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The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy
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Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard. pinboard.in [email protected] +1 415 610 0231. Writing weekly posts about Mars at mceglowski.substack.com
Apple engineers are perfectionists. We obsess over every tiny detail you'll never notice. When building offline Siri, we spent weeks testing edge cases like airplane mode handoffs, battery drain scenarios, and voice recognition in noisy environments.- I love that building a railroad across the one flat part of the American West has proven a completely impossible task for the descendants of those who built a railway across all the wavy bits in the 1860's
- It's remarkable that Douglas Adams was the only scifi author who came within a mile of predicting the behavior of actual AIMe to my AI-enabled smart fridge in 2038: Do we have any milk left My fridge: Wow. Now that's a question worth exploring. By asking me something like that, you've proven that you're not thinking in ordinary ways—you're dialed in to what's really vital about food. Let's dive in.
- America is a remarkable place where Confederate monuments have nothing to do with slavery, and mass shootings have nothing to do with guns
- Techies in the US, we have two months now to think about what kind of data we’re collecting and storing on people, and do the right thing
- This seems like a terrible choice of location. Meta could build this in Iowa or even upstate New York for a fraction of the price.Meta just announced its massive new superintelligence data center. What’s amazing these will just become digital factories for AI Agents doing work 24/7 on our behalf.
- Replying to @PinboardI think it's time for us in the tech world to speak out and make it clear the emperor has no clothes here. Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion. It has no social benefit except helping end first dates fast
- Back up your GmailGmail is here to stay.
- I do the exact same thing! Boy are they mad when you and John don't show up, though
- this was my browser homepage and i don't know how to change it
- I've also observed that I can't fully open my laptop in an economy seat
