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photonbucket··on Turning AirPods into a fitness tracker
Feels like something Apple might want to do a first-party version of
photonbucket··on How to improve the RISC-V specification
I once thought it would be nice to write a toy riscv isa simulator, but was also surprised and discouraged by the natural language spec
photonbucket··on Dangers of “decentralized” ID systems
Greencards have a MRZ just like passports though.

Green cards are effectively entry-only passports (from the perspective of the US). You can enter the country by land with just the GC with no passport. Additionally, if you arrive by air and you have global entry they don't look at your passport at all, just the GC.

photonbucket··on Yamaha and Lola pair up to enter Formula E next season
They could easily change the cost-cap to exclude engines (if they arent already).

The big teams who actually develop the engines aren't actually short on cash

photonbucket··on Sudo-rs dependencies: when less is better
Is there any tooling which can tell you exactly which parts of a crate that you actually use and produce a minimized version for vendoring/auditing?
photonbucket··on Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
I don't live in that country though
photonbucket··on Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
What's going on in that part of western australia? It's a very empty area
photonbucket··on Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage
If I could get a really well sound-insulated 3 or 4 bedroom apartment, awesome, but it's either just too hard to find, or too hard to verify that it'll actually be quiet without some certification/guarantee.

With a SFH you can control your own destiny to some extent.

photonbucket··on Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
I'm curious about "why sand", is it better at holding heat than say water?
photonbucket··on How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits
> Why would anyone review a design/ architecture after it's already been built?

Many reasons. They might not have known it was being built, or they might disapprove of how it's turned out compared to initial presentation, or there might have been a shift in priority making the current project not a good fit.

photonbucket··on AMD ROCm Software Blogs
Which companies that already rent out H100s would risk the ire of nvidia providing them less capacity next time?

edit: It seems cudocompute and dataknox is willing to rent them out

photonbucket··on Lie About Your Birthday
Some dental plans use the social security number as your ID number which is irksome
photonbucket··on Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
How does GPUI compare to other gui libraries?
photonbucket··on IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season
Why is there an income limit? There would be plenty of simple returns from people with a high income with just a single w2 taking a standard deduction
photonbucket··on A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest
The pipe should really go a dozen miles out to sea and then get pump-mixed with the destination water
photonbucket··on Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
I can't see a judge swallowing that logic, you do have something similar to a metal safe's key and you've refused to provide it
photonbucket··on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
I think the intended lifespan specification is quite real in that they advertise success as A, B, and C when they initially asked for funding.

It looks really really bad for NASA when it's a mission failure in terms of what its was funded for, the politicians start talking about budget cuts.

photonbucket··on Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU
If AMD launches hardware that is clearly faster, the software will move towards it
photonbucket··on California employers must reimburse remote workers for all necessary expenses
Half of us want the property values lowered, so that it's even possible to buy something
photonbucket··on Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using the name Threads
It's also not effective. Mainstream people are never going to talk about 'X' or 'Meta' but will just stick with the old names
photonbucket··on I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
In my mind, there is where inflation really comes from. For every wage paid that wasn't useful, the resulting product becomes more expensive / less profitable. If we were able to optimize out all the waste we'd probably have deflation while computers and business processes keep getting more efficient
photonbucket··on Tesla Model X Owner Has Had Enough of Minimalism, Adds Physical Buttons
I wasn't able to find a link to the original video or where I could get a similar device. Anyone able to help?
photonbucket··on Leptos, a cutting-edge full-stack Rust framework
It seemed very fast to me
photonbucket··on Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range (2018)
v6 is already at 45% of google search traffic, it seems pretty inevitable at this point
photonbucket··on Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps
People would just live with the risk, if their house burns down they're just homeless
photonbucket··on Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
If management had enough leverage to push them back in, they weren't going to escape
photonbucket··on Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
3 times a week in way worse than zero.

Are we all going to just drive somewhere, sit at a desk and not talk to our co-workers cause they actually in some other office, then drive home?

photonbucket··on Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet
"Return to office, what's left of it"
photonbucket··on Generative AI learning path
Independent of company, acquisitions often have a long arduous 'integration' that never completes
photonbucket··on WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
Giving people what they desire in terms of like quality is destroying them? Pushing them to keep doing what they don't want to do is helping them?
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