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When it comes to the amount of cross-tenant leaks Azure looks to be way ahead the competition. Makes me wonder why enterprises still flock there.

Although if you want to play the same game you played 20 years ago today, running it on Wine is your best bet to get it running.

The rendering won't be 1:1 but installing the most common MS fonts already does a lot

Due to its simplicity it's a fun little processor to program. Hacking on some assembly on a ZX spectrum emulator is a nice way to stay sane in this high abstraction LLM age.

It also supports proxies which is important to some corporate back-end scenarios

Really excited about this! At least in Sublime Text I've found multiple cursors a really powerful tool for ad-hoc transformations on snippets of semi-structured text or instantly and visually applying the same edit on multiple similar lines.

Please recommend a troubadour who knows the Neat Records, Guardian Records n' Tapes and Heavy Metal Records singles catalogues and I'm sold :)

The comment was especially about TypeScript. Unlike the ancient JavaScript versions best used for web sugar you're possibly thinking of, it's a highly pragmatic and well designed general purpose programming language with an unique and very powerful type system.

This is what I've done in those rare cases I've had to fix a bug in a tool or a library I've used professionally. I've also made sure to do that using online identities with no connection to my employer so that any small positive publicity for the contribution lands on my own CV instead of the bureaucratic company getting the bragging rights.

Developer-specific sandbox environments with hot code reload is the golden standard here but Localstack is great if you can't do that due to (usually IT deparment-related, not technical) reasons.

As someone with years of experience on serverless stuff on AWS I might be a bit biased BUT I'd argue serverless is the sweet spot for most applications. You need to remember however that most applications aren't your typical startups or other software products but simply some rather boring line of business software nobody outside the company owning it knows of.

Concerning how IT departments in most non-software companies are, the minimal operational burden is a massive advantage and the productivity is great once you have a team with enough cloud expertise. Think bespoke e-commerce backends, product information management systems or data platforms with teams of a handful of developers taking responsibility for the whole application lifecycle.

The cloud expertise part is a hard requirement though but luckily on AWS the curriculum is somewhat standardized through developer and solutions architect certifications. That helps if you need to do handovers to maintenance or similar.

That said, even as a serverless fan, I immediately thought of containers when the performance requirements came up in the article. Same with the earlier trending "serverless sucks" about video processing on AWS. Most of the time serverless is great but it's definitely not a silver bullet.

The 4.x series was the one where the ideas still making Plasma so powerful were seeded. While I loved KDE 3 the design for 4 seemed revolutionary. Too bad it was alpha/beta quality up until the 4.6 release years later. I fared through all the bugs, crashes and performance issues with a young student's determination (while running Fluxbox on the side) but I can very well understand people doing serious work had limited patience for the issues.

Anyhow, happy anniversary from a long-time KDE user!

Smartphones?

In a sense the simplicity of SLS is a trap: immediately when you need to move past the synchronous lambda invocations via API GW use case (caching, service integrations, step function workflows etc) you need to either fall back to plain CloudFormation or rely on third party plug-ins with possible problems with maintenance, quality and feature-completeness. This makes it a difficult choice to recommend beyond simple use cases.