I'm a consultant, sysadmin, and programmer. I enjoy writing docs, troubleshooting, and working with interesting problems and people.
Hacker News is an online game you can play where your score is up in the top right corner and there's a leaderboard, and you get points by posting stuff and making comments people like.
I post a lot of links to HN. It's a hobby - I have lots of RSS feeds in NetNewsWire.
Double posts do happen, HN's algorithm allows it. Occasionally a post that got little attention will get boosted up to the front page after a few days.
But I didn't post another copy of this link a few hours ago, and I've never had HN create a duplicate post way later - no clue what's going on here...
We already have sailing sports where people race all kinds of wind-powered vessels, and they push the envelope of tech development, just like F1 and the car industry.
Also rich people love this sort of thing. Give them something to do with all that money that has some sort of chance of improving things.
I feel like the first part of this explanation reminds me of stories about mainframe computers in the 1950-70s - highly expensive special gear that needs special operators. Is there something about the physics of the process standing in the way?
Given the age of TrueType, wouldn't nearly all patents be expired already?
Apache2's license I've heard described as mutually-assured-patent-destruction - if you use the code and make a patent claim, your rights to use the code go away.
So Apache2 offers little benefit here, and MIT may get it into more hands?
FWIW, the O2's UMA let it handle far more textures than almost any other contemporary system with reasonable performance.
Most other SGIs had single or low double-digit megabytes of texture memory, whereas the O2 could host one gigabyte of unified memory and use a huge chunk of that for textures.
Nearly everyone allows the washing machine, which having wrung out laundry by hand when ours broke gave me a whole new respect for folks who do without the tool.
Having been through an hiring cycle recently and prior to AI, the entire process has been pretty broken for a long time, but AI is definitely breaking it (and a whole lot of other things) in new and novel ways.
The only reliable and high quality signal is a positive referral, but those are gated by your personal network, which may not be well developed.
Would be great if it could do other things, like be a volume knob, or do media play/pause, given that scrolling and mouse button press seem like things you already have a mouse to do?
Microsoft's volume licensing, from the perspective of sysadmins and other folks trying to actually obtain software for use, is known to be some cross product of "byzantine" and "kafkaesque".
I fail to see how this is a win for the vast majority of folks impacted by the licensing process...
Ideally the fees would be similar to the Norway model, where some tickets are tied to the income of the driver, in this case the pre-tax earnings of the company that created the driverless car.
Hacker News is an online game you can play where your score is up in the top right corner and there's a leaderboard, and you get points by posting stuff and making comments people like.
I haven't had this much fun since Progress Quest!