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There is nothing preventing anyone to build a whole new set of infrastructure for such "binary first serialization" 20 years ago, 10 years ago or today. We don't even need to do that much. Instead of "text/html" or "application/json", let's just use some binary format in the request headers everywhere and make both the client and server support it. Why hasn't that happened?

It's for the same set of reasons, and people aren't dumb.

JSON is usually used for front end-back end communication or public API endpoints, otherwise protobuf/Thrift/Avro is commonly used in the backend for internal services (that is controlled by one organization), for very good reasons. Same for HTML -- you need to thank HTML for being able to read hacker news frontpage on a 10 year old kindle with a barely usable browser. I suggest you look all these up before complaining about nothing.

For a script, you run it from start to end.

For a notebook/repl environment, you can create any number of intermediate steps, rerun the previous step with minor modifications and check if the results are better, rinse and repeat. For jupyter notebook specifically, you can visualize data and add markdown inline which are very useful.

You won't understand it unless you are already familiar with the workflow.

If there are complaints about code quality in a jupyter notebook, chances are that someone is doing it wrong -- either the author is using it for demonstration purpose, for production or near production environment, or the person looking at others' notebooks is taking them too seriously.

Most code in jupyter notebook is bad, but that's fine, because nobody should waste time doing that unless they must reproduce the results or they are sharing the notebook with others.

Notable example of high quality notebook: https://youtu.be/zduSFxRajkE

I thought Meta Horizon and the sales number of Vision Pro[0][1] already proves your thesis wrong. Even Zuckerberg stopped talking about it.

[0]https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/apple-cuts-vision-pro-s... [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/22/apple-vision-pro-custom...

I think the point of the original comment is "take off". A non proprietary ChromeOS (that is browser first, simple to use for non techy people, easy to manage) sounds like a neat idea to me, but the names you mentioned achieved nowhere near the reputation/popularity of Ubuntu.

Maybe it is more about the business model. ChromeOS runs efficiently on low-cost hardware for a small license fee (?), and get almost guaranteed updates. In exchange, customers sell their souls (actually, data) to Google. Won't happrn with Linux. But undeniably it sells and works well enough for ChromeOS.

...if you are willing to sacrifice the "phone" part of it.

You can run a full VSCode on Crostini -- the "real" Electron app -- but not on Termux. There are ways around it like using code-server on a Linux environment, but far from the same thing.

... which confirms that this has more to do with the vendor rather than hardware/OS?

Did you read this comment twice yourself to see the problem?

Personally I care about this much more than whatever AI stuff happens at WWDC.

This is the real "developer" issue we are talking about.

Well, anecdotally, a Uber driver who is also a real estate agent told me that he used ChatGPT daily, and it was very helpful.

Just to put it out there.

Not made up -- Alibaba was actually punished for reporting log4j vulnerability:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/log4j-chinese-regulators-suspe...

No, at the very least a "likely" should be added to the title, as Apple never provided a specific reason.

> I can almost guarantee

Guarantee with what? Personal money? I know people who have more than 3+ years of experience having trouble with getting an offer after months of searching these days. What can you offer to guarantee the "happiness" "elsewhere"?

Such a ridiculous, out of touch comment.

Blah blah, that's just word play. I am always amazed by the defense that Apple apologists come up.

> you are well past the right time to leave

Well, that's easy for you to say. People have family to feed, right?

Well, someone (a human being) still maintains it, and ultimately someone likely will find the code unmaintainable even if LLMs help. If you use ChatGPT enough you would know it has its standards as well, actually pretty high. At one point the code likely still needs to be refactored, by human or not.

Say I'm faced with a choice right now -- repeat the same line twice with 2 minor differences which gets checked by IDE immediately, or create a code generator that generates all 3 lines which may not work well with the IDE and the build system which leads to more mistakes?

You definitely have a point, but the reality is that LLMs are about as good as an "average" UI developers in some cases -- lots of people who work on UI every day think very little about accessibility and don't understand if their code actually runs in a non-chromium browser.

I can imagine that's never going to work.

Very few people can afford it, and those who can afford want more, e.g. Q&A, graded assignments etc. It's almost never a "record these once and we are done" thing.

I doubt that's ever going to happen -- people build their own PCs exactly because they want the opposite of everything in a MacBook: they want modularity, upgradeability and repairability to the point that they are willing to sacrifice power efficiency.

"AI will need to run..."

Let's wait and see what actually happens to AI before being too eager to change the design of computers. I'm also pretty sure there will be a better solution than what you described.

There probably isn't a site that just comparess chromium compilation time, but you can find the number in many YouTube and text reviews.

Ever recorded any metrics? I wonder how much of your "feeling" productive is real.

:has() syntax was recently supported in Firefox 121:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:has

Funny of you to think your non-technical uncle is aware that there is such a thing as "mail server". All they know is that this email thing works, in the sense that he can send and receive emails.

> expect a vehicle manufacturer who is producing only hundreds of cars per year to keep a surplus of spare parts around for every possible part

That's why the article calls this "standard industry practice", not sure why you didn't get that.

Isn't Aurora mainly about their unique handling of logging and replica which leads to high availability and fast recovery? If you switch to VM, how do you handle availability in multiple locations and backups? If database checkpoints are good enough for you, sounds like Aurora is overkill in the first place.

I would be more worried about liability issues before anything else.

Also, I doubt there is a point in you "renting" your Tesla. Tesla the company has enough money to flood the road with their vehicles, and your vehicle is irrelevant. Have you heard any individual renting their personal Camry to a taxi company or a Uber driver?

What does that even mean?

If Waymo hits a cyclist which leads to death, and Waymo is found to be at fault, that's definitely going to make headlines and potentially lead to a pause of the entire operation.