As a regular human who plays games and doesn't know about chip architectures, one woud probably lump the wii and the switch closer together than the game cube based on the modes in which one can interact with the systems.

Wii is a game cube with a funny controller. Or, wii is a tv-only olde switch.

I appreciate that it has its own name due to being a transitional experience.

The bottleneck of most applications is acquiring enough users to hit a technical bottleneck.

I’ve used PocketBase in production. We ran into DB issues because the admin page loaded all orders and that climbed over 5000. I didn’t think that was much for a read-only operation, but when 5 staff were loading it every 30 seconds, it occasionally got very slow: 10 to 30 second load times.

Faster Vultr server didn’t help. The recommendation was to redesign the admin page to do search on the server rather than in the client. But that wasn’t possible at the time.

I enjoyed writing on top of PocketBase and running it. The developer was very helpful - quick, useful responses. My brother did his wedding website with it. It’s great for small projects. For higher performance ones, you will need to test and shift your design.

That is not the case any more. The "users" show up in the shape and form of malicious AI crawling bots that don't honor your robots.txt nor apply any kind of self-throttling.

Or non native English speaker who pronounces "may" the same as "might" and didn't realize the difference?

It is maybe not coincidental that "may" and "might" mean nearly the same thing which bolsters the case for auto correct gone awry.

For those that haven't read the article yet, scroll down to the flame graph and start reading unit it starts talking about back porting the fix. Then stop.

"How we decreased reading 'How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes' times from 4.8 minutes to 41 seconds"

Isn't there a carve out in copyright law for fair use related to educational use?

I bet Microsoft would do something similar. If Microsoft entered an agreement with another company, Apple for instance, to build a version of word for the Mac, a fork, and part of the license has a requirement to attribute in the help file or something like branding requirements, and then Apple doesn't do it right, then Microsoft reaches out to Apple and tells them to fix it else be in breach of the license. They fix it, happy happy. They don't fix it and lawyers get paid.

This was MIT licensed open source software and an attribution clause was not properly respected. Hardly piracy.

Handspring Trio had a web browser by (before?) 2003 with a touchscreen. I loved mine!

This is EXACTLY what I remember people saying about Cell Phones and PDAs when they were popular in the 90s (people can't remember phone numbers any more), Google when it was first unleashed (people won't know how to use card catalogs and libraries any more), and then again about Wikipedia when it became popular. What actually happened was that behavior changed and people became more efficient with these better tools.

The name and address is valuable because it can be matched to offline behavior through a bill you pay or rewards membership you are enrolled in to further enrich the data associated with id_8z6748dxzh and combine it with your shopping history at Macy's and Safeway, for instance. This is even more valuable when combined with your cellular bill.

I've work in ad tech,and with CDPs for nearly 20 years.

Why wouldn’t they just buy name and address in bulk from one of the many providers that has essentially all of our info?

It's easier to target Hackernewses by advertising on their own site.

... If incentives were properly aligned to make this the correct strategy, then this is probably what McDonald's would do. Unfortunately not. https://www.today.com/food/trends/why-is-mcdonalds-ice-cream...