Additionally the storage of email was cited as a concern, making mass data breaches much simpler.

Note that there is a HIPAA approved email service called Direct, as in Direct Messaging / Direct Exchange / Direct Connect.

I tried to be helpful and explain what the shape store was, but found myself with a lack of words. Instead here is the know your meme page: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-shape-store-ai-video

tldr it is an ai video, subtle analog horror / backrooms style

Weird Al needs to capitalize on this whole AI/Al thing

The psychological advantage can't be discounted either

Is there any reason that RE#'s two-pass approach couldn't be adopted by other regex engines?

Ah, there is a post with more detail about RE# and discussion here recently that I must have missed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206647

The part that makes it difficult is that it doesn't return the same matches, it returns almost the same matches but not exactly.

But if PCRE semantics isn't set in stone then i hope leftmost longest could be the default some day. There's a lot of nice things you get for free with the two pass approach

WTL and ATL also, especially if you need to do com stuff

You will need it, because since Windows Vista, most new APIs are COM based, as they redid Longhorn ideas in C++ instead of .NET, and WinRT also builds upon it.

Classical Win32 C API surface, with some exceptions, is mostly stuck in Windows XP view of the world.

I enable developer mode on every android phone to at least change the animation durations to twice the speed. I also have never run into an issue fwiw

This is probably the neatest feature of JPEG XL. Although, creating a thumbnail by literally truncating the image bytestream is a close second in 'neat' factor.

Node has sqlite, though I have not had any issues using better-sqlite3 and worker processes for long running ops

Until the day it gets pwned by a malicious actor. Which is something we've seen quite a lot of times on npm deps.

How does electron do this with its packaged files? I suppose it does not work with module resolution?