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But the context of this discussion is the difficulty of installing an APK from outside the Play Store.

The main difference is that signing a Windows binary doesn't require any third party review of the app content.

It is still important to declare UTF-8 either in <meta> or Content-Type header, otherwise it will usually default to Windows-1252. Yay compatibility!

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about how all this works, but can we have any confidence that 13 million lines of AI-generated Lean code are... correct?

How have we not merely substituted one verification problem for another?

The discussion of "FLIP (First, Last, Invert, Play)" would be improved by mentioning the View Transitions API, which is basically there to automate this technique.

Original Win95 did not even install a TCP/IP stack by default. It was an optional extra on the CD-ROM.

This changed with OSR2 I believe, when they started bundling IE4.

> Look at any printed media from the last 100 years.

I have, and it contradicts your point. The single space is the nearly universal standard in modern print media.

Even the CBC thinks of London, England before London, Ontario.

We are fortunate that this individual's stylistic perspective is out there adding spice and variety to the world. I think, however, that most of us would be ill-advised to emulate it.

Orwell's maxim, "never use a long word when a short one will do", is something the best writers have always freely ignored. But it's a reliable guardrail for the writer of merely average skill, steering them toward something passable rather than vomit-inducing.

I'm confused, this tweet reads like the lead-in or movie-trailer to a story, but where is the actual story?

The map tile backend is in the middle of a multi year effort to migrate from the Flippity Service to the Floopity Service. The FlippityFlooper was believed to have finished the necessary format conversions for all map tiles in the US and Canada but 5% of the data sources were missed due to a bug that was discovered after the creator of FlippityFlooper had been promoted and changed teams, so those Floopity tiles are filled in from an older source. A junior engineer vibe-coded a stopgap fallback called FloopityFlipper that redirects to legacy Flippity Service when Floopity staleness is detected, but that redirect broke three months later due to a change in an injected dependency's experiment configuration. A bug was auto-filed and marked P2 by an overworked product manager who slightly misunderstood the scope, but the FloopityFlipper engineer will probably have a look once they are back from paternity leave.

I made all of that up but it's more plausible than conspiracy theories.

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I think you can still go directly to /messages/ and not see the feed.

Why is the whole implementation in header files?