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Paid them for a sample kit. Never used it after I carefully read the ToS and thought about what might happen.

I'm not sure about the title, which just seems weird. But I think the broad point in the short post is right. Objective-C may look horrible today, but compared to the other choices…

100%. This is the nail in the coffin for me with Windows. It's all Mac and Linux from here on out.

Rest In Peace. I was a pre-teen when I first learned to program on a TRS-80 Model 1. I was, at the time, an expert in BASIC and Z80 assembly. At the same time I was asking my paren…

So far it has not broken the binding but then I didn't buy it as a collectors piece and if it does break the binding, that's OK with me. Not deriding book collecting. :) I've been …

The form factor is huge! In my case it works really well because I can read it standing up while looking down at the huge book. But that's a great edition to put out!

One of the smartest things I've done in recent years is to buy the complete Calvin and Hobbes and put it prominently on a table that I walk by daily. I turn a page a day... In the …

My sentiment exactly mirrors yours. I own a 2017 S100D. It has turn signal stalks, and wiper stalks, and has been (and is) a good car. My only complaint is that I hate the HVAC bei…

I'm not sure: "I drove with the radio blaring so I could not hear the siren" is something to brag about. More sensors == better. And the fact that LiDAR costs have come down two or…

Indeed! I suppose I actually meant f(number of reports) because I didn't actually think the scaling through. The broader points remain: This is true everywhere and not unique to Go…

> One of the primary metrics for leadership success at Google is how many people you have under you. I mean ... you get to choose how you play the game. If your goal is money and y…

Ale8! I post because there is something glorious about an outlier in a consumer space that is largely homogenous. I will look for some RC cola because you posted this!

The author is playing a semantic game. I don't think the author's point is that "C is not a good language for systems programming." You are not going to have an equivalent to volat…

I gotta admit, I like lightbulbs that are just lightbulbs.

Thanks for posting this. This was really interesting and I learned a lot.

I wonder what it would cost to make / sell.

I am agreeing and adding another solution. The other solution is political. There's a reason that governments regulate and define economic rules of the road. This is a good example…

Came to say just this. There's no profit sharing here. Mods don't get a cut of any proceeds off the traffic their communities generate. "Landed gentry" is exactly the wrong phrase.…

Ha! Great link. I legitimately think it's possible that a properly managed "for the profit of the investors" social media company will always follow this path. It's why I think the…

"untethered" is right for me. I'm backing the effort by not even landing on reddit. And it's odd. I have found reddit to be helpful over the (now many) years. I'm coming to the con…

I'm coming to the conclusion that capitalism kills all interesting social media for me. The founders build something. It's pretty good. I engage. They decide they need to make more…

They are going to make me have a second computer. One for gaming. One more browsing. I'll just never open anything but Steam on my windows computer. Given how small and cheap Linux…

Except that it's going to be robot police. What in the current world order suggests labor wins. Who controls LLMs? Who has the compute to produce AGI?

As a Purdue grad who spent a decade in Silicon Valley and who currently works remote for a FAANG in a state adjacent to yours: Didn't go to the coast for the big starting salary. W…

I seriously hope that the people asking the government for a bailout revisit their past policy positions and offer the same empathy to others going forward that they are asking for…