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There is no privacy concern here. Probably monopoly concerns.

Personally I would consider withholding products or features from the EU, not because I want to "steal everyone's data", but because they're a pain in the neck for a small business to comply with.

Personally I think EU policies single handedly ruined the web. Every time I'm shown a cookie policy I am a tiny bit more angry at the EU. If I were Apple I would drag my feet way more. They probably only do it because shareholders would force them to go after the Euros if they didn't try.

I dislike duopolies

/s

I've always felt worrying whether foods are "processed" was to focus on the wrong metric. It also sounds like some kind of Luddite moral judgment when I hear people talk about it.

Supported with updates for 3 years? So you'll change the battery once, I guess.

What is this doing on the front page?

I'm probably going to give Sublime another try.

For one, I'm finicky about colors and VS code makes it easy to tweak one or two colors of a theme without getting involved in forking and creating a whole new theme. I may just do it, though.

Also, I recall having some issues getting linting to work and the editor highlighting lint errors in not-very-visible ways (like the first character of the line had a red underline).

Again, it's been a while and these could be issues I had with ST3 and/or I missed the way to fix it.

I've made extensive use of this and it is a killer feature of VS code for me. Still, I wish it supported all of CSS like Atom did.

I checked back regularly for years to look for signs of life in Atom. There weren't any.

Last blog? 2019.

None of the releases did anything interesting. I work in Vue.js and needed that toolchain to work well, it never did with Atom.

So they're blaming the community for something they decided years ago and kept deciding every week when no resources were allocated.

Also, Zed isn't filling the void Atom left. Rust is interesting. Collaborative editing, not so much. Electron's lack of speed doesn't prevent VS code from fading into my workflow and being the most popular editor. I would still like an alternative because I don't think Microsoft should have the whole market.

Atom was doing great and I was happy with it until VS code started to create nuclear winter, freezing other efforts.

I will gladly pay a premium for someone to offer me I real VS Code alternative.

Nova almost solves my problems.

I think Formula E is kind of useless. Racing competitions can be a good engine for innovation, but last I heard Formula E has all cars using a standard battery. Isn't the battery the biggest thing we want to improve on EVs?

They hold the races in cities instead of "real" race tracks, which I guess is cool if that's your home town but as a (lukewarm) racing fan I would rather see tracks I know. I wonder if they also want to avoid comparisons with ICE race cars. The Gen 2 Formula E did 0-60 in 2.8s... which is achievable in some ICE street cars. Hopefully the Gen 3 is more impressive.

I think there are stress/psychological factors. I developed RSI while being in a very bad living & working situation.

I've switched to COLEMAK and I still have pain. Does that mean COLEMAK doesn't work? Maybe. Or, since my pain level has stayed manageable it could mean I'd be worse off without it. I've been doing other things too. It's hard to reason on a sample of 1.

If I'm reading this right, I think UltraRAM doesn't solve this problem. From the article:

its fast switching speed and program-erase cycling endurance is "one hundred to one thousand times better than flash."

I know flash can get some impressive endurance now, but if you start treating it like RAM, is 1000x that endurance even enough?

It is absolutely extra work. You have to test every mode of operation. So to support those with JS disabled (about 1.3% of users according to some quick searches) you have to test with JS disabled. Then you have to test again to make sure your JS workflow is stable.

Every business has to make the choice, but unless I was running a pretty large operation, I'd be willing to ignore 1.3% to put my budget into other things.

Until this moment I didn't know the Apple version of bash was outdated, I reluctantly started using zsh when Apple defaulted to that. Now I don't care about bash.

Was that good for bash?

That's exactly what I meant. You were forced to do extra work to support mobile Safari or else exclude Apple customers. That decision is made over and over again by teams everywhere and Desktop Safari reaps that benefits.

The technologies I want never actually "win". I always have to choose the one that I either hate the least or has some other compelling benefit. The latter is the reason why I'm using Safari.

I'd rather Safari come around (or be abandoned), but pressuring Apple this way is not very effective. How long did they hang on to those stupid butterfly keyboards?

Broken HTML+CSS in Safari? Examples?

I started using Safari as my daily driver because I use all apple devices and I like extending my battery life. Before deciding that, I did stints with Firefox and Brave, both of whom had poor sync'ing.

I can't remember the last time a site had broken HTML/CSS with Safari. My impression is the desire to have good mobile support keeps Safari support alive.

I think I encountered more broken CSS when I was using Firefox.

In practice it's not that great. I hosted meetings on Zoom with 4-5mbps up (based on my tests and my recollection since it's been a year-ish). It was fine until my wife connected separately. So 0.6mbps is optimistic... or for people with very high pain thresholds.

I always mentally equate low upload limits with "the ISP wants to make sure you don't run a server". Or "this internet connection is just a way to watch TV". Which I find very sad. You can do a lot more than just consume other people's creative work on the internet. Some creative things don't need much upstream bandwidth (cough cough github) but there are also a lot of things (e.g. sharing videos of your craft projects) that are much more pleasant with more upload speed.

When is google going to offer to transfer my photos to iCloud? I've done it using their export.. it was a nightmare. Dates aren't preserved.

Never used it but there's a port/clone of Django in Go called Beego (https://beego.me/).

You can't expect normal people to browse with JS disabled

This is the real answer to the question, "why is my computer so slow"?

Yes I can. That's one of my criteria to start taking this seriously. Though I could be persuaded other ways.

Do you have any data to back this up?

Do any internet security suites (whose job it is to "protect people from viruses") advocate disabling JS?

Is Apple Safari switching off JS?

Are there popular Chrome extensions that do this?

If it's really that important to you, you can probably go help make one of the above happen.

Actually I care about front-end performance a great deal. I advocate for it, as well as server side rendering.

I'm just not convinced about the evils of JS. I routinely have plenty of tabs open and if my fan starts running I close the one that's using the most CPU. Half the time it's Slack.

So far, "I've disabled JS" translates in my mind to "tech extremist". Not seeing a lot of people doing it and not believing the reasons. At least not yet.

My technical decisions are driven by efficacy, expediency, skill marketability and what I enjoy working with. If you want to change my mind you'll need to speak to those factors.

It should be pretty easy to tell what ratio of hits had JS disabled. If it’s more than a tiny minority, I’d do something.

I have plenty of things to talk to users about without getting them into whatever this is (still deciding if I class this as paranoia or being cautious or some kind of elitism). Based on the level of vitriol, looks like one of the outer 2 so far.

If you want to persuade developers to do things differently, bad mouthing their tech choices is a really bad strategy.

Because in 10 years nothing you built today that depends on JS for the content will be available, visible, or archived anywhere on the web. All your fancy front-end-JS-required frameworks are dead to history,

Pretending to know anything 10 years in advance is foolish.

There’s a degree of contempt here. That makes me evaluate this as a rant.

If my target audience is developers, I’ll consider using server side rendering. For normal people I doubt it matters either way.

A Firefox based Electron was tried: Positron. It was scrapped for some reason or other (lack of traction?): https://github.com/mozilla/positron

I agree $3/month is reasonable for email, but since the encryption backdoor laws passed in Australia in Dec 2018, I've been avoiding Australian software.

Rent is normally flat. I've never heard of a landlord taking a percentage

Fair enough, but that still doesn't make it a track car.

Your wife drives an Audi that can't do better than 0-60 in 6.5 seconds?

Also.. tracks have turns. Low center of gravity helps, but this thing will probably weigh 3-4x as much as a sporty car. Even the Model S has weight comparable to a minivan. My guess is a Subaru BRZ could beat this around many tracks.

This is a cool truck and all, and I hope Tesla makes more exciting designs like this, but I'm tired of people thinking that Teslas are performance cars just because they have torque. Tesla has yet to make anything that interests me at the prices they charge.

Thanks for the insight. I never found Mercurial slow for anything I needed to do. So honestly I didn't recall. (update: I had an impression it was, since I remember reading the kernel team needed something fast, but I never 'felt' the slowness)

What do you mean by "there"?

If you mean you've been working that long my first VCS experience was with MS SourceSafe and quickly moving to CVS. So...

The first I heard of Git (as best I recall) I definitely knew it was from Linus.

That's a good point. Although Mercurial had Bitbucket.

Was GitHub that much better? Or was it network effect of everyone on GitHub? (sincere question, I don't know)

Creating both are merits, of course.

But creating Linux should not be a merit toward Git. Obviously the experience would make Git better. But why did a better UI lose to an inferior one?

I'd love to be wrong because now Mercurial is sort of dead and I have to use Git every day if I want to work with others. I'd love to have a better attitude about it. So far it just looks like another thing that one because X popular guy made it or Y big company made it.