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The window for great-grandmothers is closing
A friend and I were talking about our families today when I realized that my grandmother...
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Engineering Managers Should Not Exist
The software engineering manager role should not exist. Source: I am one. Before that I have...
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Radios, how do they work?
Radio communications play a key role in modern electronics, but to a hobbyist, the underlying theory...
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Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture
… we say tongue-in-cheek that TPU v1 “launched a thousand chips.”In Google’s First Tensor Processing Unit...
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A Man Who Bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (On Hacker News) (2022)
Since the dawn of human history, certain archetypal stories have recurred, appearing again and again in...
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The Strongman Fantasy – and Dictatorship in Real Life
Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will...
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Kids Today Can't Read – Even College Kids: The Bite-Sizing of Books
I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading,...
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Down the Rabbit Hole of Money in Politics
The US Capitol made of hundred-dollar bills, image by ChatGPT.Two previous articles have been republished by...
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Improving OKRs – By Daniel Walters
Photo by Jeremy Cai on UnsplashThere’s a form of OKRs described in Measure What Matters which...
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How Taiwan Became Arrakis
I saw this meme last year and then completely forgot about it, but after watching the...
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ASML is threatening to leave the Netherlands
Joseph Mulder, Copper Engraving of the Dutch East India Company Warehouse in Amsterdam (1726).We all love...
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Things That Don't Work
Acupuncture. (link)Phenylephrine. (link)Multivitamins. (link)Phosphoric acid. (for nausea; link)Tree-based knowledge organization. The physical world whispers to us...
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Mars After Midnight – Lucas Pope's new gloriously weird "happy dad" game
Playdate$6Lucas Pope4 hoursMars After Midnight is a puzzle game where you run a community support centre....
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Is the Job Market Dying?
I call it the “application saturation loop.” My friend needs a new data analytics job. He...
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Design Is an Island – By Kent Beck
First published April 2009. This was a period when I was working consistently on the material...
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI
I recently had the chance to discuss my book Tripping on Utopia with the physicist Sean...
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You Never Forget Your First One Hundred
Well, this week I hit the dubious milestone of sending out my first 100 resumes as...
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European Union AI Act
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"Thou shalt not make a machine...
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Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility
When you have a genius app idea, a brand-new job, or a fresh injection of venture...
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Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero
While Ladybird does an okay job with well-formed web content, I thought it would be useful...
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How to Drive Meaningful Change – handling objections to your proposal
Everyone can benefit from understanding and knowing how to build influence, implement change, and shape the...
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Entrust mis-issues a certificate, Refuses To Follow CA/B Rules
Every couple of weeks, a Certificate Authority ends up having an incident. These incidents fall into...
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Is Modern Mass Media a Mind Prison?
WARNING: The following images are stupid and tragic and you will only find them funny if...
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How the wrong side won at Boeing
These thoughts struck me while listening to the Odd Lots podcast on Boeing, which I thoroughly...