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by qchris 5y ago
Just as a counter-example, one of my favorite HN comments of all time is from someone who remembered someone (kinda meta, right?) who called the Theranos fraud almost exactly years before it came out. [1] https://news.ycombinator
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by qchris 5y ago
Seems odd to link the tweet, but not the article directly linked to the tweet. If you're interested, but don't want to click through, the actual blog post is below. https://blog.heim.xyz/palm-training-cost/
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by qchris 5y ago
This is one of the big reasons why marine protected areas (MPAs) are such an important strategy for both fisheries and conservation. When areas totally free from fishing pressure are created, the fully mature individuals within them are muc
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by qchris 5y ago
I've heard that there's been pressure to shut down or significantly reduce BuzzFeed.News in order to lower the cost[1], but I really hope that they manage to keep the organization running and effective. I struggle to think of many
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by qchris 5y ago
It still frustrates me that Swarm was basically given a free pass after their illegal satellite deployments[1]. They broke both the law and good cultural norms around space tech in a meaningful way, barely got a slap on the wrist, and then
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by qchris 5y ago
Any plans on open-sourcing the code? I'm not sure if your intention is to build a business using it (or, if you were, using AGPLv3 might help prevent third-parties from unfairly competing with you), but I'm sure a number of people
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by qchris 5y ago
> There are few things in life that I am more serious about than this. I dedicate ~48 hours/week to my dayjob, and ~50h/week to Zig building Mach and running zigmonthly.org. After three years of aggressively pushing for progres
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by qchris 5y ago
This sounds sort of like a combination of Murphy's Law and the somewhat lesser-known Gall's Law[1]. [1] https://personalmba.com/galls-law/
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by qchris 5y ago
I'm most curious how this impression is going to age over the next year or two, considering the new competition with the Pinephone Pro that's coming out. While Kudos to Purism is certainly due for developing the Librem 5 in the fi
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by qchris 5y ago
Facebook was forced to pay $650 million in 2021 for violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act[1]. That's not necessarily grounds for a federal regulatory action, but if something like this happens in the future the doe
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by qchris 5y ago
I believe the answer to your second line is "yes." This FTC enforcement action appears to address all of the above: any data that is collected in an illegal manner (in this case, which violates COPPA) and any machine learning mode
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I don't understand your point here. Are you simply saying that companies can prevent this by...hiring an expensive lawyer? That seems like sort of a strawman argument; hiring a "white shoe law firm" doesn't make an FTC a
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by qchris 5y ago
This is really interesting, thanks so much for the reply! It's awesome to get a little bit more insight into projects like this, especially because I've got a limited (but growing) insight into both playing games and building proj
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I'm a little curious, is there a technical reason why voxel games are easier to build than non-voxel ones? The docs mention that all of the assets are community-contributed. Does making them voxel-based just drastically lower the skill
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by qchris 5y ago
I'd be much more willing to put Gell-Mann on that list than Hawking or Feynman. To me, his discovery of the ability to make accurate predictions about the existence of fundamental particles based on symmetry groups forms a pillar of th
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by qchris 5y ago
I largely agree--the post definitely seems to show its age, and explicitly doesn't really cover any laptops besides the Dell Precision 5540 vs. the Thinkpad P1. Not the author's fault--this is a great reason why post's dates
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by qchris 5y ago
I've been keeping an eye on this space as well, and while I agree with your first point, I have to say that I'm really more interested in the groundwork that these kind of efforts may lay for the future. For example, I know that
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by qchris 5y ago
It's not just on Chrome--I ran into this issue on Firefox 96.0 as well today, and had to got to Setting -> "Purge My Cache" -> "Update Now" to get back to normal.
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by qchris 5y ago
Not to take the easy pun here, but by making this decision and ones like it, someone at Boeing did make a killing. Or 346 killings, more precisely. The same culture and internal processes that allowed this to occur are the exact same ones t
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(2017)
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I sort of understand where this question is coming from, but as someone who's spent a fair amount of time browsing software job postings recently, the real question isn't specialization, it's seniority . I routinely have fou
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Turtlesim: A ROS2 robotics simulation clone with Rust and Bevy(github.com)
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I believe that DJI just opened up their developer API for it, so some third-party apps (or maybe your own, if you're technically inclined?) will hopefully start offering things like waypoint missions as well!
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by qchris 5y ago
Jumping on the bandwagon of the guy that jumped on the bandwagon, because you mentioned potentially re-doing your own code at some point so might be interested: my personal site [0] looks very much like this (and is also written in Rust), b
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by qchris 5y ago
I also find that hypothetical "interns" are great for this. Something about "this person without a degree, who probably hasn't been working for very long, who doesn't know your organization or who to ask, and is pro
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Just would like add a +1 for Working in Public . It's a really excellent look into a number of different community dynamics, including but frankly not limited to open source projects exclusively.
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This is something I've wondered about myself. Like, if I was going to be building a foundry in North America that is supposed to operate 24/7 producing silicon for potentially many decades and required billions of dollars of ongoi
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That could be it, I suppose. Sorry, I'm not trying to make this a personal attack on the team (I don't know any of them), and I'm not personally invested in their success or failure (I haven't purchased any of their stuf
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I played around with their open source code a few years ago, and found it, well, operable, if not particularly useful. On the flip side, I do not, I repeat, DO NOT recommend giving their team money for pretty much any reason. They've b
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I believe this has been stated to be the core thesis behind Oxide Computer Company's business model.

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