Removing physical buttons from hardware was one of the worst product design decisions in history and everyone involved should be publicly shamed.

What is a computer?
A miserable little pile of circuits.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

@halcy @0xabad1dea both Spinoza and Zizek sound like good Pokémon names

@decryption God, I know. That was the main reason I loved the Mac, and Apple, so much as a kid: they had a quirky sense of humor, whether it was weird easter eggs or official product design.

Someone—I believe Mitch Kapor—said, back in the 80s, that “The IBM PC is a machine you can respect. The Macintosh is a machine you can love.”

And I think that's changed. I respect the Mac nowadays (at least the hardware side of it; software's a different story) but it's not a machine I can *love* anymore.

capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."

my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"

"He fixes his car like he writes his code. By the way if he offers you a lift, say no."

@pluralistic
No company has announced “thanks to AI, we have the same number of employees, but we have launched zillions of new services and are growing our product lines because of all the time our people get to spend innovating.”

I don’t know why that is.

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/116140098318631474

«Technology culture used to celebrate technical competence. Not as gatekeeping, not as elitism — as genuine, infectious enthusiasm for understanding how systems worked. The BBS scene in the eighties ran on self-taught systems operators who understood their hardware and their network protocols well enough to build infrastructure that had never existed before. The early web had a “view source” ethos: you saw something interesting, you looked at how it was built, you learned from it, you made something of your own. This was the entire pedagogical model of the early web and it worked extraordinarily well.»

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

[mysterious music intensifies]

I hope this email finds you interesting as a human being.

Push the means to production

also were there some birds outside your window?