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I know people like this too. Trump is obviously a flashpoint, but is it really him or is it the constant media narratives being fed to us about "the other side" being a danger to our safety.…

i sold software on cell phones early in my career and it was quite typical for the average small business to track its employees (say repairmen, HVAC people, gardeners, etc) using geofencing to alert …

reminded me of one of my all-time favorite demos from Future Crew one of the moments that shaped my childhood towards a life of computers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTjnt_WSJu8 …

Because if AI is the gold rush VC's want to find the Levi's and Wells Fargo's.

love it. although I thought putting my own message in at the end was going to build a map that created that message. that would be next level!

wealth is all relative.

ya exactly. For my close friends who I've known for decades and still hang out with, none of that seems weird (except the Olive Garden part).

That's exactly how I felt about Salesforce over many years of customizing it to basically be a UI on top of a relational DB with a nice import tool and some workflows built in. But apparently it&…

crashed in the middle of its response. did HuggingChat get hugged?

Ya that's right, I suspect Hacker News is maybe the 1% that is capable of DIY'ing a solution and will complain about every little change with that as the "stick". That said this wh…

In his own words: > And the legitimacy of that model [traditional institutions] absolutely depends on having a semi-monopoly over information in every domain, which they had in the 20th century. Th…

Martin Gurri in The Revolt of the Public had a pretty good explanation of this. Leaders used to be the gatekeepers of information, and thus maintained control. Now the Internet has lifted the curtain …

Nobody asked you to fight. You have the luxury of not fighting and not struggling because so many before you fought and so many around you choose to fight now, as uncomfortable as that might be.

Ya I see this as an extension of what's happened to the Internet, but in everything. Searching for a product now is just a bunch of SEO crap rankings with affiliate links. Didn't take anythi…

Like this? https://dev.java/learn/single-file-program/

mad magazine meets garbage pail kids meets Internet?

this 100x. And in the young brain, every single person looks amazing because that's how everyone is posturing constantly. Image filters can even literally make someone better looking. It's b…

It surprises me that folks (presumably technical) regress to the "same thing as the old thing" logic. I'm not downplaying the end-of-times drama every generation surely went through, bu…

It's very likely both with the rise of processed food, hormone disruptors, and the "app explosion" where negativity gets engagement/clicks.

now imagine spamming their phones with tik tok videos about the end of the world due to ____________. In your example, it's climate change. Maybe it's that, but it could also be that we can …

ya that's the problem, every action has a reaction in the new world order of massive marketplaces. It would seem like there needs to be more buyer focus on the sellers reputation rather than the …

but who was the seller? This should be a buyer beware situation. The marketplace is compromised.

Exploitable marketplaces just seem to be seesawing back and forth between those closing exploits and those finding new ones. Anything that gets massive these days seems to get into this stage because …

also http://dev.java/evolution

You can read all about it here: https://openjdk.org/jeps/12 with a slight addendum here: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8300604 and podcast that discusses both: …

...but also thousands of other stability, performance, and security updates.

More info on 20: Announcement: https://inside.java/2023/03/21/the-arrival-of-java-20/ VM improvements: https://tschatzl.github.io/2023/03/…

Probably not this go-around: https://openjdk.org/jeps/442 Better to be right then rushed though.

More details on 20: Announcement: https://inside.java/2023/03/21/the-arrival-of-java-20/ VM improvements: https://tschatzl.github.io/2023/03&#…