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You're right this person can't be taken too seriously, but the linked website for hiring cheap Philippines workers appears to be legit.

I read Donald Knuth does this. He uses a USB flash drive to transfer data to and from his main book-writing Linux workstation. Air gapping has the added bonus that the constant dis…

Elon 1st Amendment comment: Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, …

> Basically stripped-down versions of Blender itself Okay, that makes sense. The video on the linked Blender Apps page shows this really simple app where one drags models around an…

Seems like Godot already does what Blender Apps does much better: - Godot is great at importing Blender models/scenes. - Blender is GPL, Godot is MIT. - Godot produces much lighter…

> "gen z" students expect the "system" to adapt to address their struggles I hope Gen Z soldiers don't have this attitude. [Mortar round blows off leg of Gen Z platoon grunt.] "OMG…

Of course, that's what I thought I said in my previous comment but I guess I wasn't crystal clear. The formal verification stack basically tells you, "There's no guarantee 0 =100 a…

ASML is the closest thing to the planet Dune in our world. Chips made with their machines extend life. Chips made with their machines expand consciousness. And he who controls the …

Of course. The checks are performed where the values arrive. If a file or network socket provides a number N that is going to be used as an array index, then N must be proved to be…

Ada solved these problems in 1983. More recently, you can use Frama-C to constrain allowable sequences of 0's and 1's for C types and formally verify correctness. In Ada since 1983…

> can we just make it render on time? Oh, time to go down a low-latency rabbit hole. Start here: https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/graphics/2020/09/13/composito... Some key mentions: …

The cursor lag is really bad, particularly on Windows, but there are at least 2 ways the lag could be much lower: 1. Use 'desynchronized', e.g. canvas.getContext("2d", { desynchron…

Actually, a reason (of many) I switched from Apple to Windows was Apple's well-known audio drop-out fiasco caused by Apple's T2 security chip essentially hijacking data lanes when …

Since many HN'ers live in the greater Seattle area, it's important to be aware of the Tacoma Smelter Plume: https://ecology.wa.gov/Spills-Cleanup/Contamination-cleanup/... For almo…

I'd fund it if I could use it to actually ship something and make money. I've donated to other software projects. If, say, for several thousand bucks they'd actually give me a tiny…

After quickly falling in love with Godot and several months of serious use I'm having to give up on it due to Godot's lack of funding to fix its more than 6000 open issues on Githu…