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New comment by binwang in "What About Rails?"

binwang — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:14:37 +0000

> Does anyone actually use Hey?

In the talk he said all Hey's traffic can be served on a Raspberry Pi. I think that pretty much answers your question.

New comment by binwang in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

binwang — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:22:13 +0000

> Mozilla Mail - a reliable Exchange/Google Mail alternative (desperately needed imo)

Thunderbird Pro was announced a while back, still not GA though

New comment by binwang in "Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based"

binwang — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:45:56 +0000

Now I see little value in subscribing to Zed Pro compared to just bringing my own API key. Am I missing something?

New comment by binwang in "SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant"

binwang — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 02:34:51 +0000

The site you mentioned seem to just link to a bunch of GitHub repos. Neither site answers the questions new users care about the most, like why should I use this new OS and who are the people behind the project.

New comment by binwang in "Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu"

binwang — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:15:17 +0000

Same here. I also find this reasoning very disturbing and discouraging, even though I can live without this feature, and will most likely continue using FF after this change lands.

New comment by binwang in "Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions"

binwang — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 22:15:01 +0000

Why not?

New comment by binwang in "Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge"

binwang — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 14:31:09 +0000

can second this. I am a Chinese who lived in Beijing for 10 years. No one would pronounce a hard r after 那个