urgh. What is old is new. "Copilot" is the new omniname, what ".NET" was for a previous generation.

Unnecessary _now_ perhaps, but not unnecessary when lodash was written. In 2009, when underscore.js came out (from which lodash was a fork) Array.every() was not something you could rely on. Chrome just came out a year earlier (and didn't support Array.every until version 4) and half the world was on IE 6-7-8

It got baked into the silicon valley culture for some reason. When the rebellious innovators à la Wozniak and the Berkeley folks merged with trillions of VC spewing finance bros, a weird amalgam was created where while everything is in reality about money, it needs to be sugar coated with drivel about wanting to change the world and solve world hunger via the application of middle out compression algorithms

requiring an account on day one makes me wary that the whole thing is pre-enshitified.

Why do you think NetBSD is more popular? Of all the BSDs FreeBSD is by far the most widely used.

Docker on freebsd's been abandonware for a few years now.

Or a causal thing....reddit being down means that some number of people switch to hackernews to pass time.

the entire point of TPP Was to exclude China...

Steve Job's return to Apple was not like this at all. For all his faults Jobs was never as erratic as Musk, and he never pulled stunts like causing 80% of the staff to be fired or leave, nor did he ever lock the buildings in Cupertino.

Due to timezones? or is there something in Japanese culture that makes friday meetings disliked?

Yes, they wanted to find a time that worked for the major 3 locations- Asia, EU, and US. If they held it on Friday, that was Saturday in Japan. So it was moved from Friday early evening to Thursday early evening.