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Yeah we can't expect them to be able to hire the expertise required for this, it's not like they made over $1,000,000,000 net income last year or anything. Oh wait...

My coworker was making a browser extension recently and noticed that most of Facebook's frontend code is crazy bullshit designed to make it difficult for scrapers and bots to navigate the DOM.

The saddest part of it is that none of it is particularly effective, it just means they had to write 2 lines of code to grab the fields they wanted instead of 1, so all that's happened is Meta have made everything worse for everyone and burned an extra kajillion client-side CPU cycles worldwide, for almost no benefit.

Windows XP was initially only capable of addressing a maximum of 4GB of RAM in its first 4 years of release, and I can't think of a single damn thing I want from Windows 11 that XP didn't already give me. How bloated does this bullshit have to be for 8Gb to be the bare minimum?

The conventional wisdom is that he's still a genius but was masterfully playing 4-D chess.

Personally I don't believe it, I think he genuinely did think he was being a genius and that it was going to happen.

I can't believe he doesn't get more shit for that whole Hyperloop debacle.

The hype around it was a big part of his whole elevation in the media to "Real-life Tony Stark" status. Engineers who called it out as impractical half-baked nonsense were ignored or ridiculed, but now that they've been proven correct everyone's just moved on and forgotten about the whole thing.

I've been interviewing software engineers for many years, and this was the first year the "AI natives" started graduating and applying for jobs.

Never had such a high rate of people completely unable to write one line of code in a language that appears on their CV, it's been about 50% in the last few months where I had to end the interview during the warmup question.

I don't run ad block because they're showing me ads, I run it because creepy fuckers are trying to collect everything I've ever done online and store it forever.

Nice. What did you use for that one?

https://niy.ai/worldmap lets you reproject Mercator to put any landmass you want in the middle by clicking on it, but it doesn't have that overlay thing.

A few years later: “dang, they knew all along”