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The resource consumption is huge and it provides relatively little to the surrounding community compared to its intake. For most residents who live near one it’s a net loss. Qualif…

The interesting difference here is that other hedonic activities do bring people back even after the first time they build up a tolerance and get bored. But many of these AI "creat…

This resonates with me. I used to live in a medium-sized US city which prided itself on its public transit. The buses were SO slow, and it's because they would sometimes literally …

They shouldn’t be, especially with the recent lessons of Iraq and especially Afghanistan. It will be a catastrophe.

Another example: the complete surrender of the Xbox platform. They spent the last 10 years buying up game studios and then closing them, failing to develop any good exclusive title…

Nope, that wasn't me. I have the Node, React, Typescript etc. buzzwords in droves (that's been the bulk of my career experience). Maybe emphasizing AI more would help like you ment…

I'm wondering if recruiters are more likely to pass on job applicants who are currently in contract roles, as opposed to applicants who are currently in full time salaried roles. I…

At my current workplace, we do have a roadmap for the business, but the actual backlog of tickets to implement work is all waiting on other siloed teams to make decisions that we a…

At every company I’ve ever worked for, the bottleneck is not “how fast can we spit out more code?” It’s always: “how fast can the business actually decide what they want and create…

Dropbox and Google Drive work for Obsidian on the desktop version, but the iOS version does not seem to support them.

The trouble is: broadly speaking, no one uses those.

Your argument is so out of touch I can only assume it’s being made in bad faith. Many of the pro-Palestinian protesters are also Jewish. Equating all Jewish people with Israel and …

Well luckily for them, I’d imagine they don’t think too hard about it.

Love this. I’ve had the same thought for years and I’m glad to hear there’s a name for it.

Going out on a limb here: nope. Do I wish otherwise? Of course. Will anything of the sort happen? Nope.

What?

A “gaming headset” with a built-in microphone. The sound quality was fine but the build quality was terrible. It broke apart while I was wearing it, after owning it for less than a…

Beautifully written and fun to read. Blog posts like this give me a boost of mental strength to keep going during my worst episodes of burnout.

My career has stagnated after almost 9 years and I find myself pigeonholed into working as a full-stack JavaScript CRUD app code monkey. I’ve been burnt out for a few years now and…

Are you aware of any software developer unions? I’ve never encountered any in my 9 year career so far

Non-sycophant employees are shut down and ignored once the whole corporate culture has bought in to the hype du jour. If you are the sole dissenter, it can even make you look like …

Fair point that a lot of Reddit is already astroturfed, but this is definitely the final nail in the coffin. Now SEO is coming for the forums, too. Wonderful.

Not just rocks and dirt. Mining waste is often toxic - heavy metals, acid, that sort of thing.

Sad. I had no idea “dump it in the water” was still a waste disposal practice in any developed nations. As per the article, only three countries on earth still grant licenses for t…

Love this site. I’ve been reading it periodically since high school. Glad it’s still around.