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Or don’t. Lots of things I loved in the past and spent time backing up and backing up the backups that after 15-25 years I realized was a waste of time. Thought I had plans for them but never looked at them. Never referred to them. Finially realized I never was and got rid of the final backups

Funny to see this downvoted with zero counter evidence

Shopify recently posted how they are getting rid of libraries if you need a name associated with the fact that they are no longer needed. Ask an Ai to make a nanite type engine and 1-2 hours later you’ll have it. Ask for some some other tech and it will do that instead. Ask it to optimize and it will test and find solutions

Unfortunately the anonymous org will then get abused by bad actors because of its anonymousness which leaves us where we are today

I haven’t used a 3d library this year. Claude will write exactly what the project needs. No need for a library, less bloat, more opportunities to optimize

What is the sexist part? That two men have a fight to marry a female airplane engineer/mechanic? That a woman runs a restaurant and is holding out for some man?

we can pick it apart forever. Who gets the penthouse or the beach view property and who lives in the basement? Replicators will not solve all the reasons we have money today. Maybe uploading into cyberspace will but where you can have every place and every thing, though I'm sure someone will point out how that won't lead to utopia either.

A medieval king had a better life than a medieval peasant. A medieval king, most of them, arguably did not have a better life than most of America's poor in 2026.

My memory might be faulty but I remember watching "The Lion in Winter" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqz3gkrmBbo) and feeling really happy I was not alive then, even as royalty. (hope that's the movie)

Entirely irrelevant - Chrome really stepped up both security and speed over WebKit at that time.

To me your description is mythical reddit. Actual Reddit is every bit as hostile as stack overflow and unlike stack overflow, old questions can not be updated with new answers when existing answers get out of date.

My worry is mostly storage. SSD do not last forever

Mixed on this. I rarely use a printer. Once or twice a year to print a sign or some government form required to be paper. Maybe you shouldn't encourage printing?

That said, I've gone out of my way to make my sites printable so ...shrug...

It it still a thing in many California based tech companies.

does this mean they'll reopen pages that are out of date and where comments are closed so you can't post "this is out of date, see this MDN article?"

The thing that makes it "hard" is that it's all indirect. You compile a program for the GPU (a shader). Then you have to setup data (textures and buffers) for it. Then, you need to spend a bunch of time telling the GPU how to use that data, offsets where each piece of data is, what formats the data is in,, how to advance to the next piece of data, etc.. etc..

There are a few libraries that try to abstract over all this indirection but all the graphics APIs themselves are lower-level so you're left to do all of that yourself.

https://docs.swmansion.com/TypeGPU/

https://github.com/google/toucan

Personally I wouldn't teach OpenGL ES 3.0 or any OpenGL because its state machine (https://webgl2fundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/resources/webgl...) and horrible error system means tracking down bugs is hard. Instead I'd teach WebGPU as it's portable and has great error messaging.

I'm sure people will objected but I'd argue WebGPU is easier to understand, has better errors, has no state machine, works C++, Rust, JS/TS and other languages, and closer to modern GPU programming if you want to move to Metal or D3D12 or Vulkan later.

Further, OpenGL (and ES) are a nightmare of bugs and incompatibilities students might run into that WebGPU fixes.

That said, the article mentions Apple platforms where you can use ANGLE if you happened to have students stuck there.

I genuinely can not understand how anyone with basic knowledge of economics could believe that government intervention is not responsible for the majority of rent price increases

The market, left to its own, will keep building because someone will see the prices people are willing to pay and think “I want in on that” but then the government comes in and blocks them from building. No building = supply lower than demand which always equals higher costs

Further, It would only have taken you one 5 second search to see the ways government regulations can cause unoccupied apartments

https://www.google.com/search?q=in+what+ways+can+government+...

That’s another bad metric without more nuance. if I used to pay 30% and now pay 50% but the remaining 50% buys 2x what it used to then overall I’m still doing better

I’m not saying that’s the case. I’m only saying the metric “housing cost as percent of wages” isn’t enough to judge if people are doing worse or better

To take just one example: a 65inch tv costs just $700 compared to $4k just a few years ago

I’d just guess it’s close to none of the layoffs are AI. rather, in a world of anyone can broadcast to the world on YouTube the number of creators that can reach an audience has grown 10000x. The glut of content means far far less market to support the old media

Most kids don't want to learn that eating nothing but candy and drinking sodapop is bad for you. You have to force them to eat their veggies. By force = don't allow them the candy and sodapop.

Most kids would never go to school if not forced. They'd play video games or watch youtube.

There are 0.7 billion adults that can't read. 40% of adults in 1st world countries can't do arithmetic.

https://theconversation.com/high-number-of-adults-unable-to-...

So, no, there is no evidence people will not learn without being made to learn. There are only anecdotes that some children get lucky and learn things on their own. That's not the norm and there is ample data to back that up.

> Everything Apple does is carefully considered, good and bad.

No evidence this is true. It's basically PR / urban legend. It's not like the people at Apple are magic angels. They're the same people that worked at Meta or Google or MS last year or the year before that

I know this will never happen but it would be wonderful if designers were personally liable for all lost productivity of their changes. Designers move things around in some app or OS and millions of people have to stop their day-to-day work and figure out the new UI. Maybe you can attribute it to how many forests were burnt from the downstream effects of the changes.

Further, it's arguably become worse with touch screens in cars where, while you're driving, you get to discover a designer has moved a widget somewhere else and now your distracted. Self driving cars might solve that but even just walking around using your phone, every UI change is another distraction that might have consequences.

> It’s pretty clear that the typical American is always on the lookout for ways to improve their lives on a whole bunch of different dimensions.

This is not clear to me at all.

This framing doesn't fit my experience. Most kids, left to their own devices, would not learn arithmetic.

I know few adults that were forced to learn something as kids that regret learning it. Conversely I know tons of adults that, as a kid talked their parents out of being forced to learn something and as an adult seriously regret it.

I wonder. In my world, almost everyone I know is bilingual and I would not have met them and worked with them otherwise. So many of my coworkers are from countries where English is not required but they were fortunate to pick it up as a 2nd language for one reason or another and now work in a high paying company that requires English.

Still, I get, over all, the number is small. They could have all had a different career in their native language.

I recently built a bunch of flatpack furniture by different companies. The last one, by Yamazen, was clearly the best IMO.

1. Every piece of wood had small round sticker on it with a number eg: ③ that could be reference in the manual. No having to try to figure out if the piece in the manual has the exact hole pattern or whatever

2. All of the screws, dowels, etc were in separate bags, each with a letter on it Ⓚ

3. It had extra supports here an there - maybe some ikea furniture has this too but I haven't seen it.

Ikea was best in that the instructions are designed to be universal, no words.

Apple breaks stuff all the time. I sometimes wonder if they even have automated testing.

Airplay and everything around it is flaky AF. For me, when Tahoe came out Airplay stopped working for me for ~3 months. After it came back, Airplay continued to just decide to disconnect randomly for me, all the time. I'd extend my screen via my AppleTV, 2, 5, 10 minute later it would just suddenly disconnect.

A long standing bug, last night on Golden Gate, I extended to TV via Airplay. Then later turned it off. The dock disappeared and was in auto-hide mode (I don't use auto-hide mode). I go into setting and clearly auto-hide mode is off. Toggle in on and back off to fix. This bug has been there for 5+ years?

> the federal ban on at-home alcohol distillation for personal consumption also exceeds Congress’s Article I power to regulate interstate commerce because the activity in dispute is neither commerce nor interstate.

I thought it was already settled that making your own does affect interstate commerce because you are not buying from the market. That was covered in a Radiolab episode where this whole thing was decided.

Wickard v. Filburn: The Court decided that if Filburn used his own wheat for feed instead of buying it on the open market, it cumulatively affected interstate commerce and national market prices

I'm not saying I agree with that ruling. Only that it was already ruled on.

Funny, I clicked on some of their projects. They had a popup drawer web widget. You can not choose how far it opens. It always slides all the way up or all the way down. I can't name how many times I've run into something similar where a form is in the drawer and the info I need to see to correctly fill it out is outside (or visa-versa) and because it won't let me adjust there is no way to see both pieces of info at the same time. Worse, if the form is in the drawer and I close it to find the info I need, it will end up clearing the form.

True, but there are so many bad designers, working at famous places. The Liquid Glass person is the perfect example. So many well documented issues with unreadability with that.

I don't disagree with you. But let's expand.. Imagine every neighborhood had autonomous brick throwing drones randomly smashing windows. Imagine every neighborhood had autonomous flame throwing drones randomly setting fires. Imagine every neighborhood and autonomous gun shooting drones randomly killing. Imagine every neighborhood and autonomous grenade lobbing drones randomly blowing up walls.

You can not defend everything. At some point you have to realize the world works because not every exploitable thing is exploited and we live in a civil society (most of us anyway).

I get it, the internet makes things different. But your analogy doesn't work You can not build a building that can not be destroyed.