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> So how bright do we want/need our displays to be? How many bits? For me, even a 500 nits TV in a dark room is enough viewing from about 10' away. The advantage of high peak brigh…

I use IDEA and most typed languages I write (eg Java, Go, Python with annotations) have better support for things like automated refactoring, bug detection via static analysis, etc…

Very excited to hear about this. Elixir is a fantastic language but tooling lags behind some other options, a type system should help with that.

You can rent a supercomputer from AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/

I was referring to PGP as a solution for being potentially MITM’d by an AI when trying to communicate with an entity you already trust.

> This technology will kill all digital information exchange. This is a bit hyperbolic. We have strong encryption like PGP for media like email (although I suppose getting people t…

Binary palindromes are real engineering, Google Search is not? Pretension indeed.

I don’t think GitLab will do this as they would lose many government customers that self-host on private networks.

> We would submit that the simplest explanation for this relationship can be garnered from the known relationship between borderline personality disorder and extreme, though change…

Is there anyone alive practicing “Roman Stoicism”? People today take valuable and useful ideas from the philosophy of Stoicism such as those that underpin CBT. Why disregard these …

This is purely my opinion: Lincoln’s point was that the threat of civil war or violent dissent (what we today would call domestic terrorism) is a much greater threat to the US than…

A great quote from Lincoln: > From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the arm…

Hadoop/HDFS

Not sure if it counts as structured concurrency but Go has the feature you describe: https://gobyexample.com/waitgroups

I'm not sure it's fair to characterize a container as a snapshot of an entire OS install - you can have containers that are very lightweight, e.g. just a static Go binary copied in…

GitLab uses Vue, that qualifies as a serious product.

Install GitLab Runner on any EC2 instance you’d like, it’s simple. You can even run on Spot!

Regardless of whether this decision is correct or not, Uber's financial situation is of their own making and shouldn't factor in to the ruling.

Ember.js is very much batteries-included although learning the framework definitely requires a time investment.

I think we’re at that point judging by the reaction to Apple’s latest generation of keyboards and their (rumored) upcoming change.

One of the professors quoted in the article suggests otherwise: > The system promulgated a definition of sexual misconduct so expansive that it “plausibly covers almost all sex stu…

Go isn’t the perfect language because it doesn’t intend to be. Likely, as this article seems to hint at, there’s no such thing and there never will be. Go has a well defined set of…

Inspecting JSON payloads that are returned during normal use of the app doesn’t seem like an illegal activity.