>Like most sensible people with a reasonable sense of priorities, I do not carry a ruler with me wherever I go.

Let me introduce to you: the IKEA paper tape measure, folded neatly in your wallet.

Or just use your phones measuring App. So far the iPhone one has been precise enough for me when on the go.

Security!

(read the article)

I read the article, but is there any evidence suggesting the Apple measuring app is insecure? It only collects data not linked to you (usage data and diagnostics) and is using the same privacy policy as the Apple camera app, which pretty much every iPhone user is trusting already.

There should be a term for this. I semi-unironically trust content written in Computer Modern, even if I know it's insane.

What kind of project did you "remove all React"? Also, curious whether you ended up with vanilla Web Components, or fast-element/LitElement/others?

Completely vanilla, just using the web standards themselves.

this.innerHTML with a string template prefixed with /* html */ so syntax highlighting is applied.

With the advent of OSS LLMs, it's "just" a matter of renting compute.

They can't be arsed to make consumer friendly software. Edge was amazing for about five minutes before it got enshittified. It took a world wide pandemic and thousands of businesses flocking to Zoom before Teams got okay at calls (never mind the Sharepoint/Teams side, which is still a mess). They lost enough developers they had to embed an entire Linux VM in their OS. I'll concede they nail Office and cloud compliance/regulations though.

It's just fun/sad reading about the concept of "swimmable cities" when you've taken it for granted all your life. Most cities with fjords or channels here, have "harbour baths" - essentially outdoor swimming facilities with springboards and tanning beds. Would have thought these existed elsewhere.

It is probably not that uncommon. I've been swimming both in Oslofjord and Danube (AT, SK).

AT, SK?

Austria and Slovakia

There's nothing regarding Google in the article, but it is specifically mentioned that Apple's back taxes are already in escrow.

Since 2018. Can't help thinking that if with that money they had bought Apple shares, it would be now 3 times more.

What's ironic is that the escrow account is now lesser because they used that money to buy eurozone government bonds which have since fallen.

From https://www.ft.com/content/d6b7d0fd-a41b-45a9-a830-9cacb10c5...

> The total in the account has fallen from the original €14.3bn set aside in 2018, as the money was invested in eurozone government bonds, which have dropped in value.

> Since 2018. Can't help thinking that if with that money they had bought Apple shares, it would be now 3 times more.

If only they could have known the stock price six years into the future, they'd have made a killing in the stock market!

It would kinda be funny if they did as they probably not want Apple to get fined as now they’d be shareholders

Would also be funny, if they were allowed to increase the penalty, based on how much they could have done with that money during that time. Opportunity cost.

The back taxes accrue interest - IIRC like €1.2B

Even at their market cap, I don't think this would be trivial to operationalize

I just wish runtimes could take advantage of Typescript, and use type hints in performance improvements. Deno, and bun, currently do not, despite running Typescript "natively".

The problem with TypeScript is that it’s purely “advisory.” The actual shape of the objects at runtime might not match the declared types in the system, and once type-checking is complete, it’s a free-for-all.

That being said, you can use AssemblyScript, which offers a “type hints that optimize” approach. Unlike TypeScript, AssemblyScript is compiled to WebAssembly and leverages type information.

Under the hood, V8 performs its own shape analysis on objects to optimize performance. It’s quite effective and can handle a lot of optimization scenarios, though it would be interesting if V8 could use TypeScript’s type information to pre-seed the optimizer with known object shapes (it does not currently).

Indeed would be interesting. Another one of the downsides of everything running on v8. It just feel it gives people the "wrong" impression, even if it helps (massively) with DX to run TS natively.

The phonebook capabilities of pretty much all Google alternatives suck. Google is currently the only search engine that actually works for local queries (i.e. phone repair in <local town>).

Alternatives while probably fine in America, suck in the Nordics. I think people forget just how much search traffic happens in this category.

This is arguably a large part of why Google's tough to compete with. They have an absurd number of seamless integrations. Even if you do search well, you'll have users going back to Google for a bunch of other stuff all the time.