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What happened with the replit guy?

What is the invention? Honest question, not familiar with this stuff. Comments make it hard for non-experts to follow the discussion.

If you can convince the higher ups that migrating tooling provides business value, you can do something that requires zero insight or creativity for a few months and at the end of …

NorCal to SoCal using regional airports (avoid sfo lax etc) can be less than 2 hours door to door. Online check in + no checked bag means you can show up at small airports 30 minut…

Skid is another word for shipping pallet and it’s called skid row because it’s next to the freight train lines into downtown. Pallets would get stacked high along the streets, henc…

Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by “the SSH problem”?

If you’re paying Bay Area prices for engineers, $5K a month is a steal to not have to pay people to deal with sharding.

Why would current be relevant here? Shouldn’t operating voltage be the only thing that matters?

Ehh they make great products for smb/coliving/coworking spaces, where you need better hardware than the box the ISP gives you but you don’t need the kitchen sink that comes with Ci…

You can’t unsend an email because you can’t force someone else to delete something. Emails end up as files on someone else’s server. Claiming this is a UX issue is intentionally mi…

Many creative productions take on a similar structure to what he proposes. Many entities, some individuals, some partnerships, and some corporations, come together to produce a sin…

The great grandparent to your post (the one who initially brought up the necessity of rote learning) is a quant at a market maker. Anecdotally, my favorite professor from undergrad…

I’ve found Elixir (+Erlang/OTP) to have some incredibly powerful primitives that make it fairly simple to develop concurrent programs. OTP underpins WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, a…

If you can pattern match all auto generated audio you can prove there’s no one way functions and that cryptographic hash functions don’t exist. Detecting the pattern in a prng stre…

Write your representatives ! Some of them actually want to help, they just legitimately don’t realize the reality of the situation on the ground.

Missouri spent $1.6B in 1980s dollars on the inner city schools in Kansas City. It didn’t do any good. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-27-me-51685-...

Is there a better source? This article is hard to read. It jumps tense and confuses chronology repeatedly.

This is how some video game demos are managed. Subtle color variations are used throughout the game window to uniquely finger print each copy of the game during media blackout.

I would be surprised if there wasn’t a theater projectionist in the warez scene that has a setup like the one you describe. DRM is ridiculous because consuming the product is a sid…

When I tell people that Finnish middle schools don’t have bells and the kids just go places when they need to they look at me in disbelief. Kids live up to the expectations they ar…

Yeah that’s how companies like grocery stores that use iOS based devices for inventory management load their apps.

Dragon Naturally Speaking ran on clients without network access in the 90s. A given household might have 20,000 words spoken in a day. With speech to text, then compression, this w…

Credentials are non transferable and non-voidable unless you are later discovered having cheated. I don’t get what point you’re trying to make here.

Ring zero doesn’t prevent cheats stored in spoofed input devices https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d1jz8qbzfIk

So your degree is free unless other people are willing to pay you to have it? In which case it costs you money? You already did society a favor by studying something other people c…