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Staff Engineer at Calm, making the world happier and healthier
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You can wax poetic all you want about anecdotal values differences between the first and third worlds, but speaking in terms of actual practical impact: what you are saying is simply not true. Greenhouse gas emissions…
The tradition of using shift registers for automated music generation very much lives on! These days they are typically called "Turing Machines" (I know, kinda of confusing for us CS folks), due to the influence of a…
Of course! The point was to put the number next to a number known by the typical HN reader, not to imply the businesses were at all similar. > Most universities get by with a dozen clustered on campus serving…
Invests it, and runs the university on the returns. Assuming a 4% yearly rate of return, then that's around $1.5B a year in money available for operating expenses. As a point of comparison, Facebook spends ~10x that…
Mac El Capitan, FirefoxDeveloperEdition (which iirc is basically equivalent to Firefox Beta), not many addons (Tab Groups, uBlock Origin, No More 404s). I can screenshot my Activity Monitor if that'd help?
Mac El Capitan, FirefoxDeveloperEdition (which iirc is basically equivalent to Firefox Beta), not many addons (Tab Groups, uBlock Origin, No More 404s).
> But I remember the times when we had the amazing Opera browser. In Opera, I could have a hundred open tabs, and it didn’t care, it worked incredibly fast on the hardware of its era, useless today. You may ask: why…
In most contexts, an entertainment event being "presented by X" just means that X funded the event in exchange for having their name associated with it. E.g., "Thursday Night Football, Presented by Bud Light" -- Bud…
The one issue I see with bringing Flux/Redux to iOS is that iOS shipped with unidirectional data flow from day 1 with KVO: view => IBAction on controller => model method (incl. any API or CoreData work) => controller is…
...which is why I spent my entire last paragraph discussing why addressing inequality is often considered as a way to tackle inequality. We don't get to pretend they're separate things for at least another few centuries.
well maybe listen to more than one ;D I included that one as an example of how artists are merging instrumental hip hop back in with Jazz; there's plenty of other styles of Jazz in the list! You're right that a global…
different senses of innovation /shrug for stuff in the more progressive vein, check out: Jaga Jazzist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIFUQV20NM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws25EyTGdTg Jacob Collier - P.Y.T. :…
dead on. for more examples of what goes by "jazz" these days: Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mUymaxWmMw Hiatus Kaiyote - The World It Softly Lulls :…
If it's true at the county-level, it's true at the national level (which is also stated in the abstract). By specifying it's additionally true at the county level, it makes a much stronger claim -- that high racial bias…
This. Bitcoin is currently paying transaction fees through inflation, but as the halving process continues, those fees will shift back into the marketplace in a less implicit way, as miners need to continue being paid.…
My understanding is that the bug was in a particular contract written using the Ethereum contract "language", not Ethereum itself. E.g., one does not stop using Python because there's a bug in Quora
which is also how Patreon works -- you choose how much you pay per month
there are far more jobs that require non-engineering skills than those that do. lawyer, manager, masseuse, interior decorator, barista, ceo, journalist, teacher, non-profit grant writer, truck driver, events planner,…
> And yet, despite his downfall, Conrad is still a coveted name in Silicon Valley. People want to meet the man who created a $60 million company in just three years and made good on his promise to shake up the insurance…
I know that. I was responding to a poster who implied that critiquing neoliberalism makes one a "very poor quality publication"
> Then these companies complain and cry how everyone is pirating things and nobody wants to buy their products To be fair, I think you'll find that there's very little overlap.
I'm much more on board with the comment this one is replying to: """ ... On top of that, do you guys honestly think that Firefox would not have slid down the same slope, given that it suddenly had Google, Apple, and…
Sure! - Server is in Python using Flask and SQLAlchemy, running on AWS (EC2, RDS (MySQL), and some Redis, Celery, SQS, etc. to boot). A few microservices here and there in other languages too (e.g. real time chat server…
> And, I didn't even know it was an option until it stopped being an option. Not to take away from your overall point, but you can still very much use persona: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona (linked from…
didn't say i agreed with it, just pointed out a likely reason why such a narrowly specific threat notification tool would be launched now.