Bugs like these in the very thing which is supposed to convince me of buying do not exactly increase my trust :-)

Recently evaluated other testing tools/frameworks and if you're not already running the npm-dependencyhell-shitshow for your projects, most tools will pull in at least 100 dependencies.

I might be old fashioned but that's just too much for my taste. I love single-use tools with limited scope like e.g. esbuild or now this.

Will give this a try, soon.

Also, they're listing CoreWeave as inference provider in "EEA" area, but CoreWeave is of course also an US company. Even if they have their data center physically in the EU, it must be considered open access for the USA due to the CLOUD act.

https://trust.mistral.ai/subprocessors

If what you say is true, they have a communications problem and they need to fix that urgently. Right now, this is why they don't get my business. Others will have made the same decision based on their own subprocessor list.

Or did you mean, they're like, right now building it and plan to move there, but it's not up yet?

If I do not accept that level of independence but want more, I need to buy what's on OVH, Scaleway, Ionos etc. or host my own, but that usually means even smaller, worse models or a lot of investment.

Nevertheless, the "band" that Mistral occupies for economic success is very narrow. Basically just people who need independence "on paper" but not really. Because if I'm searching for actual independence, there's no way I could give them money at the moment for one of their products and it making sense, cause none of their plans are an actual independence-improvement over, let's say, Amazon Bedrock.

I really really want to support them, but it must make economic sense for my company, too, and it doesn't.

Mixed feelings about it being animated. The older I become, the more I have trouble relating to painted characters, no real clue why, so I couldn't even enjoy things I should have enjoyed like Arcane.

Also, of course, no Shepherd Book :-(

Anyway, I hope I'll like it. Really loved season 1.

Already iOS 26 made me consider switching to Android, and now I've pondered returning to Linux after 26 years on Mac OS. Bizarrely, right now it's the quality of the hardware alone holding me at Mac OS. Wouldn't have expected that 6 or 7 years ago.

Sick of the forced UI refreshes and "modern" designs. Will Apple understand again this is where I work and basically live in and not some kind of entertainment system where I need design refreshes so it feels all shiny and new?

Would rather prefer people would cooperate on ONE fork, e.g. get your extension framework integrated into MariaDB or something.

It catches regressions. Which is the one thing where such semi-automated testing is most useful in my eyes.

No clue though why they gave it that weird "expect" name. Basically, it's semi-automated regression testing.

This has, at least with current MariaDB versions, the annoying property that you really cannot ever again modify the history without rewriting the whole table, which becomes a major pain in the ass if you ever need schema changes and history items block those.

Maria still has to find some proper balance here between change safety and developer experience.

Sometimes apps will randomly appear to have time limits which the parent has never set also.

It's really a bugfest through and through.

Sorry. Just grumpy, cause I always love the first 80% of his books and then they somehow... just disintegrate.