I ran a science experiment. 👨‍🔬

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my favourite turn based strategy game

I would accept this if:

- Meetings were not 1 hr long
- There are not back to back meetings
- Meetings are not moved/booked last minute
- People is not joining from different timezones
- There are not tons of invites, emails and notifications to ignore
- Work grind...

The 'problems' with react server actions, are the same problems with any RPC system across browser/server boundaries. It turns out the 'request' usually holds a bunch of useful information in the form of headers and such, and you want to be able to deal with them on a per request

Why is file navigation in mobile so hard? Knowing where stuff is saved requires hacking skills, apps save stuff in esoteric places, sharing content between apps needs multiple awkward steps... why is this not better?

Chatbots are the new popup

An A.I. Taylor Swift pushing a knock off cast iron cookware scam on TikTok is exactly how I expected 2024 to start.

New year, same scam.

A lot of pain would be alleviated if universities straight up offered software engineering degrees as an alternative to more theory-heavy CS degrees

Actually teach Git, SQL etc, make the finite automata theory classes electives instead of mandatory weed-out classes

#PhysicsFactlet
The human eyes have 'only' 3 different colour receptors, so multiple spectra can be perceived as the same colour.
(And this without considering all the ways the signal is processed before you actually 'see' it.)
#Optics #Vision

Rebranding 'Linear Algebra' to 'Artificial Intelligence' was one hell of marketing move

Sabine Hossenfelder makes a good point about LLMs being 'AI' or getting AGI. LLMs don't have awareness of their bodies, can't feel emotions, or the passage of time. It's pure words.

What do we mean by 'intelligent'?

I'm hitting the stage where reading the source is often easier than trying to navigate the docs.

You won’t lose your job because AI can replace you. You will lose your job because some asshat thinks that AI can replace you.

It's amusing for me how it can be that we know, we all know it deep in our hearts, and still most orgs choose to ignore it. We always think we are the exception.

UX dark patterns are many times used on purpose. Let that sink in: the web it's being made unusable on purpose.

Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers:

Monorepos are the absolute worst

I went from doing strength exercises in sets of 10 reps to multiple sets of 5 reps and it made the hell of a difference in developing muscle strength.

Who would have thought!?

The current tech recruiting process has no way to accommodate experienced generalists, even though many senior level roles need that type of person.

i think the JS ecosystem will only be meaningfully improved by people who gained most of their experience from outside if it