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If you disagree with the statement, "guns don't kill people, people do," then you agree with McLuhan's maxim of the medium being the message and that there is no such thing as an u…

'In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: "We are too prone to make technological instruments t…

> is the grass greener on the other side of the fence? Was it?

The insidiousness of notebooks is in their uncanny resemblance to proper code. To take writing for example, a handwritten draft scrawled on coffee-stained yellow paper is more obvi…

I agree. TFA calls out the “fundamental weakness” of the theory as a lack of specificity in definition and measurement, then goes on to make further opinionated statements as far a…

"The tie between information and action has been severed. Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to …

The uncanny valley of generated software: utility is inversely proportional to distance from the correct answer, with a huge drop into the dangerously believable.

I find this comment a bit myopic. First is the belief that the essence of a person can be reduced to quantified metrics as inherited and objective as height or, in this case, the s…

Thank you for caring about the craft.

> I would also add that they often don't use version control. Working for corporate R&D, I once received a repo on a flash drive. The team would merge changes manually by copy-past…

Same. I'm completely anhedonic by Friday when I box myself into a schedule like this, which makes enjoying the weekend feel like a chore.

> But people don't get shamed for spending far more than that replacing/upgrading cars when they've got a perfectly decent one already. They should, considering the personal and ex…

What a great watch, thanks for sharing. I liked his metaphor of music and transcription to programming. Writing of music is not the main function of a musician in the way that writ…

Great video, thanks for sharing

Startup(s) for company-mandated productivity-enhancing muzak incoming.

Sorry to hear about your hardships and thank you for sharing them.

Using fiction and media as metaphor is a sign of how mediated our existences are and, with the cooperative reality show that is social media, will only become moreso.

Going meta, here's Miyazaki cooking ramen in live action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPTNdmdJSc

At some point I just closed my eyes and pretended I was listening to a radio drama, which is what it could've / should've been.

> heavy usage And, with the weight of EVs, even heavier.

Less than AVs "just" being a few years away.

And instead of robotaxis, just invest in public transport. AVs exemplify technosolutionism: technology solving a problem caused by a prior technology.

> it confuses the reader about who actually did things When scientific papers have a clear list of authors and delineated section headings, this point is moot. And in such papers, …

I'm convinced that the value of active voice is not precision and clarity, but rather the subliminal egocentrism away from the object (the research) towards the subject (the resear…

> There was this sociologist Found the problem.