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> The standards for the Democrats are impossible perfection No, the standard for Dems is "don't rock the boat". The Right moves things further to the right, the Dems don't let them…

It's possible. The ultra-wealthy now have a blue print to follow.

> Just my personal anecdata, it took my a while to put a finger on it, but it seemed like something started to change in products in the 90s. The electronic spreadsheet.

Ice cream is 1.5 qt not 1/2 gallon. I don't know what they put into pizza "dough" but it's not real flour. Everything has been spreadsheeted to death.

If you can only make X number of widgets, you must increase the price until demand stabilizes at X.

This is what consumers are always told. Prices go up as demand goes up or scarcity increases.

There was a time when people could write, and thus read, longer than a tweet. Some of us remember that time and are still able to do it.

Actually no. It’s dev FOMO. A tremendous amount of go has been written without all this. Go has just gotten more popular so devs want to make it into something they’ve used before …

Nothing you say is necessarily wrong or bad, but it is why we can’t have beautiful things and only utilitarian shit.

Surely it was pressure from devs to make Go look like every other language they begged to change then abandoned for the new hotness.

Right? Sigh. I really dislike this. There are 37000 programming languages, stop forcing every single one that gets popular to look like this.

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> Usually discussions about money are never actually about money, but rather safety, fear, etc. What keeps me from retiring early and not socking away more money is the fear that m…

The issue isn't the technology (git, subversion, cvs, etc), it's that developers FOMO and glom on to what every other developer uses so you end up with these huge silos that they i…

That's so sad. Maybe if devs weren't so FOMO, they wouldn't tie themselves so tightly to things like github, chrome, etc.

For anyone with a Kobo who only wants to be able to sync with calibre-web without installing anything on your device, here's a link to instructions: https://jccpalmer.com/posts/set…

> It very well could crash the consumer hardware market as a result I really hope it doesn't but I could see this resulting in just a couple "PC" manufacturers remaining when this …

>> The fact nobody reinvented e-mail on top of a different set of standards is a good indication that the current stack is not as broken as some people would like to think. email i…

Mr dr tells me every visit I need more exercise.

I think if I were headed out of country i would make a full backup of my phone, then wipe it and set it up using my old gmail account that i only use for spam and stuff, fwd my res…

Yep.

Current admin will not regulate them. This is them essentially bragging how powerful and autonomous their "AI" is. It isn't scaring their real customers or employees to talk like t…

Because if a human, say a Aaron Swartz type, were to have done it, they'd destroy him.

Oh come now. It is very much in OpenAI's best interest to make it sound to naive people that that "AI" decided to go rogue on it's own.

No. Carry a notebook. Long after you’ve given the book away, you’ll always have your notes.