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The Mask Wars are one of the stranger offshoots of COVID-19. Yesterday’s battleground was a Victorian outlet of Bunnings. Iconic, certainly, but not usually regarded as the birthplace of liberty. (Free to read!) https://t.co/Qv0EYPaIpF

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Everyone has a prediction of how the Mac ARM transition is going to happen, so I thought I’d add my own (as an expansion of some tweets I made in late April ). This is based only on public rumors and

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In Software Disenchantment we’ve seen how software has degraded in the past two decades. Recently Jonathan Blow gave a talk where he explained why it might be happening: The talk is very, very good, b

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For three weeks in late January and early February , I travelled to Asia, spending two weeks in Saigon, a few days in Singapore, and about 48 hours in Doha, Qatar. Here are some of the things I saw an

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College, 2012 —Internship recruiting season. “What are you looking for in your internship?” the recruiter asks. “I’d like to solve hard technical problems,” I reply. I end up at Jane Street writing so

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