RIP Mikeal, those early NodeConf adventures were life-changing to me, ripped me out of my entrenched MSFT tech life, and got me on a Mac. It's thanks to these events I was able make meaningful contributions to OSS, ultimately ended up giving dozens of talks, publishing books, and have fulfilling career. Without him my life looks very different.
Take them to small claims court. You can self-represent (not all that complex), they've to pay a lawyer to show up -- they're already in the hole for way more than they promised. Multiply this by the number of people, yeah they'd be praying for a CAL.
The first computers cost millions of dollars and filled entire rooms to accomplish what we would now consider simple computational tasks. That same computing power now fits into the width of a finger nail. I don’t get how technologists balk at the cost of experimental tech or assume current tech will run at the same efficiency for decades to come and melt the planet into a puddle.
AGI won’t happen until you can fit enough compute that’d take several data center’s worth of compute into a brain sized vessel. So the thing can move around process the world in real time. This is all going to take some time to say the least. Progress is progress.
That's the fascinating thing about lava/magma's power to simply erase what was there before. Plate tectonics does a similar thing when continents scrape each other clean. For all we know, Earth had an advanced civilization on it way before us and we'd have zero ways of knowing about it.
This is the new normal in 2024. Hearing about a layoff and reaching out to friends to check if they're safe from it. It's pretty messed up that world's richest companies are using layoffs as a mechanism to fix their balance sheet. My company never went for this lever. Also when you point out flaws in hiring processes at these large companies they swear up and down that it's absolutely necessary. So much waste, so many people chewed out in the process. Clearly there has to be a better way.
Yet it still sells vaporware. I was really excited for this company, but the self driving promises and fails, in addition to build quality issues made it a no go for me. While I buy new/unproven tech all the time, I guess I draw the line at cars.
The bigger issue is that the actual graphics themselves look the same as the previous game. I’m sure you can do side-by-side stuff and show it’s better, but I was hoping for a tour-de-force of amazing looking cities. A no buy for me until something changes.
It's disappointing. I wonder why they got cold feet. This is one of the reasons why I try to fork projects that I really like. But I didn't get around to this one until it was already made private.
IMO a JavaScript revolution is quietly brewing. Today’s frameworks have gotten amazingly complicated and EcmaScript spec is gaining new capabilities at a rapid clip, so some of critical features for modern web dev is built in. This project is a great example of what’s coming https://www.arrow-js.com. I think the right move will become avoiding these large and complicated frameworks unless they’re truly called for.
I don't think this is about umlauts. Like you said, it is a name. I'm from Turkey and my name is spelled Doğuhan, but as I was immigrating to the US (before Unicode was commonly used) it became Doguhan. A lot of native English speakers struggle with it, almost no one pronounces it right, they misspell even after seeing it written in front of their faces.
I did play around with the idea of going by Doug during college, but then I decided that I wanted to retain my unique identity. It took years for some of my friends to stop calling me Doug, but they did change.
It'll be okay, people will adapt, umlauts or none. Otherwise, people will do what they'll do. Some idiots still refer to Istanbul (correct spelling İstanbul btw) as Constantinople. C'est la vie
Lol. Yes they do. There are dozens of instances of names of places being changed due to what the local population wants it to be called. Putting politics aside, disambiguating from the bird turkey is smart from a marketing and tourism sense.
The LG counter part of this monitor does pretty well for driving both a Mac and a PC. With a simple usb switch you can even share mouse, keyboard, webcam and a 4th device via one cable attached to laptop or pc. For 3090 though, you need https://evedevices.com/pages/spectrum. I’m waiting for mine to ship.
Why is this obvious scam still listed on Y, I’ve no idea. It does nothing but tarnish the brand. Anyone have insight into this on the VC side? Doge is a better investment than this.
High quality UX controls rarely are. I love slides.com and pay for the premium option to support the efforts. It’s awesome that they let you take a zip extract of the html/js version and run your whole presentation offline, which is handy at conferences. You can also export to PowerPoint and pdf too, which is was useful a few times.
I just ran into this the other day, which is perplexing, hilarous, horrifying, and confusing all at once.
And I really like this analysis from one of the commentors "Clearly the two folders are inextricably linked somehow in a parallel dimension involving a mesh of space-time, but unfortunately, all of these observations have yet to lead to a real solution."
Anyone know what's going on here? Fingers crossed that Apple doesn't destroy my data.
Just finished the hardback. Great read. It was interesting to learn that the nuclear Ghandi stories about an integer causing an overflow was totally made up. Also it was overwhelming to read the many many games and prototypes he developed.
I remember reading an article years ago, saying that it’d have required the invention of electronics that did not exist yet to slow down the footage (simulating 1/6th g) and pull off a live broadcast that lasted hours and hours. So in essence, it’d have been the more impressive thing to do technologically speaking. Having seen the new 1 hour documentary on Apollo 11 and how rickety everything looked and barely worked, I’d agree with that assessment.
For the record with Angular 2+ two-way binding is greatly deemphasized and not the default behavior. Everyone collectively learned that it’s not great for performance to do thousands of dirty checks a second. React definitely showed the way here. Nowadays you can implement the flux pattern with Angular using NgRx, but if you’re creating simpler things the binding concept is more intuitive. With Angular 9 you can breakpoint debug your template as well, so tooling is definitely catching up here.