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kurbin

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kurbin··on Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 Review: Return to Form
It's the same
kurbin··on Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game
Agree with other commentors that the 'weak stone' is difficult to understand for new players
kurbin··on How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions
This is not anywhere close to true. Have you built a bootstrapped startup from scratch and negotiated an acquisition? It's far, far harder than practicing a few leetcode Facebook problems and getting a referral.
kurbin··on Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
Of the 4 person committee, one is on the board, the other was on the board last year, and the other two are staffers.
kurbin··on Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
The only two non-staffers (and thus decisionmakers) on the committee were both on the board at some point.
kurbin··on Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
They say "Because of the missteps of this committee, we have asked the NumFOCUS Board of Directors to take over the work of the committee", yet the 7-person board of directors overlaps with the 4-person code of conduct committee.

Board of Directors: https://numfocus.org/community/people CoC Committee: https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct#persons-responsible

kurbin··on Launch HN: Cohere (YC S20) – Real-time user support for web apps
I didn't think this would be useful from the title, but the demo honestly blew me away. I've seen much more expensive applications that only handle read-only cursor playback, but handling real-time tab sharing is amazing.
kurbin··on Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues
Still don't quite follow your comment. Is "keeping updates in tickets" separate from the comment on deleting messages?