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New comment by morgannewman in "Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored"

morgannewman — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:35:04 +0000

Well, it appears nobody else has taken the lead on this since 1997 so…

New comment by morgannewman in "Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever"

morgannewman — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:09:43 +0000

My mother passed away from lung cancer about 2 years ago.

I wish I had more videos and audio recordings of her. I wish I had handwritten letters from her. I wish I had audio/video of stories and family history only she would know. Above all, I don’t think I would have found any of the above weird or morbid, and I doubt your children (or spouse?) will either. I know my siblings feel the same as I do. You should feel safe in knowing that they will deeply appreciate any artifacts you leave behind for them to think about when they miss you.

I’m sorry for what you’re going through, and I wish you and your family the best.

New comment by morgannewman in "FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee"

morgannewman — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 21:07:59 +0000

This does not match my understanding, but I am not an expert. You receiving those charges is not mandated by the government; rather, passing them through to the consumer is entirely discretionary and often done by ISPs or cell carriers. The article discussed this with the suggestion that ISPs instead simply roll it into the base rate if they do not wish to have to advertise the additional fees. This is exactly what T-Mobile does for their cell phone plans and I love it.

New comment by morgannewman in "Meta developer tools: Working at scale"

morgannewman — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:57:38 +0000

You might be surprised to learn that it was not and still is not a solved problem for companies like Meta. Here is an earlier write-up about this topic from Meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-merc...

New comment by morgannewman in "NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen"

morgannewman — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:54:25 +0000

+1 the website is borderline unusable on my work laptop. I have an M1 Pro in my standard MacBook Pro 2021. I am using the latest version Chrome and this animation causes a huge performance regression on my computer when it's visible.

New comment by morgannewman in "Subscription fatigue and related musings"

morgannewman — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:03:08 +0000

Perhaps this is preferable to the user, but if you consider it from the developer's POV, almost no users will contribute meaningful "donations", so it stops making economic sense to follow the latter model you suggest unless the project is an altruistic hobby.

New comment by morgannewman in "Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited"

morgannewman — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 16:05:02 +0000

Furthermore, the economics of video hosting sites like YouTube are such that you have truly incredible storage, server, and bandwidth growth, basically forever. I don’t think it’s feasible for there to be a “free” API that lets people use YouTube as they please, build clones of the site with no ads, etc.