The article is a bit misguided, since it "forgets" to add a bit of context until the penultimate paragraph: Meta is investing 10 times as much in building internal infrastructure capacity — this year alone. This deal is a rounding error (<1.7B / year); and with the scale of cloud costs in general, it's probably even invisible at Meta scale.
Readit NewsAissen commented on Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B cnbc.com/2025/08/21/googl... · Posted by u/herpderperator
I'd disagree the number of unicode scalars is useless (in the case of python3), but it's a very interesting article nonetheless. Too bad unicode.org decided to break all the URLs in the table at the end.
You think this is bad? Try getting visa for Europe within the UK as a citizen of a 3rd world country. The official process is through a service such as VFS, which is the most painful experience I've had with any sort of service. There are very few appointments, all of which are blocked out by 3rd party bots, which means you need to pay a 3rd party twice as much to get any appointment. The VFS website is riddled with bot deterrents that actuall just deter humans, such as entering your password through a non-qwerty, randomised, on screen keyboard. If you call their helpline, you get charged for it. Everything is an upsell. You fill in a pdf form, print it out, give it to them and then they look at the printed document and type it back into their computer. There are literaly queues of people standing on the street outside their offices because they offer no seating, like the queues outside a club. Oh and you have to submit biometrics every single time, and therefore go in person for these apponitments that are impossible to get. I once had to submit my biometrics thrice in the same year for italian visa
Going through VFS seems like going through one of those expensive third parties instead of direct. And each EU country has a different visa service AFAIK, so the procedure will in fact vary depending on where you are going. (not saying the experience is not horrible).
Aissen commented on Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm thurrott.com/music-videos... · Posted by u/thunderbong
It was announced two weeks ago. Details: https://youtu.be/JFtvdItYNBU
The video is just the author commenting https://code.blender.org/2025/07/beyond-mouse-keyboard/ (with a bit of context)
Aissen commented on Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm thurrott.com/music-videos... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Congrats on the release! I wonder what it would take to have Linux arm64 official builds?
Aissen commented on Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat mistral.ai/news/le-chat-d... · Posted by u/pember
The Voxtral release seemed interesting, because it brought back competitive open source audio transcription. I wonder if it was necessary to have an LLM backbone (vs a pure-function model) though, but the approach is interesting.
Aissen commented on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) smallandroidphone.com/... · Posted by u/asimops
We see those posts regularly about people wanting a flagship small phone, but I see two options:
- either the market is dysfunctional, and the niche of people wanting those devices does not meet the smartphone offer.
- or the market is even smaller than what they think, making it unsustainable.
Both can be solved with time and patience (waiting for this to happen as conditions change) — or by voting with your wallet and making this requirement have priority over others (security, updates, quality, performance, compatibility, etc.).
Aissen commented on Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate github.com/ziglang/zig/pu... · Posted by u/Retro_Dev
its a really huge change
Isn't that an argument for automated fixing?
Aissen commented on Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate github.com/ziglang/zig/pu... · Posted by u/Retro_Dev
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