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will5421··on Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise
Won’t geothermal cool the Earth’s core?
will5421··on How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer
“Over time, some [problems] fade away while connections begin to appear between others that initially seemed unrelated.”

Reminds me of https://youtu.be/DSjbTC-hvqQ?t=1159

will5421··on Sabotaging Bitcoin
Is it illegal to attack cryptocurrency?
will5421··on Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
Didn’t the Google Translate AI invent its own intermediate language for translating between languages?
will5421··on iPhone Air
Titanium? I thought they’d learned that lesson with the Powerbook G4.
will5421··on Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
What would the executives have said if the deployment team had said to them "The product can stay online, but these are the risks of doing so while we work on them."?
will5421··on VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
I guess you’ve fallen foul of the rules to protect against trademark “squatting”. They surely weren’t designed with (non-commercial) OSS projects in mind.
will5421··on The future is not self-hosted
Could the friends access the server through the VPN?

> It's secured behind our own VPN.

> So, how do I create a shared photo album with my friends where we can all upload pictures from our latest trip? Well...since our friends can't access our server

will5421··on How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not
You haven’t happened to find a list of companies that do tryouts, have you?
will5421··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
Indeed, calling it “progress” is political.
will5421··on A Taping of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Saved an Innocent Man from Death Row (2017)
The quickest fix is to get rid of the death penalty
will5421··on Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
Playing Devil’s advocate… Socialisation is what’s driving technology use. It’s just happening on the phones, not irl. Just like with alcohol, anyone not participating will be left out. If everyone’s on their phones all the time, IRL socialisation won’t matter compared to socialisation via phones.
will5421··on Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
You don’t have to go through a lawyer, ie represent yourself, afaik.
will5421··on Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
Which registrar was this? I’d like to avoid them.
will5421··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Us third party voters need to work together for change to the voting system, no matter how different our politics might be from one another. In fact, us working together despite our different politics would underline our point: democracy is about everyone having their say, not about agreement.
will5421··on Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak
Right, so there are more people to count the vote
will5421··on The inventor of the automatic rice cooker
What wattage is your microwave on?
will5421··on An e-waste dumping ground
An individual can't do the job of government.
will5421··on Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
> They are a very creative kid currently experimenting with using Power Point/Google Presentations to create a crafting and turn based combat style game but is running into the obvious limitations of this setup.

What limitations exactly? These will guide recommendations.

will5421··on Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in Android apps
Seems reasonable. App authors would’ve been “discovering” vulnerabilities in their own apps and asking Google to pay for them.
will5421··on Code review antipatterns
He’s under a different arm of management to you?
will5421··on Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away
They know what they want, just not what they’re talking about.
will5421··on The Third Atomic Bomb
Killing civilians to save soldiers
will5421··on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
Don’t replace with in-house solutions anything that’s already working. Bring in-house just the thing you want to add next and go from there. At the very least it’ll kick your existing provider into gear when they know they (might) have competition.
will5421··on Ask HN: How did you learn Regex?
I use regex101.com
will5421··on IRS makes Direct File a permanent option to file federal tax returns
That surely is illegal. Call their bluff?
will5421··on Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth
Adaptability for climate change
will5421··on Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in ship abandonment
Who would pay a ship to take their cargo near a port if they knew ships need insurance to dock with that port and the ship didn’t have it?
will5421··on Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
I'm beginning to think it's not progress, just trading off.
will5421··on An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus
What's the electronic resonance from? Streetlights?
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