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by indy 1y ago
Tim Cook is a "Keep things ticking along" CEO, not a "Change course to a new destination" CEO. Initiatives like this will probably require different leadership to succeed.
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by indy 1y ago
Here is a great list of papers that was curated by Brett Victor: https://worrydream.com/refs/by-date.html
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by indy 1y ago
Because a lot of people believe that large government institutions are nothing more than job programs for voters of Democrats. The image is that for every scientist at Nasa there are countless administrators, HR ladies and diversity hires
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by indy 1y ago
That aesthetic is how you know you're on a good astronomy site
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Replication of Quantum Factorisation with an 8-Bit Computer, an Abacus and a Dog(eprint.iacr.org)
3 points by indy 1y ago|0 comments
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Wayland vs. X11 Comparisons(dedoimedo.com)
20 points by indy 1y ago|4 comments
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Greek man gets 5 years in prison for running a torrenting site 10 years ago(tomshardware.com)
6 points by indy 1y ago|0 comments
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by indy 1y ago
Would buying 49% prevent any government investigations into the deal?
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by indy 1y ago
Thinking selfishly, the absolute quantity of good/bad software isn't as important as the software you have to interact with on a day-to-day basis. Good software is invisible and under-appreciated, you use it for it's purpose
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Top Coder Challenge Reverse-engineer a 60-year-old travel reimbursement system(github.com)
4 points by indy 1y ago|1 comments
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by indy 1y ago
Then any progress would also stop overnight.
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SNES consoles appear to run faster with age – by up to 182 Hz after 35 years(tomshardware.com)
2 points by indy 2y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on ECS(blog.voxagon.se)
23 points by indy 2y ago|13 comments
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Google Quality Issues: Part of an Intentional Strategy?(wallethub.com)
6 points by indy 2y ago|0 comments
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New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet(theregister.com)
164 points by indy 2y ago|162 comments
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by indy 2y ago
It's about destroying the patronage systems which benefited the Democrats
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by indy 2y ago
It's certainly polarizing, the quality of discourse on Hacker News has plummeted in the past few weeks.
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Becoming competitive when joining a new company(ludwigabap.bearblog.dev)
2 points by indy 2y ago|0 comments
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Sinkhole of Bureaucracy (2014)(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by indy 2y ago|1 comments
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Google scraps diversity-based hiring targets(reuters.com)
63 points by indy 2y ago|46 comments
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SDL 3 Officially Released(github.com)
30 points by indy 2y ago|1 comments
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by indy 2y ago
"Sure OpenAI is ok, but what if we created a competitor with the imagination, innovation and work ethic of the British Civil Service, all on a fraction of the budget"
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by indy 2y ago
Thanks for replying. As a non-Canadian, your response has been more informative than the weeks I spent reading Twitter trying to figure out what was happening.
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by indy 2y ago
What were the general public's opinion of the protests? Also how 'dangerous' was the convoy perceived to be? Were the actions of the Government deemed to be overreach?
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by indy 2y ago
I was thinking of the kinds of games mentioned in this thread: Tiny Glade and The Gnorp Apologue. Small indie games made by people who fill the role of both engine programmer and game designer. On a larger, more professional scale someone l
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by indy 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with writing your own game engine rather than going for Unreal or Unity, in fact that's one way of creating a truly unique game. My comment about "half baked" referred to the crates that people rele
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by indy 2y ago
Tiny Glade ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade/ ) is an impressive example of a game written in Rust. Apart from that exception, Rust game development seems more about releasing half baked c
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by indy 2y ago
The link is about the government and banks colluding to debank industries that they don't like. "Crypto is the answer to debanking" isn't a point that's being made in the original post.
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Debanking: What You Need to Know(a16zcrypto.com)
4 points by indy 2y ago|2 comments
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by indy 2y ago
Here's a thread from Nic Carter which goes into more detail about Operation Chokepoint 2.0: https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1861748485424316627

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