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albemuthon From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

One practical application comes to mind: [China’s Robot Juggernaut Unitree Debuts a $650,000 Personal Gundam ](https://gizmodo.com/chinas-robot-juggernaut-unitree-debuts-a...)

albemuthon What Happens When Everything Becomes TikTok?

albemuthon Data salaries at FAANG companies in 2022

The lack of social safety net for majority of US is kinda sad.

albemuthon Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Will this cure burnout?

albemuthon On Leaving Facebook

It was comforting to hear about a fb veteran struggling with LC hards

albemuthon Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets

I LOLd out loud when I saw it

albemuthon Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter

You just have to do the TikTok hold

albemuthon Taleb is wrong about IQ (2019)

> maybe you could get sympathy for low-IQ black people

Is that what you think affirmative action is? Wow.

albemuthon Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled

The “spiteful” people wanting to watch rich people fail are preventing this from happening by being responsible

albemuthon Coastline Paradox

In the book he attributes the fractal insight to measuring the crack in a bar that is part of the border of the fictional enclave in NL/Belgium.

albemuthon Coastline Paradox

Expected this to be a reference to Neal Stephenson’s “Fall; or, Dodge in Hell”. Midway through and it’s fantastic.

> if presented with facts, would be willing to...

Now that is SF

albemuthon Zero-sum thinking on immigration will make America poorer

Overly simplistic comment ignoring personal agency.

albemuthon F-35 logistics system to be reinvented and renamed, official says

It... doesn't really work

albemuthon BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

> most laptops have cameras which can offer the same level of proximity detection

Most people who would want a kill cord probably have the camera blocked :P

albemuthon Generating a Java program with 90% less code

> condense multiple bash sessions into a single UI

How does it compare to tmux/screen?

albemuthon My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?

In their defense, it is on Medium...

albemuthon The Octopus: An Alien Among Us

Either a common ancestor of mammals and cephalopods dreamt or it evolved (at least) twice.

albemuthon Dog ownership is associated with better cardiovascular health

They get skunked/quilled every other week.

albemuthon Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

> that I can remote into from anywhere

I've been looking to set up something like this, do you have a static IP or use an external server you could recommend?

albemuthon Momentum is building to explore Venus

they would have just gone to Earth

albemuthon Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says

Maybe it's the feeling that we feel a plateau coming?

albemuthon Starbucks' music is driving employees nuts

Relevant comedy skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnkrL42R7gk

albemuthon Krugman Sees Possible U.S. Recession with Little Fed Wiggle Room

aka: buy the dip

albemuthon Airbnb is squeezing Toronto’s housing market

Economic growth, pensions...

albemuthon Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline

Ironically, at a failed onsite I was asked to design some visual component with as few DOM elements as possible.

albemuthon Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin

    ISTM -> It seems to me
    ITBWTCL -> "In the Beginning was the Command Line" By Neal Stephenson

In case anyone else was also puzzled.

albemuthon H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads

And describe them in the shortest possible way.

albemuthon Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR

Out of curiosity, what do you use VR for? Haven't found an application yet to make me finally buy a headset.

albemuthon US military to tech protestors: “We’re at war; pick a side”

I guess that takes care of any moral qualms anyone could have.