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> I recently had an exchange with someone that reminded me how important trust and mutual respect is and how the lack of such tends to cause problems to escalate. What feels like a…

> But tech companies want to talk to the humans they're hiring, so race and gender are (almost) always available as information inputs during the hiring process. This is actually k…

I'm not an expert but it looks like a lidar to me. Putting it at an angle lets it map the ground in front of the cart.

I don't think that follows. To conclude that these are properties of capitalism you need to examine both capitalist and non-capitalist societies and observe that capitalist societi…

Ah, ok. I haven't been to Coventry since I was a kid. I should probably have looked up some information or something before posting.

According to Google maps, Southam is about 25 minutes drive to Coventry or 15 minutes to Leamington Spa. It's not in the "middle of nowhere" in any important sense. And Leamington …

With asset build pipelines that do lots of preprocessing, compress everything, and pack things with a layout that tries to minimise disk seek time while playing, it's conceivable t…

For viewing objects I find a turntable style view best in most circumstances. For landscape or architecture (where you're in the scene), mouselook with WASD + vertical up/down. Nei…

The fences aren't a locking mechanism, at least not on their own. The lower (hardware) level locks are the steps in the cache coherency protocols (potentially including explicit ca…

> Trump on twitter is literally just Donald Trump, not the president. There has been a specific legal battle about almost exactly this question. So far, the US court system disagre…

Famously (or perhaps not, but I remember it anyway), Duke Nukem Forever developers 3D Realms said that it would be released "when it's done". Duke Nukem Forever was first announced…

Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441979

Neocities.org seems ideal for this. I personally use the free tier of netlify at the moment, but I'm considering switching to neocities instead since I just have simple personal st…

I apologise, I was speaking loosely. I don't know if sponge collects input in memory or in a file. (Frankly I've never needed to care since the files I've ever needed this tool for…

The purpose of sponge is that you can do this: grep foo file.txt | sponge file.txt If you do this with redirections then file.txt will be truncated before it's been processed, leav…

I follow several artists and get lovely art that I wouldn't otherwise have seen, and wouldn't have sought out. I follow several people in the game development industry, and histori…

Unless it's also a non-cryptographic hash then I don't see how a timing attack does anything interesting here. Timing will potentially tell you how many bytes of the hash match. Bu…

You can still gain efficiency by centralising services. If you have centralised services you need some mechanism to coordinate them and make decisions about how they should work, a…

Why is cancer pathological? Because cancerous cells prioritize their own growth over the health of the wider system in which they exist. Companies with this mindset do not reach a …

Do you mean Chrome OS? Google is a web company; they want people to use the web. They made a laptop/desktop operating system built around their web browser, because they want every…

I posit that whether a search should be "local" or "global" is much more a factor of what is being searched for than who is searching. If I search for a barber I want local results…