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rsprinkle··on Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him
Because if you don't sell you don't pay taxes. You can instead borrow against the asset and get a credit for the interest you pay. The joys of being filthy rich.
rsprinkle··on Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates
Wow, sounds identical to "Turing Complete".
rsprinkle··on The XB-70 (2019)
Not only is the museum itself awesome (and free), they are also responsible for almost every US warplane on display around the world. You can download a spreadsheet from their website showing where planes are on "loan".
rsprinkle··on After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less adept of providing care
The is called privatizing profit and socializing risk. Current management philosophies are all about mining assets and when the mine is empty, move on. It used to be about growing assets.
rsprinkle··on Early Bookcases, Cupboards and Carousels
For wood workers, Lost Art Press is great. They have some truly unique books in their collection.
rsprinkle··on Why soft deletes are evil and what to do instead
What you say is true but it doesn't take into account end-users. I always do soft deletes because I have to support undeletes. Mistakes happen and I get rewind an audit log to fix things.
rsprinkle··on Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
Cisco's OS is a fork of BSD.
rsprinkle··on JVM Performance Comparison for JDK 21
It would be useful to see memory utilization while performing the benchmarks. Historically GraalVM used ALOT of memory.
rsprinkle··on America’s stealth aircraft you've never heard of
And a B-2 air frame.
rsprinkle··on Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

None. The light is working in here so it must be working there too.

rsprinkle··on Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

None. The light's on in here so it must be on there too.