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Huge news, and his reasoning doesn’t seem to make sense to me. Can anyone elaborate further?

Cool project. You could definitely do more with this with more modern Minecraft tech like custom models and physics engines.

That would probably be from the chemo your wife is on rather than the osimertinib. Chemo tends to cause mouth ulcers along with hair loss etc.

It's not just issues either. Fake repo spam is terrible as well, usually some form of credentials or cryptocurrency theft software. GitHub really needs to implement moderation, and fast.

This may be a contributor to the popularity of stores like Erewhon where $20 smoothies may be more representative of actual cost of ingredients compared to mass produced items.

Yes, you can read more about the JVM changes in this blog post: https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/design-notes/state-of-...

Archive.org can memorialise websites, but if nobody knows the website exists it is lost to memory. I have personally seen this happen when websites disappear from collective consciousness.

The fallout from this week will be world changing. IMO, concentration of power in the hands of ‘sama as OpenAI changes tack to full commercialisation can only be a bad thing. The prevailing feeling at work is that AI risk experts are about to have their day in the sun.

Reading this post in the lens of other articles it seems like google is well into the enshittification phase internally, although this is a limited experience. Was this the average experience 10 years ago?

Although I agree that we are framing this thread in the context of the original article, this medical professional is presenting their (experienced) opinion, and GP is not discussing it and instead chooses to require some token criticism of the article. This doesn't seem charitable to someone presenting their professional opinion.

Not only degrading but most importantly to me a clear violation of my privacy. China doesn't need another developer's personal information.

They were a middle aged woman. She didn’t seem to understand my objections

It was actually a TikTok! On the app and everything

dang is paid to moderate HN.

I appreciate the exuberant tone of this message but it’s not quite correct. Defibrillators can get upwards of 60% success rate if given in conjunction with effective CPR. There’s no getting around breaking ribs - defibrillators have to charge, you have to check the pulse and oxygen has to be given. You can’t leave someone pulseless for 60 seconds while you fetch and charge the defibrillator as they will die. All the first aid tools are used in concert.

One of my more memorable work moments was sitting in a conference room with 20 irate colleagues and two sheepish executives, one of whom had sent out a company wide email adding a layer of middle management to production releases and making our jobs ten times harder.

The email was not signed, and the executives agreed that they had proofed it but there was no possible way to know who sent it! Never mind the email account or rationale or executive team; must have been a ghost. One hour later we were no closer to the truth. Moral of the story; accountability is difficult, and I doubt we will get an answer here.

Related tweet thread: https://twitter.com/wifelette/status/1662938961248129025

It seems like one scandal after another for Rust recently.

Why can't we just focus on code and the brilliant work from JeanHeyd rather than politics? The Servo post was a reminder of how it used to be.

Mostly this is because we have more reliable tests for autoimmune disease, and more are being discovered. I wouldn’t be quick to jump to a boogeyman like crystals, COVID, fluorine, magical wind chimes as the cause.

Although the title is definitive, it should really say "possible".

> In keeping with this, the researchers only found this Subdoligranulum strain in 16.7 percent of people at risk or with early-stage RA, indicating that this strain is likely not the sole driver of disease.

Still, exciting work. The gut-brain axis is so important.

Industry titans can still make mistakes and it's important to recognise them. The examples you give are decades old. I agree that VR may yet turn around but at the moment needs dictate a pivot in focus.

For a brief moment during 2020, you could see the hype actually meet reality when a wave of VR startups that promised to transport us "as if we were really there" to the office. Now, you can choose to be cynical about that but I think it genuinely did live up to the hype when I could remote in to a full infinite-screen workstation and interact much more freely with coworkers than a Zoom call.

These days, I see it much more commonly used for training purposes now that we are all being forced back to the office.

For me the big turning point at Meta was the acquisition of Oculus. At the time, it was great, forward-thinking and gave everyone a lot of hope for the future of Meta and even society if you believed the hype. This peaked at about 2020 when the opportunity for VR and remote work became real and necessary due to an unprecedented pandemic.

However, we all know the rest; hyperfocus on VR to the detriment of the rest of the company (most notably Instagram missing out on short-form video content) leading to the gradual slide off the cliff. VR is still important but Zuck needs to radically reshift and refocus to save the farm and stave off OpenAI. Interesting few years ahead.

Not if the software I depend on requires the latest JVM (which it will).

As the maintainer of a large piece of Java software that interacts with legacy code in over 50% of the codebase, this was a very scary read. It sounds like the entire basis for my software which tens of thousands of people rely on every day is soon to be "restricted". I cannot prepare my users for the fact that my software _will not work with no recourse_ in the future. I understand the JVM's need for safety, but this is personally destroying my livelihood. It's along the lines of telling Ruby users one day that monkey patching will be phased out in the next release.

I suppose the next layer down the chain is to start patching code with ASM. Ugh.

Doing about 5k/mo passive income on my addon for a popular children's game. Took about 4years to get here though, COVID was massive for the genre. Only costs are time and file hosting, which comes out at about $50/mo.

Often left unsaid in the "gift card" (or, "game key reseller" market) is that the items are acquired illegally and resold for a profit. This is money laundering territory, and is very easy to run afoul of the law.

While I think your viewpoint is interesting, the language prevented me from appreciating it fully. Would you mind expanding on your opinion on privacy and Mozilla/Apple’s role in the standards process a little more?

Love that servo is still being worked on. Don’t love that the new layout engine doesn’t support floats or flexbox. We need to do more to stave off the homogenisation of the web into the chromium spyware machine. What a shame that Mozilla’s funding was so drastically cut.

Congrats on the release. I have to admit looking at the code samples, this looks like some pretty tough to swallow ergonomics for real-world usage. Is this inherent to Rust web libraries?