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This, but unironically https://youtu.be/G__PVLB8Nm4

> Does anyone watch scheduled television anymore except local news and sportsball? Yes, especially for folks not at home. It’s common to see multicast used in places where internet…

Sometimes yes absolutely. Netflix shows often have a "house look" to them, because they enforce specific camera requirements and have a standardized / commonly-reused lighting setu…

Yeah, it quickly becomes a "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" thing between junior devs and LLMs. I will say, if you use a Mistral model, and if you insist your CSS framew…

> these bots really want to just barf out tailwind-style crap. I get it. The LLMs struggle most with state. They don’t have a real fix for that yet. People generally compensate by …

> Importantly, I think AI companies are motivated towards the overengineered solutions as they increase the buyer's token spend. Yes that, and also, the more complicated the soluti…

> Also, when did we stop liking to learn? When the economy got so bad for so many people, that every waking moment has to be either chasing fresh cash (or spent in recovery from ca…

> iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart. The iMessage one is super common, and is Apple's fault. Easiest w…

> Honda was never in the large SUV game. (The Honda Pilot and Honda Passport stare at you, with deep resentment)

It's kinda okay at JS + React + Tailwind. (at least, for reasonably small / not-crazy-complex projects)

> Housing is too expensive because it's illegal to build enough of it. A lot of us are in the US, where (except for SF and handful of specific cities) housing is legal to build pra…

> I'm not saying culture is irrelevant but saying china's success is due to "Chinese way of thinking" or america was dominant because of the "american dream" is an adult believing …

I get it. I agree with most of this article. But also like, nothing went away. If you pine for the days of Java and Maven, you can still do that. It’s all still there (Eclipse and …

Yeah, honestly, GDPR isn't perfect legislation, but it's pretty close. You could just copy-and-paste GDPR into the US and, with actual enforcement behind it, most of the egregious …

> A 4K netflix stream caps out around 15mbps Yeah, but that's just because Netflix streams are ridiculiously over compressed -- they use extremely low quality encodes. It's technic…

I think the big problem DoorDash and the like have, is they obfuscate the capacity connection between real restaurants. In the real world, if you drive up to a McDonalds, and there…

(re: drive-thru) You're going to be waiting aorund in a really long queue for Starbucks regardless. Might as well wait in line in a comfy/cosy car where a barista will hand you you…

> I know incentives are common I'd go further than common, I don't know any major data center built in the last 6 years that didn't get them. 36 out of 50 US states give away publi…

Homes also generate property taxes and sales taxes (from the occupants inside of them). Cities nearly always make money selling to new homes -- low density suburbs are highly profi…

> That would be so out of place in midwest USA, where cynicism is rampant Well yeah, the Midwest USA is full of drastically under-employed individuals holding advanced degrees who …