So I was accepted to MIT long, long ago and couldn’t afford to go and ended up at an (excellent) state school. If I’d gone to MIT I would be the same person right? Stereotypes don’t work, and never have — see people, not labels.

Scathing, and wonderfully so.

Honestly, I think it’s just simple imitation.

Something is popular, folks are envious of it, they end up building something much like it. Doesn’t matter if it’s houses, logos, or user experiences – seems to be how things work.

Isn’t it weird how “old people” are so much like other people? The insecurities, hopes and so on? It’s like stereotypes just don’t work or something.

Elder and middle millennials are just about equally as poisoned, and we're all full of microplastics

For the future of the USA this is fortunately not very accurate, and microplastics are not associated with increased incidence of dark triad personality traits, as far as I know.

Disclosure: I'm building https://proxylity.com, but I'm seeking to understand here, not to promote it.

The fixed cost per region seems like a barrier to experimenters and large development teams alike. It's not much in the grand scheme, but enough to prohibit an individual from standing something up on a whim and leaving it around. Likewise, for large development teams having a stack for every developer would be costly. In each case I'm not talking about "production" workload, but the semi-idle stacks that run for long periods, are critical, need to reflect the production setup, and don't generate revenue.

Your LBs are quick to deploy, which is super important for fluid CI/CD experience but they miss the mark without being usage based.

Do others see this the same way?

Yeah, honestly we didn't want to go with the IaaS/cloudflare style pricing model, we give you full fly.io nodes and control of them and forward the cost. Keeps things simple and without the tricks. I can see what you're saying though

Maybe a comparison to AWS Global Accelerator would be helpful to understand the "global" aspect. Having instances in multiple regions is just a starting point.

Ahhh got it, this is focusing primarily on load balancing at a lower layer of routing then than what I'm referring to. While not wrong, "global load balancing" threw me off a bit.

EDIT: see the other reply, appears that it handles both given it leverages Fly's Anycast setup.

So if I rowed crew and could calculate Hessians in my head, I was a?…

I have, and failed.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40265782

It may not be present in Apple’s official documentation but it has been supported since Safari 12.2.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da... compatibility. The demo on that page works for me in current Safari on both iOS and Mac.

Some examples seem to work better than others though. I’m on latest iOS and sometimes it will invoke the native date picker like you’d expect to see, sometimes it won’t, and the type ahead doesn’t seem to work consistently

That demo shows the problems splendidly. It “only kinda” works on iOS.

Safari is the "new" IE. I put "new" in quotes because it's been this way for like a decade.

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Back fifteen years ago IE held back the web because web developers had to cater to its outdated technology stack. “Best viewed with IE” and all that. But do you ever see a “Best viewed with Safari” notice? No, you don’t. Another browser takes that special place in web developers’ hearts and minds.

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https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...

Yes, Safari is not exactly like IE because IE had a dominant user share once upon a time.

We don't see "best viewed in Safari", but we do see plenty of sites that can be viewed in Safari, despite the extra effort used to get them there. And I'm not even a regular chrome user.

The absolute vast majority of web sites require no effort to "get there".

The absolute vast majority of those which don't work in Safari use Chrome-only non-standards.

And there is a tiny minority of sites that run into some Safari-specific quirks

If anything chrome is the engine with odd quirks you are forced to work around.

I haven't found this to be the case in my experience.

Maybe it's just iframes that are the issue but they were a devil and a half to get working in chrome (or blink ig) without relying on third party cookies.

Interested in what you are doing with the iframes. Something with complex authentication? I've been forced to use iframes a few times for 3rd party resources that should have been first-party (mostly with banks and credit unions), and have only had some styling issues on mobile (which have been overcome by using JavaScript and window.matchMedia to check for media queries).

Chrome's quirks become the standard and other browsers have to implement them.

> Substitution is a new concept for kids.

Children learn substitution with language. Hand signs and words are substituted for the objects, feelings and actions they know inherently. It’s tempting to apply adult context on children but it’s a mistake.

I was learned enough in school to know when teachers were “teaching” something oversimplified. They uniformly acknowledged that when asked, until one didn’t. That one didn’t care about the nuance and insisted I give the “expected” answer when asked and ruined my attitude in school for years (not the only event, but it didn’t help). Obviously I’ve never forgotten her.

One thing I adore about this community is the broad acceptance of “I don’t know” and “it depends” as the starting point for answers.

To bring that back into the tech/business world:

My personal rule for being an expert/consultant is to be very willing to say "I don't know, but I can find that out for you", and define that as my real expertise: know how to find out things.

Technology stacks, programming languages, all of those things come and go. The skill to pick up whatever is needed is long-term better.