rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

[writing the constitution]

Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words

Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words

DHH claiming to be an early adopter for using Linux on the desktop in the year 2025 is just so funny to me.

Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?

Lol. "They bitch" says the guy bitching about not getting special big-boy billionaire treatment.

Such a good looking bike! I was torn between one and the NX500 when I was shopping. Went with the NX, but damned if I don't occasionally second guess my decision 😂

Stupidly, this is just the default position of that UI element. If you click to rate the article’s fairness yourself, it’ll then show you the “most popular rating” below. Terrible UI design.

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What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Pretty wild how common those two contradictory beliefs are:
1. Email is dead
2. Email newsletters replaced RSS feeds

A wild 義大利麵 appears! Easily in my top 3 favorite Chinese words.

Billion dollar business idea/public health initiative: vegetables marketed at men.

Right now my working name is ‘Gorilla Food’.

Tagline: don’t let a cow chew your vegetables for you

The coolest thing Puff ever did was ride a motorcycle in that one "I'll Be Missing You" video. But then he inexplicably grabs a handful of front brakes. Alone. At like 5mph. And crashes. So... not very cool at all, when you think about it.

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Hol up

The MAGA Shaman just called Trump "a stupid piece of shit" and "a fraud". Hero?

The South Park bros basically invented Grey Zone politics (with extra cynicism and apathy) before SSC really solidified it. Yes, they're saying useful things now, and I'm glad they are. But.. seriously, fuck those dudes

Rode way out into corn territory to enjoy the beautiful weather before it turned a million degrees. The corn seemed unimpressed by my engine’s roar. Tough crowd.

Vs. Rails, which it seems to "know" less well than Go. But at least is teed up for easier success, architecturally.

What's been your experience with different tech stacks? I've only been tinkering with Claude for a couple weeks, and still trying to find the right balance. My Go project was full of "wait. No. We shouldn't be running tests against the dev database", "What about log levels?", etc.

Journalistic malpractice that these clowns don't mention dude has a creepy eyeball scanning company whose stated mission is to solve this problem his other company is creating.

Ok it looks like I’m just a big dumb jerk who misunderstood Sarah’s point here. My baaaad

Half the finance bros working on Wall St. would be hosting poetry slams instead of dismantling democracy if studying Philosophy did anything good.

People love to say, “If only more people studied the humanities, the world would be better!” Because nothing says ‘moral clarity and sound reasoning’ like Peter Thiel… a philosophy major. Humanities degrees aren’t vaccines against being a sociopathic tech lord.

Like, I know Rails is a pig. Just first time I've done an approximate apples-to-apples comparison on my own hardware.

Just for fun, I've been building an email service with the help of Claude Code. For extra challenge, I'm building it in Go—a language I have little experience with. It's a little nuts seeing just how efficient Go is. My less-complex Rails apps running on my NAS use > 10x the memory and CPU.