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Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly
CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a closed-source low-level API that interfaces software with NVIDIA GPUs.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,981 posts.
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Meta blocking news links in Canada
For months, supporters of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, assured the government that Meta and Google were bluffing when they warned that a bill based on mandated payments for links was unworkable and they would comply with it by removing links to news from their platforms. However, what has been readily apparent for…
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The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September
Google's monopoly is going on trial starting September 12. This is the big one. Or rather, it's the start of a series of big ones.
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Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla
Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
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Eventual Business Consistency
Executive Summary of Bi-temporality
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The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation : it's a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:
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If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch
The title says it: if you’re involved in drug or medical development and have experienced the FDA’s torpor, or vengeance, consider getting in touch; anonymously is fine. I want to make …
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Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
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Epilogue of my time working at Twitter
Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my…
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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X
The Leteyski family — Ruslan & Tihomira. Links, profiles and more.
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The design thinking movement is absurd (2018)
Have you ever heard of Design Thinking?
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Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
[I’ve added an update after watching the announcement.]
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TeamTopologies
A model that helps people design effective teams for software development.
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Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow
How the computer killed capitalism.
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At this company, we are family
As I shared at our last family meeting, current economic conditions have forced family leadership to make many difficult decisions. I myself have reduced my golf outings to every other week, and you, undoubtedly, noticed that your mother’s car is no longer the current model year. Unfortunately, even these deep cuts…
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Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?
Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions.A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price dat...
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Autoenshittification
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket. Your car's digital infrastructure is a costly, dangerous nightmare – but for automakers in pursuit of postcapitalist…
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Resilience in Complex Systems (2021)
Everyday human reasoning breaks down as the scale of time and space at play increases. Complex systems thinking gives us a new set of tools to better understand the chains of consequences involved, and make better decisions.
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Book Review: The Laws of Trading
Finalist #10 in the Book Review Contest
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Spoil your secret sauce
Go on an adventure. Find a New Thing™. Bring it back. Share it, and demonstrate why the New Thing™ is worth sharing.
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A glitch in the SEO matrix
Or: A comprehensive ecosystem of open-source software for big data management
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Payment systems while working at a pizza place
Placing an order and capturing a payment are really different actions. I also learned a lot in a few days.
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How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009)
This is a series of pages that guide you through the creation and operation of a successful consulting business. I’ve written this after running a fairly successful consultancy business in the mid-90’s and reviving this business in 2008. I’m primarily active in software, so some of the things in here will be skewed in…
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Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)
Bank transfers have exploded as a payment method in India and may become more common in much of the world.
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Personal relations as a manager
I was reminded by a discussion with a friend why, as a manager, you should be cautious about the relations you develop with the people in your team.