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It's obviously sad that an animal was killed in an accident, but the outrage towards Waymo and media coverage definitely seems disproportionate given statistical context, and I was…

past the paywall: https://archive.ph/Axj2B

Valve / Steam presumably has good data on what controllers and peripherals people are using, so I'd imagine their port choices are based around that. Here's a June 2024 post talkin…

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past the paywall: https://archive.ph/pIEgu

This is one thing I've been wondering about AI: will its broad training enable it to uncover previously covered connections between areas the way multi-disciplinary people tend to,…

room presence detection has been a long standing challenge in the smart home / home assistant community. it's cool to see home assistant used and adapted for this use case.

https://archive.ph/pUXpu

It's been somewhat surprising Twitter has remained as highly available as it has been despite all the firings. It makes me wonder what the cause of this outage was, for being a rel…

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I thought it was an interesting read and it would be interesting to hear a summation of why you left the industry. It also made me consider the possibilities for a sort of vertical…

CA will make money if home prices increase from current highs due to supply constraints and if owners sell triggering the capture IIRC. CA now has a +$300m financial stake in that …

https://archive.ph/Z2FKB

IANAL but wouldn't a judge look at that and just say it's wage fixing with extra steps?

There's a fun trashy sci-fi novel I read years ago about how potentially devastating it would be if a plastic-eating microbe got loose: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.…

Yeah, I'd imagine in many respects he's unqualified to be a good CEO since he, as far as I can tell, essentially stumbled sideways into the role as co-founder. There's the upside o…

I always thought it was awesome that a company to support creators was creator lead. I came across Jack Conte in 2010 before Patreon existed. He was a music creator on YouTube that…

I would never self-host email based on what I saw during the portion of my career as a web hosting Linux sysadmin. At one point I half-seriously offered to pay for Gmail for Busine…

I relatively recently read a biography on John D. Rockefeller and this reminds me of some of the things Standard Oil did with rail companies to gain a market advantage. https://en.…

I relate to a lot here which is why I wondered about a support group. I've come close to self destructing a number of times but lucked out. I also struggle with depression, anxiety…

I'm currently 35 and I was ID'd as a gifted child, so this paper caught my attention. There's a section that discusses outcomes based on whether gifted children were allowed to ski…

> There are thousands of interesting people in tech. It's impossible to know of everyone. Totally! If you aren't familiar with who Jessie or Bryan are yet though I think you're in …

I follow Jessie and Bryan both on Twitter and at least with what Jessie has been exploring since she left her last job, this seems like a natural progression. It trips me out to se…

I wonder if it would be possible to extend open source software licenses and include morals clauses.