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[Renaud Foucart @RenaudFoucart]

I'm not a big fan of referendum but I must admit forcing citizens to vote on a tradeoff is a vast improvement over most political debates

The Swiss voted for bigger pensions

For it to pass, they must now explicitly vote again the higher taxes to fund it

[Maahir Panchal @maahirpanchal]

Take this as a rant.

Take this as something a long time coming

Take this from someone who's spent his life in factories growing up.

We need to develop a better ecosystem for ourselves to thrive!

A +ve critique on India's manufacturing scene. https://t.co/S2JcsubqDr

[Simon Patterson @denkmit]

You learn something new every day: the first ever winner of the World Press Photo award in 1955 was Danish photographer Mogens von Haven for a shot of a motocross crash at Volk Mølle. Incredible shot!

[freeCodeCamp.org @freeCodeCamp]

Graphics programming can help teach you how code, memory, and pixels really work.

In this course, Gustavo shows you how to build a low-level software renderer from scratch in C using SDL3.

You'll learn all about frame buffers, pixel manipulation, memory layout, event handling, frame timing, and lots more.

https://t.co/RyQE0aQaPx

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Same guy, two interviews. In the first, he is a fragile Jewish student, who feels unsafe on campus, because everything is antisemitic and everyone is plotting a second Holocaust. In the second, he is Goliath, raining death on unarmed Palestinians from a safe distance.

[SaltyIdly @SaltyIdly]

@svembu You can find fringe opinions of any direction online.

Unless there's enough numbers to give it some weight, using rando opinions to push your narrative is just abusing law of small numbers to advance your delusions, like calling Jayalalitha not inherently evil like other polits

[Gautam S. Mengle @NotMengele]

A public screen in Gurugram is broadcasting your vehicle number and exact fine amount to everyone at the intersection. Here's why this is a cybercriminal's delight and a security and data privacy nightmare:

1. The screen displays, in real time, your vehicle registration number linked to a specific financial liability. That is personal financial data being broadcast publicly, without consent, to everyone present, including anyone with a phone and five seconds of patience.

2. Someone standing at that intersection with a camera could systematically photograph every vehicle that passes, building a database of registration numbers, pending fine amounts, and the exact time and location the vehicle was seen. That is a surveillance and profiling operation requiring zero technical skill.

3. Now consider what a fraudster can do with this. They know your registration number. They know you have Rs 48,500 in pending challans. They know you were at Sohna Chowk at 11:43 AM. That is enough to craft a highly convincing call or message offering to "clear" your challans for a fee, and you would have no reason to doubt they know exactly who you are.

4. This is textbook social engineering bait. The victim is already anxious about the fine. The fraudster appears informed and specific. The request feels urgent. Every psychological condition for a successful scam has been created by the screen itself.

5. India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 has specific provisions about the collection, processing and public display of personal financial data. Broadcasting a citizen's registration number alongside their financial liability to an uncontrolled public audience raises serious questions about whether this system is compliant.

Good intentions and good implementation are not the same thing. This is a system designed for correctness, not adversarial reality, and in cybersecurity, that gap is where the damage happens.

[maya 🦭 @mayaisfiya]

today i went out to lunch with my dad and his friends and before ordering they walked around looking at what everyone else in the restaurant was eating so they could make an informed decision

[SaltyIdly @SaltyIdly]

@MVhandle Its almost as if there's a reason most executives don't make public statements that are irrelevant to their job.

Just like Musk has ruined the position of Tesla, now that there are many alternatives, SVembu will be the end of Zoho eventually.

Workers are capable of moving

[SaltyIdly @SaltyIdly]

@svembu Sanatana is the root of civilizational rot for south asia, not the saviour.

[SaltyIdly @SaltyIdly]

@svembu One has to be particularly malicious or uninformed to call sanata broad minded.
Sanskritizarion is perhaps the worst thing that has happened to Tamil religiosity, almost all the social ills we associate with Hinduism has come from your "dharma". Tamil paganism was much better bfr

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.

[Nihal Pasham @npashi]

Finally able to talk about what I've been heads-down on for 6 months at @nvidia 🦀⚡

We just open-sourced cuda-oxide — an experimental rustc backend that lets you write CUDA kernels in pure Rust.

No DSLs. No FFI. No source-to-source step. Single source.

Short🧵👇

[SaltyIdly @SaltyIdly]

No

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

My notes from Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger turned into maxims:

1. Find a simple idea and take it seriously. 

2. Good ideas are rare. When you find one bet heavily. 

3. Humans have been writing down their best ideas for 5,000 years. Read them.

4. Avoiding stupid mistakes is more important than being smart.

5. Don’t work with anyone you don’t admire.

6. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy.

7. Avoiding a bad habit is easier than breaking a bad habit.

8. Work on your best idea. Don't diversify

9. Incentives rule everything around you. Look for them. 

10. Great businesses are built by going ridiculously far in maximizing or minimizing one or a few things. Think Costco. 

11. Learning is changing behavior. 

12. Do the unpleasant tasks first.

13. Charlie has read hundreds of biographies. Do the same. 

14. Stop multitasking. Concentrate.

15. Many hard problems are solved best when approached backwards.

16. Think of ideas as tools. When a better tool comes along use it.

17. Clip your business and personal expenses. Small leaks sink big ships.

18. Make friends with smart dead people. Adam Smith, Darwin, Cicero, Ben Franklin —whoever interests you. Read their writing. Steal their ideas. They don’t need them anymore.

19. Don't confuse intelligence with invincibility.

20. Bad things will happen to you. It’s inevitable. When they do get up and keep going and remember the next maxim.

21. Self pity has no utility.  

22. Find out what you are best at. Then pound away at it. Forever.

23. Only plays games where you have an edge.

24. Avoid mob rule. Avoid demagogues. Avoid dogma. Avoid bureaucracy.

25. Optimize for independence.

25. Use money to buy freedom.

26. Develop durability.

27. What do you have an *intense* interest in? Do that for money.

28. Self improvement has no end.

[SaltyIdly @SaltyIdly]

Pay 30 USD to bring an old game that I already own to a modern-ish console? SIGN ME UP! What, are you all poor or whatever?

@TheTrolleyGame - @byDanDans

#TheTrolleySolution

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

AOC talking about politicians trading.

"Do you really think people don't see this sh*t?"