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I love the idea, but this line:> 1) no bug should take over 2 daysIs odd. It’s virtually impossible for me to estimate how long it will take to fix a bug, until the job is done.That said, unless fixing a bug requires a significant refactor/rewrite, I can’t imagine spending more t

a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to TIME. "The full record will show that for over a decade, we have listened to parents, researched issues that matter most, and made real changes to protect teensOmegalol. Cigarette maker introduces filter, cares about your health. Look,

My favorite way to move around in Emacs, and to move text around, is via avy-mode: https://github.com/abo-abo/avy. If you have not experienced avy-mode, give it a try, I think you will wonder how you ever got along without it. In short: turn Emacs navigation into Vim-like navigat

The big news here is that Racket now can run threads in parallel. While there were ways to get parallelism before (like places), this is much more lightweight and familiar. Anything that expands the areas where Racket is viable is good news to me since I like writing stuff in Rac

Nice article, though the diagram showing [OpenGL] [WebGL] [WebGPU] being built on Vulkan and then from Vulkan to D3D12 and Metal is wrong. WebGL and WebGPU go directly to D3D and Metal, they do not go through Vulkan firstAlso, Vulkan is labeled as Open Source. It is not open sour

At the heart of this article is the claim that buying equity is a form of theft.That is an extreme claim (in the sense of surprising, remarkable, unusual, and one that needs a lot more support than ordinary claims).It is inadequately defended here. The argument that it violates f

Signal is in an impossible position. On one hand, it needs to appeal to the crowds currently using WhatsApp and happily syncing their entire contact list to Facebook/Meta, so that they can be profiled and a social graph can be built. That crowd needs it to be super simple and "ju

Ouch. This hits incredibly hard.I’ve been this dad who sits frozen at the TV every evening. I had the affairs with the emotionally unavailable men, and became one myself.Before you judge the man in this story too harshly — and there’s certainly much to judge, especially given the

Specifically for org, and specifically for org-roam, it's pretty good, but not good enough. It's not as good as desktop emacs, and it's also somehow not as good as a 1st class android app.the fdroid build of emacs doesn't really work very well with my org-roam, so i use a termux

While being a big supporter of JPEG-XL on HN, I just want to note AV2 is coming out soon, which should further improve the image compression. ( Edit: Also worth pointing out current JPEG-XL encoder is no where near its maximum potential in terms of quality / compression ratio )Bu