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It is only a single counterpoint in a sea of depressing examples but you may enjoy the story of Yvon Chouinard, owner of Patagonia, who gave it all away to trusts for protecting th…

Then just set aside some time to be bored. People generate some of their best ideas during this time.

Some on my bookshelf: > Crafting Interpreters, by Robert Nystrom > Re[Coding] America, by Jennifer Pahlka > Systems Performance, by Brendan Gregg

MC rider. Many accidents occur during the early years, particularly as the new rider gets comfortable. There's a transition period where your muscle memory kicks in for basic ridin…

Seems this has more to do with Palestine and Google's involvement with Israel to provide cloud computing.

Identity? Most folks don't think that way anymore. I try to funnel them from Python to GO. I want to ship binaries. I want them to think about dependencies and if they really need …

I grew up blue collar and pitched in with my father's work from a very young age. As a child I was able to balance out the time and expense of raising me by contributing back to th…

If anything Florida (Desantis in particular) more closely resembles traditional conservatism in the US, as opposed to MAGA populism. I think, or hope, that's a good thing in the lo…

I hope someone comes along with a better recollection than I have. When KDE 1 came out there were some bitter licensing discussions on /. and elsewhere, largely regarding Qt. I had…

I think you and your environment are very different from the average consumer. At least in the office there's a shared community. I think you'd shudder to see what comes to the Sta…

I don't mind the downvotes but, what? No responsible company is going to want a bunch of unused cups interacting with their gear.

Bringing your own is a health hazard. It spreads germs all over the equipment.

Disappointed with the lack of Linux performance, though they're working on it. If you're dealing with MS/Azure SQL Server this is a god-send. For years I had to carefully configure…

There's no reason to tie every software companies rise and fall to AI. Several years ago they changed their enterprise licensing costs. It was such an aggressive and needless cash …

I recommend anything by jonas schmedtmann for js/ts/react to work colleagues.

I'm here for white-hate culture. You should, you should know better.

I've often wondered - what is the exact amount of vacuum (pressure?) that you can get away with without disemboweling someone?

Then... why are you using it? I used to get some degree of infotainment out of it but then it became this. Here's an idea: I had a need for some custom metal machining (aluminum). …

Here's the problem I keep running into with AI and 'history'. We all know where this is going. We'll pick our winners and losers in the interim, but so far, this is a technology th…

Well then I owe you an apology. Perhaps I inferred too much about your point of view and understood too little, which is my own loss. Sorry.

I believe the idea that you (or I) might know better than the 'average people' to be incredibly conceited, arrogant, and frankly wrong. It is an attitude that gives you superiority…

Wants and needs are not the same. We are experiencing the difference in real time. AI does not give society a want or need.

We can absolutely conceptualize what we want or need. I was born in 1980 in NYC. When I was a boy my father took me to a tech conference where they had a demo of ordering TV shows …

I don't think you understand. Frankly, AI is a failure if all it does is replace coders. AI needs (given its current investment levels) to conquer all forms of knowledge work. This…