This is kind of how it works in countries that haven’t been infected by Amazon Prime. In Sweden for example most e-commerce is done directly from individual stores. There are aggregation sites like prisjakt which lists prices of all different stores so you can find the best deal.

It’s not perfect and maybe not as convenient as Amazon Prime, but I don’t see how a fediverse alternative could do it better.

No idea, but probably Ubuntu ~15 years ago

Haven’t started a company myself, but I’ve worked with a few people who have.

The common theme is that you need to involve potential clients early. Understand their wants and needs. What you learn from the first interactions will likely surprise you, and greatly reshape your product vision.

Don’t build a product in isolation for two years. That’s a sure way to make something no one wants to pay for.

Part of designing large systems is to make research easier. Any question regarding the code base should be easy to find the answer to. No one can keep track of all 100,000 constantly changing lines of code, so make it easy to use the code as reference.

The problem is when the system is built by Rube Goldberg fanatics.

In short, it’s easier to manage your data if there’s one single source of truth for it.

.unwrap()

The legacy system. It doesn’t work, it’s slow, it’s incomprehensible, but you can’t do anything about it without making it worse.

Xbox 360 turned 20 this year

Every time I’ve tried ”fractional scaling” on X11 it’s just a blurry mess. Like as if it renders at a lower resolution and then scales it up by 125%. I don’t want all my text and icons to be tiny without having to configure every single application I’m using (with mixed results).

With Wayland it’s sharp even with 125% scaling.

I know a fair bit of gang signs. From left to right you have P, L, A, S, M and A.

For most ”laymen” Wayland works just fine. I prefer Wayland because it has proper support for fractional scaling, which is a must for monitors with higher resolution than 1080p.

If you haven’t logged in to your WhatsApp through any third party applications you should be fine.

it’s the kind of dependency developers install without a second thought

I got a feeling this is an attack vector that will continue to grow, as now there’s vibe coding frameworks installing random dependencies without a thought at all.

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Why bundle HL3 as launch title? Feels a bit too much to develop the most memed game ever + trying to figure out the logistics of 3 new hardware products at the same time. People won’t exactly rush to buy Steam Machine for HL3 if they already have a decent PC.

The article is about how LLMs circumvent copyleft licenses like GPL

I like to use unwrap_or() to define fallback values. The Option API is quite expressive.

IMO I think it’s fine as long the submitter understand all their changes. This is easiest done if the submitter writes all the code themselves though.

In this case I would reject this. The submitter doesn’t seem to be qualified to understand the code change, and just let ChatGPT explain the code change for them. ChatGPT is a master in being confidently incorrect.

Linux + IntelliJ

I also use VsCode because I like its text editing better.

Retake the photo, but now make the shot at 2 instead of 3