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Quequau··on French bulldogs are taking over America
There is someone trying to breed actually healthy French bulldogs, they're called "Hawbucks" if I recall. I suppose it will take some years to fully accomplish.
Quequau··on Pence Delivers Truth to Power
If Pence wishes to speak truth to power he can testify under oath.
Quequau··on Neural Chip Plays Doom Using a Thousandth of a Watt
There has got to be a better article about this device than this.
Quequau··on Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement [video]
For those who are hearing, there are subtitles that you should turn on.
Quequau··on Unikernels are unfit for production (2016)
No, not at all. Unikernels are entirely different.

You can go read more: http://unikernel.org/

I think it's a fairly interesting concept but it's not like they're taking over the world or anything. FWIW, I don't DTrace was as successful as its creators might have wished either.

Quequau··on Unikernels are unfit for production (2016)
> it's clear that the majority of the world's production computing is done with unikernels

What!?! Where are all these unikernels I am not aware of?

Quequau··on Digirule2: 1970 8-bit programmable binary computer built into a 20cm ruler
There used to be mechanical calculators that were rulers which were called "slide rules". Making a digital calculator with that form factor used to be an obvious thing.
Quequau··on The widespread layoffs are more because of copycat behavior than cost-cutting
> Once sufficient fear has been instilled, the next stage will probably be across-the-board pay cuts.

Not saying you are wrong but it's common knowledge now that the best way to secure a pay rise is to find a new job.

So I expect that a fair number of employees faced with an actual wage reduction in a time of pretty significant inflation will feel motivated or even forced to find new employment. Which in turn will mean that when the firms go to replace those workers, which for the most part they eventually will want to do, they will wind up having to pay a higher wage to attract the same level of talent and competence.

Quequau··on Twitter Disables SMS 2FA for Users
This seems like it's pointlessly self-sabotaging.
Quequau··on Idaho introduces legislation to criminalize those who administer mRNA vaccines
Seems like everyday that goes by there's something going on in America that makes me believe they have lost their minds.
Quequau··on Elon Musk hopes to have Twitter CEO toward the end of year
I wonder if what's left by the end of the year will be salvageable. I expect not.
Quequau··on The State of Bidenomics
this link doesn't go anywhere.
Quequau··on High-Energy Lasers
I just wish the costs of lasers for cutting and welding metals would go down.
Quequau··on Europe's spend on energy crisis nears 800B euros
Wonder how much of that is going straight into energy execs pockets, never to be seen again.
Quequau··on Gentoo Linux, LLVM/Clang is now the primary system compiler
For a while now I have wondered if compiling an average Linux system with AOCC, AMD's Optimized C/C++ Compiler would have a noticeable effect for a system using one of AMD's APUs.
Quequau··on Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed
It seems like every time I read about this company in the news it's about they weren't truthful about the severity and timing of their security breaches. For a company focused on secret credential management I am not sure I could come up with a worse set of events and conduct.
Quequau··on Ask HN: How to distribute a lot of images throughout multiple Universities
Isn't rsync designed for use cases like this?
Quequau··on You can no longer sign in to old.reddit.com
I am currently using it and it seems fine. I honestly doubt they'd shut it down right now.
Quequau··on Commuting is a ‘liminal space’ where you can ‘psychologically recover’ from work
This seems like ridiculous apologia.

It's extremely common for workers to express higher work-life balance satisfaction when transitioning to employment with less commute time.

Quequau··on Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone
Thank you for your explanation. That is what I was expecting. I'll look forward to being able to tinker with the upcoming trained models.
Quequau··on Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone
I tried this via the docker containers and wound up with what looked like their website. Not sure what I did wrong.
Quequau··on Twitter will let businesses keep their gold checkmarks – for $1k per month
I have doubts that a gold check-mark on Twitter confers a benefit that's worth $12K per year.
Quequau··on AMD Killed the Itanium (2005)
Years ago I read an interview of one of the upper managers of the project and his very brief post mortem was because Intel was focused on shipping only very high end chips, few to none of the usual people and processes that were responsible for the development of open source development tools had convenient access to the chips and so no motivation to do that work. That in turn forced Intel to do it and by the time the people making the decisions were convinced of that the willingness to spend money on the project had evaporated.
Quequau··on The ingenious design of the aluminum beverage can (2015) [video]
I like this guy. I think the best videos he made where the ones on Faraday's Candle lectures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrHnLXMTOWM&list=PL0INsTTU1k...

Quequau··on Humanity takes little of Earth’s area can fit entire pop of Earth in NYC 1 floor
Perhaps if you puréed and dessicated us all first.
Quequau··on C was not created as an abstract machine
Without trying to suggest the author is wrong (I'm confident he isn't) "C Minus-Minus" is interesting and does aim to be a "portable assembly language" which in turn is pretty much a target for an abstract machine which most modern compilers can deal with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--

Quequau··on Electrical stimulation can boost brain's willingness to engage in mental effort
Or in my case cook the heathy, cheaper, food that I actually enjoy eating rather than the ultra-processed, pre-made, food like substances that make my stomach ache.
Quequau··on Geometric Primes – Visualizing prime numbers with basic geometric shapes
Geometric Primes is a series of posters visualizing the complete set of three-digit prime numbers in a series of styles and only using basic geometric shapes based on squares, circles, and triangles.
Quequau··on Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?
Rube Goldberg was a prophet.
Quequau··on 80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea
I wonder how much outfits like Send Cut Send are eating into 80/20's market share. I know I've used laser cut sheet stock for a few projects that probably would have used aluminium extrusions in the past.
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