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by mlinksva 6y ago
I always attempt to remove cruft form links before sharing/publishing/including. Cruft is in bad taste, and sharing it is bad manners. This assertion may well reflect my bad taste, and even bad manners toward people analyzing the
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Interesting chart. For someone who doesn't follow the industry, does it show current capability, or capability at the time a given node was cutting edge? If the latter it really does show a tremendous winnowing. To what extent is that
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Wirth's article also "ignores" Ada. But that's fine, the article is a personal account, not a survey of all Pascal family languages. The penultimate sentence: "The sequence Pascal—Modula—Oberon is witness to my atte
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That is precisely what the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) is researching https://allfed.info/papers/
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Good reminder to give to https://allfed.info/ again.
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They announced a pivot (in terms of organization, not technology) early this year https://www.endlessos.org/post/launching-endless-os-foundati...
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There's a larger amount of overlap with https://spectrum-os.org/ (which builds on Nix). https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/03/07/qubes-lite-with-kv... is also really interesti
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Worked with Nathan before, long ago - also great! Come to think of it, a small part of that work did involve hacking on a CRM. Congratulations!
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DC's non-compete ban should go into effect later this year https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/d-c-mayor-signs-bill-to-ba... and they have a subway network. Will be really interesting to see what affect this has (th
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by mlinksva 6y ago
Strikes me as another way broadcast/studio media (and associated formats) escapes scrutiny and regulation directed at internet. As the influencer says at the end of the video, they should play by the same rules. Is there a text equival
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That answer aligns with https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-... heavily discussed a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25717390
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These things (1. autonomy for software engineers; 2. curious problem solvers, not mindless resources; 3. internal data, code, and documentation transparency; 4. exposure to the business and to business metrics; 5. engineer-to-engineer comms
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https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org is an interesting way forward.
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I guess they're not asking for individual donations in this post, but still, the "donations page" link in the sidebar 404s. It appears from https://www.pypy.org/howtohelp.html that https://opencoll
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by mlinksva 6y ago
Thanks for posting. ~yearly I look at your site (idly, not likely to have anything to contribute) because Robigalia sounded very interesting when first discussed here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10848890
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I think the poster is making a distinction between Firefox and Mozilla founders, but it could be more clear. Mitchell, a Mozilla founder, is still around. The Firefox founders, who are Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross, and possibly Joe Hewitt ( ht
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Has anyone done a survey paper on the impact of sharrows? I skim papers on sharrows when (very occasionally) I come across one, but they seem to be based on a small dataset from one city. I personally treat them as preferable to nothing, an
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Would love to see that rendered superfluous https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_20...
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I love it, and have been manually creating such links every day since discovering the feature. One should be able to link to any portion of a page, and now one can, largely. The highlighting ought to be something a browser allows a user to
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by mlinksva 6y ago
How about an OS using the Genode framework, Sculpt OS https://genode.org/download/sculpt IIUC, compared to Fuchsia? Apart from their kernels, which you've addressed.
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Squandering taxes seems like a separate problem. In the case taxes are squandered, and in the case they are not, it makes sense to use the most efficient taxes first. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theo
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Plainly not inevitable. Crises can continue to get worse instead, and surely that's much more likely. However, I'd love to be pleasantly surprised, and occasionally am, e.g., apparently Baden-Wurttemburg (the German state that inc
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U.S. Executive branch appointments: why you may want to pursue one and tips(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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Made me look up current GrapheneOS take on MicroG; https://grapheneos.org/#never-google-services says they're > developing support for installing microG as a regular app without any special privileges. This will all
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More background on this fund https://prototypefund.de/en/ https://okfn.de/en/projekte/prototypefund/
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Also https://spectrum-os.org/
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> as such only one currently is listed in my "Completed" courses section of my profile. That's surprising to me: wouldn't Coursera want learners to be reassured that whatever signalling benefit there is to completing
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DuckDuckGo Sourcehut Philadelphia No on point search results from anyone, as far as I can tell. I suppose DuckDuckGo is in a suburb, called Paoli. devault weinberg philadelphia Nothing useful for that either.
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From https://www.rsa.com/content/dam/en/misc/rsa-data-privacy-and... > Tracking online activity to tailor advertisements: 17% of those surveyed viewed it as ethical, and 68% find it unethical. ... &gt
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What does this refer to? Searching ... Stopping the Western Freeway? It seems there was a meeting at that place on that date, though the supervisors didn't vote on the matter until 1959. https://www.foundsf.org/index.ph

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