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Node.js v22 is in LTS(nodejs.org)
3 points by thinkingkong 2y ago|0 comments
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Such as?
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A16Z seems to do a little more 'investor branding' than other firms and this is part of that strategy. I would call this piece more of a backstop to explain their donations to the Trump campaign more than anything else. Their exis
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
Its so wild to me that the business models of newspapers and journalism in general just dont translate well to the web. Like I get that people expect content online to be free and the alternative sources of information are freely available
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
First off which country youre in determines what you can do and how much it will cost you. If you don’t already have HR staff who are well versed in local laws and regulations then you should engage some outside help. Secondly, while your p
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
This seems pretty incredible but Im mostly surprised Google is dipping their toes into this domain at all. Feels fairly outside the Google wheelhouse. I could understand Alphabet having another company provide this kind of functionality but
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
Its weird the types of sacrifices we expect kids to make with regards to survival. Like when a school shooting happens we wouldnt event consider banning assault rifles. Those kids dont survive. But if having a tracker on your kid marginally
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
Im reading between the lines here but it seems like the traffic amount, the saas subscription tier, and the actions required to remidiate some issue were all unaligned. 1. Its quite possible thar CF having this site on some multi-tenant inf
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
If these systems have enough thermal mass then maybe you could even power them with solar or daily offset cheaper power in another storage mechanism. Between this and the newer co2 reduction technologies in kilns we might be close to findin
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
Yeah I think at this point in my life Id appreciate an intentional bout of chaos but at the time I was just in a stupor.
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
Woodstock 99 was my very first concert. Ever. I was 17 and quite anxious but I would have done anything for my high school crush so off we went. Weeks of working in a grocery store to pay for this event I had absolutely no expectations arou
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
I suspect the 6 story and shorter buildings will end up having an alternative design where the stairwell and possibly certain walls are concrete, poured around the same time as the foundation, but the remaining structure is engineered timbe
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
Oh! Yeah I think I know what you mean. I - personally - would attribute that to fear. People from certain experiences or backgrounds dont want to be wrong or look bad. So they’ll demand a spec instead of being given general guidance. To me
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by thinkingkong 2y ago
Without noticing you might have pointed out one of the reasons founder type people are founder type people. Blindly follow orders isnt really on most startup folks’ list of things to do.
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
I'm going to argue that computers and software are already wildly efficient because the cost is already baked in. You don't get a dedicated server or an on-demand instance without paying for the power and cooling; that's all
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
Thats not at all what research and the definition implies.
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How a Canadian digital lobby group is pushing for age verification(michaelgeist.ca)
3 points by thinkingkong 3y ago|0 comments
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
It doesnt take much of an imagination to understand that amazon knew of the probability of a lawsuit, understands the probability of its success, and did the math on upside. With 3B on the line they can afford the lawyers, the appeals, the
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
The Mochary Method is a google doc that has been making its rounds for awhile. It's not the most visually stunning set of guidelines to read but the content is excellent. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18F
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
Canada has totally lost its way. Housing is a massive issue. Healthcare is under constant attack. Immigration is used to prop up a failing economy. We don’t really make anything. Wages are lower than the US just because. There’s no negotia
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
This has been / will be the market education challenge; Its the same one Joyent had with SmartOS. Theyre correctly pointing out that the end user or operator will basically never interact with this layer, but it does cause some knee-je
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
Moving from a PaaS to a VPS is 95% the same amount of effort and energy as spinning you own rust under your desk. Semantics matter but holding a definition to “need to suffer a power supply failure to count” isnt really necessary.
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
Im pretty sure thats not what boards care about.
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
I've been wondering about how long it will take before a tactic similar to this is used to steer peoples purchasing choices towards particular products. If you could 'infect' a model to suggest your new product ahead of incum
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
My favorite "unintended consequences" story is the story about the Cobra Effect[1]. To me they're very closely linked not because one creates circumstances using incentives and capital, but because people fail to see conseque
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
Im endlessly fascinated by the cultural angle on technology of well being. We have enough resources to solve poverty, education, and access to medicine yet social determinism is the driving force in all these areas. There have been recent c
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
The whole “small footprint” thing is always weird to me. I understand that lots of people really want to squeeze efficiency out of every single kb but Im struggling to see where this is helpful. A single image, a single pixel from the marke
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
The problem isnt over-engineering, it’s not engineering at all. How many teams design for scale and then forget the number? The assumption that the entire system needs to scale to the population of the planet in 2050 workloads? Most develop
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by thinkingkong 3y ago
If you haven't watched this entire series you absolutely have to. It totally changed the way I think about things and I can't think of a single person I've recommended it to that wasn't totally blown away by it. Even now
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Quantum startup Photonic raises 100M(betakit.com)
3 points by thinkingkong 3y ago|1 comments

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