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Depends on where you live, it's a decent chunk of income for every developer I know, and a significant one for those less experienced. If you have other priorities (family, mortgage, so not a hermit like myself), you won't be able to pay that here.

The "Uncle Bob" school of thought follows this pattern. Look at his projects, I personally find them unreadable.

https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse

Sure. I can live for a day on those five bucks. You wouldn't believe what people in low income countries go through to save a bit of money: I've seen people I know (but couldn't stop in time) send copies of their ID to some shady company to get a five percent discount on gasoline.

They used to give 5-10 bucks of credit to new users a few years ago. Real credits, I very carefully compared prices from different IPs.

So I would register a new account for each order -- 10 USD is quite a lot of money in my country -- and saved at least a hundred on buying dev boards and other components.

Because your motherboard only supports HDMI. The last three I used had HDMI, and sometimes VGA.

They're already busy doing precisely that: https://lwn.net/Articles/1078942

I don't care about either X, but that guy's name is in this release, and judging purely by the number of commits (since I lack X expertise to judge any other way), he seems to be the top contributor.

Looks like there's no way you can avoid "conspiracy theorists" if you want to use X, including Xwayland, eh?

As a long time desktop and server user, why do I look at changelogs...

New filesystems and major changes to existing ones (large performance improvements, new features like adding better compression standards which I now know I can use, fixes to long-standing bugs which open new use cases).

New protocols like wireguard when it was new and exciting (still is now that I think of it). When that was mainlined, I knew I had some network rearchitecting to do.

New device drivers like amdgpu when it was massive news. Less so these days since most hardware is well supported, and I don't buy the absolute latest.

New kernel APIs which I can use in my programs — like landlock, when it was merged I knew it was time to improve sandboxing in some of my stuff.

Though LWN and kernel newbies do it best, already linked by others.

Recent MySQL comes with a rewritten optimizer (which they call "hypergraph") that will soon become the default, but you can already use if you want to.

One application I'm working on (CRUD, but with fairly complicated business logic) is seeing large performance improvements, especially on reports which join many rows from 10+ tables.

I regularly test the same dataset on both PostgreSQL and MySQL -- we support both, and this new optimizer puts them pretty close.

The current default optimizer has some pathological cases where reports run 8-10 times slower on MySQL compared to PostgreSQL. Not with this one.

https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/the-hypergraph-optimizer-is-n...

They use US customary, not imperial, they're slightly different sets of units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

git rerere will resolve repeated conflicts for you automatically, you just need to enable it.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rerere

The only game hack I've ever discovered by myself (by being too cowardly to proceed through the main route when I was little, wasting time instead on the unatco base, and mindlessly throwing grenades around).

It doesn't work anymore in modern mods I've played through; they've patched it.

I am in Asia, this means nothing, it's the largest continent on earth. I don't pay as much for shipping as the author does, but his struggles are nevertheless relatable: most sellers refuse to ship here, most of those who do want dozens and dozens of dollars for it, and some (few, usually Chinese) sellers save the situation from being completely hopeless.

They were significantly more expensive for coding compared to DeepSeek's offering because of much higher cost of cache reads and lower cache hit rate. Now, after the price jump, the effective cost of deepseek.com API vs 3-rd party providers is about the same.

Thank you for bringing that up, such a rarity for this place to remember the other 80% of the world.

As someone from just such a country, DeepSeek 0731 was the first time I seriously started using an LLM for coding. All previous attempts were useless or ridiculously expensive.

Can't say the old prices felt "free", but it was affordable if you're careful with your cache hit rate.

The new pricing probably pushed it into the unaffordable territory for tasks where you can do without it. Probably will try opencode go if they don't also follow suite, or will have to go back to wetware.