobs in an AI agentic world, as (surprise!) you can't report AI agents to HR. Juniors who can use AI effectively will thrive and climbs the ranks rapidly.

If the bees were exposed to radiation, shouldn't we be testing them for super-powers?

Yeah. I would have favored something like introducing new codepoints with "automatic fallbacks" if the font doesn't support that codepoint, to ensure backward compatibility. There would be a one-time hardcoded mapping table introduced that font renderers would have to adopt.

I tried telling that to my brother but he won't quit releasing methane.

CJK unification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs) i.e. combining "almost same" Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters into the same codepoint, was done for this reason, and we are now living with the consequence that we need to load separate Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts to render each language. Total PITA for apps that are multi-lingual.

Here's a good read on OpenStreetMap in Korea (use Google Translate) https://medium.com/seoul-libre-maps/%EB%94%94%EC%A7%80%ED%84...

Apparently Pokemon Go was a major driver for OSM editors in Korea--Niantic used OSM and PokeStops wouldn't spawn due low quality OSM data.

What if your boss is named Mr. Richard Head?

Amanda try to be like.

Perhaps you’ve never heard of Tay?

Microsoft did pioneering work in the Nazi chatbot space.

TLDR; Bill Gates has blood on his hands.

Oh good. I guess running the actual program was too many steps.

Are you affected? Run the affected program. OK, now you are definitely affected.

Right. Today Ruby has essentially a global namespace, where every defined module/class/const is put in the same "global dumping ground" and can override/"monkey patch" each other.

Ruby 3.5 will introduce a new language keyword "namespace" that scopes behavior to that namespace.

  class Foo
    def foo; puts "foo"; end
  end

  namespace Bar
    class Foo
      def foo; puts "bar"; end
    end

    Foo.new.foo #=> "bar"
  end

  Foo.new.foo #=> "foo"

Fun times.

This is intended for isolated code loading similar to "modules" in Python or ES6, but I am worried it will be abused badly. I'm also unsure whether they will add a "use Namespace" construct...

See here: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21311

I still like Ruby. 15+ years in, I find myself in the camp of not wanting it to change. 25 year old me would have been totally jazzed about the addition of namespaces in Ruby 3.5/4.0. 40 year old me wants namespaces to get off my Ruby lawn.

Dude where's my Metaverse?

There should be a universal human standard to define what extreme poverty is--i.e. the amount needed to secure food, shelter, and clothing--and then that amount should be assessed country-by-country (or region-by-region) by an independent body. The number of $3 per day is well above the "basic needs" threshold in some of the poorest countries, and well below it in the US, for example.

In fairness I've met people who in a work context say "Yes, absolutely!" every other sentence, so Claude is just one of those guys.

Cursor Bot on Github feels like a significant step forward, catches tons of stupid mistakes, typos, etc better than 95% of human reviewers can. The days of needing 2 reviewers on a PR are over IMHO, allows human reviewers to focus on broader architectural decisions.

Im waiting for open-open-ai

Moving to a pure merit-based system would be a great idea IF universities were primarily designed to educate people. They are not—anyone with half a brain can get a world-class education from ChatGPT, Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and library books. Paying a university "for the education" is like paying $100,000 for tap water because it’s served in a fancy glass with a Latin motto printed on it.

Universities are cartels of prestige and access.

The Singularity is here: AI is now writing code that is incomprehensible to humans by default.

Line 184 is incorrect: - korean --> HeiseiMin-W3 or HeiseiKakuGo-W5

Should be "japanese", not "korean" (korean is listed redundantly below it). Could have checked it with GPT beforehand.

RubySaml contributor here. What I’d like to see is a public repo of known SAML exploit test cases that every lib can validate itself against.

I've been doing this for 13 years. You can use your imagination :)

Founder here of a 300 person startup. It's appalling and infuriating to read stories like these.

I started my biz because I wanted to make products that people love, that create value and timesave for others (specifically restaurants). I've always thought that if I do that and have a good time doing it the money will take care of itself.

I would be horrified if some PE firm rug-pulled our users and screwed our employees. Any such takeover would have to happen over my dead body.