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Nexus by Yuval Harari is one of the most influential books I’ve read.

If stuck on a desert island with only one algorithm in my bag, I’d wish for the Fourier. At least I would die happy.

Reads like somebody prompted ChatGPT: "Write an AI action plan for the United States in the voice of Donald Trump." "Make it sound smarter". And voila, ai.gov is born.

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I also miss the web. When HTTP form posts were a thing. React and friends are desktop apps, delivered over HTTP, where the browser is the runtime. You know why we got so obsessed w…

This is why you should just cram everything into one line.

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I recently visited Tulum and experienced their architecture firsthand. It is breathtaking in both form and function. Beautiful in every way. Their philosophy got me thinking -- are…

:-) I figured someone would beat me to this.

ADHD

^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^

see here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.ui.up... I used it 13 years ago. It was fancy.

Billionaires would still be doing just fine if they were cut in half over 60 years. The point is that right now they are freezing the economy by hiding most of it's energy in their…

I see microservices as a people/team architecture. It's a way to scale up people and define boundaries around who is responsible for what, without having to standardize how everyon…

"Raise them to the level of white people". Your white fragility is quite transparent. I'm just starting to understand my own. Watch this if you really want to know. Watch and read …

The article says it is printed with a layer height of 2.5mm. There's no way it would work at such a high height. They probably meant .25mm.

Meditation. It's a skill that can be learned quickly and teach you to notice not just your constant firehose of thoughts, but the emotions that come with them and which often steer…

It did finally show up in our PHD, but it showed up as having been resolved: "[08:52 AM PDT] Between 7:49AM PDT and 8:27AM PDT EC2 experienced elevated API errors for instance rela…

It never showed up in my PHD (personal health dashboard) so it may have been a brief anomaly. Shared here in case others were seeing issues.

From a chat with a support agent: "it seems at the moment there is an internal issue affecting instance launches in the us-east-1 region. I'm trying to get updates right now"

I was logging on here to call out that quote specifically. My kids are both in college now, and we're empty nesters for the first time as of a week ago. My advice to all of you wit…

As others have said, if you want to replace an existing part, it's probably actually better to redesign it. I use OpenSCAD to do simple 3D designs in code. It's easy to get started…