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We do our dev on Linux desktops using VS Code ssh remotes from our Macs. Is this possible with Conductor?

I sometimes wonder if we’re just very advanced stochastic parrots. Repeatedly, we’ve thought that humans and animals were different in kind, only to find that we’re actually just d…

You're right. Just compiled the following program with clang from Xcode 14 (Apple clang version 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.102)) without issue. #include struct foo { uintptr_t p __att…

The article references a few compiler extensions: __builtin_xnu_type_signature, __builtin_xnu_type_summary, and the xnu_usage_semantics attribute. I can see references to these bui…

In response to: > Fun aside: I’ve always assumed this is why Core Foundation exists—to provide a common interface between Carbon and Cocoa. I don’t actually have a citation for thi…

I believe it will eventually live at https://github.com/google/xi-win , though I think the focus is on getting the Mac version working first.

I don't take a ton of photos, so I don't know the answer to your question. Sorry :(

I had similar problems on my iPhone 7 when I upgraded to iOS 11. This included apps totally freezing, sometimes for what felt like a minute, with very laggy input, as well as other…

Beranek and BBN both make an appearance in Mitch Waldrop's excellent book "The Dream Machine," which is in theory a biography of J.C.R. Licklider (who was mentioned in the obit), b…

That scene you just described happened many times over the course of the past few months :)

Thanks for the considered response. I do think we could have done a better job editing Code Words. We'll try to do better next issue.

Turns out I'm too tired to do this tonight. I will try to do this over the weekend or on Monday. I'll try to ping each of you when there is an RSS feed. In the mean time, we'll twe…

Fixed. Thanks!

One thing I think we could have done better with Code Words is added short bios. Bios add context, which is lacking here. Here's R0ml's bio from 2006[^1]: r0ml is an software archi…

Not right now :(. I will add one later this evening.

Thanks! I'm actually planning on writing more about what we've learned from anonymizing our applications and from our application process in general in the next few days. I think s…

I'm one of the founders of Hacker School. We care tremendously about treating people like adults[1]. If you think the social rules don't treat people like adults, you're fundamenta…

I'm curious about what you find scary. Scary for someone considering applying for the job or scary because it says something about us? We put it in the job description because we t…

I do know Jake! "Fellows" and "fellowship" are really good choices for Insight, though, to be honest, I hadn't spent any time considering the choice until you brought it up. I almo…

OP here. After reading through the reactions to this post, I think the biggest thing I missed is explaining why we need a word at all. The primary reason to have a word is that we …

OP here. Both of these words do a good job of describing what someone does at Hacker School. I think the reason we've shied away from them is because they can sometimes come off as…

I do not disagree with you, though I think focusing on whether these things are qualities or skills misses the broader point that I was trying to make (that this list is a tool tha…