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abh123··on It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
A counter argument is that they paid his salary for all those years, they paid for his lab, for his machines etc. They don't owe him a job.
abh123··on datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated
I got bit by this once. Timezones aware date calculations can be an order of magnitude slower than non tz aware. Consider every time a legislative body changes dst, it creates an entry in the timezone database that needs to be checked when adding or subtracting time from that timezone.
abh123··on The Largest Greek Manuscript?
Sefaria is sort of this but for Hebrew scriptures. https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.1.1?lang=bi&aliyot=0

You can't see the original image though.

abh123··on Bell Labs Holmdel Complex (2019)
I got my COVID shot there.
abh123··on SQL:2023 is finished: Here is what's new
Spark dataframes in Scala seem to combine the best parts of relational queries with at least some typing.

https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.6.1/api/java/org/apache/spar...

abh123··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Breaking the law is not expedient in the larger sense. What I meant is let's not hobble the car by for example like the sibling poster says giving away free rides or having to drop off free meals. These can be better achieved by Charities or Soup Kitchens.
abh123··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
A company is a legal thing that is owned by shareholders. Like if I own a car, I want it to take me from A->B as expediently as possible. I don't want my car to have a social mission. I'm not sure why a company should be different. Now I do think that the disbursed profits to shareholders from the company should be used to fund many social missions, via charities and non-profits and the like.
abh123··on George Hotz becomes a Twitter intern to fix search
I've done this many times and it comes back shortly afterwards. I'm not saying they should optimize for my use case and I have enormous sympathy for the Twitter engineers. However on a personal level this removes a huge annoyance when I need to read tweets. Now if I could just get Reddit to stop redirecting me to their app :)
abh123··on George Hotz becomes a Twitter intern to fix search
He already removed the login prompt which was a huge annoyance as a read only user of twitter
abh123··on Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
well no, because they didn't actually release the feature, therefore no damage was actually done.
abh123··on The death of corporate research labs
But more missions would have been flown if the Shuttle was more reliable. This is a kind of survivorship bias where we don't know how many missions would have been flown with a different design.
abh123··on AirPods Pro
Did you realize you had to press the circular button on the back of the charging case. It's hard to see and they won't pair with anything unless you do.