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Print this article out and put it in the scrapbook. File next to that 1970's era classic, "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping compiler-generated assembler"

the ur-text behind this piece is: people just not understanding exponential capability growth. including the author of the piece! if you could look clearly at the progress from 202…

At Oblong Industries one of the basic building blocks of everything we built was a homegrown C-based IPC system called Plasma. The message channel was an mmap'd file used as a ring…

Even with agentic coding there's a lot of merit in keeping a strong distinction between your specs (TDD, architecture, etc.) and your backlog (your sequence of work items). Backlog…

Untold R&D billions went into this; we have no idea what the breakeven would be. If we were to treat Apple and Meta equivalently, we would have spent a decade tallying Apple’s R&D …

A lot of folks here are making some version of the observation that an immutable public unforgeable database is, in practice, equivalent to ANY database which is sponsored by the s…

Magnopus | Downtown Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | Onsite | https://magnopus.com Magnopus has deep expertise in AR, VR, mixed reality, and virtual production. We’re passionate about…

Magnopus | Downtown Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | Onsite | https://magnopus.com Magnopus is an experience company with deep expertise in AR, VR, mixed reality, and virtual producti…

Magnopus | Downtown Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | Onsite | https://magnopus.com Magnopus is an experience company with deep expertise in AR, VR, mixed reality, and virtual producti…

Magnopus | Downtown Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | Onsite | https://magnopus.com Magnopus is an experience company with deep expertise in AR, VR, mixed reality, and virtual producti…

Oblong Industries | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Los Angeles, Boston, or REMOTE | https://www.oblong.com/company/careers Oblong is a hardware and software company that has alwa…

Oblong Industries | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Los Angeles, Boston, or REMOTE | https://www.oblong.com/company/careers Oblong is a hardware and software company that has alwa…

Oblong Industries | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Los Angeles or Boston or REMOTE | https://www.oblong.com/company/careers Oblong is a hardware and software company that has alw…

Please do a google image search for "medieval scriptorium". Then try a google image search for "victorian office engraving" or "victorian counting house engraving". Or check out th…

I don't think it's wild Silicon Valley chatter to say that public transportation along fixed routes WILL decline as a result of new technology, and this is a great thing. Fixed-rou…

It's machine learning. It's not AI. Please, all, let's try hard to use words that mean what they mean.

Agree! In my experience successful remote work is associated with 2 things: 1. extremely well defined problem domains 2. incrementalism For lots of engineers, those 2 points descri…

> wearing a helmet somehow reduces the odds of exercise Helmet paranoia DOES reduce the odds of exercise. On a group level, at the level of public health, that's PRECISELY what it …

You are mistaken about what the rules are in most states. To take one example, in California, you own the lane and cars cannot pass unless they can give you three feet of clearance…

I wear a helmet too! But it doesn't change the truth of the sentence: "The exercise benefits of biking do way more to increase your life expectancy than skipping a helmet does to r…

For this reason, I wear a helmet. But the health benefits of cycling vastly swamp the risk of death, so the helmet gain is only a small marginal difference. The person who is truly…

Look at it in terms of effect on life expectancty. The risk of death from 1 hour of cycling reduces life expectancy by about 24 minutes. Wearing a helmet probably changes this by a…

It sounds like you're not informed. https://www.vox.com/2014/5/16/5720762/stop-forcing-people-to...

There's also the "Copenhagen left". Which is, pull over to the _right_ into the crosswalk of the intersection where you want to go left. Wait for the light to change. (Google it fo…

Don't ride in the door zone. Don't let cars make you ride in the door zone. Take the car lane instead. I've gone 15,000 miles safely in dense urban environments because I am heads-…