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Not likely a candidate for your roles, but great to see you growing to the point that you're hiring! Big fan!

Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Senior Software Engineer: Backend + Data | Full time | Cambridge, MA (hybrid schedule, REMOTE possible) The Harvard Library Innovation Lab explores…

I'm really glad you appreciate that!

COLD is bigger than Caselaw Access Project. It's over 8 million cases vs 6.9 on case.law. Please let me know how you find using the data and if you'd like to see any additions or c…

Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Multiple roles | Full time | Cambridge, MA (hybrid schedule, REMOTE possible) The Harvard Library Innovation Lab explores the future of libraries b…

Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Multiple roles | Full time | Cambridge, MA (hybrid schedule, REMOTE possible) The Harvard Library Innovation Lab explores the future of libraries b…

ARM is not open... You can license the IP.

But the point is that manufacturing has become commodified. If TSMC doesn't work out, there are other fab companies to use.

Based on your qualification of who's silicon it is, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, STMicroelectronics, and Qualcomm do not manufacture chips... Even IBM uses TSMC. That'…

Interesting time to launch a product that involves everybody touching something.

Premature optimization would be doing things in static HTML even though the rest of your code is in React because static HTML is "lighter" or "faster." Also, Next.js does static HT…

Here's a great talk about the real ramifications of this sort of problem: https://tararobertson.ca/2016/lita-keynote/

It's good for accessibility...

They could definitely hamper mechanisms that use your location to enforce DRM, like video streaming services.

I was taught basic counting, addition, and subtraction using a finger-abacus system called Chisanbop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop Now I'm plagued by off-by-one errors i…

DNS over HTTPS is actually a lot slower to resolve than traditional UDP DNS.

Being able to combine monads like this is part of the point.

Interesting. Too bad Tracking Protection doesn't apply to Mozilla as well. ;)

You can't disable telemetry in the Developer Edition for some reason, so I've gone back to Stable.

'"stop using [something useful]" considered harmful' is dying

To be fair, though, they're not the only project coming up in this space, and Go is a legit choice for systems programming.

I think the spf there is Linus' email account, right?

My team was working on merging pull requests when this happened. We might actually be at fault! That would be kinda cool.

Yeah, my SSK is an '87. There's definite differences in terms of weight and key wobble, and the keycaps on the Unicomp are less sturdy. Plus I do actually have a USB model, and it …

They're also not quite the same as a vintage Model M in terms of keyfeel or quality. And a Model M is not quite the same as a Model F. I'm typing on a Model M SSK right now, I have…