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aaaaaaaaaabon Facebook takes down Britain First ads

The number of mosques?

aaaaaaaaaabon Tinyalloc: replacement for malloc/free in unmanaged, linear memory situations

Right? Just use JavaScript already! /s

aaaaaaaaaabon Software Engineering at Google (2017)

W-hat? Where did you get that from?

I'm telling you, fixing a serious issue in a legacy component is anything but amusing. I'd be happy writing blogposts about the current framework of the week, but if I uncover an issue while working on my regular tasks, I'm gonna try to fix it instead of sidestepping it.

aaaaaaaaaabon Software Engineering at Google (2017)

>What if that legacy component was no longer in use? Is there some bigger picture in play?

Said legacy component was (and is) making a substantial chunk of the companies revenue.

aaaaaaaaaabon Software Engineering at Google (2017)

Ah yes! It's not enough if you're great at your job, or even if you do other people's jobs...

Instead you have to have this checklist of your quarterly goals, on which you can go through with your engineering manager on biweekly 1-on-1 meetings! And of course you should make a nice spreadsheet and a confluence page documenting your progress, since we're data driven :)

Did you fix a major fuckup in some legacy component? Where are the numbers? Ah, then it's not visible enough for a promotion, here's your 1% raise instead. Do you see Paul over there? He made great progress this quarter! One of his goals was to write a blogpost each week, and guess what, he did! He's on a great growth trajectory, and well deserves his promotion.

Long story short: it's a great way to drive away your best talent while keeping the confluence page and blogpost writers.

aaaaaaaaaabon How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

That wasn’t the issue with their analogy.

The issue was that the holographic principle states that the boundary completely determines what’s inside a volume, as opposed to Gauss’s law which only talks about the total amount of charge.

aaaaaaaaaabon How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

That’s a bad analogy. You can’t deduce the charge distribution within a volume from the flux through its boundary. You can only deduce its magnitude.

aaaaaaaaaabon AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis

Approved? Why is an approval even needed? They can force people to stay married in Norway by not approving a divorce?

aaaaaaaaaabon Geoff Hinton Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains

I thought quantum microtubules are still considered crackpottery.

aaaaaaaaaabon Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

The author is indeed browsing this, and is very glad you've found Decoupled useful :)

aaaaaaaaaabon Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

Not if you use Decoupled ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

https://www.decoupled.app

aaaaaaaaaabon OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects

There’s also Shapr3D on iOS: https://shapr3d.com

aaaaaaaaaabon Mozilla: Ad on Firefox’s new tab page was just another experiment

“This snippet was an experiment to provide more value to Firefox users through offers provided by a partner,” a Mozilla spokesperson told VentureBeat. “It was not a paid placement or advertisement. We are continually looking for more ways to say thanks for using Firefox.

Yuck, what a slimey piece of PR babble. I guess all those IE toolbars weren’t spyware after all - they were trying to provide value to their users! I guess all those unwanted flyers tucked in my mailbox aren’t ads either, they just want to provide me value...

aaaaaaaaaabon Open Cascade: Open-Source 3D Modeling Libraries

Unfortunately Open Cascade leaves a lot to be desired in terms of robustness and accuracy compared to e.g. Parasolid.

aaaaaaaaaabon When Shoes Were Fit with X-Rays

Eating vast amounts of sugar for one

aaaaaaaaaabon Dop: Distributed Object Protocol

I guess the server could sign the content.

aaaaaaaaaabon Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles

Thank you for the quick heads up! I’ll make sure to familiarize myself with said guidelines. It’s very useful!

aaaaaaaaaabon Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles

FLAC????? Ew... Every audiophile knows that WAV sounds the best. FLAC quality is mediocre compared to WAV.

Update: geez, it was satire...

...or was it?

https://serato.com/forum/discussion/1541194

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/flac-vs-wav-format-surprisin...

aaaaaaaaaabon Brain.js

>Neuron Networks

This really sets the tone!

>We need universal developers, no need for full-stack developers anymore.

What if the “universality” of a developer has less to do with their language of choice, and more with their reasoning and abstraction capabilities?

aaaaaaaaaabon New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter

aaaaaaaaaabon AirPods get stuck in low-quality 16 kHz audio mode when starting a VM

Back patting myself for sticking to wired, passive earphones. I ain’t got no time for debugging yet another piece of crap on top of my WiFi router, my NAS, my HTPC, and other misc. equipment that should have just f_cking worked...

aaaaaaaaaabon WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS

Give it a few years. We’re at the limits of what’s photolitographically possible with silicon. As soon as Moore’s law halts all this wasteful crap will go down the shitter.

aaaaaaaaaabon Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth

Let’s revisit this when Rust has...

- the number of users

- the amount of mission-critical legacy code that has to compile

- the number of compiler vendors

- age

... comparable to C++’s.

aaaaaaaaaabon Life and Death of a Planetary System

According to the Lord of The Rings, the world was sung into existence by Eru Ilúvatar and his Valaar. Elves, orcs, trolls, goblins and other creatures also came into existence.

aaaaaaaaaabon Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course

From the top of my head:

- `this`

- the whole prototypal inheritance thing

- class inheritance bolted on top of prototypal inheritance

- arrow functions vs `function` functions

aaaaaaaaaabon C++20 Ranges

By the amount of downvotes I got you seem to be right.

I was genuinely under the impression that C/C++ was being progressively phased out in favor of Rust, but looks like this is hardly the case. I guess I should probably peek outside the HN filter bubble more often...

aaaaaaaaaabon C++20 Ranges

Why would anyone invest in this? I thought C++ was basically in maintenance mode given that greenfield software tends to be written in Rust...

aaaaaaaaaabon Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta

Yep, it’s only around 2x as many.

aaaaaaaaaabon Survey: 1 In 4 Adults Checks Phone Less Than A Minute After Waking Up

I sometimes feel the temptation to check it even during the night when I briefly wake up to roll over or something.

aaaaaaaaaabon 3D airplane visualization

>Unfortunate that so much work went into building the mesh

As others have pointed out the mesh is from here: https://github.com/baronwatts/models