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That's a fair analysis, but I'd argue that you are being too charitable to the US government. I think they simultaneously have legitimate security concerns, but also wish to regain…

Maybe all of the people downvoting could try and make a coherent argument against this post instead. Although it's pretty hard to argue against objective facts. The US can ban TikT…

> Anecdote of shitty AI company raising a fuckton of money > Mention of GDP with no other metrics > No mention of inflation > No mention of QE > No mention of interest rates This i…

> 1. One of the IT guys – in his early 20s — showed up in a brand new 350Z (stickers on). This was his "severance" pay. I'm pretty sure one of the upper-mgmt had bought it for them…

Facebook has usurped the legacy media that they mention in the Red Book. But their relationship to capital and government is the exact same as the legacy media they replaced, so in…

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The marble has the perfect amount of friction, I'm able to "drift" around corners which feels really nice.

Yes I have seen that one! It's on my list of resources. There's also this, which I have been studying the code of as I follow along with Crafting Interpreters, to try and increment…

That malleable systems manifesto really resonated with me. I actually did a project recently where I tried to adhere to that sort of ethos: https://pickles976.github.io/Hari-Recipe…

I got about halfway through it during a slow work week. It was a throwback to my hardware classes from college. It got me thinking differently about computing. I am young and stupi…