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Or get this - you get a drm free copy and they let you redownload/stream it for and undefined (hopefully long) period of time. After that you can play your copy or use a copy from …

If your goal is to understand the quality of the espresso shot, rather than experience a high quality espresso shot, letting it cool off provides a useful data point.

Watts * seconds are joules. Joules is a unit of energy. Watts are power.

> Schiendelman sent you a message on hacker news clarifying what its showing. It's you asking about the plant she told you about, it finding that text message, summarizing, and als…

In the simplest possible terms: this is total bullshit security theatre. At no point has there ever been a bomb or even a bomb threat carried out via usb device names. There is abs…

You must be joking. Google ties all of your searches to you wether you log in or not.

Yeah, this is basically what happened with prop 65 as well.

My understanding is that the rules around those is similar to prop 65 rules. So unfocused as to dilute the original purpose.

Because spacex already bought xai.

The title is misleading and not in the article. This change is for business/enterprise accounts. Also, these are still credit based. The change is that credits now operate on token…

The TurboQuant paper is from April 2025. I’m sure the major labs knew about it on, or even before, the day it published. Any impact it had would have been a year ago. Yet I keep se…

It could also be that masters degrees concentrate in fields with lower compensation. Teachers are in high demand, but yet they still tend to have something beyond an undergrad.

I didn't add a why. Here is why. Most of the staff doesn't have the visibility into the business to understand what may or may not make money. You can have a great idea, even on th…

This depends on your goals. If your goal is to drive efficiency into your processes, drive down tech debt, or fix pain points for customers of your existing products, sure. Most pe…

I don't think it's odd. Sacrificing deep understanding, and delegating that responsibility to others is risky. In more concrete terms, if your livelihood depends on application dev…

My experience is that "asking staff for ideas" does not lead to successful products. Sometimes, sure, but in general it does not.

It's not just fork. The operating system overcommits memory all over the place. For example, when you map memory, that can/will succeed without actually mapping physical pages. Eve…

If you make structural changes to your filesystem without a journal, and you fail mid way, there is a 100% chance your filesystem is not in a known state, and a very good chance it…

Yes, that is really all it is.

In the context of the kernel, it’s hard to say when that’s true. It’s very easy to fix some bug that resulted in a kernel crash without considering that it could possibly be part o…

> The spontaneous explosions become so common and normalized that just about everyone knows someone who got caught up in one, a dead friend of a friend, at least That’s an extraord…

Over commit is a design choice, and it is a design choice that is pretty core to Linux. Basic stuff like fork(), for example, gets wasteful when you don't over commit. Less obvious…

The question that isn't answered completely in the article is how useful are the pipelines for these startups? The article certainly implies that for at least some of these startup…

This meme is tired. Let it rest boss.

Maybe I’m grumpy, but the old designs all look better and more functional to me.