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How a board game like Catan is created(cnn.com)
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An organizational solution to this problem is (Amazon’s) “single-threaded owner” model: all the disciplines report to (perhaps with a dotted line in a matrix org) one directly-responsible manager. The manager sees the big picture and can br
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I hadn’t heard of Galakei (“Galapagos phones”) before. This article has some history and device breakdown and screenshots: https://www.rappler.com/technology/features/95144-keitai-jap...
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ChatGPT might get its own dedicated personal AI device – with Jony Ive's help(techradar.com)
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It always seemed to me that most of these differences and macros could be defined in a static header file that has a million #ifdefs for different OS and compiler versions. That seems simpler and more reliable, and usable for cross compilin
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> On Monday, Google also agreed to delete "hundreds of billions" of private browsing data records it had collected, the court filing said. > "We are happy to delete old technical data that was never associated with an i
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There is some recent development activity on Firefox's zstd bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1301878
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“In 2016 a Florida man attempted to run from Boca Raton, FL to Bermuda in a home-made, inflatable plastic bubble. Reza Baluchi had been warned by the Coast Guard that any efforts to attempt his journey would be futile and result in severe l
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by cpeterso 3y ago
That’s a subplot in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three , where a mountain-sized diamond is discovered on Ganymede. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2061:_Odyssey_Three
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And existing users, who adopted your product because it already satisfied their need, may perceive any new features as unwelcome UI changes if they interfere with their existing workflow. As as told by https://x.com/scriffey
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$ is the regex’s “the buck stops here” symbol. Here at the end of the line. :)
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Hasbro CEO optimistic about AI in D&D and MTG's future(wargamer.com)
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I helped stand up MLS and worked on the Android "stumbler" submission app. The original motivation for MLS was to provide a free location service for carriers that would potentially ship Firefox OS devices but not want to pay for
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Many new traffic signals have reflective yellow frames around them. They're designed to make the signals more visible to humans, but I imagine they will help autonomous vehicles' vision systems find the signals, too. https:/
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Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for self-driving car future(popsci.com)
17 points by cpeterso 3y ago|29 comments
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Google's self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi "like the Bermuda Triangle"(arstechnica.com)
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Speedometer 3.0: A shared browser benchmark for web application responsiveness(browserbench.org)
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Some messages were sent through relays, or the lines could be tapped, I wonder if any telegraph operators encrypted their messages using a shared key.
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You can watch "Space: 1999" episodes for free (with ads) on the Roku Channel (website or Roku app) or Amazon Prime. https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/36be634b1d4e51098a75...
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by cpeterso 3y ago
It happened to the state of Maryland, too: their domain registration for starspangled200.org, featured on their license plates, expired and was picked up by a gambling website in the Philippines. Maryland has since reclaimed the domain. ht
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I split my todo list into three files: today, this week, and later (backlog). Every Sunday, I move dated task reminders (and copy some recurring weekly reminders) from my later file to my “this week” file. Every day I move reminders from my
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by cpeterso 3y ago
It’s your “backup brain”.
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And nobody in Star Trek thinks the ship computer is sentient. On the other hand, the holodeck sometimes malfunctions and some holodeck character (like Moriarty) becomes sentient running on just a subset of the ship computer. That suggests s
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“The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal” is a tongue-in-cheek documentary short film with a similar take on the art of graffiti removal. The filmmaker interviews Portland city workers about the process and follows them on their day painti
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Google’s C++ style guide similarly recommends using ‘int’ in general and never using ‘int32_t’, though it recommends using ‘int64_t’ for bigger numbers instead of ‘long’: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.htm
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And “long short” and “short long” types. :)
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Are there any compilers our language that parse source files in reverse order? Then you could have a one-pass compiler without forward declarations (though you would need “backward” declarations). :) Someone shared with me their idea for a
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That’s a great idea and useful fallback behavior for file importers that don’t understand the type annotations. Stylistically, I suggest using a colon like many programming languages do for type annotations: Name:string,Qty:units
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This is definitely the Right Thing, but how well did other software, such as text editors, handle or render the field and record separator characters? That you can’t directly enter these characters on a keyboard would be a minor annoyance.
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One approach to guard against Hyrum’s Law is GREASE (aka “Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility” used in the TLS 1.3 protocol) i.e. behavior randomization to avoid inadvertent dependencies on unspecified behavior: https:&#x2

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