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Exceptions stand out from the crowd, good and bad. If you are a competent dev, nobody cares about that if no one notices you. If people notice you, they'll next notice if you are c…

Companies in China have Party Committees, appointed by the government. These committees have oversight over how the company operates, and how the board is appointed. The Chinese go…

For anyone else interested in the topic of radiological accidents, check out the reports published by the IAEA. https://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub815_web.pd... Curi…

Using the Windows SDK without Visual Studio is a not great experience though. Doubly so if you are a newcomer to programming.

I think a main reason Microsoft lost their development community is because they charged for access to Visual studio (which is the gateway to the entire ecosystem). People didn't t…

Visual studio code's launch.json, combined with the extension for your language of choice, is generally a pretty good experience.

But also, what synergy do the tech giant and retail giant parts of Amazon have? If the two parts of the business don't really gel, what's the benefit of keeping them together in on…

The safety of your home directory relies on the integrity of the operating system.

Lot's of domain squatters listen out for whois requests, to try nab unregistered domains before the real interested buyer. Wouldn't surprise me if big tech like Google does the sam…

I mean it's sad that this change will affect Termux, but at the same time I can see why Google wants to enforce W^X on apps home dirs. This is currently a big backdoor for apps to …

>I normally don't close out of applications when I'm not using them, so I was always hovering around ~6-7 of my 8 gigs of RAM in use. That sounds like your problem. And I refuse to…

Funny to hear the author of Ninja say that he's never used CMake... And they shouldn't have been surprised at the number of Ninja users that were on Windows, Ninja is so much faste…

Goodbye accessibility.

Sure they are open source projects, but the majority of dev work is done on Google's dime. Google employs many of the most important people in these projects. Sure the code will st…

Part of the challenge of competing, is that it's so easy for Google to adopt good features from other search engines. I'm not sure what to call these, but you know the rich results…

Hospitals are experiencing shortages, because the masks don't exist - there is not enough mask production in the world. To limit supply to drive up the price, this will only work i…

Doesn't much of youtube's revenue come from music these days? Whether a patreon-style model competes or not depends on the kind of content. Individual channels making videos on you…

I don't think consumers are smart enough. Look at what's happening to Corona beer right now.

Just archive.org every page on the wiki. Their api will let you do 15/minute.

How do you transfer it though? If some businessman has all his wealth tied up in stock in his business, how do you convert that to money? Some other person has to buy the stock. Al…

Sure, but why would you pay Google for that same experience when you can already get it at a very low cost?

The same with Bitcoin. It was massive, everyone had an opinion, articles on hn/reddit every single day, now I never see crypto news unless I seek it out.

The world economy runs on Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon. Imagine if any one of them were to fail, it would be catastrophic. That said I'm not sure I trust the current American poli…

It's like saying "he was killed in 1954" about someone wrongfully executed by the government.

Google already penalizes based off payload size/download speed.