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This Bun rewrite feels like a potential Mythos marketing stunt.

I am Cuban and from Miami. The culture here is very similar where people will sacrifice everything in order to stay living close to family and "home". Here it stems a lot from the …

I agree, Reddit communities after a certain point become awful. I think you can still find great communities but they feel like ticking time-bombs. Only a matter of time before the…

For SWEs what is a good way to get an intro into hardware?

Tyler and Blurr were legendary in the RSPS scene, 2speced was such a wellmade and maintained RSPS. I wonder where they are now.

Wondering if anyone played on the RSPS 2speced back in the day? it was really popular

My favorite RSPS was 2speced. It was probably one of the most famous 317 servers. I still remember the forum names of the developers, Tyler and Blurr. I sometimes wonder what they …

What they do over at Koenigsegg is amazing, i feel like most people arent aware at the incredible things they do, CVK is an amazing engineer too and its awesome watching him speak …

Koenigsegg does innovate a lot in manufacturing car parts for their hypercars, if you watched Christian von Koenigsegg speak about the engineering they do its really impressive. In…

Standing on the shoulders of giants, Netflix engineers didn't have blog posts from other companies on how to handle the scale they started facing. Facebook didn't have blog posts t…

I used this list recently: https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview

According to the White House, it is not [1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/07/21/...

I don't think that's a common assumption, inflation means stricter monetary policy which slows growth for companies so stocks go down. Real estate is not a good hedge against infla…

Gold is not a good hedge against inflation https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18706/w187...

best mmo of my time

I've mentioned this before[1], we once had a domain stolen because somebody called GoDaddy and was able to get the 2FA code removed with a phone call and they had some leaked email…

I kind of predicted this in my SO post in 2019 [1]. They were falling behind for a while. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58737548/6460122

If you can't be the cheapest be the most expensive

I work at a very small company and our products are not used by a lot of users. Our stack is very simple: Rails/Heroku/Redis/Postgres I spend time reading about larger scale system…