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If I'm so brutal and don't give a damn why do I care if I use every library under the sun? Simple you say? Then I'm rewriting code some other poor sods have written 100 times, whic…

Counter take: This hot take is unnecessarily defeatist and smacks of the rote defense for maintaining the current power structure, namely "the world is too complicated maybe we sho…

Plotly offers more power and flexibility than chart.js and provides a much simpler API than D3 (it has D3 and webgl renderers). The ecosystem is broad and includes React, Angular a…

Corporate Web is SEO Ad hell but it's got nothing on the future that awaits us. Let me present AI Ad tech 2030 All commercial websites contain meta tags with vector embedding links…

Except you see many of the same people staffing the boards of major companies, donating to politicians and contributing funds to think tanks that supply politicians with policy opt…

I know, my statement there is harsh. The early tech culture emerged from 60s counter cultural forces that had, to their credit, really impacted the world. So it probably wasn't as …

For sure. But there will always be good times and bad. Main streets in towns were likewise vital communities until interest rate hikes and massive deregulation in the 80s. If you w…

You ever drive down a main drag of any town or city pretty much anywhere that has a fairly unregulated capitalist system? Advertising everywhere. Signage. People dressed as hotdogs…

Really? The situation isn't so simple. High income earners are paying historically low taxes. Not to mention cuts in inheritance taxes from the 80s onward. You'll need to explain y…

Who knows, likely not many aside from some folks training in GCP on TPUs but any large funded corporation has a path laid out by Google. And Apple with its M-series. You can build …

The CUDA lock-in is over played. Tensorflow, Pytorch and any large framework supports multiple hardware including Google TPUs. Any company making significant investment will steer …

Clearly the Radcliffe wave is leftover vibrational energy from a space-time knot formed when now long extinct aliens exited the galaxy in a dark energy fueled artificially generate…

That's why white has a higher statistical win rate ya?

Arch sends distribution news every week or so, usually in one or two paragraphs. https://archlinux.org/ I've followed the gitlab migration and every package and distribution change…

I bet there is huge potential in physical computation but it seems like we'll need post-silicon or massively-3D circuitry to scale it out sufficiently. Bio-electronics and organica…

Politics: Know Your Enemy, The Dig About movies (and politics): Michael & Us, Unclear and Present Danger Tech: Oxide and Friends, Twenty Thousand Hz Science: Nature Podcast, Quanta…

This has been tried and has both worked and failed. Failed in some cases where governments built large clusters of apartment towers without much heed to community or spaces for urb…

Ridiculous. That list of tremendous people are some founders that found success. There are plenty of tremendous founders we don't hear about that didn't do as well. There are plent…

If you're feeding the specific nodes to scrape, iterating and bug fixing what is Chatgpt doing other than giving you someone to talk with while you code? Call me when I can ask a L…

Stallman was right and he provided an alternative. Go use it. Stick to GPLd software safely nested under the auspices of a foundation. Don't expect Deno or any other corporate enti…

This is a hilarious comment. It's exactly the comment that was made in the 70s when workers had a larger share of national income and when average salaries could afford a house. In…

A REPL isn't just a REPL. You are comparing modern day Toyota Corollas to a Spaceship sent from the future to the 80s. One is just different level radical. At least when it's baked…

Maybe because your entire lived experience has been reordered based on your skin color and how it isn't a light yellow color. Powerful cultural strands exist in your community to p…

GDP doesn't measure a healthy economy however. It measures aggregate production which can be owned by a small minority of extremely wealthy asset holders while everyone else needs …