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Yeah, Project Silica is another project within the GitHub Archive Program. You can see the microfilm in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzI9FNjXQ0o&feature=youtu.be...

Taking cold storage to another level.

Short video about the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzI9FNjXQ0o

Assuming you don't want to make the current repo public, you have to rename the current repo and create a new public repo with your username. Obviously that will break redirects, so update your existing references to that repo.

I ran Gentoo Linux on a 12" iBook PowerPC G4 for a while after Apple officially declared it as end-of-life. I really loved the form factor at the time, it feels clunky now.

It's great that people annotate biased articles with the words "Considered Harmful"

Yeah, reading a single file will not have a noticable impact, but we all know it will not stop at a single file. Before you know it a full blown web browser is included. The suckless philosophy is pretty extreme, but I'm grateful there are people exploring this space.

I feel mazes are a nice hello world project for learning a new programming language. I made one in JavaScript last month when I was setting up a personal web site. I added a maze to the 404 page to show how truly lost you are when you end up there. It is the most interesting page on my web site so far.

https://www.schaap.io/404.html

The maze generation is slowed down to visualize what is going on. Most of those mazes can be generated in a few of milliseconds.

Some users will be irrational

I also like monospaced fonts, but using them for articles is a bit unusual. Justifying monospaced fonts seems wrong on some levels, but who am I to judge.

In my browser only the spaces between words get stretched, spaces between letters are not affected.

I read it more like: "what if we just use threads instead of avoiding them at all cost and complicate things to get concurrency"

> not $1200 for 10 weeks: more like $1200 per week

I agree $1200 for 10 weeks is a bit low, but $1200 per week is really high and maybe a bit excessive? Can somebody get Andrew Yang back on the case?

Nice write-up, but it feels like I'm missing some important parts of the picture. The company seems to have a lot of layers for its size. How big is the company and how is it organized? What does this person consider to be their team and their peers? How many direct and indirect reports do they have?

You might be thinking of GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix".

As far as I understand it we got the name Linux because Linus Torvalds was quite bad at naming things. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming

Speaking of mental models, "basically templates" is the wrong mental model for JSX. JSX is syntactic sugar for the React.createElement() function. Writing some components using this function directly will lead to a much better understanding than treating it as templating.

Doesn't that just complicate things even more?

> I don't get what introvert has to do with focus.

I interpreted 'introvert' as a verb, even though the domain name suggests otherwise. As a verb it means to turn inward or to direct something (attention) within the self.

They could change it to "richest countries", because the US isn't the only rich country that screwed up. Look at Austria and Switzerland and their reliance on importing masks from other countries. Or at the Netherlands, which can actually produce large quantities of masks for domestic use but didn't because the government was too busy downplaying the epidemic.

In this situation I would ask everybody to write it down, collect all the notes, stick them on the wall and discuss them one by one.

Protectionism, trade war, patriotism, elections, nationalism... Pretty much everything except health

It is very unlikely that a 100 person company in an already gentrified neighborhood would have any effect on house prices.

Whether the car uses electrons or fossil fuels is pretty irrelevant, right?

I know this probably sounds ridiculous to some, but you could also use the phone to make a phone call.

I've actually never seen those cups outside of the US, which was surprising to me as they are so pervasive inside.

25%, I don't think there is any way around that, it seems untenable to have such big difference in rate between employees

The term resource is dehumanizing because it reduces a person to something that exists merely to extract value from. Stakeholder is just a role a person can assume and doesn't really have any negative connotations other than being a bit jargony to some.

Those are often called optional dependencies. Which is of course an oxymoron.

Are there any good examples of projects using Make for a web app?

The author jokes about the two hard problems in computer science. The solution is in another joke:

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection... except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.