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Yup, Dilbert's "easiest round of layoffs ever".

I have done the same for many years now, and I feel like it's going to be an annoying false positive for people like us. I remember when the "hacker vs. cracker" distinction went a…

Insightful, and scary! Imitating an imitation machine... even if no one is trying to intentionally do so, McLuhan's "we become what we behold" is inescapable.

Under-rated take, thanks for stating this! Not everyone can plough $$$$ into hardware right now (more power to those who can), so choosing to rent is an A-Ok strategy.

This sounds like PG's essay on the front page (today or yesterday).

"In many places birth rates are plunging despite marriage remaining near-universal and even though few women have formal jobs." This is not just about women entering the workforce,…

Good luck! Big fan of your work for many, many years. Thank you for the amazing resource that is Adafruit.

I'm so sorry to read about your experience in this thread. I will comment, that once you left, the next person who joined won't have the benefit of your experience, allowing them t…

I think GP is also specifically alluding to a recent surge of feeling like we're living in a post-Truth society now.

I'm not advocating for being this way... but if you're starting a company primarily so you can have an "exit strategy", then it is natural to primarily virtue-signal to Wall St (in…

Among the tech giants, what is Meta's "AI play"? Is it: "we'll serve Black Mirror ads (generated via AI) into people's AR/VR glasses, since they'll wear them all the time"?

> bot behavior Freudian slip?

That's a pretty good steelman. I do think there's a gestalt (esp. among younger folks) of "AI is bad", to put it bluntly. An anecdote I saw today was: parent: we're having dinosaur…

I imagine the meme "you are like a little baby, watch this", as the POTUS performs over 3700 trades.

He's smart! This is how one converts insider information into money. He also does not pay taxes! That makes him a good businessman. /s

Your comment made me go read TFA, and yes, that is rather pretty handwriting.

Your argument has merit. I'm just going to point out that NCSA Mosaic was released in 1993, and the hand-wringing over it being an absolute memory pig is more 1999 than 2019. But y…

I recommend this too! I like my Dell Precision T7910 (dual-socket Xeon FTW) a lot. What are you using?

I love this too! What do you think of the "halfway faked" devices like the Yoto player [0]? My kid uses it to listen to audiobooks -- it has no actual content on the card, just rfi…

I'm loving the Wodehouse references in this thread. In case there are folks unaware of it, there is an excellent TV series called "Jeeves and Wooster" (Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie)…

Right, I've also heard your (1) above expressed as "she basically stole from the wrong set of people -- rich and powerful". Kinda-sorta off-topic (but not really), it reminds me of…

Maybe not bragged "we made them dance"? That gloating aged poorly.

Thank you for sharing your personal experience! I often think "I should get me one of those" (MNT Pocket, or similar form-factor), but with my visual acuity getting worse (got my r…

Elon can remain a successful bs'er longer than you can remain solvent... or something like that.

I don't know why you're being downvoted. So, lately I've been trying to decouple AI from Capitalism, and it's starting to explain a lot of things, like: * excessive hype * doing la…