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A setup like this but in phone size would be ideal. The free software mobile world has really been a dumpster fire from the beginning.

Steven Pinker on this article: > https://x.com/sapinker/status/1999297395478106310 >"Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his fam…

Energy usage per capita peaked in america in the 1970s[1]. After that, maybe there were efficiency gains, but by using more energy you get crazy progress in the early 20th century,…

It costs a lot of money to move, you don't know if the alternative will be any better, and if it affects a lot of companies then it's nobody's fault. "Nobody ever got fired for buy…

I will worry when I see Startups competing on products with companies 10x, 100x, or 1000x times their size. Like a small team producing a Photoshop replacement. So far I haven't se…

It would be cool if you could somehow form chains of trust with this, maybe even with links to other social media, where you could "follow other people that this guy has vetted". I…

It's a publicity stunt to score points while solving nothing. Same issue in Spain with squatters, it allows the goverment to confront tenants with landlords while the goverment doe…

What about binary blobs? I hate having to store them outside of the database and that you can't just do a dbdump/import to clone a project.

I like the rule of thumb: "If the result of a social psychology experiment doesn't agree with your grandma, it's probably fake."

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For me what killed search was 2016, after that year if some search term is "hot news" it becomes impossible to learn anything about it that wasn't published in the last week and yo…

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