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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. :)


Same feeling here! I never really dug much into the low level graphics side of thing.


Not just that, but the whole concept of an open source consultancy is fascinating. I love that this exists and is a career for some people.


I love it.


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.


It's possible if you build from source, even in the commercial environment. As the last item in the pricing page says, the license only applies to the prebuilt binaries.


You get a 30-day trial


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.


Hot take: sonnet3.7 is as good if not better than OpenAIs $200/mon o1-pro model, were it were not for Deep Research I would have cancelled my ChatGPT subscription.


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.


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.


Interesting idea that Google Search will be the backend for ai chats.

Many AI services and crawlers scan sites more intensively than Google Search. I've seen this myself in Google Analytics.


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.


Canvas LMS is built on rails. It is open source, too.


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.


You’re quite literally exemplifying the issue described in the article which is homes being used for short term rentals rather than people who are there for the long term and form communities.


build more housing to "form communities" then. You can't have it both ways. NIMBYs crying about airbnbs is the most ironic thing in this whole "debate".


Yes, you’re quite literally describing the solution described in the article: "There needs to be an express focus on building for people who actually live in a place. Once you give the market free rein to build for anyone, then you’re just hoping that it trickles down to people. But increasingly, housing is seen as a commodity."

That you agree would make you one of the crying NIMBYs, it would seem.


I've never been part of a community where I've lived. The activity-specific communities I participate in are miles from where I live.


> I’m a full time nomad

> a walkable residential neighborhood

You see the contradiction in your logic right?

As someone who owns a house in one of those "walkable residential neighborhoods" the reason they feel so pleasant is precisely because virtually all the people living there have lived their a long time (most people on my block have been here ~20 years). This means there is a community that keeps the local shops alive, people know each other so that they know who does and doesn't belong which keeps them those places safe (I can't overstate how important this is), people raise their children there so they remain active in local politics and work to ensure policies that continue to make these areas nice, and, because they have invested a lot in that area, their homes are all beautiful.

The houses in my neighborhood that are AirBnBs is painfully obvious, and thankfully remain quite few in number. The parts of my city that contain higher density of housing for "full time nomads" are notably worse, and often have much higher number of other "nomads" (mainly itinerant homeless). I've lived in other cities in some beautiful, historic neighborhoods, that are effectively ghosts of what they were given that a critical number of the apartments don't have permanent residents. Still pleasant for a stroll, but you can feel the void of a living community of residents.


> As someone who owns a house in one of those "walkable residential neighborhoods" the reason they feel so pleasant is precisely because virtually all the people living there have lived their a long time (most people on my block have been here ~20 years). This means there is a community that keeps the local shops alive, people know each other so that they know who does and doesn't belong which keeps them those places safe (I can't overstate how important this is), people raise their children there so they remain active in local politics and work to ensure policies that continue to make these areas nice, and, because they have invested a lot in that area, their homes are all beautiful.

I can give you plenty of examples of places where people owned their houses for decades and it’s still crappy.


I think more relevant examples would be places with a lot of transient residents (airbnbs, etc) that are still walkable and have a neighborhood vibe


most of the Netherlands


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


But these don’t exist in a vacuum. Replacing one battery a year is not a big deal. But I’m also replacing the 8-10 door sensor batteries yearly, 3 water leak sensors, etc. In a set it and forget it product that you may not use for weeks or months at a time, but also really need to work the one time you do need it, increasing the lifespan by an order of magnitude can have real value.


I have frequently had the batteries run out on mine and I can't recall ever getting a proactive notification about it. However, "airhead" would potentially be an accurate term to describe me when it comes to how I usually handle such notifications, so maybe that's the problem!


its not about missing the notifications, its about not needing to worry about it.


But when you have 4 -- and I bet people have more -- it does get a bit boring having to switch them out. It's no longer an annual event, it's now quarterly.

I mean, first-world problem. But if it could be less frequent, of course I'd take it.


I have about 8. They used to run low at the same-ish time frame, but over time they drift apart due to frequency of moving around. (e.g.: the AirTag in my luggage runs out months after the one in my wallet)


It's a cool hack, but a terrible idea for a product. There are more components than the battery that will fail over a 10 year period (both in hardware and in software) - which is why ignoring notifications, and assuming that this product solves your problem is a big issue.


I've got a 10 year old Bluetooth headset that works fine with a 2024 iPhone so why would something even simpler so obviously not?


This seems incredibly pessimistic to me. Do you really not expect things to last for over ten years?

In my experience most electronic things - and especially things that are simple and solid with no wear and tear like an AirTag - easily last 10 years. I’d expect an AirTag to work for, at least, decades.


My amplifier and speakers date from the 70s.


Do they run a proprietary Apple software, and have NFC and UWB inside them?


When the software is fixed we're back to thinking of the object as a single piece of hardware. My Gamecube and Xbox 360 have been working for (nearly) 20 years now.

Unless there's a known failure mode in these devices that gets worn down over time you should probably expect them to outlive you. The worst you'll probably get is corrosion from the AA batteries in the pack.


The software isn't fixed.


This guy replaces his garage door opener every 2 years...


Your smoke alarm has a ten year battery.


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