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meepmorp··on StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
Have you ever used flutter? If so, what's the relative pain level like?
meepmorp··on Uber Wait Times Rise 19% as Prices Climb 53%: Study
> PE backed car washes

I can't tell if this is a joke or a sign that the good lord needs to cleanse the earth with fire

meepmorp··on Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone
The original drone design was based on prop driven shaheed drones, which were both supplied directly by Iran as well as being manufactured (and further developed) in Russia.

Calling it a propaganda twist ignores how the thing came to be.

meepmorp··on Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
> You wouldn't ask why a paper was so long.

I've asked myself that question a whole bunch of times

meepmorp··on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
Maybe not on the investment/new hotness side, but as a user I'm not clamoring for greater LLM integration. Maybe I'm a Luddite, though.
meepmorp··on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
Seems like it's just a comment written by someone with little to no experience using zig.
meepmorp··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Why settle for just one?
meepmorp··on SSL Configuration Generator
I tend to expand TLS thread-local storage, so SSL is less confusing for me.
meepmorp··on AI scrapers request commented scripts
> Won’t somebody please think of the parasites?
meepmorp··on Serverless Horrors
To paraphrase Rainer Wolfcastle - the budgets do nothing!

You get a warning. There's no service cutoffs or hard limits on spending.

meepmorp··on The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)
The external fuel tank, whence came the foam that stuck the wing, leading to the loss of Columbia.
meepmorp··on Mosh Mobile Shell
I've tried mosh several times and always found it to be more annoying than tmux/screen + living with the reality of dropped connections on mobile.
meepmorp··on Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT
> Since I suppose none of the browser vendors will give developers money to change their xslt usage in codebases for something else.

Let's turn that around: are you willing to pay a browser vendor to keep supporting xslt so you can keep your codebase unchanged?

meepmorp··on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
Unless it comes from the Commie region of Asia, it's just sparkling state capitalism.
meepmorp··on Zig 0.15.1
yeah, some jerk filed a windows https bug after the release had been tagged
meepmorp··on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
Aren't LTO formats only backward compatible with the immediate prior version?
meepmorp··on GitHub was having issues
Yeah, I think what people really liked about git (vs many other VCSs at the time) was cheap and easy local branching, not the distributed nature.
meepmorp··on GitHub was having issues
It's kind of weird that we've collectively decided on a distributed version control system, while centralizing where we keep the repositories and metadata.
meepmorp··on GitHub was having issues
Actually, the big problem for me is that github doesn't have issues at the moment.
meepmorp··on Zig Error Patterns
It's weird that you've been downvoted for essentially restating what Zig's BFDN said when closing an issue related to error payloads:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647#issuecomment-2525...

meepmorp··on We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes
The pdp-11 was 16-bit.
meepmorp··on Cerebras Code
They make frisbee-sized CPUs.
meepmorp··on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
I don't think I've ever intentionally used the scroll back search in iterm2 and deliberately disabled the shortcut for it because I kept triggering it by accident. I don't understand wanting or needing it, at all.
meepmorp··on How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer
Why would leaving an unsecured bike to catch thieves be illegal? Entrapment is when law enforcement gets people to commit crimes they wouldn't have considered committing otherwise.

Plus your lawyer needs to make a convincing case that you only took the bike because the cops left it unsecured to trick you, and not because just you're a thief who stole some shit and got caught. Tough row to hoe.

meepmorp··on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
Do they have foundry customers? Serious question; I remember Gelsinger's IFS announcement and that they had some launch partners, but haven't seen much since.
meepmorp··on Intel CEO Letter to Employees
I for one would welcome our new AI overlords a bit more if C-suite jobs were the get first ones LLM'd into obsolescence.
meepmorp··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
Well it's an hour later and nobody got vaporized in response, so it probably wasn't Russian space nukes.
meepmorp··on VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches
If you're not already off VMware or actively planning an exit, you're a fool.
meepmorp··on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
Interestingly, Zeeker is owned by the same Chinese parent company as Volvo, Geely auto.
meepmorp··on First Hubble telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
It'd be more surprising if he wasn't, tbh.
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