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My favorite bit of SBCL trivia is the name: this is descended from Carnegie Mellon's build.

Steel. Bank.


I don't get it :-(

I think it's just that Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, and the Mellons made their fortune in banking.

Yes and

Carnegie Technical Schools was founded in 1900 based on a $1m donation from Andrew Carnegie,

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was originally founded in 1913 by Andrew and Richard Mellon.

Carnegie Mellon was created by combining the two institutions in 1967.


That's very fun and makes so much more sense than my half guess that it was from a defunct regional mid 20th century bank I had never heard of.

Oh, that's nice-to-have. Good work, Mozilla.

It would close the loop better if you could also use policy to switch off innerHTML in a given page, but definitely a step in the right direction for plain-JavaScript applications.


How does that differ from the rest of orgmode.org? Is worg a wiki?

yup, it is basically a wiki

Excellent. I look forward to other service providers responding by cutting traffic from the US.

If the goal is to balkanize the internet, this administration has hit upon an excellent step.


Reviewing docs is a lower bar than reviewing code because it's a lower bar than reviewing code.

I have never even heard of a software company that acts otherwise (except IBM, and much of the world of Silicon Valley software engineering is reactionary to IBM's glacial pace).

I'm not saying docs == code for importance is a bad way to be, just that if you can name firms that treat them that way other than IBM (or aerospace), I'd be interested to learn more.


I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, maybe my use of "lower bar" was ambiguous, and I realize now it has a dual meaning.

What I'm saying is, you have to review code to get it out the door with a certain degree of quality. That's your core product. That's the minimum standard you have to pass, the lowest bar.

In contrast, reviewing documentation is usually less core. You do that after the code gets reviewed. If there's time. If it doesn't get done, that's not necessarily saying anything about code quality.

Even if it's easier to review documentation, that doesn't mean it's getting prioritized. So it's not a lower bar in the sense that lower bars get climbed first.


>> Reviewing docs is a lower bar than reviewing code because it's a lower bar than reviewing code.

You reason in circles


No, they are specifically using a tautology to make a point.

Pilots in a plane on autopilot are never out of the control authority of the plane (by which I mean: "ready to take over at a moment's notice"). Driverless AVs do drive without perpetual eyes-on oversight. The FAA would never allow that for commercial planes.

Interestingly, the round-trip latency from the West Coast to continental Asia isn't nearly as long as I'd assumed (60ms to 250ms, depending on who's measuring).

Not nearly fast enough for real-time highway remote operation IMHO, but surprisingly fast. That's what I get for underestimating how fast light and electric fields can go.


After reading this blog post, going to grapheneos's site, and browsing a half-dozen or so pages that I thought might show me what it looked like... I cannot find a single image of it.

GrapheneOS team, I'm begging you... Hire or recruit one person with advertising or copy-for-public-consumption experience. Just one.


Answered 2h ago before your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047720

Saving a click, it looks like any bare Android without vendor customisations. You just get extra settings like turning off network per app

I don't disagree that some screenshots might be good marketing


Remember the old days when people paid for news?

Ars is owned by Conde Nast, which had to let go of its HQ in 2024. I suspect they don't have a plan to replace a journalist like Benj if they axe him. And it's not like readers are going to hold them accountable.


I was puzzled by your claim that Condé Nast was forced to vacate its headquarters last year. After some Googling, it seems you are referring to their English offices. Condé Nast is still headquartered at One World Trade as it has been since 2014, and is still owned by the Staten Island-based Advance Publications as it has been since 1959.

Well, someone has to backfill Zoë Hitzig exiting.

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