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Comment Re:Can't blame them for trying (Score 1) 245

The filename length limit is a huge problem, especially since under *some* configuration of OneDrive, the user's default %Documents% directory ends up on OneDrive, and that completely fucks up software that bundles files with long names because they download random data packs and plugins there.

Comment Re:Not a lot of Ruby in this Ruby article? (Score 1) 148

I don't think that shift will be long-lived because ever more people use a smartphone as the primary device (instead of a laptop), and the median smartphone is something like a Samsung Galaxy A13 even in the rich countries. That kind of smartphone has a terrible JS performance compared to the flagship devices, and it won't be improving much any time soon because most buyers find that sufficient for most daily tasks, and as performance per price improves, when time to replace a device comes they prefer to keep the same performance level for a lower price.

On the developer side, there's already a movement against heavy JS interfaces, and Rails Turbolinks and htmx.org are just the beginning.

Comment Re:it is fuel (Score 0) 207

I strongly suspect that the lack of popularity is due to the price

And vice-versa, because of the lack of popularity, production is low and prices are high. Also, manufacturers take advantage of that by marketing the high-quality items as "luxury" and charging disproportionate premiums, where the same product made in the EU is often much cheaper (I've noticed this for dishwashers, triple pane windows, etc...).

Comment Re:Will this mean anything? (Score 0) 38

IE - person from France travels to Utah. While there they enter their private information (email address, etc) to a regional Escape Room company. That data is now subject to GDPR regulations, including the right to be forgotten and everything else.

This is false. Article 3.2 of the GDPR clearly states that the scope is territorial: it only applies to companies which offer services to persons that are physically present on the territory of the EU.

Comment Re: Bringing Pizza to Italy (Score 1) 227

America historically had a lot of quality ingredients... The recipes were designed to get good results with poor quality ingredients. When they were brought here, that resulted in them getting better.

Horseshit. The vast majority of immigrants were poor and illiterate, lacking any cultural sophistication. Food *was* cheaper so, as they were poor and used to consider certain ingredients as "presitigous", they started overusing them to show off their newfound wealth. Hence the Italian-American cuisine became a mostruosity full of meat, cheese, oil and butter.

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