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It wouldn't have to be 79 websites, obviously - there's RSS, for example. But there's also ten other things that already exist, and probably ten other things that don't exist that …

I'm not saying I want them to run the whole service free of charge, I'm saying I'd consider it a gain for the species if the business closed down. I look forward to alternative ide…

It also results in more money going to Youtube/Google LLC/Alphabet Inc. There are many wonderful videos and video-makers on youtube - but I think the platform has been a net negati…

Piracy when the local pleb does it, brilliancy when the new VC-fat wunderkind does it

I ended up watching this talk this evening: > Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only) :: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk and it made me th…

This response is quite the surprise - I am explicitly saying that I think this article reduces travel to "a pissing competition", as you put it, and that it is shocking to me to se…

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I have entertained a similar notion when imagining the direction industries that make software might go from here. There's a possible future where some sizeable percentage of compa…

It is quite heartening to see so many people care about "good code". I fear it will make no difference. The problem is that the software world got eaten up by the business world ma…

I wonder if it's merely some language or cultural difference, and I don't mean it as a snipe at all, but may I just say - software products have "features", human beings have trait…

Maybe one day I'll get used to people people putting pictures and videos of their 3-year-olds on the internet, but that day has not yet come. I see it there and can only think, oh …

If the business school is silly enough to accept people based partially on the idea that they climbed Everest, perhaps he was right to treat the task of getting in to the place as …

Step 1. Dev trusts Microsoft Step 2. ...? I don't mean to be facetious here. It's just that if GitHub doesn't end up going through the usual enshittification process, it'll be quit…

Now there's a sensible point. Can someone do that, so that we can put some of these points definitely to bed?

Business emails, other comments here and there of a more throwaway or ephemeral nature - who cares if LLMs helped? Personal blogs, essays, articles, creative writing, "serious work…

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