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photonbeam··on Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
I think it’s important that those who want a 9-5-only are able to get it, and those who want to make it their calling in life are also able to have that
photonbeam··on How the weak win wars: A theory of asymmetric conflict [pdf] (2001)
Big countries can still level a small country, they just cant try to occupy without huge risk and expense
photonbeam··on Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else
That’s because of the giant amounts of land to the east of 280 that you’re not allow to build on

Convenient for existing land owners..

photonbeam··on Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else
Banks have asked me for one, when all the job is writing internal tools, no deep trading secrets
photonbeam··on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Reject Ban on Noncompete Agreements
This limit needs to be waay higher

People making $250k don't get to negotiate a custom contract, just a few variables in a template.

photonbeam··on Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login
They should have done this long ago, they missed the boat
photonbeam··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
That makes the waymo sound like a moving bollard, fault or not, I will smash into the back of you if you brake-test me
photonbeam··on This guidance on man pages for the GNU project is wild
I think the core problem is that it’s not /, which many have muscle memory for
photonbeam··on Why do programmers need private offices with doors?
Ive always been very surprised at companies that want in-office but then spread the workforce across a handful of timezones
photonbeam··on Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week
Or, the system itself has become just stupid
photonbeam··on US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over
otoh, Its the natural state of ships to be falling apart, they’re very maintenance heavy
photonbeam··on Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
> How much does it cost to make a 300 year old tree?

Aside from your main point, I found this an interesting thought exercise thinking about cost of air, sunlight, soil, water and then 300 years of security

photonbeam··on E3 Is Officially Dead
My company is hiring, we’re looking for a rockstar koopa jumper
photonbeam··on LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA
Time to support the fork
photonbeam··on The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps
Ocaml then?
photonbeam··on Check Fraud Is Rising and the Thieves Are Winning
Does fednow cover all the day to day uses of checks? Can I hand someone a token of some sort that they later redeem?
photonbeam··on Is RISC-V ready for HPC? Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU
I think once google picks their minimum riscv extension set for android (soon?) then the rest of the vendors will aim at that leaving everything else as obsolete
photonbeam··on Is RISC-V ready for HPC? Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU
This is dated after the layoffs, so presumably yes

https://www.sifive.com/press/sophgo-licenses-sifive-risc-v-p...

photonbeam··on Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker
Perhaps they should be reimbursed for the cost
photonbeam··on Facebook Messenger E2E encryption "beginning global rollout now”
They could still inspect the messages on the 2 ends
photonbeam··on A chess TUI implementation
I find when learning a language, reading the code for a problem that you already know the rules (or the shape of) really helps.

I think this is probably good project for simply reading the code to learn

photonbeam··on DIY Home EV Charger
mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20231203183047/https://jamesfoth...
photonbeam··on GitHub lacks IPv6 support for Git repositories
They could atleast provide an ipv6.github.com as a manual choice
photonbeam··on Rivian already has a patent on Tesla's Cybertruck 'range extender'
I’d have expected a range extender to be a gas or diesel generator, a bit like the bmw i3, but removable
photonbeam··on Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says
Remote happy hours are hard because everyone is at the same audio volume /distance.

I wish I could emulate walking-over-there on zoom

photonbeam··on Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover
What is the windows marketshare in servers? I haven’t encountered a single one in the last 15 years
photonbeam··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
Launching spy satellites has utility
photonbeam··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
Thats a big list of models for a company Ive never heard of
photonbeam··on Tesla Cybertruck delivery event livestream (starts now)
The drag race while towing was amusing
photonbeam··on Reducing Kernel-Maintainer Burnout
Presumably there are companies who sponsor the full-time work of the maintainers, is that insufficient to attract new/more maintainers?
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