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by pavlov 1y ago
Here’s a detailed account of the development spanning over thirty years: https://www.aaas.org/news/road-lenacapavir-breakthrough-hiv-... Seems to be a combination of university funding (University of Utah), big pharma
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by pavlov 1y ago
Depends on how you end it? If the workers are satisfied, then it’s probably a positive negotiated outcome for everyone.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Where in Europe are you getting charged that much? Usually SEPA payments are completely free for consumers. And I believe there’s a EU-mandated fee cap which is much less than 2.50 €. But if you have a business account, things are different
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by pavlov 1y ago
The credit card duopoly is another instance where the EU has done a good job with regulation, but everyone just takes it for granted until they’re reminded how much worse the rest of the world has it. In the EU, card payment fees are capped
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by pavlov 1y ago
This article completely misses the early heyday of MIPS, the ACE consortium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Computing_Environment In 1991, Microsoft, Compaq, DEC and other vendors joined forces to develop a sta
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by pavlov 1y ago
As a non-Python person, I find “uv” to be a confusing name. For a long time I assumed it’s a Python wrapper for libuv which is a much older and well-known project. But apparently it’s Python package manager #137 “this one finally works, rea
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by pavlov 1y ago
> ”After this rest period, he spent a time with his most intimate companions in pleasant diversions, perhaps looking at his jewels or other treasures.” Men don’t spend a lot of time looking at jewels anymore, but I guess the modern equ
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by pavlov 1y ago
I watched Pixar’s “Elio” with the kids yesterday and I could swear there was a step printing effect in a montage. So I don’t think it’s quite that uncommon. For editors it serves a useful purpose as an effect that feels perceptually differe
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by pavlov 1y ago
Or a romantic comedy where the protagonist gets proposed thirty times with different rings.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Only for x86 / x86-64 architectures (AVX2 and AVX512). It’s a bit ironic that for over a decade everybody was on x86 so SIMD optimizations could have a very wide reach in theory, but the extension architectures were pretty terrible (or
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by pavlov 1y ago
How does a policy like that look in practice? Presumably it doesn’t read “we want to hire underqualified people.” The DEI policies I’ve seen were careful to emphasize that diversity should be a factor only when several candidates are otherw
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by pavlov 1y ago
Ultima IX was so bad that I stopped playing computer games entirely. 3D worlds just never worked for me. All the story immersion and imagination that I’d loved in the games of my childhood seemed to be gone. (I never cared for Doom either,
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by pavlov 1y ago
"“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by goin
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by pavlov 1y ago
Similarly savings accounts and loans are just messages that describe agreements between private parties. So how can we have bank regulation, when everything that a bank does is just speech? The answer is that the law is interested in the co
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by pavlov 1y ago
The ultra-wealthy have been stateless for centuries. For example, Britain’s famous “non-domiciled” tax exception was first created in 1799. It allows UK-resident foreigners not to pay tax on their foreign income except for funds they bring
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by pavlov 1y ago
I agree! As an Objective-C veteran, I feel a lot of people overthink these decisions. You can write highly performant applications with prevalent reference counting, and Rust lets you optimize where it actually counts.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Symbian was the last time a mass-market operating system was designed from scratch [1]. No Unix compatibility, no C API, everything optimized for a particular use case. Unfortunately the timing was unlucky and the use case assumptions were
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by pavlov 1y ago
Sure. The part that people often complain about is that they have to make these decisions, rather than having a runtime default picked for them by the language.
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by pavlov 1y ago
> “Rust, from what I've heard, has a similar abstraction level as TypeScript, perhaps even closer to Haskell but that's good, I could do with a bit more help from the compiler. But it requires me to manage memory and lifetimes
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by pavlov 1y ago
Also “Head of X” which often means the titleholder is practically the only person doing X at the company, and/or has no actual power.
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by pavlov 1y ago
It's terrible. Scrolling and zooming gestures on a MacBook trackpad seem to do completely random things depending on where the mouse cursor happens to be. Web UI developers: if you expect people to zoom in on your infinite canvas thing
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by pavlov 1y ago
Research is fine. But when corporations and venture capitalists are asking for your money today in exchange for vague promises of eventual breakthroughs, it's not wrong to question their motives.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Compare these positive introductory experiences with two technologies that were pushed extremely hard by commercial interests in the past decade: crypto/web3 and VR/metaverse. Neither was ever able to offer this kind of instant us
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by pavlov 1y ago
Active matrix flat panels felt like incredibly cool technology when they became available in the 1990s. Each individual pixel is driven by a transistor and capacitor that actively maintain the pixel state? Insane manufacturing magic. Dead p
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by pavlov 1y ago
She’s 62 years old. She can just retire.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Curtis Yarvin’s writing is insufferable and many of his ideas are both bad and effectively Nazism, but clearly he’s very smart (and very eager to prove it).
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by pavlov 1y ago
As a big fan of “The Motion Picture”, I would argue that “2001 with Spock” is a local optimum for a movie too.
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by pavlov 1y ago
This interview starts off with the interviewer saying it's going to be in JavaScript, and then introducing a piece of code that's clearly not JavaScript: declare function send<P>( payload: P, callback: () => v
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by pavlov 1y ago
My prediction is that Netflix will buy Valve when Gabe Newell decides he truly doesn’t care anymore. From the article: “… the chart indicates Steam had an operating margin of about 60 per cent and made $2bn of commission revenues, for abou
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by pavlov 1y ago
Honestly the 2001 one looks the best. It’s clean and obvious with no fussy gear detail. But designers don’t get paid to keep things the same.

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