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FFS, can we just go back to talking to each other in person and driving our own vehicles? Where'd the 90s go?

Honest question, does most of Meta's creepiness trickle down directly from Zuckerberg, or is their entire executive also this creepy? Does the executive know better at this point b…

It's hard to get excited about an organization spending ?? on a pointless mission that's happening because of organizational inertia when kids don't have functional textbooks at sc…

I'm in a situation where I understand the importance of unit testing and how TDD works, but in practice I don't actually get to do it much. The technology I'm working in isn't real…

Good article. What I've found disappointing as I age is the extent that people I know treat friendship as a zero sum game. I feel like I'm always being looked at in the context of …

It goes away over time and with experience. As you become more situated in your current company your confidence will grow and you'll become more productive. 'Are you contributing e…

They aren't incentivized to become inefficient, but once they grow large enough you get into a situation where everyone is playing a political game to minimize their own risk and e…

In other trades we often speak about experience in terms of 'mastering' a trade, but in software it's usually phrased in ambiguous corporate goals like '10x productivity'. If we se…

I did the same on my laptop and PC. Unfortunately, my sound system receiver doesn't support Linux but I'll survive. And the speed of my machines more than makes up for it.

Deliberately misinforming hundreds of millions of people during the most critical juncture in human history isn't what I'd call disciplined. There are other words for it. But they …

At least they're going to go down on the wrong side of history for the next two millennia. Maybe not worth the extra beach house.

From Jonathan Haidt on social media's impact on mental health: "In the last few years, however, a flood of new research has altered the landscape of the debate, in two ways. First,…

I think you're oversimplifying and overgeneralizing. Plenty of people remained lonely back in the day, plenty of people socialize now. It's just that now they have the option to so…

I agree. When I say people lived in close proximity I don't mean 'across the city' or 'the next town over', I mean that traditionally you were actually in the same physical locatio…

There is also the problem of familiarity. It's awkward. Traditionally you'd live around the same people your whole life. Invariably they'd feel like family and it wouldn't feel awk…

Everyone always gets the causality reversed. Social media didn't cause the epidemic, it filled a niche to help cure the epidemic. People were lonely long before the internet arrive…

This is a good way of putting it. And whether someone is happy is indeed personal. For me, company culture has always been a primary concern. Is the company a non-stressful place t…

I believe most of these people would make the time if they lived close by, but we're all in the season of parenthood where even a little bit of distance makes it hard. And a lot of…

I think this hits the nail on the head and is actually the approach I've taken. Everything is deactivated but I log in from time to time. Maybe it's the best possible approach. The…

I'm at a bit of a crossroads these days. Meta is a repulsive company and I prefer not to share any data with them or engage with their products, but there is a whole slough of dist…

One of the interesting things about how people socialize is that we tend to be less honest with those we're closest to, and more honest with people who have no impact on our bottom…

I converted my Windows PC to Linux Mint and let my kids play GCompris on there, which is an educational, non-addictive game suite. As of now neither of them know that the internet …

Having questionable morals seems to help. Ruthlessly pursue profit or promotions and eventually someone, somewhere will sigh and relent. I'm half joking. People with integrity and …

I agree that it may not be the main factor but it's definitely a major one. By the numbers wealthy people almost universally own and read more books. For a number of reasons.