Why Did the Missing Titanic Sub Use a $40 Video Game Controller?
Computer Shopper November 1990 : Computer Shopper : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
In the November 1990 issue of Computer Shopper, readers are treated to an extensive array of articles and reviews revolving around the cutting-edge technology...
Kelsey Hightower Predicts How the Kubernetes Community Will Evolve
Google Cloud's principal developer advocate sees a healthy path ahead for Kubernetes, as well as for contributors who wish to be part of the community.
Unforced Errors
How to run a small social network site for your friends
This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.
Erin Kissane
Straight out of undergrad, I applied to a bookselling job and didn’t get it, so I started working in tech. By the end of my first year there, I was
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You Can't Regulate What You Don't Understand
Or, Why AI Regulations Should Begin with Mandated Disclosures
The Alignment Problem Is Not New
Lessons for AI Governance from Corporate Governance
Everyone loves low-code/no-code development, but not all are ready for it
Technology leaders are nervous about the ability of low-code and no-code applications to solve key business challenges.
Vision Pro — Benedict Evans
What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.
Cord Cutting Doom Loop
“The US pay-TV industry lost a record 2.31 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2023,” Lightreading reports, pointing to a report from MoffettNathanson. “For Cable in particular, video…
The Low-Background Steel of AI
ChatGPT and reliability
Adam Wuerl gets mixed results from ChatGPT on a reliability engineering problem.
parallel futures in mobile application development -- wingolog
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Insights into productivity & society, tools for academic compiling, and new password protection options.
Ikea-Oriented Development
To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.
AI, IP theft, and the death of creativity.
[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): "Clusterfake" - Data Colada
This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team of anonymous researchers examined a number of studies co-authored by Gino, because we had concerns that they contained fraudulent data. We discovered evidence...
Neil Postman’s 6 Questions (+1 from me)
Keeping apace with changes in technology can drive a person mad, especially as the speed of technological shifts seems to be increasing constantly. Indeed that state-of-art piece of shiny tech that…
Is Alphasmart STILL the ultimate writers' tool? | Boing Boing
I’ve written about the Alphasmart before, but David Kadavy explains succinctly why it’s so good: the creative focus of a typewriter, and you get a text file. The things that are crappy …
My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things your modern iPhone still can't do! - Raymii.org
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
I bet you're wondering how we got here...
Tesla’s “Self-Driving” System Never Should Have Been Allowed on the Road
Elon Musk’s automatic driving technology seems to be roughly an order of magnitude more deadly than human drivers.
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The Rise and Fall of Children’s Radio (Thanks, in Part, to Disney)
Why children’s radio—a format once important enough that Disney undermined a competitor to dominate the radio dial—has largely disappeared from the airwaves.
Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing
SIDs are really just another a fancy way of creating unique IDs in a decentralized way - The Old New Thing
Keeping them from colliding with each other.