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shdhon Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

The one product that Mozilla made recently that I really enjoyed using was Lockwise, and they basically killed the product.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-...

shdhon Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code

Trash build times and slow iteration cycle as a result

shdhon We Must Call Time Out on TikTok

Surprised TikTok hasn’t been banned in western countries yet.

shdhon Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades

`text-underline-offset: 0.25em;`

shdhon Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

Love Zed, just wish it was available on Linux and Windows as well.

shdhon My Knowledge Lakehouse

I use iCloud instead and it works great.

shdhon Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees

I applied for a company, nailed the interviews, received an offer Friday and they told me they wanted a decision by EOD Tuesday. I asked for a one day extension I could compare another offer I was receiving tomorrow, and the HR recruiter began trying to manipulate me with reasoning as to why he could not extend it. I ended up declining the offer because of how the interactions went.

shdhon New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

LPC is lossy, but FLAC maintains enough information to be able to reproduce the original data. Therefore its lossless even though LPC is a part of the compression.

shdhon New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

What's the use case?

shdhon New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

> FLAC works by running a lossy compression pass, and then LZ encoding the residual.

Since when does FLAC run a lossy pass? You can recover the original soundwave from a FLAC file, you can't do the same with an MP3.

I'm pretty sure FLAC does not run a lossy compression pass.

Flickering textures in game engines are likely due to z-fighting, unless you're referring to some other type of flickering.

If you're looking to preserving as much detail as possible from your masters then floating points make sense. But its really overkill.

shdhon Cap'n Proto 1.0

We have a great plethora of binary serialization libraries now, but I've noticed none of them offer the following:

* Specification of the number of bits I want to cap out a field at during serialization, ie: `int` that only uses 3 bits.

* Delta encoding for serialization and deserialization, this would further decrease the size of each message if there is an older message that I can use as the initial message to delta encode/decode from.

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

The only thing that was push towards sustainable energy is when its better per dollar.

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

Coastal properties in Western nations are the most expensive in general

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

You share a larger portion of this percentage of genetic information with some person from centuries ago, who fucking cares. Those people are simply detracting and not helping. I'd just ignore them. The signal to noise ratio of this site has taken a giga nose dive.

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

Point taken, but I think we need more than a nudges.

Sure a lot of small 1% improvements can make a change, but we don't know if the curve is linear or exponential.

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

Share some figures that are per dollar. Fusion has the potential to beat all of that.

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

> existential threat against the human civilization

That threat will always be there, just need to have awareness of it.

Hopefully its linear a linear curve we're on and not exponential. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

> but we draw a line at trying to avert a global climate disaster?

USA isn't going to invade countries to hinder their development. Neither is China. Energy needs continue to increase.

shdhon Xerox PARC Special

Definitely money.

shdhon Xerox PARC Special

Right time, right place.

Same could be said for SaaS products before the 2020's.

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

Yeah, that's without question. Overall energy needs will still continue to increase during that time, global population growth will almost certainly continue as well.

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

Wind, solar, and geo haven't really made up a significant enough portion of overall energy generation. Also they don't seem to be scaling up quickly enough. We're still seeing many coal plants operating and new ones coming online in the West.

shdhon This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

Deceleration isn't really an option. Many developing nations are going to continue to have increasing energy needs. To ask these countries to reduce their energy requirements is to ask their citizens to live a lower standard of life. Hypocritical of those in the West to make that request.

The only real solution is to make energy ubiquitous and plentiful. Governments should be investing 100's billions of dollars into fusion tech. I don't think there is any vision or foresight. Ironically, Oppenheimer came out this year highlighting the development of Los Alamos and the impact of federal projects.

shdhon CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI

Subpar product, never enjoyed using it. Constant downtime and incidents.

shdhon CircleCI Down

Hands down the worst CI/CD platform out there.

GitLab CI #1 in my opinion.

shdhon Genius Checklist

Some people’s natural abilities outweigh the developed abilities of others without any extra work.

The best is when an individual combines natural ability with deliberate practice.

shdhon The biological basis for sex differences in autoimmune diseases

It’s interesting how the male:female ratio of Fibromyalgia is so heavily skewed in the direction of female.