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danhon··on The Meta glassholes have arrived
Yes, and the next best time is now.
danhon··on Taos Operating System (1995)
Also covered in Edge Magazine issue 9, June 1994, but I can't find a PDF of it anymore: https://www.retromags.com/magazines/uk/edge/edge-issue-9/
danhon··on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
RTRPS is presumably "room temperature room pressure superconductor"
danhon··on Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics
"You can find details on the rules and information on how to enter here." leads to this page, which has what I think you're looking for:

https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=library-of-congress-fri...

danhon··on No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
For added verisimilitude, when using

   sneakers 
you could also trigger playback of the appropriate track ("Too Many Secrets") from James Horner's soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KOuCe2-fj8
danhon··on MSI reveals first USB4 expansion card, delivering 100W through USB-C
The photograpgh of the card in the article shows the DisplayPort sockets labeled as _in_ fwiw.
danhon··on Indoor air quality and learning: Evidence from large field study in schools [pdf]
Oh, we have figured out that we should provide kids with nutritious food. It's also that many, or enough, people believe that not every kid deserves nutritious food, and that if they don't have it, they're to be punished for the actions or lack thereof of their parents -- even if it isn't the parents' fault.
danhon··on U.S. moves to bar noncompete agreements in labor contracts
In your first case, I'm pretty sure I've seen contracts that require the repayment of e.g. relocation costs if the employee leaves within x time period.
danhon··on Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server
I wrote about this as well, about a week and a half ago:

https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/4230/

danhon··on Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
His bio says he's an RDR2 content creator on YouTube and TikTok, so arguably he is treating it like a job.
danhon··on Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
For everyone having opinions about how many hours this person has spent playing RDR2, you should probably note that he's an RDR2 Youtube and Twitch content creator/streamer. So at face value, it has been his job for the last 2.5 years.
danhon··on A short conversation with a bank
Spoilers: My bank is a local credit union.
danhon··on A short conversation with a bank
IIRC 1Password doesn’t let you use Dropbox as a syncing/backing store anymore, and if it still does, it’s being deprecated.
danhon··on [dead]
“I know”. This says more about you.
danhon··on McDonald’s unreliable ice cream machines reportedly under FTC investigation
Linked article:

"An error on a Taylor ice cream machine could look something like this: "ERROR: XSndhUIF LHPR>45F 1HR LPROD too VISC," according to WSJ. Taylor rebutted and said any codes that appear on its machines can be easily found in the machine’s manual."

Hm, what does this remind me of?

“But the plans were on display…"

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

danhon··on I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call
Most people will encounter some sort of disability during their lives. Your position doesn’t hold water.
danhon··on Short-lived light sources discovered in the sky
Here’s the paper on Arxiv:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05068

danhon··on Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup
Yep, please check out:

http://codeforamerica.org https://18f.gsa.gov/ https://usds.gov/

danhon··on We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
A paid Apple Developer account is not required to have binaries notarized.
danhon··on Microsoft Flight Simulator
Xbox and the casual games market is something Microsoft leadership better understands now.
danhon··on International Design in Government Day at the Code for America Summit 2019
I'm co-chairing the Code for America Summit this year, and we're hosting an international design in government day at the Summit on 29th May in Oakland.

The International Design in Government Day is a one-day event: $150, in Oakland, and it's not just for designers working in or on government!

If you're a designer and interested in working with people -- tech and non-tech, many of whom are government lifers -- passionate about improving how government works, then please come along!

danhon··on Top Breakthroughs for 2019 Curated by Bill Gates
I wrote the story about ECGs on your wrist! https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612929/wristwatch-heart-m...
danhon··on New pill can deliver insulin
T1 can’t be reversed.
danhon··on Patrick Collison on Innovation and Scientific Progress [audio]
Scott Alexander over at SlateStarCodex has a rational take on this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-dow...
danhon··on What a Real Train System Looks Like (2009)
Weird, so all the people taking the bus in London to and from stations must be hallucinating while they’re trapped in their prisons?
danhon··on Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
Government is doing it. If Facebook is doing it at the direction of a government entity and would otherwise not do it (and this is where I would expect case law to get into the contextual details of implicit/explicit direction etc) then government is acting in violation of the first amendment.
danhon··on Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
See above comments. The case doesn’t say what you think it says - it’s government that isn’t allowed to foreclose access, so the underlying cause here is Carolina’s violating legislation.
danhon··on Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
I Am A Former Lawyer: cursory reading of that judgment shows it as a case of the State of North Carolina passing a law asking it illegal for someone to use a commercial social network service. Presumably Facebook are banning a user in response to a state’s law enforcement request under State law. The Suorene Court is most likely ruling that the state law was in violation of the first amendment.
danhon··on Ask HN: What are the laws/rules/aphorisms of the tech industry you subscribe to?
Also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/942515111427678208

  * Conway's law
  * Brooks' law
  * GIGO
danhon··on I trained a neural net to generate Star Trek episode titles
Thanks!
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