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I used to work on a codebase at Microsoft that was classified as a microservice. Pretty much entirely written in C# and it was about 12 years old.


My major reason for using it is how open the platform is. I run a community project that involves posting pictures to multiple social media sites at once. Posting to Twitter was fine up until Elon's takeover broke a bunch of things. My API access got turned on and off repeatedly for unknown reasons. Checking the Twitter forums showed that this was happening to other developers as well with little response from the team there.

Bluesky on the other hand has been open first. You can now host your own Personal Data Server (PDS) which means if you ever want to post to the network you are basically never blocked from doing so.

I kept posting on Twitter manually (along side automatic posts to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads) because people were there but with this latest shift in interest having to post manually is a pain so I'm dropping Twitter.


To the shock of some people as well, some people use Windows because they prefer it over other operating systems.


Probably yes. Depending on your requirements (e.g. if cloud, spying, etc is all fine), it can indeed make sense. Windows has its strengths.

But what I suspect: A much bigger cohort is people saying "I'm not forced, I just explicitly prefer it" although this is actually a lie. Some of them are aware of that, some not. Being forced to sth is not great. Not everyone is honest (or even aware) enough to admit it.


This is no longer the case. I signed up for Informed Delivery last year with frozen credit with no issues.


I implemented them for a personal project about 6 months ago. The library support is pretty good. The biggest draw for me was that it's easier for the users of my site to use passkeys.


I'd be really interested in your implementation. Can you share a link or some code?


I haven't seen any data showing if people became addicted to drugs first and then became homeless due to that or if it was the other way around. I can totally see people becoming homeless first and then getting addicted to drugs because being homeless sucks. Again, haven't seen any data to show which way happens more often but the data showing rates of homelessness are lower in areas with lower housing costs is pretty telling.


Glad to see Cowboy release an app to potentially save us VanMoof owners. For US residents VanMoof had a leg up because there were brand stores open in the US to take bikes to for repair. There's a couple of other features VanMoof bikes had that I preferred over Cowboy's so it's sad to see them go.

At least in Seattle both Amazon and Google partnered with VanMoof to let employees rent or buy bikes so there's a ton of VanMoofs around. I wonder what's going to happen with them.


I'm coming up on 6 years in Seattle. Lived in SLU or Denny Triangle (parts some people consider "downtown") the entire time. I've learned to just largely ignore the incredibly negative comments because my experience and the experience of all the people I know who live here are vastly different. While the city still has its problems I would like for people to approach solving them from a realistic point of view.


Either you're getting a different result due to whatever config you're getting served or they fixed it already because I'm getting 0.


I just tried asking for the population of Neptune:

> "Neptune has a total of 32,465 people and of those residents there are 15,209 males and 17,256 females. The median age of the male population is 36.8 and the female population is 40.2. There are approximately 8,127 births each year and around 5,425 deaths." --Bing

Then it linked me to https://www.movingideas.org/neptune-nj/ But it stilled showed me, on the search results page, a picture of the planet Neptune to go with the response text.


Same here, though it's giving an incorrect number (650m) for pluto, apparently sourced from a now deleted page at https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_kingdom_of_pluto.


This one seems to have been fixed now too.


I just timed the boot speed for my Windows 11 desktop. Once with a regular shutdown, once with fast startup disabled (which was introduced with Windows 8). 10-12 seconds to get to the login screen (after typing my BitLocker password). 7 seconds to login using face authentication. I do have very modern specs (Ryzen 9 5900X, 32 GB RAM, Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus) but my suspicions are that your boot speed could be dramatically reduced by just upgrading to an SSD.

Here's metrics from Tom's Hardware comparing an HDD to two types of SSDs (SATA and NVMe)[1] on a Windows 10 machine. The HDD had a boot time of 42.9 seconds. The SATA SSD a time of 17.2 and the NVMe SSD a time of 16.1 seconds.

With the advantage of fast startup the HDD machine was able to boot under a minute but the SATA SSD still cut the boot time of the machine by nearly 2/3rds.

1. https://www.tomshardware.com/features/ssd-vs-hdd-hard-drive-...


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