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by ed 5y ago
Eh, I don’t know. Nothing of value was renamed — Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are unchanged. And “Meta” is a good name for an umbrella organization, even if they drop their VR ambition entirely.
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by ed 5y ago
Don’t read much into the product side of meta. Metaverse is just a hedge, so that if Apple shows us how to do VR/AR “right,” Facebook will have $10B worth of pieces on the board to be competitive, allowing them to avoid another iOS pla
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by ed 5y ago
The author is making a moral argument and presenting it as if it’s a business argument. It’s not. Zynga still made boatloads of money, and employed thousands of people, before the rug got pulled. The article does not specify good vs bad pla
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by ed 5y ago
The insane amounts of money people have made building products on “other people’s kingdoms” suggests the author is wrong.
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Define proper threading?
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> The earliest life forms were unresponsive until they evolved ways to react to their environment, he suggests, and sleep is a return to the default state. “I think we didn’t evolve sleep, we evolved wakefulness.” FTA
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Additional context > Musk’s SpaceX aims to use a site in South Texas to launch rockets to carry people and cargo to the moon and Mars. To do that, the company intends to drill gas wells to make its own fuel and electricity, according a F
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The first study of individualized brain stimulation to treat severe depression(nytimes.com)
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by ed 5y ago
HN was originally called Startup News, and was for startup founders. You might like lobsters, in addition to HN, which has more of a programming focus and overlaps with the community here a bit https://lobste.rs/
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More on XENON1T https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/science/xenon-axions-neut...
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Losing Your Hair? You Might Blame the Great Stem Cell Escape(nytimes.com)
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The first study of individualized brain stimulation to treat severe depression(nytimes.com)
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It's literally the post you're commenting on
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Here’s the paper https://www.aging-us.com/article/203485 > The study population comprised adults (5 males, 1 female) with significant memory decline aged 64 years and older > The protocol consisted of 60 daily se
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by ed 5y ago
I skimmed the pkzip Wikipedia but couldn’t find the answer — what’s the sad part of their story?
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The Rise and Fall of Didi, the World’s Ride-Hailing Giant(nytimes.com)
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That’s very short sighted — wind and solar were not initially price competitive either.
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In 2021 there were no lightning deaths in the US as of June [0]. This stat compares the lifetime odds of death from lightning [1] to several months of covid data. 0 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06&
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Wasp – A programming language that understands what a web app is(github.com)
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A Hot Fitness Trend Among Olympians: Blood Flow Restriction(nytimes.com)
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Scribd Plans to Go Public at $1B Valuation(bloomberg.com)
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Kugelblitz(en.wikipedia.org)
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Magit is a git porcelain inside emacs: https://magit.vc/
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Programmer's Typing Practice(climech.github.io)
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Shopify App Store waives fees for first $1m revenue(shopify.com)
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DuckDuckGo reveals it picked up $100M in secondary investment last year(techcrunch.com)
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by ed 5y ago
If you want to feel like you’ve discovered a superpower, pay for “programming” on a marketplace like TrainHeroic. Lots of trainers actually buy their programming from other trainers, since good programming is a lot of work, so you might as
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by ed 5y ago
Anyone here use gaming keypads for programming? I came across these two, which look interesting, but might require significant work to be used as keyboard replacements. Razer - https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Tartarus-Progammab
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Starts at 16:47
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Upside Decay(brianlui.dog)
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