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> Where are the dozens of European tech winners? Seriously. They have the best education system in the world, strong social safety nets, cheap healthcare, and great lifestyles. Why…

The episode was based on the book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang (Amazon: China's Quest to Engineer the Future) Very interesting read, with a lot more …

IANAL, but GPL3 is compatible with selling the software (see Linux distros). However, it forces you to open up the complete source code and it allows the users to fork and recompil…

I'm a bit confused about the license: On the purchase page ( https://get.trayce.dev/ ) you state that "a license must be purchased for continued use". But if I look into the GitHub…

No, defense in depth is a best practice because you assume that each layer can fall. It is more practical to have many layers that are very secure than to have one layer that has t…

They say this about sports, which is (usually) a zero-sum game: If I'm attacking, no matter how badly, my opponent cannot attack at all. Therefore, it is preferable to be attacking…

Thanks, that's also a very impressive visualization. Slightly too much and confusing, but amazing nonetheless. Thanks for sharing! I'll also have a look around your repo. And maybe…

Very nice, thanks for sharing! Is the source available somewhere? Do you want contributions? I've once built something similar for myself (still at https://github.com/fdw/timelines…

> or how neurodivergent is really is from much more common extroverted people. Do you mean to say that neurodivergence is more common among extroverted people? If so, do you have s…

I'm understanding your statement to mean that caring about something because of itself, without external motivation (like validation or money), is neurodivergent. So neurotypical w…

I've tried out some of the libraries, and it looks like they do calculate the difference between the installed version and the last (stable) release. If a dependency hasn't seen a …

Recently, ESPHome was on the homepage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138228) and some people shared their constructions. What else have you built yourself with electronics…

Yes, but it is quite uncomfortable to use, requiring you to get a session key and storing it somewhere. Instead, I've had good experiences with [rbw]. Maybe that would also be inte…

But isn't that the very problem? The market for these loss-leading services is skewed because Google subsidizes their free offerings so that they improve their ads branch. Because …

I've written my own tiny Python script for this, that launches the right executable based on the URL. It works really well for my situation with two different Firefox profiles. May…

I do backups to a local, external HD (that I need to manually plug and unplug, unfortunately), and to Backblaze. Depending on the importance of the data, it's being pushed daily to…

In the end, paperless also stores the original pdfs in a directory. You get some more goodies from it, like automatic OCR and a web interface, but your baselines is also included.

Would care to explain why "Altriusm is a sickness"? Caring about other people seems to be a good thing to me, so I'd like to hear your take.

Isn't this what journalism should be about, though, to journal the news neutrally? I'd be more worried about a bias if someone only writes for one side of an issue, but now it's al…

I've had a good experience with [crestic]( https://github.com/nils-werner/crestic ), even though it seems a lot smaller and simpler than autorestic. But I really like how the same …

That looks really interesting, thank you very much!