ecopoesis

You can also build a PCB (or two) pretty easily. That’s what I did when I built my keyboard. You can find the source here: https://github.com/ecopoesis/nek-type-a

Shakespeare invented those “tired cliches.”

If Dr. Biden wants to be called Professor then yes we should. But she’s made it clear she wants to be addressed as Doctor, a title she is entitled to, so what value is there in not respecting her wishes?

Why should we laugh at Dr. Biden? She has the terminal degree in her field, only it happens to to not be a PhD. She is a professor.

Should we also laugh at folks who graduate from MIT’s doctoral programs and want to be addressed as “Doctor” even though their degree might be a ScD?

Until someone decides one data type is good enough and everything is a string.

They must have been fancy to use PCI. I would have expected ISA of AGP.

CNN launched in 1980. The Gulf war was in 1990. Larry King Live premiered on CNN in 1985.

CNN has long been a mix of news and opinion, like all news media ever. That’s why media exists: to push facts and interpretations of those facts.

Media is not a charity: William Randolph Hearst and Ted Turner want something for their money: they want to control the narrative.

It has always been blatant: you just haven’t been paying attention. Hearst started a war! He was such a reviled figure that one of the greatest movies ever made was made to dunk on him.

Don’t parrot popular false narratives. CNN still has news today, though generally only on breaking news type situations. It turns out the Internet is better for headlines then a thirty-minute talking head loop.

And when on CNN Larry King wasn’t part of their news operation. He was a talk show radio host. Larry King Live was Oprah for old men. Larry King is big part of why CNN moved away from 100% news.

HBO isn't paying WB, HBO is WB.

Truly innovative, outside the box, hacker thinking. If Uber and Lyft can violate labor laws, why shouldn’t everyone?

I can’t wait for the next innovation. Maybe Big Tech will give people free room and board (and no pay) in exchange for multi year contracts. Maybe Lambda School can set up a market where companies can sell these contacts to each other.

Don’t worry privileged developers. I’m sure this will never affect you. Traditionally in the US we only enslave minorities.

Because in capitalism the end state of every successful business is finance or real estate.

You quote a 0.35% death rate. Google says there are 328.2 million Americans. Do the math.

It's amusing for someone arguing "science" to be unable to multiple two fucking numbers.

You are saying 1,148,700 deaths is okay, that people are "panicking" for no reason. A 40% increase in death rate (the CDC says there were 2,813,503 deaths in 2019) seems like a pretty reasonable reason to "panic".

Trying to save a sixth of a Holocaust seems like decent public policy.

Imagine being so callous to think that the preventable deaths of 1,148,700 of your fellow Americans is okay.

It's not just USB 3, Thunderbolt 3 also has an interference problem. I had to get a 1 foot extension cable for my Logitech Unifying receiver plugged into a CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 dock to prevent my mouse from freezing. My wife had to do the same with her Unifying receiver plugged into a LG 5k Thunderbolt monitor.

I hated that I couldn't find a good, split, long travel (mechanical) keyboard so I built my own. It was a fun, if expensive, learning experience. I use it every day (right now even) so it's worth it.

https://miker.org/building-a-better-keyboard/

While technically that works the resulting STEP files aren’t anymore useful than an STL. You can’t send them to a CNC machine.

This bit me when I was building a custom keyboard. I really love OpenSCAD but these mesh-based tools can produce files usable by CNC machines.

I eventually found CadQuery (https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery) which can create non-mesh STEP files. It’s a lot rougher then OpenSCAD but usable.

There is a large portion of the US that thinks all our cities look like Gotham from Tim Burton's 1989 version of Batman. Non-city dwellers don't understand that cities have gotten continually safer and are generally nice places to live.

A small anecdote: I know someone from Norfolk, VA who was visiting Massachusetts. He was very concerned that he would be shot if he walked around Charlestown (the Boston neighborhood) which is insane. There's a lot wrong with Charlestown (gentrification, Sullivan Square, New Rutherford) but Irish gang wars don't make the list and probably haven't for 20-30 years.

Boston (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3591352,-71.06249,15.28z) is close to round. You don't get grids until you get out of the colonial era city.

Almost every distributed system (including "simple" client-server systems) is eventually consistent. And all systems are distributed.

It's great that your DB is ACID and anyone who queries it gets the latest greatest but in reality you also have out of date caches, ORM models that haven't been persisted, apps where users modifying data that hasn't been pushed back to the server and a million other examples.

I'm sure it's possible to create a consistent system but I'm also sure it's not practical. No one does it.

Instead of constantly fighting eventual consistency just learn to embrace it and its shortcomings. Design systems and write code that are resilient to splits in HEAD and provide easy methods to merge back to a single truth.

I was an emacs user until I had a summer internship where I had to constantly rebuild SunOS and Solaris boxes. No emacs in the default install and no working networking. But vi was there and it became my default everywhere.

David Brin went down the rabbit hole of asymmetric surveillance in is novel Earth. He also explored the idea more in the non-fiction book The Transparent Society. In both he imagines a world were privacy is essentially illegal. This levels the field between mega-corps/governments and individuals: instead of the false sense of privacy we have now everyone has equal access to everything.

This so much. I live in Boston so I end up interviewing a lot of new Northeastern grads. Foreign Masters students are the absolute worst cohort of candidates I deal with. The vast majority cannot write fizz buzz without help. A Northeastern Masters in CS seems to be nothing more then a way to buy a visa.

This is doubly sad because Northeastern BS in CS grads are probably the most successful group I interview and hire.

And there are 6.7 billion folks not in the US who all matter too.

Honestly? Fuck this. Millions of people are going to die. It's very likely some of your friends and family will be in that number. It's okay to mourn. It's expected that we will all mourn. The world we get out of this is going to be different and it's going to be a worse one for almost everyone.

You don't need to write King Lear or invent gravity. Just surviving will be a miracle enough.

Students built this in 2010.

The standout feature Kitty has for me is keeping its config in a regular text file, so like all my other basic tools it can be configured from my dotfiles repo and a simple setup script. So much simpler then fussing with iTerm’s plist.

Don't have social media? Come help us spam people the old fashioned way with email.

Because in capitalism there are really only two things that make money: real estate and finance. Everything else is just combining real estate and finance in interesting ways.

McDonalds is a real estate company that happens to make burgers.

The traditional car manufacturers are banks that happen to build cars.

But this case isn’t about consuming or interacting with an API, it’s about implementing an API. So less writing a compiler targeting a CPU instruction set and more building a CPU based on someone else’s instruction set.

I’ve always found it strange that other programmers are so dismissive of APIs as copyrightable work. They’re they hard part! Building APIs requires creativity and careful thought.

If you support the idea that APIs can’t be copyrighted, and ignoring the evilness of Oracle and Google, what’s your reasoning?