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wickrom··on Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
I'd love to hear what made you settle on ghostty. There is not dearth of terminal emulators out there, each claiming performance or batteries included.
wickrom··on Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS
What would you say are a natural use case for Shuru or Lima vs say a full docker like environment? What does the sandbox allow you to do differently? There's additional overhead of the hypervisor. I'm mostly just trying to learn, as yourself.
wickrom··on Xous Operating System
What did you mean by a dynamic system ?
wickrom··on Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
Is instacart a lowballer employer? levels.fyi suggests software engineers at L3 are getting 222k
wickrom··on Godfather of AI fears what he's buit
Huh, maybe he should go fund a prize instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
wickrom··on M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Looks like Joi Ito saw this coming and pre-emptively put up that post where he claimed he didn't know of Epstein's wrongdoings while happily accepting his money. Well..cat's out of the bag now.
wickrom··on Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text
How does Facebook, hiring some of the best engineers in the industry with the biggest bucks ends up in such a mess
wickrom··on The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
In many cases your surname/family name can give away your caste. There have been social movements in the country where groups have shunned the practice of using their family names that are used to identify caste.
wickrom··on Indian Jets Strike on Pakistani Side of Kashmir Line
I wonder why this news is worthy of being discussed on HN?
wickrom··on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads
With the recent articles doing rounds about the feds Looking into Oracle paying minorities and women less, this seems part of the scheme to basically get lower wage workers under H1B who they know will work like minions for long hours because their visas are tied to the job. It's a pretty standard way of gaming the H1B. Oracle is no different.