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How about a theme park? With velociraptors and other jurassic era animals?

> the path of least resistance is very different in the US, Europe and Asia My theory is that in US compared to Europe, you are going to need the path of least resistance more ofte…

This seems more interesting, as it's not a code for a physical address but a lookup key for one. You can update your code to point to a new address when you move: > Their digital a…

> later investors effectively collude with founders > a small startup that never found product-market fit. The economy was bad, and they were running out of money, and they took - …

Most streaming services take a similar cut of the revenue. Spotify pays out 70% of revenue they receive to owners of the music, BandCamp 75%, SoundCloud 80%. Could be slightly bett…

> Theoretically it should be possible to do that using two cameras connected to some kind of image processing unit That "some kind of image processing unit" in humans has an awful …

This is probably a question about classic CRDTs as much as eg-walker: Do all possible topological sorts of the event graph result in the same final consensus document? If yes how d…

> Overall I've taken eight weeks throughout the year and never been questioned with it. If you have taken eight weeks of vacation per year, and have not even seen push-back on it, …

> If I could give my employees a $50k cash bonus and it got taxed at 24% or I could gift them a $50k car "for testing" and it was tax free, everyone would be getting paid in cars. …

> Was the backdoor used on obscure build servers or obscure pieces of build infrastructure somewhere? And developer machines. The backdoor was live for ~1 month on testing releases…

Variability in software runtime arises mostly from other software running on the same system. If you are looking for a real-world, whole-system benchmark (like a database or app se…

Burnout and depression can be connected to, but aren't the same thing as a mid-life crisis. I would distinguish a mid-life crisis (or in the positive case, mid-life inspiration) by…

These sort of reports can be very misleading because they are often based surveying local companies competing for employees with other local companies. The salaries are very differ…

> For example, Aldi can just decide to hire a contractor that they know does good work at a reasonable price. In contrast, the govt has to use a lengthy fair and open bid process a…

> that only speaks when spoken to Feedback loops are an important part. But let's say you take two current chatbots, make them converse with each other without human participants. …

Developers will care if they are spending their time waiting for a build. Both could be satisfied with a single-threaded make keeps the standard order to ensure backwards compatibi…

Despite the electrical risks, it's crazy how much Christmas safety has improved. I remember https://i.imgur.com/vKbfzEs.jpg from my childhood. Small metal clips to attach real cand…

It's legal to install an aftermarket turbo, swap the engine, lift the car by a few feet. Or repair your powertrain with zip-ties.

Git provides all of those things, as long as everyone agrees on what the current HEAD commit id (hash) is. You could publish that hash in a printed newspaper or with a government r…

It's not empty, it's just way, way! too politely phrased. It's not advice on how to find ideas or how to become that person, but advice on who is ready to give founding a startup a…

> I would say that proper password manager is the best investment you can do from any app. My bed is the best investment in the sense that I spend 1/3 of my life there. That doesn'…

What did you see as the central claim of the article? To me it was that personal finance and budgeting is being marketed to low-income people as a way of getting out of poverty and…

I think we could reduce the litres / km (volume / distance) units to just square meters (area). For example, 7 litres / 100km = 0.07 mm^2 It's the cross-section of a noodle of fuel…

Combined Heat and Power in Finland is very common, much more so than in rest of Europe. 80% of the fossil fuel power plants output both electricity and heated water. Compared to (q…

And broken CSV files. In some European locales Excel switches from importing/exporting Comma Separated Values to Semicolon Separated Values with comma acting as the decimal point.