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They were so busy trying to create modern that they forgot what made things classic.

"This isn't technology related." says the HN poster as he's lined up against a wall.

I'm saying our tenuous attempts towards reestablishing the most basic of anti-trust was dead regardless of who won the election[1]. I think this decision would have been the same r…

The writing was on the wall when Kamala Harris wouldn't commit to keeping Lina Khan at the FTC. We had some soft Anti-Trust action for the first time in decades, and the Trusts res…

Windows users have no negotiating power. Windows will continued to be monetized in user-hostile ways. Call it enshittification, call it the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, …

Unlocked. It was a 2023 model I bought in 2024. There are some screaming good deals if you don't mind buying one model older at the right time. I cannot stress enough how much I do…

I recently bought my wife a Pixel 8 ($500) and myself a Moto G Stylus ($175). The Pixel has a better camera, but that seems to be about it. Something I like about my Moto is that i…

This is truly the Century of American Hubris. From financial deregulation to spreading democracy in the middle east to carbon fiber submarines, we seem determined to ignore complex…

>>"A technology that cuts down on boring tasks is fine; one that threatens your sense of identity is not." The shareholder class sees no distinction between the two. This is a good…

I've been using Post-Its along the bottom of my monitor for 25 years. Works fairly well as they are always right there in front of your face, and if one loses it's stick, well, you…

I have a 38" curved wide screen with 1600 vertical pixels. It represents the peak of all the monitors I have bought over the last 25 years. Me in the year 2000 with a 1024x768 17" …

My neighborhood and for miles around me is lower to middle-middle class. All people that wouldn't be able to afford to 1) move and leave their equity behind 2) afford the rents in …

At some point one has to consider costs, scale and political expediency. WFH and H-WFH would be broadly popular among the electorate and could probably take off with just some chan…

Perhaps tires can be made less toxic, but over all, we need to prioritize driving less. WFH means I put barely 3000 miles per year on my car. It's absurd we are not aggressively pr…

I agree completely that wealth plays a critical role, if not the most critical role, in all of this. Especially at the higher end with Balaji and all the other would be tech John G…

From the article: >"described a speech in which he “told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations’: outdated and obsolescent.” “Th…

I don't disagree. My two examples were people who not only did not collaborate, but actively resented the knowledge offered from experts different fields. I do think that past succ…

I call it "Engineer Brain" after watching a talented relative descend into madness trying learn virology during the pandemic. It was further crystalized after the Titan submersible…