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I’ve recently been perplexed by the new policy to charge 25% tariffs on incoming goods from America’s two closest suppliers: Canada and Mexico. So I decided to put the question to …

You know what's wild? Not ever having heard of him, I can find out who he is and how this relates to the conversation in milliseconds. For others' benefit: "Kurt Vonnegut explored …

As far as I can tell, the training is still going pretty well. Once humans learn enough, they are able to start coming up with and evaluating their own ideas. This ability isn't 10…

I agree the multimodal stuff is amazing. I'm seriously impressed with the new Gemini 2.0 family of models and can't wait until the full multimodal capabilities are in general relea…

I've quit caffeine several times on and off, but overall I think that a small amount of caffeine does more for mental acuity than none at all, even considering sleep quality. But i…

Dare I say there's a mini-movement starting? :D https://www.jasonhanley.com/blog/2018/09/making-websites-eff... Here's hoping...

If anything, the rants about this are getting better. That's probably a good sign. This rant is at least 10x better than mine from last year :) https://www.jasonhanley.com/blog/201…

Is there anywhere else in the world besides Shenzhen, China that can build a complete modern touchscreen device? I know some devices are "made" in Taiwan and India, but I get the s…

Down here. Hardly news considering it's Twitter :P

I feel like stuff like this is why golang and rust were created. (edit: Forgot about Rust, sorry!)

Windows NT4 was "peak stability" in my experience. Although some have said that Windows 2000 was more stable, I found the fusion of 95/98 into the NT kernel made it less so.

As a software developer and manager of software development projects, I wouldn't say that software quality has increased significantly since I started working professionally in the…

Thanks :) That's what I was hoping for. It's a serious problem with no clear solution.

Didn't really expect to hit HN front page with my random rant :) In any case, glad I was hosted on Google infrastructure but embarrassed by the bloated, default Blogger template. I…

Agreed. I used Office XP (2002) until... I think about 2013 or so where I started running into incompatibility problems that just couldn't be resolved no matter what I tried.

This is true. Except that now the "desktop" apps are even worse! Now they've taken web apps and packaged them up to run their own web server and browser locally with even more abst…

The irony is not lost on me. The unfortunate thing is that Blogger started out being fairly light and clean -- at least it was back when I migrated to it. At least static site gene…

I was actually just thinking about this. Yeah, it probably doesn't really help the situation when you build several layers of abstraction in an interpreted language that runs in a …

That's the type of example I've come across all too frequently. Software that's 5-10 years old, has all the same functionality, uses a fraction of the resources, and is often "bett…

As a developer and development manager, I haven't personally noticed major improvements in any of those metrics over the past 20 years. But I'd definitely be interested in any stud…