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They hired the Emmett Shear (Twitch co-founder) as a new interim CEO: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968848/openai-new-ceo-...

The contract details are outlined in the blog post. Depending on the number of hours worked to fix some issues, it is likely fair.

  > Contract terms were roughly as follows:  
  > * Uber reports issues to github.com/ziglang/zig and pings Loris.  
  > * Loris assigns it to someone in ZSF.  
  > * Hack hack hack hack hack.  
  > * When done, Loris enters the number of hours worked on the issue.  
  >   
  > Uber has a right to ZSF members’ time. We have no decision or voting power whatsoever with regards to Zig. We have right to offer suggestions, but they have been and will be treated just like from any other third-party bystander. We did not ask for special rights, it’s explicit in the contract, and we don’t want that.

@dang: Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30011382 https://curl.se/mail/archive-2022-01/0043.html

Both are subsidiaries of Google, not Alphabet.

Yes, the codename for Windows Vista was Longhorn.

Part 2 of the videos mentions that Notch replied, saying that he doesn’t remember where the image is from, and that it’s likely coming from a world generated with a random seed.

The press release: Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion: https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-g...

Direct link to recode.net: https://www.recode.net/2018/5/31/17390030/uber-ceo-dara-khos...

robots.txt is really only supposed to be used for blocking the Internet Archives first snapshot, and not to remove existing snapshots – and even this might not be the case in the future as they try to preserve most snapshots. They made a few policy changes last year[1] to how they handle robots.txt files, to handle cases where a domain is sold and a new robots.txt file would result in deleting old data among other things.

[1]: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

Many people are using leader/follower instead of master/slave.

It was only just made public today at the trySwift conference where an Apple engineer working on Swift NIO presented a talk.

Really? It’s been discussed a lot on various podcasts, on Twitter and I’ve heard multiple people IRL talk about that use case and the slightly annoyance it is with the iPhone X.

It is pretty common for spouses to have a finger added on their spouse’s phone for unlocking it with Touch ID, e.g., when you’re driving and get a message, you can give it to your spouse who can reply.

Many parents also have a finger added on their young children’s phones.

None if these scenarios are really possible with Face ID, because you’ll end up training Face ID with two faces. And while phones are usually used by only a single person, it is not an uncommon scenario to have a secondary user.

Unfortunately only High Sierra gets Intelligent Tracking Prevention: https://twitter.com/rmondello/status/911066050556436482

Still a good release though.

Besides lacking some other features (as mentioned in another comment), it is worth noting that even though it’s using the same SoC it is clocked lower at 1.1 GHz vs the iPhone 6’s 1.4 GHz. (Source: https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks )

Interesting. I had the opposite perception. Most Europeans I know (Scandinavians, Germans, Dutch, British) prefer subtitles on movies (even when they are foreign non-English movies), whereas the impression I have gotten of Americans through e.g. news broadcasts and talkshows, have been that everything is dubbed into English (for example interviews from the EU parliament or other foreign countries). I am sure it depends on the context, but now I wonder if there are any statistics on when things are dubbed vs subtitled.

He has commented on that saying that it isn't very common in the electronics markets, particularly for one-offs or low volume. Apparently you can only really start haggling once you're buying 100+ of something.

Then he'll make his email or other contact information available in some manner.