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I disagree.

Ready-made UI components and templates have been million-dollar businesses for a lot of companies for a long, long time.

Finding space in a development ecosystem to provide a set of purpose-built tools is a common and healthy software business pattern.

I can only assume ICANN was co-opted by Verisign some decades ago.

I liked the post because it tells a true story about one of the remaining problems that are hard to solve well without a 3rd party.

How did German solar panels end up adapting?

Firefox still works fine for me. Sometimes it gets greedy with some activities. I smack it around and it seems to respond. I worry that Mozilla is starving it compared to other activities.

Time to break up Big Food.

Yup. Samsung & Sonys too. Dumb mode, no internet, Apple TV.

Doesn't solve the malware on Windows PCs installed by LG monitors problem. My only solution to that remains to not buy Lucky Goldstar ever since their 14" 640x480 VGA monitor died inside of warranty but they refused to fix it.

Well said. Now I just need a universal way to maintain consistency of my F-keys across all applications, including various browsers.

What a fun post! My vector calculus is rusty so it was a pleasant little derivation.

I liked getting to the end an find A.R. as the author. It made me appreciate this part of the journey that eventually got us some Asahi Linux graphics.

Hm. I wonder if you can force an exploit into existence with a false rumor of a bug?

Time to break up Big Food.

Every time I engage with Claude I am reminded how bad it is at communicating to its human.

The author clearly understood this part of the topic and agrees. There are multiple reasons that software is slow.

As you imply, some of them are not because spending time on optimization seems relatively expensive compared to value. But some of them are.

The Banksy cost-benefit and clean-protect loops are part of my favorite modern civic dialogs. I like it when the BBC takes the obvious side of the establishment because it is honest.

No, that is not the new trust model.

Hypocrisy-rich.

Thank you for the library. I was about to ask after 2 of these design spaces.

He was a thoughtful and insightful writer. I eagerly awaited his PC Magazine article every single week.

Thanks. I needed that reminder to sometimes NOT just solve a matrix of 3000 * 3000 equations and merely make an assumption and take an integral, metaphorically.

No Wash & Dry samples?

What's the best cookies notice?

Rife.

About once a year I go on a journey to buy an Iris Crimson. I found an Onyx once but it sold an hour before I got there.

Since 4ms is already about at the limit of my input latency tolerance for snappiness, I came to a different conclusion: "Wayland VRR" is the only tolerable Wayland option.

City can eminent domain those pole locations to put up their own solution.

They only say that as a pretext for theft.

Why is capital punishment for society-level-harming white collar crime never considered in Western countries?

I am sad that I will not have both Rosetta 2 and a tolerable UI for the remainder of my life.

Do bother to write your representatives.

I expected better from Sony's lawyers. How did they not get the right agreement to keep purchases in perpetuity?