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If you had a data center in your backyard you'd change your mind on this one suuuuuper fast.

As someone who has always viewed the winds of web development trends with significant skepticism, this article is one of the best I've read at explaining why no, you don't need . T…

Au contraire, this is already something I spend too much time thinking about and would prefer to think about less.

I hate articles like these. We all know we're going to die and that life moves too fast. In a practical sense it adds absolutely nothing of any positive value to remind people of t…

That's cool and all, but who is actually out here using a linux phone?

Can we finally stop calling it "drugs and alcohol" and just acknowledge that alcohol is a drug?

If you know where to look on the dark web, MXE can occasionally still be found. The fine folks over at Lizard Labs in NL have also developed DMXE, which is apparently qualitatively…

This is a stupid take. Work life balance could be easy if we didn't live in a system that forced you to sell your life to wealthy sociopaths in exchange for the right to exist.

I consider myself a person of above-average intelligence, insight, and drive. But working in Silicon Valley, I find myself constantly surrounded by people who are complete outliers…

Well apparently the people of El Salvador would beg to differ.

One of the worst takes I've seen on what's happening in Afghanistan, and the internet is positively filled with bad takes right now

This guy read Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky

I think the competition is Eat Club, not any of those individual delivery services.

I very highly recommend reading up on Dr. John Lilly, easily one of the most interesting scientists during that era. Along with interspecies communication, he heavily researched ps…

This seems like a really big deal.

Even assuming they meet all their product goals, who is going to choose this over AWS?

I stopped reading when the author claimed that bitcoin not having "alternative uses, like gold" makes it less suitable as a currency

#2 is the worst solution if you care about principles over end user experience. Most organizations and corporations do not prioritize things that way.

From Wikipedia's page on Compact Disc Digital Audio: Each audio sample is a signed 16-bit two's complement integer, with sample values ranging from −32768 to +32767. The source aud…

I'm surprised they left out The Engineer Guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp33ZprO0Ck Not very prolific, but interesting and in-depth explanations of all sorts of engineering t…

One of the other engineers on my team just messaged me: goldcountry, when you get a chance, could you spend a couple minutes thinking about what qualities you would look for in new…