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It has a very pleasant editor to make + share custom maps, e.g. https://enclose.horse/play/a3OGcW


OP here: I had the same thought, but noticed a very similar trend in both [0]; I think this graph is more interesting because you'd expect the number of new users to be growing [1], but this seems to have very little effect on deleted questions or even answers

[0]: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1927371#g...

[1]: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1927375#g...

The second graph here ([1]) is especially interesting because the total montly number of new users seems completely unrelated to number of posts, until you filter for a rep > 1 which has a close to identical trend


It's great for a prototype which doesn't need to store a huge amount of data, you can run it on the same VM as a node server behind Cloudflare and get a fairly reliable setup going


I really like this reactive guide style interface, which maybe could be quite a good project idea like mdBook[1] but also you to insert quizzes/examples alongside static notes

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook


I had the same thought - I guess it's similar to that idea that if you had someone else's eyes, you might not perceive specific colours to be the same?

But actually it sort of makes sense since (from what I understand) is stimulating an external interface (the receptors), so you're mimicing what the effect a smell would have on you rather than the electrical signal created by the response to a stimulus?


Maybe not the entire internet, but this absolutely true for TikTok/Instagram-like algorithms


What does FTE stand for?:

> From what I can tell, there have been about 4 FTE from Google over this period


It stands for "Full Time Equivalent".

It's a measure of time spent working on something, to standardise comparisons of work capacity and acknowledge that it's not always full time, especially when aggregating the time from different people. One full time person = 1 FTE.

For example if you work 20 hours a week on project A and 20 hours on project B, then project A will count your contribution as 0.5 FTE while you're assigned to that project.

If you also have two other people working on it full timee, and a project manager working 1 day a week on it, then project A will count the contribution from all three of you as 2.7 FTE. (2.7 = 0.5 + 2 + 0.2).


In the Google context, “FTE” actually stands for “Full-Time Employee”, as opposed to “TVC” = “Temp/Vendor/Contractor”.


This example assumes 1fte=40 hours which is not nexessarily the case in all countries or under all collective agreements. 1fte can be 36, 38, or even 48 hours.


Full Time Employee


Is this a codeword for "not contractor"? I heard that at google contractors are second class citizens.


>at google contractors are second class citizens

This is the case at many companies to avoid contractors being considered employees.


Yes, but that is usually more relating to pay/benefits. At google (from what I heard) contractors are put on the bad projects, maintenance work or support functions. As in there is a big separation between work done by full-time employees and contractors in most teams.


I think FTE is mostly used as a 'unit'. E.g. if two people work on something 50% of the time, you get one "FTE-equivalent", as there is roughly one full-time employee of effort put in.

Though in this context it just seems to be the number of people working on the code on a consistent basis.


FTE can mean either:

* “Full Time Employee” (which can itself mean “not a part-timer” in a place that employs both, or “not a temp/contractor” [in which case the “full-time” really means “regular/permanent”]) or

* “Full Time Equivalent” (a budgeting unit equal to either a full time worker or a combination of part time workers with the same aggregate [usually weekly] hours as constitute the standard for full-time in the system being used.)


Yeah, 1 FTE just equals 40 work-hours.


FTE is a TLA.


Out of interest, do you have any specific examples of this?


Nvidia “invested” up to $100B in OpenAI. OpenAI uses much/most of that money to buy NVidia chips.


The MS Azure deal is of the same nature. MS “invests” into OpenAI who then buys Azure services for the investment. OpenAI evaluation is increased and the musical chairs will continue for another round.


I've tried Neovim, but still use VSCode because everything either works out of the box or takes 2 clicks to install an extension for and things like drag and drop into the file explorer or the remote extension make it really quick to use.

The only other real GUI contender I've seen is Jetbrains's IDEs (the free educational plan is great) but having seperate IDEs for different languages gets a bit annoying if you have multi language projects (e.g. a Rust backend hosting a Typescript frontend)


See https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/06/i-like-helix/, Helix is a very different experience from neovim, and basically everything works out of the box with no configs or setup required.

It's quite impressive how everything just works and how easy onboarding is.


You don't really need the different IDEs. For example, you can install the Rust plugin and the TypeScript plugin in IntelliJ Ultimate, without needing RustRover and WebStorm.


Does CLion not contain the JS tools? The other have them.


Not completely related, but do you know if hardware kickstarters typically have any IP protection? I'm surprised there haven't been any cases of large companies creating patents for ideas from kickstarter at least that I've seen


One cannot (or at least, one is not supposed to be able to) patent someone else's invention.


You theoretically have a year before you even have to apply- but patents are expressly "first to file."


Public use of an idea still prevents someone else from patenting it.


Sounds like You're conflating sale of a product prior to filing with "prior art"


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