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This. Incremental progress is one thing, but incremental movement that makes the problem worse and actually harder to solve later is not progress. It's indicative that maybe you're…

The dot-com bubble/crash had just happened and a lot of non-tech folks thought it would never come back. I remember telling my uncle I was going to intern at Amazon around 2005/6 a…

I accidently clicked on the article instead of the comments link for this one, a rare mistake as I usually glance at the comments before deciding to read, but I'm glad I did in thi…

Actually all of those sound fine to me... I guess it's really just Internet advertising that feels wrong to me, especially when they try to fill in as the source of revenue themsel…

Tenable for what, global business? Many local businesses do fine without advertising and/or using these methods. Making global business harder and forcing things more local actuall…

Similar experience with a 2010 Honda Odyssey, drove it for 10 years and never saw a crack even though I'm sure it took a beating. Then we got a 2022 Passport and I swear every sing…

I've had a malignant melanoma, my mother and extended relatives had it as well (including a great uncle I never met who died from it), 4 (of my 9) siblings have had multiple, mostl…

I just had that conversation with a coworker last week, they started with 'I wonder if there is anyone left who isn't using AI daily?', and I had to reply with.. 'um well me actual…

I remember living in Japan around 2001 and having to handle random addresses. We had several atlas books of regions and neighborhoods. Looking up an address was an exercise in gett…

I thought it would be in the article, but it only mentioned muscle mass. I believe lifting weights actually improves bone strength as well, but I don't have the references availabl…

`the sweat of thousands other people's brows`. This is a great point, and I think lends itself to a better solution than taxes. Why give all the excess to the government, who will …

This reminds me of a time I tried to install Ubuntu on an old thick Dell laptop many years ago. Each time I would try the system would overheat and then crash. The existing (window…

This reminded me of early days running AWS SQS. We didn't charge for storage as message size was limited and the expectation was any message was going to be read immediately... But…

I think pragmatism would be the middle ground, or 'dealing with reality as best you can'. I don't think it's possible to actually sit perfectly in the middle, won't you always end …

How would that compare with US based pay? I'm bilingual (brushing up on my kanji with wanikani) and considering moving to Japan, but I've always heard the comp packages aren't grea…

What children? The reason the population is declining is because they didn't have children, increasing the burden on the government. I've been to rural Japanese towns where it felt…

This exactly. Someone may be aware that it's possible to change the flags for improved performance, but they likely have a mountain of other things they need to deliver and the cur…

Wouldn't trying to interface with the brain be a good way to understand more about it? It does sound unlikely that neuralink actually accomplishes anything impressive, but I don't …

I interned on the SQS team back in 2006 and subsequently joined the team full time for a few years including briefly managing it. I have some great memories of that time. Keeping t…