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Why "founder mode" is a rebranding for micromanaging, top-down leaders

paolo.pm

We’ve all been following the drama over the past few months: product management has been in...
We’ve all been following the drama over the past few months: product management has been in the eye of the storm, beginning with Airbnb CEO introducing his new playbook without PMs, and culminating with a Paul Graham essay that glorifies this approach as the new “founder mode” paradigm, a valid alternative to “skill...
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Yes, You Can Now Bet on Elections in the US

wired.com
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Defining Statistical Models in Jax?

columbia.edu
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Magnet-free induction motor aims to nearly halve carbon emissions

newatlas.com

Two great minds in permanent-magnet-free motor design are fusing their know-how to create an even more...
Two great minds in permanent-magnet-free motor design are fusing their know-how to create an even more capable inductive electric motor. Mahle and Valeo have teamed up to introduce what they call the Inner Brushless Electrical Excitation (iBEE) system, a form of e-machine that eliminates the need for sensitive rare ...

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Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'

theguardian.com
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TwoSet Violin 'ends chapter' after eleven years

thestrad.com

Read more news stories here TwoSet Violin, the musical comedy duo comprising Australian violinists Brett Yang...
Read more news stories here TwoSet Violin, the musical comedy duo comprising Australian violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen, has announced the end of its creative output. On social media, the pair wrote: ‘This will be the last piece of content we post as TwoSet Violin. It’s been a wild ride with you all for the last...
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EV battery prices to fall by nearly 50 pct and near ICE parity by 2026

thedriven.io
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12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux

pcgamer.com

(Image credit: Microsoft) Have you been putting off upgrading to Windows 11 ever since it launched?...
(Image credit: Microsoft) Have you been putting off upgrading to Windows 11 ever since it launched? If you want your rig to be as secure as possible, you don't have long left until you pretty much have to. As pointed out by Windows Central, Windows 10 only has a year of official support left until it stops getting u...
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The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire

hagerty.com

The announcement that John Cena has signed on to be the star of the new Matchbox...
The announcement that John Cena has signed on to be the star of the new Matchbox live-action movie raises a few questions. First—there’s going to be a Matchbox movie? And second—what will it be about, exactly? We know that Cena is a car guy of broad tastes: He owns a couple of classic muscle cars but daily-drives Ci...
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My experiences with Automattic: Part 3

aldavigdis.dev

This one has taken a while to iron out. I wanted the third post in the...
This one has taken a while to iron out. I wanted the third post in the series to focus more on the WordPress community and how it has been made to depend on Matt’s leadership at Automattic’s infrastructure. And how that is a very bad thing. This post is best read while listening to Know Your Enemy by Rage Against th...
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Surgeons at UCSD Find Apple Vision Pro Promising for Minimally Invasive Surgery

macrumors.com

Surgeons at the University of California, San Diego have been testing the Apple Vision Pro for...
Surgeons at the University of California, San Diego have been testing the Apple Vision Pro for surgeries, and have performed more than 20 minimally invasive operations while wearing the headsets. Surgeon and director of the Center for Future Surgery at UCSD, Santiago Horgan, recently spoke with Time to provide some ...

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China Is Winning. Now What?

americanaffairsjournal.org

If we lost a trade war, how long would it take us to find out? The...
If we lost a trade war, how long would it take us to find out? The vitality and flexibility of our financial system has obscured the degree to which we are living in the aftermath of a Chinese trade war victory—one in which the PRC not merely succeeded in subjecting the developed countries to trade competition, but ...
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X isn't important enough to feel the full force of EU regulation

theregister.com

The EU has said it won't classify Elon Musk’s X as “gatekeeper” – the bloc’s designation...
The EU has said it won't classify Elon Musk’s X as “gatekeeper” – the bloc’s designation for the most significant digital platforms- because it doesn’t think the social network is that big a deal. Under its Digital Markets Act (DMA) the EU can designate gatekeepers when they achieve a certain annual turnover, provid...
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Raspberry Pi 3 fastboot in less than 2 seconds

furkantokac.com

Bu yazıyı Türkçe oku.|Read the post in Turkish. This post tells about my journey of fast-booting...
Bu yazıyı Türkçe oku.|Read the post in Turkish. This post tells about my journey of fast-booting a Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI). In addition to that, some optimizations are discussed that can be applied to a Qt (QML) application. In the end, we will have a RPI that boots from power-up to Linux shell in 1.75 seconds, power-u...
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Show HN: I'm building a Product Hunt alternative, it's 4 days old

launching.today
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The Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

lithub.com

You only meet a few people in your life who, like stars, exert a pull so...
You only meet a few people in your life who, like stars, exert a pull so strong that they alter its trajectory completely. I was lucky enough to enter the orbit of the legendary editor and essayist Lewis Lapham. A week ago, I attended his memorial service. He died on July 23 in Rome at the age of eighty-nine. Lewis ...
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A Liveness Example in TLA+

surfingcomplexity.blog

If you’ve ever sat at a stop light that was just stuck on red, where there...
If you’ve ever sat at a stop light that was just stuck on red, where there was clearly a problem with the light where it wasn’t ever switching green, you’ve encountered a liveness problem with a system. Is the turning light just taking a long time? Or is it broken? A liveness property of a specification is an assert...
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OpenVMM – A New VMM for Windows and Linux, Written in Rust

github.com
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H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies

github.com
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UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer's Unexpected Behavior

haxx.se
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Why do we have near-equal numbers of male, female babies, unlike other animals?

theconversation.com

We know that boys and girls are produced in much the same frequency. But how –...
We know that boys and girls are produced in much the same frequency. But how – and why – is this 1:1 ratio achieved? A new paper searches huge human data sets for gene variants that throw the 1:1 sex ratio off balance, and test the biological and theoretical rules of sex ratio. What produces the 1:1 sex ratio? Early...

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Easily Self-Host Next.js

quicky.dev

A CLI tool for seamless management of your Next.js applications$ npx quicky@latest installDeploy directly from your...
A CLI tool for seamless management of your Next.js applications$ npx quicky@latest installDeploy directly from your GitHub repositories.Initialize, update, and manage your projects with ease.Automatically configure domains for your projects. A CLI tool that streamlines the deployment and management of self-hosted Ne...

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Migrating from Create React App to Vite

klimer.eu

This post is meant to document my process, thoughts and tips on the migration of my...
This post is meant to document my process, thoughts and tips on the migration of my ReCalendar personal project from Create React App to Vite. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive guide. I wanted primarily to document the more interesting (and often frustrating) challenges of such a migration. So that others might ben...
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Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools

ading.dev

By ading2210 on 10/16/24 Introduction This blog post details how I found CVE-2024-6778 and CVE-2024-5836, which...
By ading2210 on 10/16/24 Introduction This blog post details how I found CVE-2024-6778 and CVE-2024-5836, which are vulnerabilities within the Chromium web browser which allowed for a sandbox escape from a browser extension (with a tiny bit of user interaction). Eventually, Google paid me $20,000 for this bug report...
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