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thorncorona··on Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing
https://pudding.cool/process/how-to-implement-scrollytelling...
thorncorona··on Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)
You really should stop doomscrolling though. Reddit and Blind are terrible sources of information. Compilers didn't decrease the number of programming positions available.

In any case, pick your struggle. Decide whether you want to be well-off and bored, or something else.

You're likely in a lot of student debt after uni, and even though job market is harder, there are still jobs available. If you switch fields, you would likely be competing against much better prepared candidates with more experience.

My advice would be to get a job in SWE and decide once you're in a better position than jobless with no experience.

thorncorona··on Your Bike Just Got Stolen. These Vigilantes Will Get It Back
Put the thieves in prison. Easily solvable.
thorncorona··on Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey
That is what a toyota already is though.
thorncorona··on Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey
Many of my friends think most windows laptops look garish
thorncorona··on A drone that calculates coordinates using a camera and Google Maps
Considering they didn't actually deploy (the route was simulated), I would be skeptical of this.
thorncorona··on Sora: Creating video from text
These limitations are fine for short form content ala reels / tiktok. I think the younger generations will get used to how it looks.
thorncorona··on NYC first to designate social media as environmental toxin
Ah yes, social media, my favorite chemical byproduct. Politicians doing what they do best, chaining words into listless strings of noise.
thorncorona··on Tesla Q4 2023 Earnings Report [pdf]
Tesla still is janky though?

The auto windshield wipers straight up don’t work.

thorncorona··on Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports
i find the latency is pretty bad even though it’s 60fps
thorncorona··on AMD 8000G APUs launch Jan 31, $329 8700G competes with desktop GTX1650 in gaming
You can easily achieve a 500 dollar Dota PC if you're willing to buy used. I bought a 5600x / 32GB RAM / RTX 3070 PC for 550 USD a bit ago.
thorncorona··on Google shares update on next step toward phasing out third-party cookies
It requires cooperation from the browser to do generalized targeting.
thorncorona··on Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)
I like long simple functions because it makes them easy to reason about when debugging.

Rarely does having more functions solve “does this do what I expect.”

thorncorona··on Maersk ship hit by missile in the Red Sea
More relevant to the ongoing attack:

> “The Yemeni position is clear,” Abdullah Ben Amer, a high-ranking Houthi official in a department that is part of the group’s defense ministry, told The New York Times. The Houthi escalation in the Red Sea will stop, he said, when “the Israeli war on the people of Gaza stops.”

thorncorona··on Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients
They're probably faked certs.
thorncorona··on Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations
Probably because it’s the same couple people watching the same couple videos, commenting over and over on the thread.
thorncorona··on Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations
It seems funny people get upset about gas stoves, and not that modern houses are not constructed to allow for adequate ventilation.
thorncorona··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
It’s actually the law to go the speed of traffic.
thorncorona··on An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs
Seems to work fine for singapore / dc.
thorncorona··on Nio ET7 with 150 kWh semi-solid state battery achieves a 1,044 km range
The article says they travelled 1044km on a livestream, with 3% battery left, not CLTC?
thorncorona··on Positive labor sorting has been increasing for men in the last several decades
> How is it that society is preferentially allocating resources to creating lawyers rather than engineers or researchers?

money.

thorncorona··on Australia to ban engineered stone
cheers to that!
thorncorona··on GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe
I slip the key card between my phone case and it works fine.
thorncorona··on Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers
Nobody working at microsoft can really be considered underpaid. Maybe the janitor, but engs? They are paid more than enough to care.
thorncorona··on Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?
California is 50c/kwh…
thorncorona··on Apple to move key iPad engineering resources to Vietnam
Such as: Vietnam. A communist country.
thorncorona··on Is Grok Basically Just an OpenAI Wrapper?
Excluding OpenAI/ChatGPT generated content without excluding discourse that mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT such as news articles and industry papers seems like a nontrivial problem to solve at scale.
thorncorona··on Is Grok Basically Just an OpenAI Wrapper?
The amount of AI generated SEO spam.
thorncorona··on Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker
From the HN guidelines:

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

thorncorona··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
Blogspam, perfected.
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