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Oh wow I went and looked that up after reading your comment. Launched less than a month ago! Incredible that you're seeing such impact already

This conversation makes me wonder if age verification at the system level could be considered an externality for its cost to society as a whole, and the solution be to collect tax …

Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Permanent: No Technologies: TypeScript, Python, PHP, SQL, Terraform, Linux, AWS, AWS Lambda Email: m@mhn.me My name's Matth…

HUMANS need control flow. It's a very effective strategy that has worked wonders in healthcare

If you consider it in absolute values it makes sense. Bezos could give me a billion dollars which would match my wealth with Pichai's, and he'd still have 199 billion dollars

It almost feels predestined for this to not solve the problems at hand, overrun on costs and timelines (furthering the first point), in no way streamline existing processes or cut …

There are many paths to overcoming this; none of them easy. I'm finding a lot of help in Martial Arts and Eastern Philosophy. Acknowledge thoughts and emotions, understand them, bu…

I think about this often. I hear people talking about why we need sunscreen these days and in my mind it's simply due to the lack of foliage and natural shade in both modern urban …

Christ: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert/blob/main/CO...

This is awful

Thanks both; you've inspired me to push on with learning React (Native)! Gonna be a fun weekend

This is super cool. Found myself learning a few things about the power grid and of my country, and I spent some time looking in to the energy market off the back of this

https://www.regular-expressions.info/ and https://blog.stevenlevithan.com/

100% I believe this is the most common pitfall that I've seen. Long-term thinking is an acquired skill when it comes to engineering good solutions. Unfortunately after (sometimes) …

Oh and we only deploy functions and their IAM permissions with serverless. All other AWS resources are managed by terraform. I think this was wise

We use serverless, quite happy with it. TBH I mentioned SST in my first comment but I'm not super experienced with it, and I'm reasonably happy with serverless. I'd definitely be c…

Yup. Entire core business product for a succeeding startup, though it's a small team of contributors ( I really like the model of functions decoupled through events. Big fan of tha…

If you listen to the people who have worked closely with him from SpaceX[1], themselves heavy hitters in space industry which is a heavy hitting industry full of ridiculously smart…

I think yes. It's not easy to design and manufacture a phone using sustainable materials and components from vetted sources who treat their employees fairly, unfortunately. And to …

Sounds like you'd get a lot out of Event Storming (if you haven't looked in to it already)

I think this is a really interesting perspective. This could decentralise the population and solve many problems that way, and also reduce the costs and risks associated with utili…

Referring to the title I think this is exceedingly the exception, not the norm (excluding bad hiring policies). Learning what not to do is more valuable than starting with a clean …

One thing I've been thinking for the trauma cycle is how isolating childhood is for those who are in an abusive cycle (and in general). It takes a village to raise a child, but oft…

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I did some sleuthing recently because I am quite sceptical about the whole "burn rocket fuel to go to space during a climate disaster" thing and found a study indicating that the c…