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He'll probably be relegated to some minor role like "Husband of Board Member #6"

"It's one flag, Michael. How much could it cost, $44B?"

Side story: the haptic feedback for the NanoManipulator was through a hydraulic system (kinda like this? https://www.sarcos.com/wp-content/uploads/history_5-339x280.... ). There we…

Tolstoy also has a lot to share about programming. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is a clear recommendation to use status codes as r…

H3 has the significant downside that children nodes do not fit within parent nodes. So one needs to be very careful working within any sort of multi-resolution algorithm (the most …

It's the office of the future! https://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/ . The challenge in 2000 was that bandwidth and 3d reconstruction needed several leaps forward in quality.

The Wikipedia page dedicates an entire section to explaining that comment, under "Appointment to CEO, controversy and resignation". He was forced out of the CEO position for this p…

Yeah, it was a significant infrastructure cost. I heard at one time that the single largest computer at Google was the Perforce server. They ended up completely re-writing it (call…

Google posted a paper detailing their reasons for choosing monorepo: https://research.google/pubs/pub45424/ Caveat: your company probably isn't Google, so your challenges may be di…

You can get a saliva test today, it's just a bit expensive: https://www.vaulthealth.com/covid We did this this morning, and it was not bad. They ship the tubes to your house, and y…

"Hey, should I put this on my personal card?" "No, just Brex-it!"

Talented jerks can absolutely destroy a team. In my experience, the actual degree of coding prowess turns out to be significantly less important than the ability to collaborate.

They observed keys being transmitted to Chinese servers, which makes them to suspect that Zoom is distributing keys via these servers. They have worded this very carefully to avoid…

It's possible it comes from a corporate culture that is focused on ease-of-use over security. This is not the first time that they've done some questionable things to reduce fricti…

This is exactly the opening argument of the article, and the writer's response (in part) is, "Nevertheless the Nobel continues to exceed the Booker, the Pulitzer, and all other lit…

From the article: "[White Noise]... represents better than any other literary text just how apocalyptic dread has become the inescapable ground note of everyday life."

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