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translucydon Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people

Because people don’t understand what capitalism is, only what it was. The most ironical part is that the ones who predicted what is going on are the communists.

translucydon The Bulma CSS framework reaches 1.0

Please dont take this as criticism and just a question:

Why native English speakers like so much to shorten words so much? To me, a non native, a11y reads like ally and in no means reads accessibility. Any tips on that?

translucydon Game Font Forensics

Must destroy Tommy Tallarico /s

translucydon Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

My God, this page is straight from the 90s! Nostalgic.

translucydon Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts

We actually have this in Brazil. The mail provider from the state is in far away areas the only bank that exist in some places!

translucydon Exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested

Ipe is an indigenous word. Congress from Tupi languages probably.

translucydon The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”

But that would nationalize profits as well. What kind a world do you think that's a good thing??? /s

translucydon Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source

Excellent take.

People think that making good games is cheap and anyone can do.

Making games, maybe. Good ones? I don’t think so.

translucydon The Apple $2T Economy

2% of the world’s GDP? Holy s#!%.

translucydon The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself

Not only that, but the US made a trap for themselves: Theres no know how and capable people to replicate the tech. This take decades, 2 or even 3 to build.

I have the impression that the China today is the result of the planning made in the 90s, implemented in the 00s. What planning the west did last 20 years? I think the west already lost and this is the tantrum. :(

translucydon Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron

Its Linux for ‘Windows’ key.

translucydon Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job

I feel sometimes that we are running in circles in front end development. We had a good thing: Then we burned, step on it, and then recreated it because it was the best way to do things in the end of the day. :(

translucydon Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job

As a mid-seniority developer, I'm just now starting to grasp the harsh reality of a full refactor. We always think we can improve the speed and code of a website but, man, that's really though.

I always remember the "let's throw away Windows ME codebase for NT" scenario. Sometimes giving up is better I suppose.

translucydon How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole

Amazing! It seams so the devs were thinking of this very idea.

translucydon Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result

We can and did test that and the answer is: as far as we can see, the physics is the same.

translucydon Bye, Gemini

That's actually pretty nice!

translucydon Bye, Gemini

I love the idea of Gemini. But I also find myself forgetting it exists. Maybe the addictive way we do web design this days is the culprit. But, honestly, maybe is just the content quality.

translucydon AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers

Although I’m a bit sceptic for LLM for complex programming, I really think this will make some quakes in the music industry. Especially regarding mixing and pop music arrangements.

translucydon RedHat found a way to get around the GPLv2 license intention with contract law

I wholeheartedly agree with the IP crisis.

Maybe we are seeing that, in the end of the day, who was indirectly paying for open source was the government by offering low interest rates so companies could have some space to spare developers?

Why the Open Source is in crisis right now if thats not the case?