Expensive bed requires an internet connection (and online AWS servers...)

Dexerto

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

Prediction time. Those who believe in bitcoin tend to believe other things will also be world-changing technology. Specifically, they tend to overestimate the speed of adoption and impact of AI. In my opinion, they incorrectly think a change that will take multiple decades (if not longer) will happen in a decade. Believing you're a philosopher king due to being enriched via bitcoin compounds the issue. Surprising how often this bias seems to hit. I think LLMs are one trick, and it can only cut so deep. Unless they pull another rabbit out of the hat, I expect little to no improvement in AI over the next decade.

Straightforward explanation of US bubble:

It says something about western society's psyche that something so fundamental to navigating the human condition needs to be written down. Or maybe not. We, the great unwashed, seem to struggle with the basics.

The Psychological Harm of Saying “My Truth”

Emotional maturity is the ability to question our own thoughts.

50 cent - Many men AI cover

Time to rewatch it, again...

"Every physician carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray." - René Lerich

Detailed recursion + alternatives explainer

Want to try programming my own UI now...

How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Lars Lofgren

The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-...

Multi-core by default code - very good article

Multi-Core By Default

On multi-core programming, not as a special-case technique, but as a new dimension in all code.

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Forrest Smith (@ForrestTheWoods) on X

Unpopular Opinion: build systems should be strictly banned from accessing env variables. First step of any build system should be to nuke PATH.

"A crooked tree lives its own life, but a straight tree is turned into wood."

James Mickens on the security community: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

Now that's how cookie notices should be done

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wanye (@xwanyex) on X

One thing that’s annoying about being a software engineer is that you’re surrounded by people who have strong opinions about the stupidest poss...

Quake3 netcode

Dumb code is clever code; clever code is dumb code