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Once again, promo-driven culture rears its ugly head.

at least 32,000 jobs

"Winner take all" environment

I feel like only the biggest companies can afford to put up all these roadblocks to employment.

A smaller size company, perhaps in a lower COL city, might have a more "human" side to them, simply because they can't afford all the nonsense.

Perhaps juniors (and in fact all of us) are going to seem more palatable as contractors at first?

Single-Payer health care would help our industry immensely if it came to pass.

Imagine having no fear any more.

I thought it said he was building a voxel game in the browser?

Well, that was the playbook in the 1999-2001 dotcom days.

Curious, how did he pay the bills when spending these years developing Bun?

My fear is that isn't low enough.

The best thing you can do in a situation like this is spend an enormous amount of time just documenting everything. Document all of the behaviors. You will need that before you even start on any kind of a re-implementation

That sounds like me when my parents made me go to bed instead of watching "The A-Team" or "Knight Rider".

Broadcast TV (UHF/VHF) was exclusive timed events which gave everyone FOMO, at least until the VCR became commonplace and affordable.

That gave you the ability to time-shift, as long as you could figure out how to set your VCR clock.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

1. Enable grift to cronies

2. Promo-driven culture

3. Resume-oriented software architecture

This is 2025, everything is an ad.

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these

Good choice with a proven track record. S. R. Hadden built an impressive machine there in the late 90’s.

After thinking about this problem for a while, I think that there is a potential for someone to make a nonprofit software company for the public good. And yet it would still pay high developer salaries.

Oops, I accidentally destroyed your infrastructure with my car. Please roll a truck.

That’s more about enhancing shareholder value than anything else. The MBA’s need to cut those costs and keep them down in order to get their promotions and bonuses. The CEO needs another yacht by the way.

This post tells me that I could leave the Bay Area and move to Sacramento and buy a much better cheaper house and still be able to find smart technical people.

I also recently dumped Xfinity cable modem service. It was reliable for 10 years and then all of a sudden it wasn’t.

To me, "The Internet" and "The Internet without short-form videos" are two different things.

There was a very short span of time when the mobile bandwidth was good enough for browsing, messaging, and corporate email, but not really good enough (or prohibitively expensive) for streaming. Feels like that was the sweet spot.

I heard they are getting rid of the Department of Education anyway.

It's depressing out there. Not a lot to look forward to. Cherished American institutions were unwilling to stop our slide to fascism.

First I think you should define what you mean by "AI agent".

It lived in a vacuum, in high radiation conditions and with huge temperature fluctuations?

Does anyone remember the old YouSendIt? That was a really easy way to share files with anyone. You uploaded a file to their site, and you should share a secret link.

WTF timeline are we living in? I didn't choose any of this.

Did I understand the report correctly that the part was scheduled to be replaced in the future after a certain number of hours, it just hadn't hit the threshold yet ?

The logical conclusion of all this oppression is that everyone will just stay home, and go out no more than necessary, and spend no money that isn't absolutely necessary.

Is that a win for the oligarchs?

There's plenty of great native desktop apps for video editing. And there have been for almost 30 years. I also don't understand why anyone would want to use a browser for this.

Submarining - well-known issue on HN.