i only got like 3

there’s no law that says you need to do college at 18. i started at 26, and it would’ve been a waste before that. i hadn’t even discovered any learning passions until just a couple years before that.

so maybe just avoid that problem like i did?

easier to be taken advantage of by employers too

how would android or chrome have the funding for development outside of google? really weird plan to fix this, seems like there are going to be a lot of unintended consequences.

and the ironic part about this, it comes at a time when google is on the verge of being destroyed by new technology and their own enshittification. i haven’t relied on google search in years now, it’s so bad. some monopoly

as a senior programmer (with limited, valuable time), i exercise good judgement before wasting weeks on unused automations.

“measure twice, cut once” as the craftsmen used to say. or YAGNI

somebody failed to read the meme i guess, it’s literally right there

and by making driving less involved, we free up drivers to play on their phones while going 70mph down the highway. progress!

those transmissions are only better on paper. sure they could be theoretically better but in practice the transmission programming is to way over aggressively upshift in order to miser out a little more fuel economy on paper (but in practice they waste fuel)

~all of them, i would wager

there’s a delete button you can click right in your inbox, no need to waste time on that corporate hell-hole. trust me, they won’t read it!

sincerely- a guy who moved across the country to work for disney once and was let go a few weeks later because of the pandemic and their insanely shortsighted management

techdirt has been gold across multiple decades now. I’m really glad more people are starting to become aware of it!

my college buddy and startup cofounder had a pathetically slow old laptop. he asks me the other day, “should i buy an ipad pro?” i was dumbfounded. bro you don’t even have a proper computer. we went around a bunch and he kept trying to get really bad ones like a base model mac mini. finally i persuaded him to get a 16" M1 Pro for a grand (about 700 after his trade in) and he couldn’t be happier.

I’m still using my M1 MBP like 4 years later. Don’t even care to upgrade! these things are great value

she’s the fediverse chick!

i heard of it as kid on some cooking show on PBS in the 90s. I thought it was super weird, but my mom had heard of it. Except it was cheddar cheese, not american. I tried it and thought it was pretty good, so i bring it up when people talk about apple pie. it never fails to weird them out if they’ve never tried it!