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  1. I don't think you get how it works. When you download a browser on iOS it does not have an engine _at all_, not even a "WebKit fork". The browser is just a UI and wrapper for one of the engines bundles in iOS. No modifications can be done to the engine whatsoever, it is part of the OS.
  2. There are many browsers on the App Store but they all have to use one of two browser engines bundled with iOS.
  3. They’ve also paid tons to Igalia to develop features for them in open source projects.
  4. Nothing to contribute other than to say that article was an awesome read and now I wish I had the specific skills needed to work at Igalia. :)
  5. You should consider updating your free license to allow some time period of professional use, otherwise it's not possible to evaluate it at work without violating the license.
  6. I use agentic tooling when programming all the time and I can say for certain that Claude feels _several times better_ than any OpenAI model, despite what the benchmarks show.
  7. I don’t think you can answer this for all managers of all teams all at once. Most of the time the answer is probably no but sometimes it’s not. Sometimes good managers want to code and they need to in order to stay happy. Sometimes your team is fast moving and small and your manager needs to code to keep up. Sometimes your manager is so busy managing they can’t. It just depends.
  8. Oof where is this guy finding an LLM that is a reliable source of information? Most times when I ask an LLM a question about something or bother to look at the AI results in Google I find a lot of incorrect information and linked sources that do not contain any part of the answer they were cited for.
  9. I think another very common scenario is just eliminating the headcount. Companies cut headcount at a small scale all the time and the first one to go is usually the unhired.
  10. Canvas LMS is built on rails. It is open source, too.
  11. I’m a full time nomad and stay in airbnbs and similar almost full time going on four years now. I used to rent my house but finally sold it so I figure I’m a net zero on the housing issue. I also like to spend a few weeks to a month in a walkable residential neighborhood and get to know it a bit. You can’t usually do that in hotels.
  12. Cool idea for a product but you either have to be a serious airhead or just lazy to miss or ignore all the low battery notifications. Also, that case should have a spot to store the back plate.

    > Just discard the AirTag's back plate

  13. Probably plenty in Oregon. A lot of non-core software engineering happens there.
  14. Five taps of power button on iPhone disables biometrics until you enter the passcode. I always do this before going through airport security
  15. So does that mean they may not want to appeal it at all to avoid a ruling in a higher court?
  16. The Houston center is amazing as well! They have a tour where you get to sit in the guest theater/gallery of the original command room and watch a shortened version of the moon landing with all the controls, monitors, projectors, etc all automated to show what was presented during the original landing.
  17. There was a screenshot of some tool identifying it as a finalized CD-R manufactured by TDK. Not the best evidence but something.
  18. I once had a take home API integration task that was time-boxed to 2 hours using the honor system. I handed it in but then the interviewers never mentioned it so I assumed nobody paid attention to it and was a bit annoyed. Then I got into the technical interviews and I was asked tons of questions about the APIs I was supposed to integrate with. It wasn't until after the interview that I realized the task itself was probably completely ignored, they just wanted to see what things I learned about the assigned API in a couple hours.

    I know that has nothing to do with the question in the title, but I found it interesting.

  19. You can buy a nice rolling code receiver and pair of programmable key fob transmitters for $15.
  20. It is still scary to put a lot of new money in right now considering it is pretty easy to get >5% return with virtually no risk thanks to the high interest rates.
  21. Stop humbling them, I still own a bunch of stock.
  22. Where did you get those tiers from? They seem pretty arbitrary.
  23. > We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later.
  24. > For example, LED TV use individual LEDs to switch on and off to construct a picture.

    Um...

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