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I think they may mean Twitter's 'Fail Whale' era – late 2000s/early 2010s, when it regularly fell over under load.

It’s helpful to put this issue into perspective. But dismissing issues as not worth caring about on the grounds that there exist larger problems is fallacious and, to me, quite a dangerous way to live life.

“Why worry about your town’s water quality when some countries don’t have access to clean water?”

“Why go to the dentist for a cavity when some people have no teeth?“

“Why campaign for animal rights when there are some many human rights abuses going on?”

In principal, neither do I. What I take issue with is crafting elaborate but completely false bios to make these sound like real artists. That seems slimy to me.

You are right about performance, but does it really matter?

It feels like this is the sort of tool one needs (very) infrequently, and those cases don’t seem like the sort of thing where seconds really matter. I think it’s plenty good enough.

I prefer to focus on how grateful I am that the author has made this and published it for free.

Without understanding the minutiae of this, couldn’t someone just write a program that we can pipe any output to, which strips colour commands from its input before writing it back out? Does such a program already exist? That wouldn’t require every program to add support for an environment variable.

TIL. Such a useful tip, thanks.

We have very different expectations. I'd be pretty annoyed if I couldn't browse and sort my photos by date taken.

I think Notion might actually work best in personal/small environments, and this seems like a smart move to encourage more of that kind of use. My exposure to it is at a large company, where it really does not work well.

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I’ve been thinking about going the other way a bit recently: having bots consume input from and add their output to a Google Doc.

There are so many processes in most businesses which involve many humans collaborating on templatised documents. Google Docs/Sheets fits into these workflows very well, but there’s often scope for some partial automation in there too - pulling information from databases and outside sources and keeping it in sync, etc. Developing custom web apps for each case is too much effort for too little reward, takes users out of a familiar (and well-liked) interface which updates in real-time, makes you reimplement permission models, etc.

Not something I’ve explored properly yet so I don’t know if the APIs are rich enough to make this easy, but I would really like to give it a look.

That post, which was very popular, immediately came to my mind too.

It also feels like the logical next step to the very widespread testing found in countries like South Korea.

I think the parent is talking about compilation speed not runtime speed.

I don't think an equivalent of the Current Account Switch Service exists in the US, which is a shame.

But I don't think this is crucial. We had around 5,500 switches via the Current Account Switch Service in May, but added around 200,000 new customers.