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Shout out to Raleigh NC’s Skip Elsheimer, AV Geeks https://avgeeks.com/

Prior to reading this, my only insight into Cash’s upbringing had been the recording from Folsom Prison in which the warden does a cringe-inducing introduction of Ray Cash, Johnny’s father.

Also read Giovanni’s Room this year. So good.

James Baldwin’s early novels and short stories: sublime

William Gibson, Neuromancer: finally went back and read this. It’s so culturally entrenched now, it’s hard to remember that it wasn’t always. Great example of a cautionary tale turned into a corporate roadmap.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five: first Vonnegut I’ve ever read, definitely more in 2024

Rick Ruben, The Creative Act: A successful guy trying to sound wise for hundreds of pages. It was ok, but ultimately boring.

Epic Games is a big local employer and they too have clawed back their pound of flesh

As someone on the UX team for a product that just uses locks: LOL. Ok, but the suck index is pretty high.

I’m an anarchist. The US government shouldn’t exist in the first place.

The government bullying left-leaning foreign governments is chill though, right guys?

Except for the incredibly inconvenient and annoying coincidence that he happens to be right in his critiques of US foreign policy most of the time.

I’m “just looking for something to complain about” because you’re so busy looking for boots to lick

Mario is absolutely legendary in the creative coding space. Everything he does has that “how the hell did he do that?!” vibe, from the Flash/ActionScript stuff back in the day to some of the only actually interesting ML image generation work I’ve seen.

“Not by a lot”? The very chart you linked shows the median “share” dropping like 25% over the last 50 years.

Not so profound

A nice surprise. Thanks for the links!

The data is whatever the data is, but measuring in nominal dollars sure seems like the wrong way to approach this. Did 40% more gigawatts get deployed or did the cost of installation labor account for some/most/all of that increase?

You can measure in nominal dollars, inflation-adjusted dollars, percentage of GDP … or in the only way that matters in war: in comparison to your adversaries

Surprise! It’s neither getting smaller nor cheaper. Smarter? Well, war is pretty dumb … again, it ought to be compared to what we could be doing instead.

Would it be possible to add more Richard Spencer getting punched? Never enough of that.

Subpar is really stretching it. With some care, Flash content could behave quite well on the iPhone. It was not 100% proprietary. Of course it wasn’t 100% open either, but then I direct your attention to the Apple App Store.

Edit: Flash Paper was hot garbage. Definitely not going to defend that one lol

Kevin was in an impossible position, he could have ripped Steve a new one and it wouldn’t have made a lick of difference.

A business decision pretending to be a technology decision. In the end, there were just as many shitty Flash sites as there were shitty iOS apps.

The legacy of this choice turns out to be the beginning-of-the-end for the broad market in high(er)-end, custom website development and the move towards the walled gardens of app stores and social media giants.

“In Windows 10” lol Go ask your favorite graphic designer if this sounds familiar regardless of OS platform or version.

Very cool. Reminds me of the game posted last week (defcon thing?) in which Tetris-block-like squares containing op codes fall and the user has to position Rube Goldberg sequences that shuffle the biggest possible number into the “score” memory register

Well … played

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I can tell this guy walks the walk because midway through the essay I went, “Haha nice; he’s doing it right now—that’s so meta” and then sure enough the conclusion bore this out.

I sewed a pair of KKK hoods and placed them atop the bronze heads of a local Confederate monument. Less than a year later that statue and a few more like it were removed due to the “safety concern” created by myself and a ton of other activists. I like to the “the coolest physical thing I’ve made” is helping make those goddamned statues disappear.

The average modern SPA pulls in far more unnecessary JS than the average plain HTML site pulls in via redundant tag structure following the initial page load. Moreover, server-rendered HTML renders far more quickly because there tends to be fewer total requests and there’s no hiccup parsing the JS when it lands, much less the time it takes to execute it.

“just slip out the back, Jack Make a new plan, Stan You don't need to be coy, Roy Just get yourself free!”

I’ve never tried heroin, but this schadenfreude is amazing

The power that flows from value creation is “mild”, whereas the power that flows from political acumen is “direct and high”? Man cmon. Power is power. Have you not noticed the entire lobbying industry and who pays for the majority of it?