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erk__

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    Comment #49192935

    Interestingly IBM have made LEGO sets of various mainframes. I believe that they have been giving them away as prizes and such, there is also a few other companies with LEGO sets l…

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    Comment #48844747

    Deno started in Go, but was rewritten in Rust before 0.1

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    Comment #48814590

    There is also MLKit which is pretty interesting in how it handles memory, it is region based with some fallback to garbage collection. https://elsman.com/mlkit/

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    Comment #48513694

    Usually it's Rewrite it in Rust, but both work I guess

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    Comment #48475147

    Last week Adafruit received a demand letter from Flux.ai, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368121 Yesterday Adafruit updated their blog with a link to the com…

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    Comment #48098111

    There is actually work on adding autodiff to Rust, maybe not really first class citizen, but at least build in: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/autodiff/index.html (it is still at a …

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    Comment #48060101

    Will this be the reason for the Stoll prize to be set up? Instead of a medal it should be a klein bottle of course.

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    Comment #48010830

    GitHub have some quite nice feeds If you want all the commits from a repo you can do something like: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits/main/.atom And if you now only is int…

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    Comment #48005867

    YouTube still does I don't think they are linked to anywhere but the url is http://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=

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    Comment #47986001

    Hasselblad still uses it in their advertisement to this day

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    Comment #47897110

    How does that work with SpaceX's product called X (formerly known as Twitter)

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    Comment #47650705

    Also it is quite a leap to the conclusion that HVDC eqipment will not have long lead times as well especially since there are quite a few less companies making it.

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    Comment #47471494

    This is what they already are doing, the article is behind a paywall so no clue if they say it there but you can for example see this article about it: https://www.etechvolution.co…

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    Comment #47311650

    What news media would you recommend?

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    Comment #47305335

    It's not OpenType that can execute wasm it's a experimental extension in HarfBuzz so compared to this it does not work online since it is not enabled for the HarfBuzz builds in Chr…

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    Comment #47273399

    The history section of the repo clears it up [0] > LibreSprite originated as a fork of Aseprite, developed by David Capello. Aseprite used to be distributed under the GNU General P…

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    Comment #47185702

    Another one just popped up recently though it does not have a lot of coverage if anywhere yet: https://corporate.e-boks.com/loesninger/e-wallet/e-boks-id/

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    Comment #47185677

    Well they provide that if you want. they have both a OTP dongle, a OTP loud speaker and one that uses FIDO U2F (though you need to pay for that one). https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/get…

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    Comment #47150951

    It is actually at least two agencies that is working in that direction, The Danish Road Authorities is also working on it: https://www.fstyr.dk/nyheder/2025/dec/faerdselsstyrelsen-…

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    Comment #47098367

    Well the last annual report I could find actually says that they got a return of 17.65% so 3% would be pretty bad https://wikimediaendowment.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annua...

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