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Eric Schmidt making headlines for saying "If you're writing code traditionally, stop. It's over" But the worst part to me, isn't the part that's making headlines - it's that he thi…

WTF - that wasn't the sequence of his statements. Are you some sort of engagement bot trying to stir up anger? The boos about AI: https://www.youtube.com/live/b1eM3jv0vWY?si=aouJBu…

Naive. Countries are collections of different values. I don't, for example, want to enslave non-believers, nor do I want to own my wife, or have a government take everything I own.…

monad transformer stacks

vim has an encryption feature (:help encryption). With some AutoCommands, keeping your own encrypted password list becomes painless. On other platforms (phone), enter your 12 or so…

Gabriel Lebec's "Flock of Functions" video is a great explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQ382QG-y4

Computers implemented in other computers. Specifically: Minecraft running in Minecraft https://youtu.be/-BP7DhHTU-I or Game of Life running in Game of Life https://youtu.be/xP5-iIe…

Ernie Zelinski's "Joy of Not Working" book was useful and eye-opening for me at about that age.

These two challenged my beliefs about the state of the environment: S4: E18 – Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know | Marian Tupy https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast…

Corecursive podcast #069 "The Original Remote Developer" about Paul Lutus and writing software for the Apple II - and making it rich. Quite an orthogonal thinker, which made it ins…

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose– with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, wh…

Have you ever seen them work, or seen data on them? I've never had them work, and they don't seem like they would either - bunch of seeds landing in a ball together would lead to t…

How cool and uninituitive. I worry about prime butterfly habitat right next to a road with high-speed radiator grills.

I'm a parent of 14 and 11 year-olds and we're always struggling with this. I'd like to chat with you about this further. Find me on #parents-with-tech on freenode IRC (I've invited…

I'm a parent of 14 and 11 year-olds and we're always struggling with this. I'd like to chat with you about this further. Find me on #parents-with-tech on freenode IRC (I've invited…

My electronics side projects during university were what got me my jobs, post-uni. Also, one key: Do the difficult stuff you're dreading first. Always. A lot of famous successful p…