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How designers see the icons / how I see the icons https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*X5Zz-PxT8087KG2...

Oh my god, this is ugly as fuck. It reminds me a study about the perception of beauty among students of arts. Before they start their studies, their perception of beauty is similar…

* Step 1: Ask for $100,000 to fund the start-up * Step 2: Open source project * Step 3: Find other streams of revenue (donations, grants, subscriptions, sponsorships)

Yes, $100K was a relatively small sum -- but the company that owned the rights was going bankrupt, and Blender was going to die. For a lucrative game, a reasonable value would be 2…

Blender had moderate success when it was closed source, but not enough to pay its development, so it was going to die. After its creator raised €100,000 to release it under the GPL…

You'll probably love [TIC-80]( https://tic80.com/ ).

Looks like a really nice and polished project! A note to the author -- if you ever considered going open source, you could use the same strategy used by Ton Roosendaal to open sour…

They were essential for branching with GOTO and GOSUB. Example: 10 PRINT "HELLO "; 20 GOTO 10 This would create an infinite loop that you could break with Ctrl+C. You could then ty…

Chinese EV makers are very popular in Europe and Asia.

There was an interesting text, by Isaac Asimov, where he explained in a very clear way the historical importance of logarithms -- they allowed Kepler to finalize his work by replac…

The election of Donald Trump shows that the world needs to become independent from the U.S. This is a video about Digital Sovereignty in Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWS…

It probably depends on the benchmark you choose; according to Chatbot Arena, Deepseek-R1 ranks similarly to o1-2024-12-17; and Grok3 is just 3% above these models in "Arena Score" …

This Youtube channel has amazing explanations, starting with: How Transistors Run Code? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjneAhCy2N4

> Even more concerning was Devin’s tendency to press forward with tasks that weren’t actually possible. (...) > Devin spent over a day attempting various approaches and hallucinati…

Not all bugs are crashes. It could be a copy text or price calculation.

It definitely is; but this bureaucracy can be useful when the company has thousands of developers.

> The question is: Why companies moved from monolithic to microservices? What do they try to avoid? One of the main reasons why companies move from monoliths to microservices is to…

According to the article, Section 702 sunset on December 31, 2017.

Why would one encrypt dates ? They are public domain!!!

Curiously, the easiest Google product to move away from is "google" (search): I have been using DuckDuckGo for years , both for searching and browsing. I love the ability to burn t…

> I guess it’s hard to imagine new features or even incremental quality updates as a viable business idea. There is market for privacy; but the missing piece, after so many years, …

From the article: > 1. GPT1, GPT2, GPT3, Codex, InstructGPT, GPT4 papers. Self explanatory. (...) > 2. Claude 3 and Gemini 1 papers to understand the competition. (...) > 3. LLaMA …

You should use this as a sign that people don't understand "creating an account" as part of the game.

Kudos to the author for the amazing idea! The only problem I see is that projects don't fit so nicely in the division between languages (Pythonia, Javaland, Clojuria, etc) and appl…

Sometimes, before you merge your changes into master, you may want to re-organize your commits in logical chunks. For example, if you are working in two different files -- you can …