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The unpredictable randomness of when an app is going to throw up a "please rate me!!" modal really drives me up the wall.

I understand developers do this because it works, but yeesh

Badging the Luddites as regressive dummies was never historically accurate, but has been a highly effective anti-labor framing.

I've been glad to see more and more people rediscover lately their actual grievances.

My recollection from Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment is that unix sockets are actually often faster than named pipes:

You got me curious; according to a quick search, that seems to hold up according to this more recent post (which doesn't note the OS, annoyingly):

https://www.yanxurui.cc/posts/server/2023-11-28-benchmark-tc...

I'd be interested in more robust data here.

I understand this to be the case, but in practice the distinction is mostly immaterial. Topics are notable for a decade, then not notable the next.

It's been frustrating watching articles for stuff I cared about in the 2000's get deleted because the mere passage or time has rendered the topics non-notable

I deeply hate driving my family's F-150 for this reason. It doesn't fit in American parking spaces.

Ridiculous vehicle.

This is true for the AOM encoder, but SVT-AV1 is actually pretty darn fast in my experience!

I'm glad those seem to have mostly faded away? The installation of them especially in spaces open to the general public has always struck me as deeply sick and antisocial

I think this is half true. The innovation is there: GM's old Voltec hybrid drivetrain and the new Ultium EV platform are really quite good.

The issue is in getting the technology into the marketplace: between advertising, product positioning, dealerships, and consumer demand, that's where things fall apart.

It's funny to think about in retrospect how exciting Firefox 3 was. Planning began in 2006, and release was 2008. Acid2! Cairo! Better Linux theming!

It was just such a different release cadence.

This comment feels like a mantra more to reassure yourself than to convince anybody.

I don't want to be discourteous, but I don't see what kind of productive discussion that can happen as a result of it at this point in 2024?

Aha! That makes sense. I wasn't thinking of that case. Thanks!

If you already have LTO, can't the compiler determine this information for devirtualization purposes on its own?

It's not an "oversight from the crew". Checking ID at the gate is not a thing in the US for domestic flights, and that is a very good thing for boarding time overhead.

Elon fired all the people who would do QA.

Something new on twitter breaks every week. It's wild.

Sounds like a great faith for therians to get into, ngl, if just wishing you were a given species increases the odds of getting to be that species

I've rented in my town for ten years, and I care about it a lot thank you very much.

Renters absolutely care about the local community.

This is interestingly regional: in the part of NJ where I live, every small business has an Amex "shop local" sticker on their front window

There's a good sushi place near me that gives a 10% discount for cash. I'm fascinated by this.

(I still use a card because life is short)

Some donation platforms do this! They show and add on the processing fee for VISA/MC and Amex separately, and Amex is a little higher.

Some usage of goto is still idiomatic in C if used in ways logically equivalent to structured programming constructs C lacks. It requires some care, but I mean, it's C.

(I'm not however fond at all of longjmp)

strncpy won't always write a trailing nul byte, causing out of bounds reads elsewhere. It's a nasty little fellow. See the warning at https://linux.die.net/man/3/strncpy

strlcpy() is better and what most people think strncpy() is, but still results in truncated strings if not used carefully which can also lead to big problems.

If you're sneezing and sniffling, please for the love of god, do not go to the office.

Even before the pandemic we had that policy, and it's a very good default. No, colds are not the end of the world, but they are genuinely miserable, and you will share it. And if money is all somebody cares about, well, colds also diminish work output, so one ne'er-do-well going in sick can screw up an entire department's metrics over the course of several months.

I traveled round trip between NJ and MI last year using Electrify America with my ID.4. It was fine, no real pain points -- EA's been improving pretty aggressively in my experience, and I think we're broadly in pretty good shape.

I charge exclusively using public chargers.

I got an IKEA couch about 9 years ago. It was like... $700? The construction is definitely very cheap and you can tell if you flip it on its back, but it's very comfortable and sturdy enough that it still feels solid in normal use.

I don't think "cheap" construction is necessarily a bad thing, honestly. There's ways to do cheap construction such that it works just fine.

This is a true but very weird thing to bring into the thread.

What's worse is it can change at the whims of executives.

You can invest time and effort into improving an open core product because the leadership is very open and collaborative, then the CTO changes or a bad quarter comes around and OOPS they're done playing with the community now

The Chevy Volt definitely proved that GM could build a best-of-breed reliable hybrid!

For diagrams, PNGs just are not a good choice. We did this as a response to mainstreaming high dpi displays back when Retina hit the market.

It's been a big success. The resulting SVGs are significantly smaller in filesize than PNG, and are crisp and readable no matter how the user zooms in.

The path conversion is a single inkscape command line invocation. It's worth doing.

If it comes out of a vector application, you likely don't want to rasterize it for distribution.

So for a contrasting anecdote, we've used SVGs for years in production on a high traffic site, using an automated Inkscape pipeline to turn text into plain paths, and it's worked perfectly