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Exactly, thats the point. There's nothing that would justify spending on such a ring with that price other than purposefully making the Buffet-owned jewellery business $370M richer: > Buffett …
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This is more or less of a Gucci-branded LSD simulator for $1000+. I'd rather buy the real thing for less than this contraption.
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Good on him. We need more CEOs like him coming back to earth and getting off of their company thrones and discarding their God-complex personalities to behave like humans for once. Perhaps there are s…
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Well this is ■■■■■■ we are talking about and after all, this an ■■■■■■■■■■■■ issue anyway. Having ■■■■■■ run our lives like this and with the crowning of ■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ of ■■■■■■■■ and ■■■■■■, I don&#x…
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Well it isn't everyday you hear the original CEOs of FAANG companies stepping down these days. First you heard Gates, then Jobs (Twice) and now Page and Brin. We'll see if whether if Pichai …
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> As we see below, you may still need to write some code to convert from C types to something that is more ergonomic to use in Rust. But the marshaling ABI-wise is minimal. Exactly, as much as I lo…
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> Microsoft also provides Tensorflow bindinds via ML.NET. Well Swift for Tensorflow is more than just a binding to begin with. The difference in maintenance is that Google officially supports Swift…
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If they ask loaded questions / trick questions that are irrelevant to the interview and the job description. Some friend of mine was interviewing for a junior position at some startup in London a…
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> Normal users Yay it's Black Friday / Cyber Monday! lets keep shopping! > HN Crowd Oooh another lava lamp, look at all those live payments! That's cool! > Tinfoilers Is it me …
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> The pair are suing Apple for patent infringement, but they’ve also just published an open letter to Tim Cook, asking the Apple CEO to restore BlueMail to the Mac App Store—despite the ongoing lit…
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> All the ugly CPU vulnerabilities make context switching very, very slow. A microkernel needs to contest switch more than a monolithic kernel, and the overhead keeps increasing. In the case of the…
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> With Redox OS being a microkernel, it is possible that even the driver level could be recompiled and respawned without downtime, making it incredibly fast to develop for. Honestly, I am always ex…
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> Can't bloody nvidia just open source everything. Those managers should be hanged. Wasted way too much time on this. As much as I want NVIDIA to open-source their drivers, they won't bec…
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> Facebook is able to track you because Android developers of 3rd party apps (example: Indeed Job Search) implement Facebook’s Software Development Kit (SDK). Shadow profiling isn't new and Fa…
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> “Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated,” This is a chilling effect of the advancement of artificial intelligence and deep learning. If they can do it to Ches…
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> Emacs support is on by default in MacOS. Given that the author is siding with the usability of macOS with something like Emacs over using it in a GNU/Linux distro is somewhat a surprising di…
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Honestly, I find that PASETO [0] is a better candidate to replace JWTs since it supports encrypting these tokens and doesn't have multiple ciphers to choose from, unlike JWTs. They can be used ju…
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> Q: If I tried to use this token after 10 years, would it still work? > A: Yes, it will be valid forever unless the server specifies an expiration time when generating it. The implications of t…
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> The healthcare system is broken in ways that are hard to fix. So we need more of the same old FAANG guys to 'fix' this? Do we really want our health data to be controlled in the hands …
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The funny thing is with those aforementioned so-called 'rockstar programmers', without Dennis Ritchie's creation and contributions to both UNIX and the C Programming Language, these &#x…
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I doubt that Farage would care about buying such a domain given that he knows that his party only exists due to the UK's reluctance to deliver Brexit. He even said in a ITV interview that he woul…
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> We take the security of your information very seriously... I am trying to read this with a straight face. Perhaps T-Mobile was just waiting for their turn to get breached. > with your prepaid …
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As I and many privacy advocates would love people to immediately stop using Facebook for privacy-respecting alternatives, I'm afraid that the users won't leave FB, IG or WhatsApp unless the …
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> But certain users' name, contact number, email and shipping address may have been exposed. Impacted users may receive spam and phishing emails as a result of this incident. Those are persona…
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I'm pleased it crashed, it is at a bargin compared to two months ago. Looks like I'm going to get Bitcoin and more cryptocurrencies at a Black Friday discount then. As soon as it shoots up o…
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You can also add that to this type of audience which pretty much sums up what the technical bias of a typical HN reader/commenter really is. So far it is more like all things: Linux, Rust, AMD, T…
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Exactly, I just feel that Oracle just needed to do a huge flex to the world to show that they are relevant. Weird flex but okay, I'll just carry on with my ARM64 Cavium kubernetes cluster that bl…
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> Sarah has summarized ARMv7 architectural requirements for running Windows. The requirements have changed a bit across years, so here is my new summary on this: System processor: ARMv7-A compa…
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Oh no, Thursday film night is cancelled for 20 million people. Time to do something else instead I guess...
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