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Are you a baby? A litmus test
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Substack
#95: Are you a baby? A litmus test
Good morning! The other day some friends and I were reminiscing about an app idea we had years ago that would allow you to “blind cancel” on your friends. That is—flag if you were open to canceling a plan, which would only be revealed if the other person…
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I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computers (2020)
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Return to Monkey Island – Coming 2022
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Ron Gilbert
A little something we've been working on for the past 2 years in complete secrecy. youtu.be/sahskKAxSCY
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RedwoodJS Reaches 1.0 Today
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RedwoodJS v1.0 Launch
RedwoodJS v1.0 launch week is here!
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What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
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Aeon
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
It began as a whim: talk to a physicist, $50 per 20 minutes. But those ‘crackpots’ taught me something about my subject
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Ride a Bird scooter. Have an accident. Pay a mighty price
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Los Angeles Times
Abcarian: Ride a Bird scooter. Have an accident. Pay a mighty price
Turns out Bird’s user agreement tries to make riders responsible for their scooter accidents in L.A.
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Return to Monkey Island
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Return to Monkey Island
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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Exit Interviews Are a Trap
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jacobian.org
Exit Interviews Are a Trap - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
It’s tempting to air your grievances at your exit interview. Don’t. There’s almost no upside to speaking up, and tremendous potential downside. Avoid exit interviews if you can. If you must go, be totally bland; say nothing negative.
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When FFI Function Calls Beat Native C
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Single-Chip Processors Have Reached Their Limits
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Single-Chip Processors Have Reached Their Limits
Announcements from Apple and Nvidia prove chiplets are the future, but interconnects remain a battleground
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Tinygrad
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GitHub - tinygrad/tinygrad: You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad!
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You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad!
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- GitHub - tinygrad/tinygrad: You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad!
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Dead Hand
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RealityScan Beta: Mobile Photogrammetry
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Pathways Language Model (Palm): 540B Parameters for Breakthrough Perf
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Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrou
Posted by Sharan Narang and Aakanksha Chowdhery, Software Engineers, Google Research In recent years, large neural networks trained for language un...
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Zooming into the Sun with Solar Orbiter
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ESA
Zooming into the Sun with Solar Orbiter
Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on 7 March, when the spacecraft was crossing directly between the Earth and Sun.
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Are You Nice or Kind?
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Maybe Baby
#42: Are you nice or kind?
Last week Avi and I went outside to unbury our car after the storm, a task we assumed we could do ourselves but ultimately involved our whole neighborhood.
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Video Games Turn 60: How Spacewar Launched a Revolution
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How-To Geek
Video Games Turn 60: How Spacewar Launched a Revolution
Sixty years ago this month—in April 1962—a group of hobbyists at MIT released the pioneering computer game Spacewar! on the DEC PDP-1, which set the stage for the video game revolution. Here’s a look at its origins and its impact.
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USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness
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overengineer.dev
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert
A short story of me trying out different USB-C hubs, taking them apart, and slowly descending into madness.
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Today is Antitrust Day. Tell Congress to put people back in control of tech
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Antitrust Vote Now!
URGENT: Time is running out for Senator Schumer to schedule a vote on S. 2992 and S. 2710, antitrust bills to rein in tech monopoly…
Congress is considering strong antitrust bills that will give internet users more power and choice, and stop dominant tech companies from abusing their gatekeeper status. Join us in helping pass these bills.
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Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
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The Intercept
Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” and “Plantation”
Also: “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others.
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Uninhabitable places in 2100 (interactive map)
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Funke Interaktiv
Climate change: Mapping where the earth will become uninhabitable
Lethal heat or flooded coastlines: Find out where populations are projected to be hit hardest with our interactive globe.
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