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Re:Handwriting is good for your brain (2022) on Friday June 14, 2024 @01:55PM (#40683126)
it does feel good to write, especially given i spend most of my time in front of a screen (laptop, phone, tv)... i just wish i had more reasons to handwrite things.
great way to optimize for retaining incompetent busy-bodies.

"let's not focus on retaining efficient, smart workers, but instead focus on people who take 40 hours to do something that should only take 15!" /s

Re:Indian Startup 3D Prints Rocket Engine in Just 72 Hours on Thursday June 13, 2024 @10:14AM (#40669926)
what's wrong with testing in prod? /s
how long before ChatGPT answers are actively pushing malware?
this is such a commonly-repeated fallacy. just because something is infinite, doesn't mean everything is possible. the sequence 1,3,5,7,9,... is infinite, and yet it contains no even numbers. there are many such cases.
>Some of your engineers are already deferring decisions to other engineers

are you saying the ones doing the deferring should be managers, or the ones being deferred to?

Re:Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first on Thursday May 23, 2024 @02:34PM (#40458175)
yeah. a bit suspicious. that's < 5% of the US population. highly dubious.
Is Starlink going to suffer the same fate as Tesla and X? Willy-nilly org thrashing and "removing 10% of features"?

Is there a better alternative to "the one to beat" spending unsustainably, only to fail once all competitors are too far behind to stay viable?

Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @12:41PM (#40054176)
storj does this
Accelerating the inevitable conclusion that social media is just advertising by another name.