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My experience in a large US city is surprisingly the opposite. The toy stores I visit are doing great. I suspect this is is because a large portion of their business is for birthda…

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It is true commercial versions are slightly more expensive. But this is the tradeoff of buying something more durable and meant to be used continuously. But it's not true that they…

This is an interesting and more apt way to frame smart features. One way I've found to avoid objects that come alive is to buy the commercial version. - TVs aimed at commercial hos…

I've been using ack for a very long time, maybe 15 years. It's like grep but faster and easier to use. I still use it all the time, even in the era of Claude. https://beyondgrep.co…

It appears personal devices were also impacted by this via Microsoft Intune. That app is presented to employees as a way to get their email/slack on their personal device without g…

As I have heard from mid level managers and C suite types across a few dev jobs. Staff are the largest expense and the technology department is the largest cost center. I disagree …

>Primarily because web search these days is so shitty but that’s besides the point. Obviously there are a lot of reasons for this. But I think one of the most important reasons is …

Almost all tech CEOs think we want an AI button on every window, every app, every dialog. Always there no matter what to make workers more productive or need fewer workers or whate…

Stack Overflow should have been a strong connection for developers who started building software prior to 2022. A niche place to find the solution for something getting in your way…

And all of these outages happening not long after most of them dismissed a large amount of experienced staff while moving jobs offshore to save in labor costs.

Most or all of these lost significant institutional knowledge through layoff after layoff and jobs moved to lower cost countries. Maybe a coincidence or maybe not.

>It basically needs to replace its present Balmer with a Satya. You had me all the wya until this line.

Interesting insight. High interest rates keep new startups low. Well, not counting AI startups I guess. And the lack of new (non-AI) startups allows bloated incumbents to get by wi…

In the past large developments would win over local government support with promises of jobs and investment in the local economy. Now the only promises are a strained grid, higher …