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humanwhosits··on We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot
> irregardless of license

Hard no. Please stop using open source code if this is how you think of it.

Without licenses being respected, we don't get open source communities.

humanwhosits··on Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad
Agree, socks are awesome and actually get used.
humanwhosits··on U.S. pushes Japan and other allies to join China chip curbs
Try to open a social media company there.
humanwhosits··on The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry
Employers just need to pay more, the devs will appear.
humanwhosits··on Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests
It means that the drivers likely have a giant 'firmware' which is really just a closed source driver loaded into the chip, but with a nicer api for the kernel to program against
humanwhosits··on Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?
We've collectively decided that the old way is not good enough.

"I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."

I'll come to the office if paid X times current wage to make it worthwhile, and the company wasn't willing to pay the premium.

humanwhosits··on Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?
We did re-negotiate, en masse. This is why the office is no longer an expectation.

I don't know about your org, but I had a conversation with my manager, and all my reports had a conversation with me about it. This worked it's way up the org chart until the CEO understood what the new reality was.

humanwhosits··on How much have tech layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments?
I guess hiring for contracts routes around arbitrary headcount limits.
humanwhosits··on We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS
and they had trouble moving workloads to the cloud because bringing up new capacity was a giant set of circular microservice dependencies
humanwhosits··on Upcoming Restriction Period for US ads about social issues, elections, politics
After reading all that I'm pretty convinced to vote nemothekid, just from sheer repetition
humanwhosits··on UK Has ‘No Chance in Hell’ of Making Its Own Tech Champs: ARM Founder
Australia is kind of a fortress, just by being so physically far away from most places. All the important population centers are far to the south, so the north becomes a continent sized staging area for battle
humanwhosits··on Apple to move to RISC-V from Arm for supporting cores
I guess with ARM they can either design their own cores, or buy arm's, but not other arm architecture licence holders. With riscv they can do their own design or choose from a larger list of competing vendors
humanwhosits··on Apple to move to RISC-V from Arm for supporting cores
I wonder what their motivation is, perhaps their arm architecture license terms make it worth it for reducing royalties
humanwhosits··on Why does a U.S. presidential candidate need to be 35 years old? (2016)
I think a 1-line amendment would be one of the more plausible amendments to pass.

"No person may be inaugurated as President if they are 70 years or older on the day of the election"

Neither party or area of the country would be impacted any more than any other, so there's no partisan angle. Just a few older politicians would be excluded.

humanwhosits··on GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge
The miners will just start hyping the next most popular needs-gpu coin
humanwhosits··on Great Oxidation Event
great, another Rust post
humanwhosits··on FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet
I sure hope they ban the leaded fuel soon
humanwhosits··on Americans increasingly hide beliefs on political issues
Talking politics is an immediate way to turn the conversation sour in today's climate unless you already know they'll agree with you.
humanwhosits··on The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
Why does anyone let non-resident people buy residential housing?
humanwhosits··on Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards
I've found that it's been years since I browsed in there, are people still putting out interesting new things?

Besides the safari app and a big-name apps that you already know you want/need have been sufficent

humanwhosits··on Silicon Valley: no country for young men
Please just post an link to a non-paywall mirror, a link to the paywall article is useless to most people.
humanwhosits··on Ask HN: Chip startups?
I can think of SiFive and Tenstorrent
humanwhosits··on Amid chip shortages, companies bet on RISC-V
The (good) riscv cores designs that implement the spec aren't free, it's the ISA spec that is free.

There are some open source riscv cores, but the paid ones make money for a reason

humanwhosits··on Americans will soon be able to renew passports online
"Subscribe to MegaCorp Brand Passport today! Featuring access to 52 tourist destination and monthly bonus locations!"
humanwhosits··on France is paying car drivers nearly $4k to switch to an electric bike
Zero SR/S

It's heavy enough to stop the casual theft

humanwhosits··on IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories from GitHub
My guess is that each user's IP suffix changes a lot more often
humanwhosits··on Is there hope for Linux on smartphones? [video]
fuchsia (+starnix for legacy) might make android much less linux-y over the long term
humanwhosits··on The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool
'smart' is in the title which is a bit concerning
humanwhosits··on Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?
I don't want some third party doing the bank transfer, just lets the banks 1:1
humanwhosits··on Why I left Pine64
I just want pine to provide hardware that can run a linux kernel without any binary blobs and leave the distros to whoever feels like working on that stack
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