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thewarpaint

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thewarpaint··on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
The source of that comment is provably not someone with deep technical expertise so take that with a grain of salt.
thewarpaint··on The Startup Trap (2013)
Yes, he has: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2021/11/28/Spacewar.ht...
thewarpaint··on Five or ten new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
> a job at McDonalds

> far less time and effort

Pick one

thewarpaint··on The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change
> So is there really dark matter and dark energy, or is our understanding of the laws of the universe incomplete?

These propositions are not mutually exclusive, the former implies the latter, right?

thewarpaint··on H.264 Is Magic (2016)
> they weren't stupid technically, just stupid from a business sense

I wouldn’t call them “stupid technically”, but assuming that there was a hard limit to codec efficiency and to internet bandwidth would at least make them technically naive in my opinion.

thewarpaint··on Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPgWhG0XAAAboFB?format=jpg&name=...
thewarpaint··on Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"
Care to explain how trains being delayed or canceled is related to a new technology reducing sound pollution?
thewarpaint··on Days Since Incident (2022)
Implicitly what it’s saying is: “Hurricane reaching a maximum category of X”
thewarpaint··on How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)
What’s your theory/understanding then?
thewarpaint··on The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn't Exist
I can’t help but mildly cringe when I read sentences like “the X that shouldn’t exist”, for example when applied to the Antikythera mechanism. It’s a weird way to mask our ignorance about the item being discussed.
thewarpaint··on IP over Spaghetti (2019)
For the curious: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/spaghetti

I had a chuckle when I read the plural “spaghetties”.

thewarpaint··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
> the most successful company of all time

Source? According to what metric?

thewarpaint··on Placemark is going open source and shutting down
Either the snippet has a bug, or he changed his mind and removed it, but it’s not working.
thewarpaint··on The laptop that won't die
Thank you!
thewarpaint··on Desert Island Tourism
How?
thewarpaint··on Halfsies
I guess “Australia-shaped cookie cutter” would be more accurate
thewarpaint··on My solopreneur story
It’s covered in the article.
thewarpaint··on Sourcegraph is no longer open source
Again, the original thread said “The industry should avoid single points of failure”. Neither Apple (Mac) nor Google (Chrome) represent single points of failure for the industry.
thewarpaint··on Sourcegraph is no longer open source
Care to elaborate how the choice of a person’s equipment and browser relates to GitHub constituting a single point of failure for the industry as the prevalent Git hosting tool?
thewarpaint··on JavaScript Gom Jabbar
It feels as if JavaScript (and its ecosystem) has left us all with PTSD that makes us unable to appreciate the comedy on this post. So much “serious” discussion around a funny piece. Feel free to dissect it as you may, but keep in mind its true intent: humour.
thewarpaint··on Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years
> WW1 was primarily a result of european and american societies having excess population to "thin out".

Source?

thewarpaint··on What does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse mean for the financial system?
Source: https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-chief-ris...
thewarpaint··on Mexico's former public security head convicted by U.S. of taking cartel bribes
However, it was pretty easy for the US to topple democracies abroad regardless of the population’s opinions about it.
thewarpaint··on Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?
1. Eat better: less red meat, more vegetarian meals

2. Run and walk more often

3. Swim more often

thewarpaint··on What did Substack do to make all links open in new tab?
May I suggest to post this question on a forum better suited to these kind of submissions, like Stack Overflow?

This is probably what you’re looking for: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#...

thewarpaint··on Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old
Kapadokya is a pretty popular touristic attraction. Source: was there in 2018 with a bunch of non-Turkish people.
thewarpaint··on Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
> they don't have invent the score at the same time as they are performing

Do you mean “improvising”?

thewarpaint··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
Stripe | Backend / API Engineer | Mexico City | Full-Time | ONSITE (remote for now)

The Global LATAM team is a key component to Stripe's global strategy in the Latin American market. Our mission is to reduce the barriers faced by large and emerging businesses around the world by abstracting away the complexities of payments. The Global LATAM team is responsible for building the payments products & infrastructure needed to launch new markets and process payments successfully throughout Latin America.

Apply here: https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/backend-api-engineer-latam/1...

thewarpaint··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hallo! You may want to check Stripe Atlas out: form a C Corp in Delaware for $500 plus some ongoing costs.

Disclaimer: I work at Stripe.

thewarpaint··on Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
That's a wonderful showcase of the posibilities of variable fonts, thanks!
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