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It would be a good thing, if it would cause anything to change. It obviously won't. As if a single person reading this post wasn't aware that the Internet is centralized, and couldn't name specifically a few sources of centralization (Cloudflare, AWS, Gmail, Github). As if it's t

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It's fairly telling of the state of the software industry that the exotic craft of 'fixing bugs' is apparently worth a LinkedIn-style self-promotional blog post.I don't mean to be too harsh on the author. They mean well. But I am saddened by the wider context, where a dev posts '

Sonova (Phonak's parent company) bought Sennheiser and you can now buy their Sonite R at Costco for $1600. If you have recent Phonaks, you'll recognize the design immediately. They also have an array of peripherals: https://www.costco.com/f/-/sennheiser-brand-showcase I'm not goi

Gatekeeping is weak unless you've been hired to literally guard a gate.What a silly argument. So money is the only valid reason to guard a gate? Many people guard gates for the simple reason that they believe they should be guarded.Gatekeeping itself does fuel some of the toxic

The reality is that the internet has become decentralized; rather than people staying in one gigantic, unified group with shared trends and moments like they used to, users go their separate ways, with social media algorithms providing hyper- curated content that pushes users t

I always like me some memory allocator blog/code. Two links in the context of gamedev below, in case you or anyone else is interested.https://screwjankgames.github.io/engine programming/2020/0...https://www.bytesbeneath.com/p/the-arena-custom-memory-alloc...I also don't know ho

Something I never see mention is that all agents / CLI tools seem to modify local files. Which makes editing current files, working with the git, asking to only modify some parts of the files etc. cumbersome, as the agent is constantly reading and writing to files that we are als

This is one of those NYTimes "solutions journalism" pieces meant to celebrate the program rather than truly analyze it.You can pick free, or scalable, or financially sustainable (and without sustainability, a political shift will kill it), but you cannot have all three at once. T

You should remove any reference to LEGO from the website and the examples. LEGO is extremely protective of its brand (similar to / worse than Nintendo) and does not want third parties using its name, because it is concerned that LEGO could become a generic term which could put it