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See the history of Reddit. It was manually curated sock puppets before bots were viable, and now that bots are viable, I strongly believe the bulk of comments and posts in the popu…

I've recently used a ruby script with a bunch of methods that I can configure with a few yaml files to generate a shell script which I can then run. Each run generates a timestampe…

Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Yes (willing to come to office occasionally) Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, C++, SQL, No-SQL, GraphQL etc Resume: ht…

So you're paying them to not fix a bug in their system, am I reading that right?

The contract of the web is: - I ask for a resource - you give it to me - any linked resources (stylesheets, scripts, images etc) are up to me to request Therefore there is no "ethi…

I made a simple one myself as a one file html app. https://gitlab.com/aksrikanth/flash-cards

Think of what happens to a fluid when exposed to a vacuum. The water surrounding the vacuum instantly vaporizes and creates bubbles of water vapor. Then these small vacuum bubbles …

Is there a firefox extension that can give me a GPT-3 summary of any given page? That would be super useful.

I'm now wondering if there is a time in history when this would not be seen as a coincidence? Like a time when there was no crazy ruler.

Uber and Lyft are betting that 7/8 threshold will never be hit organically, but they can buy a 7/8 share of the legislature ensuring that this measure can only develop in one direc…

CSS is declarative and not imperative. A lot of people have issues with a different kind of programming. Also the "cascading" nature of CSS makes it hard to reason about.

I love my Ricoh GR and bought it nearly 6 years ago. The camera is an amazing combination of an APS-C sized sensor in a pocketable form factor combined with a fixed focal length le…

So any post that has "... a liberal amount..." or "... take the conservative approach ..." or "... replaced the right wing nut..." would be filtered. Political candidates also shar…

If you've ever used a firecracker rocket it has solid fuel in exactly the same way. It just burns from the inside out (I think) to ensure that the rocket's center of gravity doesn'…

Is it possible to have the hierarchical structure of tabs like in tree style tabs (so I can see which tab spawned which tabs)?

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF1mOTsYB0Q

No one, not even those who love me, need to see my face in High Def.

It would be a good choice to replace tablets that are used outside conference rooms to show the schedule and/or book the room.

Also missing optimal placement of scarecrows for larger farms.

The first time I was a new (post) grad and I didn't much like it and left for a startup within a year. I figured I'd give it another go with more experience, so the second time I w…

This may have been true 15 years ago when they were a small company. Google now employs ~60K engineers and the majority of them are "Bog Standard". Disclosure: I worked at Google t…

> Too little (PHP, JavaScript) is suboptimal, and too much (Scala, Haskell, Rust) is also suboptimal. I find myself thinking the exact opposite. When you want to do something quick…

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― G…

I would really love if the system76 laptops had hardware kill switches for the camera and the microphone. If the camera switch also physically occludes the lens, that would be grea…

Not necessarily true: https://www.livescience.com/24694-identical-twins-not-identi... paper (PDF) : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Constantin_Polychronako...