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Saw this last year and liked it so much I added something very similar to it to Infumap ( https://github.com/infumap/infumap ). You can drag items of arbitrary type onto dates. Whe…

I'm not a hearing aid wearer, but I came across https://www.envoymedical.com/ during investment research activities. They seem to have the leading candidate for a fully implantable…

I was not expecting to loose karma for this comment! I have a couple of years familiarity with SolidJS and thought the two key insights that came to mind from building a large proj…

I'm using SolidJS for Infumap ( https://github.com/infumap/infumap ), which is getting pretty big. Two main comments that come to mind: Because the state -> DOM mapping is non-triv…

No, they pass it through successively intensive process conditions, each of which selects for a different plastic type. No need to wash, their process is water based and some conta…

Results will vary a lot with all the parameters (of which there are many). They don’t disclose all the detail but I know they have done thousands of tests across the parameters spa…

Aduro’s tech works with hard to recycle, dirty, mixed plastic. Search for Eric Appelman interview on YouTube for more info. Some of the retail investor coverage is cringeworthy, bu…

Worth noting that Kafka is getting queues: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...

Michael Pettis did a great interview recently that covers why growth in China is likely to stall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5VczIFGZA

Disturbing observation: 5 years ago, the trends that seemed most important to me were all technical - I really paid no attention to politics. Today, they are mostly geo-political.

it is the WebGPU API (targeting both the web and native)

In the context of a company, the higher up you get (on a technical track), the more you need to operate across different projects, technologies etc. - being able to jump into new t…

You can tune Kafka down fairly well if you know what you're doing, but it's not optimised for that OOTB. Or just use Confluent Cloud, which is fully managed and scales down as low …

FWIW, I didn't mean to suggest this was coordinated. I take the point that my comment here is of low value. I do believe related issues will perhaps turn out to be the most importa…

it is interesting that this comment criticising the west is not downvoted, but those that are criticising china are

I was affiliated with a company in Singapore which had it's bank account closed, I believe due to FACTA, even though at the time no one involved with the company had ever been to t…

best trick i know for this is to have another source of noise that you can tolerate (e.g. a fan). noise cancelling headphones are useful if you sleep on your back...

Would the proposed upcoming changes to the H1-B visa also apply to the E-3 visa (which is closely related) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/08/2020-22...

Kafka also has less moving parts even today before zookeeper removal is complete (2 vs pulsar 3).

At the moment you more or less need to write a DBMS in your app code, but I don't think that's the end state. I think what we're seeing the beginnings of something big - it just mi…

even those who aren't..

rust. the ownership system it embodies seems important and I want to understand it deeply. also, the language has momentum.

Australia are introducing very harsh laws targeting climate / environmental activists. He could start by reversing those. E.g. Tasmania, up to 21 year jail term for trespass.

nice! related, we just added similar capability to librdkafka (the C client) to facilitate better integration testing. hopefully we will expose it in the bindings as well at some p…

there are pros and cons to having a C dependency. the main benefit is reliability (get it right once, leverage that across languages). Another benefit is usually performance. The m…