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Turns out taste and judgement still matter. Weird.

I appreciate that the author looks specifically at what elements of a given viewpoint are idealistic vs cynical. Idealism about one’s own behavior vs idealism about others’ behavior is an interesting …

I was pretty young at the time, but I think it started as basically a BBS. With an Internet backbone so a bunch of local numbers could all access the same server. They added Internet access later, and…

Groups of people don’t act with the same ethics as individuals. Yes, companies are made of people, but behave differently than people.

Author works in payments industry which issues and accepts gift cards, benefits from the lack of consumer protections, and incidentally doesn’t make any revenue on cash payments.

Yes the whole essay was premised on this dumb little sleight of hand. It’s disingenuous. AARP isn’t telling fibs. It’s giving sound advice. The only legit use of a gift card is when you’re redeeming t…

They are unfocused. Need to stop with the mba playbook moves like this and just make the model worth paying for.

Enjoyed this a lot. I, too, spent many years involved in print layout. In my case it was a lot of QuarkXPress. My friend aptly described it as a “very cross program” but it was quite efficient once I …

Quicksilver was a revelation. I use Raycast now and Alfred is great too. I don’t use spaces or Mission Control or tiling. But I’ve been using macs since the late 80s and most of that stuff just seems…

The 1220s horse bubble was a wild time. People walked everywhere all slow and then BAM guys on horses shooting arrows at you. AI is like that, but instead with dudes in slim fitting vests blogging abo…

Cassettes and their cases had a really nice size and shape, fit right in the hand. And it was cool that you could see it moving, unlike (most) cd players. Also the recording paradigm was pretty easy t…

The 90s films mentioned in this post are works of art and the actors and creators were artists. Compensation sustains the art, but it’s not the primary purpose. Netflix is a business. The content on N…

Beautiful essay. So much of the tech we use today originates from quiet humble builders and creators like Mr TIFF.

We are a continuous learning organization, and selecting this bike shed’s color is an opportunity to leverage everything we’ve learned since the last bike shed project. It’s a fast moving space, and w…

I know it’s not the stated reason for the flag, but maybe it’s ok to see a little bias towards atheism here and there.

But it’s typically not simple. People often have some kind of life complexity that makes their taxes hard to confidently self-navigate here in the U.S. Receiving government assistance? Some kinds are …

Sussman is a treasure. I love how deep he goes into topics.

Good comparison with DRM. Perhaps it’s fairer to frame C2PA as an authenticity factor alongside other factors like a creator identity or publication credibility?

It is the product launch channel of a bygone era. Seems like these days people try to announce products in communities that might use them.

I think they’re too early for their core market. It’s taking indie and 0-1 devs awhile to dig into ML because it’s a huge complex space. But some of us are starting to put together interesting little …

Check out Vega Lite. It wraps D3 to facilitate charting use cases. https://observablehq.com/collection/@observablehq/observable... …

I'd love to see an attempt at a Schismatrix series.

Not bad. I always pictured a kind of embiggened Danzig in this role.

Author Vernor Vinge describes a future "programmer–archaeologist" role in his books. The idea being that humans just keep building layer upon layer of abstractions and systems, and in the di…

Congrats Bradford and team!

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