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somanyphotons··on How to Attend Meetings
Your head might not be, but you might find yourself being unhappily cleaning up a mess for months
somanyphotons··on Self-hosting a NAT Gateway
Presumably the idea is that if you go ipv6-only you can avoid this cost and just use a firewall?
somanyphotons··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
Kids (and teachers) generally don't deal with bullies well.

It really just results in them continuing to being bullied, or reacting badly and getting blamed themselves.

somanyphotons··on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
What motivates CodeWeavers specifically to work on this?
somanyphotons··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
I think Apple will be ok with this, it clearly shows Android being less capable/compatible than other iPhones, a bit like blue/green bubbles
somanyphotons··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
Am I right to assume that they simply implemented AirDrop without discussing with Apple?
somanyphotons··on Ford can't find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade
$company can't find high skilled people willing to work for low wages
somanyphotons··on Steam Machine
If they can make it play Microsoft Flight Simulator then that'd be pretty enticing
somanyphotons··on Steam Machine
Does this suddenly become the best supported ARM desktop?
somanyphotons··on Steam Machine
I'm surprised they went for ARM in the desktop, but for x86 on the handheld. Does this mean the handheld will move to ARM aswell?
somanyphotons··on Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
If a bad spider bite happens, government-provided health care has your back
somanyphotons··on Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
Kids will slam car doors at dropoff/pickup. It's pretty annoying. I used to live around the corner from a school and parents would use our street for it. They can also cause unexpected heavy traffic if they have some special event.
somanyphotons··on Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
With free power for 3 hours a day, I'd skip installing solar and I'd buy a ~30kwh battery (2x Ruixu Lithi2-16) and a big inverter.

Charge the batteries in the free time and then use the stored power the rest of the day.

somanyphotons··on You can't cURL a Border
2 years ago I landed at London City (from Zurich), got off the plane and then we all walked all the way to the exit without being stopped by a single human to check passports or customs. I couldn't believe it.

I am not a British or EU citizen

somanyphotons··on Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sovereignty gains steam
US companies get big first, only then try Europe once they have big revenue/headcount to handle the risk/complexity.
somanyphotons··on Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
What are the aspects that you're looking for from enterprise-land
somanyphotons··on Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US
What mass of hydrogen is needed per house to last a winter?
somanyphotons··on Affinity Studio now free
It might be the plan now - but it only takes one Product Manager in 18 months who is looking to push a metric

It's also concerning that you have to be logged in to use a free native app

somanyphotons··on OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO
ETFs like VOO will buy it eventually.

It started me wondering if theres an ETF that explicitly avoids the top 20 companies

somanyphotons··on Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28
> Or make room for a new fat binary for a future "arm64v2" :)

Or, one can dream: RVA23

somanyphotons··on Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt
What are the failure modes here? Is the tether company itself a vulnerability?
somanyphotons··on JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
I have a desktop that I'm using as a server box, I'd like to avoid plugging in a GPU just to change BIOS options or debug a boot failure
somanyphotons··on JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
I wish there was a KVM out there that didn't need HDMI, where it sat on PCIe bus and presented a really dumb framebuffer/kb/mouse to the BIOS/OS, but sent it out over the network
somanyphotons··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
This is an amazing quote that really applies to all software development
somanyphotons··on DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
Getting the mass into orbit for those heatshields sounds expensive
somanyphotons··on America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints
While the current iteration isn't enough to make me wear it constantly, if there's steady improvements for 5/10 years it could really go somewhere
somanyphotons··on Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
Is there a good guide on what the right things to do are?
somanyphotons··on Fewer H-1B visas did not mean more employment for natives (2017)
> Australia

Why there, why not Vancouver which keeps the same timezone as SV?

somanyphotons··on Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools
Go is middle-pack fast, not fast-fast.

There are always going to be problem sets where the GC causes significant slowdown.

somanyphotons··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
It might be that in that industry, paying someone the $200k might mean the position doesn't make sense compared to the value delivered, and that you should instead open up another offshore office
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