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They just lost me a hundred dollars worth of steak tonight. Their service has become increasingly incompetent in recent months where >50% of orders arrive cold, because it sits at …

YouTube has a demonetization feature too. Let's say you run a programming tutorials channel that's too small to monetize and you don't want Google layering ads over your content. J…

Have you read James Damore's essay? If you look at only the abstract theory, there wasn't a whole lot of 'think differently' or rebellious points of view in there. Totally identica…

Not true. All you have to do is launch Matthew McConaughey into a black hole and he'll solve it.

Building a good product will get you a pat on the back. What you need is a good product + leverage. http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Of course. Take for example mͫ (m+m) there's no way to represent that as a single codepoint. Combining marks can also be overlaid multiple times, e.g. m͚ͫ (m+m+∞) so the number of …

Thanks for that buzzkill. I guess the lesson is if you can't do everything Google does, don't even try.

Yes. ASCII uses \b as the combining character mark which is a convention that's always been widely supported by typesetting programs such as less and nroff. For example, A\b_ is A̲…

The way I'd code a better search engine is I'd design an ML model that's trained to recognize handwritten HTML like this, and only add those to the index. It'd be cheap to crawl pr…

If you want a CRT that's compile-once run-anywhere for x86 then try cosmopolitan with actually portable executable. https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/ape.html It even supports…

Use wcspbrk. UTF-8 continuation characters are limited to the range \200 through \300 so there's basically zero chance that if you choose something like comma as your delimiter tha…

The historic planes beyond the basic multilingual plane are usually referred to as the "astral planes" which includes things like gothic, runes, alchemy, egyptian, and emoji https:…