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It’s better than having your DC confiscated (by Putin, in Russia), or bombed (in Ukraine, by Russia). As some hyperscalers realized.

No, E-bikes doesn’t make this much less of an issue.

Do you think it’s a coincidence that the top two countries are completely flat?

Of course it helps if the city, and country in general, is completely flat. Cities in Norway or Nepal have mother nature against all form of manual locomotion.

Always interesting to see the privacy fear of americans. The rest of the world isn’t afraid of non-sexual intimacy with friend/family.

So async enable concurrent outstanding requests.

There’s syntax that is objectively easier to both read and write, and there’s syntax that is both harder to read and write. For a majority.

In general, using english words consisting of a-z is easier to read. Using regex-like mojibake is harder.

For an concrete example in rust, using pipes in lambdas, instead of an arrow, is aweful.

For a while the brain dead utf32 encoding was popular in the Unix/Linux world.

Custom word widgets in that zoom dialog, the scroll wheel doesn’t even work in the spinner box.

1% is closer to 100%, than 0% is, yes.

Companies typically move more and more functionality to closed firmware, so they can ”open source” a thin wrapper, like a driver, that is often completely useless, and often encumbered with cryptography restrictions, strict trademarks and software patents anyway.

Closed verilog I can accept. But in general firmware is also software, for example it has become quite popular in the recent years to execute firmware on an embedded riscv cpu. And move more and more functionality to that kind of firmware.

Isn’t minix open source?

Enshittification. Open source is a valuable guarantee against that.