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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. But it comes with caveats. So why use lab data at all?

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

All languages have CVEs, C++ just has more (and C still more); so far in 2024, Rust has 6 CVEs , and C and C++ combined have 61 CVEs. The main improvement MSLs give is that a program data race will not corrupt the language’s own virtual machine (whereas in C++ a data race is currently all-bets-are-off undefined behavior).

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