Why “Breakage” is being discussed
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Yes, the workflow matters. And it is one reason why Python is popular in the ETL and other processes. You are essentially offloading computation to efficient code while Python s…
by sieve · Oct 7, 2026
That a security measure or boundary can be broken doesn't mean it is not a security measure. In fact that breakage occurences are so rare that they constitute news means that th…
by TZubiri · Oct 6, 2026
This is my point: you won't see them because the people able to report the breakage are rare to non-existent anymore, because most those who were able to do so did move to recen…
by sylware · Oct 6, 2026
I wonder how subscription breakage (people who pay, but don't use a fraction of their subscribe-for-paid-token-count) plays into the frontier labs gross margins. A number we wil…
by k7peak · Oct 6, 2026
The point is about trajectory. Apple continually removes rights from developers, and then users, but grants all those rights to themselves. This has been going on for a while. I…
by rpdillon · Oct 3, 2026
> I had to go back 79 days and what felt like hundreds of posts to find any exception (something about heat pumps I think!), but then scrolling further back just led through rea…
by jameshilliard · Oct 3, 2026
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