VibeSurgeon

The same as taking over any legacy project applies, really.

Start out with some expectation management - the current state of the solution prevents progress from going fast, and your stakeholders need to understand that.

Then get some tests going, such that you can try to defend whatever value the system has, if any.

Finally, start refactoring as much as you can get the space to do. Repeat until the system reaches your desired state.

Handed to review, handed to maintain, handed to extend?

All of the above

Spring: Never, my partner is allergic to tree pollen released during the spring, nor does the indoor temperature warrant opening the windows

Summer: Sometimes in late summer - I am allergic to grass pollen highly prevalent in early summer. Once they clear, I open the windows when it’s warmer inside than outside, to cool down my apartment slightly

Autumn: Rarely. The temperature usually does not warrant opening the windows

Winter: Never. It’s far too cold to let heat intentionally escape

How I avoid suffocation: my apartment is well-ventilated, this is not an issue whatsoever

What’s Andrew Rousso doing in the image? Seems completely unrelated to the content of the article.

Buyer beware - farming is actually really hard work

I’m gonna choose to take that as an insult to all Scandinavians

M1 16’’ has:

• 1 HDMI-port
• 1 charging port
• 3 USB-C ports

Back in the intel-days, lack of ports was a real concern, but I can’t say that I’ve ever felt this with M1.

In fact, most of the common gripes with Mac hardware choices were resolved with M1. A sufficient amount of ports, real keys instead of a small touch screen for Escape- and Function-keys, and no undue focus on making the device as thin as possible at the expense of performance.

Add the fact that they are ridiculously fast and you’ve got yourself a very competent development machine.

I’d still hesitate at paying full retail price for one for personal use, but as a work device? I will gladly use one.

There was a time when investing deeper into nuclear would have made a lot more sense. That moment has passed, though. The economics are not on the side of nuclear and the numbers are getting worse by the day - nuclear is getting more expensive over time while renewables and batteries are trending in the complete opposite direction.

It’s basically impossible to get any nuclear built without heavy subsidization because of how poorly they function economically, not to mention how impossible it is to buy insurance for such a venture. This is not inherently bad, but it does definitely displace other areas we could be subsidizing instead. I would be in favour of this if nuclear didn’t have a completely natural replacement in renewables and batteries.

The arch-gooner

Seems particularly high in levels of snake oil to be honest

Be that as it may, businesses will generally move towards things that cost less dollars on balance

There’s likely a maintenance cost continuously being paid that Apple wants to get away from.

Well, you’d lose support for devices which can’t handle software DRM playback, old YouTube clients installed on things like TVs which no longer get updated, if you want to support things that only get Widevine L3 support (most devices) you’re not really going to move the needle since Widevine L3 had been broken since like forever, etc.

The main thing YouTube would gain in practice from such a move would be to get DMCA as a legal tool to crack down on people ripping YouTube videos, but that’d require some very significant resources invested into driving Legal processes against average consumers ripping videos, and the return on investment for that is almost certainly abysmal.

EDIT: I thought of two more reasons:

• Given the enormous scale of YouTube’s transcoding pipeline, just adding in a DRM step into the mix will cost non-significant amounts of money
• All old content will remain non-DRM, because a re-transcode of the full YouTube catalog would cost an impossible amount of money

I think we all know it actually stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison