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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
> When you're firing a high-level executive in a polite way, it's common to let them announce their own departure and frame it the way they want. You also give them some distance in time from the drama so the two appear uncon
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
They talk about "memory safe languages (MSL)" plural, as if there is more than one, but only explicitly name Rust as the MSL they're transitioning to and improving interoperability with. They also mention Kotlin in the conte
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2023 Greenland landslide tsunami made Earth vibrate for 9 days(studyfinds.org)
2 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|0 comments
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Not sure the exact speed, but it's definitely possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HkIs5VzXCA
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Cool vlog on modifying a Laser into a hydrofoiling boat. Lasers are small, fast, 1-man, racing dinghy sailboats. They are designed to get up on plane quickly and skim across the water surface, but are somewhat unstable and require constant
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Building a flying sailboat: Foiling Laser design, engineering, and testing [video](youtube.com)
4 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|3 comments
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Workers paint a picture of chaos and dysfunction at Boeing(cnn.com)
2 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|0 comments
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Paris Olympics developed one of the fastest tracks – using mussel shells(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|0 comments
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Is the musical mind immune to cognitive decline?(studyfinds.org)
27 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|6 comments
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
That or cryptography.
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
What's the key in Firefox about:config to turn this off?
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
To begin, start hacking on open source AI projects, put them on your github, build up that track record. Get involved in various FOSS AI communities and collaborate with folks there [1]. The opportunities to transition to AI jobs will fo
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Cheap goods and no middle class with discretionary income is also incompatible. "Buy now, pay later" will only last so long.
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Unsafe Rust in the Wild: Notes on the Current State of Unsafe Rust(foundation.rust-lang.org)
3 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|0 comments
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How Dystopian Novels Are Written (2019)(thecuriousreader.in)
2 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|0 comments
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Paramount Erases Mtv.com Archives, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30+ Years(showbiz411.com)
113 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|44 comments
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40761968
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
A different license wouldn't change that. They would just find some way to do it with BSD or some other OS.
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Well-deserved, congrats Andrew. I still have his distributed systems textbooks from way back when, and still wish Minix had won and its microkernel model had become the basis of the FOSS *nix ecosystem. Also in case anyone is not aware, An
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Apple doesn't but tons of third parties do. And I leave mine on my MBP M2 permanently fwiw. There are ones that don't prevent sleep on lid close.
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
I wonder if these Starliner problems are symptoms of the same short-term, bottom-line, corner-cutting in Boeing's airline assembly lines. Given it seems to have come from the top, has it infected the space operations too?
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Sounds like they may ask Space X to send a Crew Dragon mission to retrieve the astronauts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Just put an anti-glare screen on it. Tons of Mac users feel the same way and do this (myself among them). And fwiw, you can make a glossy screen into a matte one with a cover, but you can't make a matte screen into a glossy one the sa
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
How were you able to buy a PC in ~2020 without TPM? I thought that's been built into every PC motherboard since ~2013ish (and ~2008ish for Intel).
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
I skimmed through the linked github and reddit post, and maybe I missed it, but this looks like the kind of strategy that gets blown up when a negative black swan occurs. They're "harvesting premium" by selling options, base
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Coincidentally, a "leak" was reported yesterday suggesting EU MP's intend to exempt "confidential" govt info, as well as police, intelligence, and military personnel from Chat Control: https://www.eurepor
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Hungary currently seems pro-Russian and pro-authoritarian/strongman. Will they really be strict about protecting civil and privacy rights?
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
A little feedback: When I click "Notify me" on the front page, it takes me a sign-in form. I enter my email and a random password (since I don't have account yet), and then it tells me I don't have an account yet. I c
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Code: https://github.com/nexus-xyz
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Nexus zkVM: Efficient, massively-parallel, zero-knowledge proving(nexus.xyz)
12 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|3 comments

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