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Good code is extremely subjective, most bad code is built on a good code foundation. And most foundational software (think linux, ffmpeg, curl, v8, etc.) maintainers are pushing back.

Once AI/Agents actually master all tools we currently use (profilers, disassembly, debuggers) this may change but this won't be for a few years.

Is it just me or are the code examples of the executors absolutely unreadable/comprehensible without reading it 5 times?

Even with different formatters I'd much prefer the tbb variant.

I've done a fair amount of vibe coding cleanup, ironically using a fair about of LLMs, a lot of leadership are under the false impression that more code means better product, their ignorance is my gain.

A lot of "engineers" nowadays don't know the concept of per-user/customers configs and how to build/expose them to non-technical staff.

The main appeal of feature flags is simplicity and being a low-hanging way to apply per-customer/user configuration, few platforms allow true a/b testing (amplitude comes to mind but I'm sure there are more).

My tips have been going down progressively, when I moved to the US I was taught 20% is "normal", now I tip 15% at MOST at restaurants and at MOST 5% on take out.

I'm tired of being shamed to pay more for less.

Also whoever was in charge of teaching staff to "turn away in shame" when the tipping screen is shown needs to go to some sort of gulag.

I still don't 100% understand why `React.memo` is not applied by default, wrapping every single component in a `memo` is crazy overhead and non-trivial to enforce codebase-wide.

Sure performance is a concern but is recursive re-rendering really cheaper than memoing all props?

Having moved from the EU (Germany) to the US there seems to be a LOT of these bad-faith skirtings of reasonable laws, especially in automotive (eg. license plate screens, window tint etc.) where lack of enforcement is abused and will eventually lead to the penaltization of the general public.

The censoring/redacting used here is insufficient, you can layer the censored text to recontruct sufficient text to identify the website.

Pretty much this, I hope they retain the form factor, I would very much buy 3-4 of these for my luggage, I previously duct-taped airtags inside of the case but they died within a year, this would help a lot.

This suit seems to be in bad-faith.

Apple actively pursuited this tech but that backlash from the general population due to privacy concerns was simply too high, so they made a business decision to respect peoples privacy (and their bottom line at that).

I feel for the victims of child abuse but forcing device manufacturers to monitor everyone without warrant is an enormous violation of privacy.