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One of the most frustrating assignments[1] (2011) in my computer science education was trying to build a better mousetrap for elevator control. [1]: https://clarkmoody.com/Moody_Ag…

Don't forget that the incumbents will fight to keep regulatory barriers high.

The collapse of the government does not imply the collapse of civil society.

> heavy new 8% tax on our endowment returns Cry me a river.

Insider trading laws are for the plebs. Tip off your cousin about an acquisition by a public company? Go to prison. Tip off your cronies about war? Business as usual.

Own nothing, be happy

The bathroom was on a raft floating on the surface of an ocean planet.

Simmons opened new frontiers of thought for me with his Hyperion Cantos . A house with each room on a different planet. A heartbreaking tale of a daughter aging in reverse. A roman…

Rule #1 of power: never outshine the master

The FBI won't get involved unless it's politically advantageous.

Wait until your local police force has fully autonomous lethal robots on the streets.

...and then what happened?

He uses the word "fascism" without any relationship to that word's meaning.

The ballot has always been a proxy for the bayonet.

The war always comes home.

Massive outages of core Internet services popping up shortly after corps firing devs and bragging about AI writing more of their code.

Can we stop changing our clocks twice a year as well?

I recently jumped into typst for creating a course syllabus to learn programming. The experience has been great, especially compared with the LaTeX memories from grad school.

The magic moment is importing your secret key into an alternate client and all your contacts, posts, and feed populate from the data stored in the relays.

The more nerds that get sniped by a simple-seeming protocol, the more likely it is to catch on. Hitting a 100 page spec doc full of XML and links to other specs is a big de-motivat…

The iterator can be implemented fairly simply: self.prev.iter() .chain(iter::once(self.active)) .chain(self.next) I'm not sure what you mean by including active in another position…

In one version I've seen, the active element is of a different type, offering enhanced functionality over the vectors of next and prev items: struct List { prev: Vec , active: A, n…

I've used the zipper concept with lists for making impossible states impossible [0] in the context of Rust programs. The rich enum type in Rust creates opportunities to avoid bugs …

For all the talk of Trump being Hitler, I never saw any real tax protest movement to defund the regime...