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If that were true, wouldn't shadowbanning a worker, who entrusted the monopoly to be matched with job market opportunities, be arguable grounds for a lawsuit for great economic/exi…

I missed out on the heydey of LinkedIn tech hiring frenzy, because I was just doing my work (on a very small, super-effective team), and didn't want to be on sketchy LinkedIn. Then…

Is Palantir getting access to any data it didn't already have about the newspaper chain's readers?

> In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out th…

Recently it's seemed like (very roughly) half the Little Free Libraries I see aren't in OSM. I sometimes edit OSM, so I'm wondering whether any public bookshelf omissions are inten…

I'd get runner's high sometimes. If you got it, you'd know it. Personally, I only recall it happening for me at end of treadmill and erg and dumbbells session, not on any of the ma…

> The Play Age Signals API is a privacy-preserving tool that puts parents in the driver's seat allowing them to share their child's age range (e.g. 16-17) directly with apps. Sound…

> Wait until you get an overly smug rejection letter that the author seemed too eager to write, and took too much joy in writing. I got one of those a few years ago, from a promine…

If you want to work through SICP, you can use MIT Scheme, but another option is to use Racket or DrRacket, with this add-on package: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/

If you want a non-corporate alternative to Goodreads, there's a Fediverse one, BookWyrm: https://bookwyrm.social/ (I don't know how many people are using BookWyrm, but Goodreads it…

> OfficeCLI is the first and best Office suite purpose-built for AI agents to read, edit, and automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Free, open-source, single binary, no Offic…

The US should just find a way to quietly share literature access with the Russians, rather than letting piracy be promoted and facilitated for US consumers as freedom-fighter "arch…

What was the root cause of that? (Company consciously prioritized other things than those logistics optimizations? Individual incentives lead to management behavior that was agains…

Slop that wasted my time. Flagged.

What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?

One of the better-written ones I've seen. Am sending it around to some professors.

Unrealistic. There's no way a contemporary tech founder would offer 5% of the company to an engineer that late in the game. It would be 0.5%, and it would be ISOs at worthless pric…

I thought the Guardian might decide not to show a photo of a corpse of someone probably with living friends and close relatives. Nope, they do it too, like the Daily Mail, but with…

Is this a place Sony could differentiate from other platforms? Contractually require (and technologically support) that the servers are kept running for n years after the last sale…

> This is a weird marketing strategy. They must feel free to do as they please since they know consumers are trapped. I've been on PlayStation family since PS2, and used to think I…

IKEA CORRAS FTW. https://www.neilvandyke.org/machine-learning/super-in-ikea-c...

That might be responding too narrowly to this objection. Then there's the question of singling out some subset of Debian users based on their country, for different behavior they p…

I'm very sympathetic to Ukraine and the desire to demonstrate or speak out, but I don't see how this instance is very effective, and doing it has a significant cost to the integrit…