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The RAM shortage comes for us all
Memory price inflation comes for us all, and if you're not affected yet, just wait. I was building a new PC last month using some parts I had bought earlier this year. The 64 Gigabyte T-Create DDR5 memory kit I used cost $209 then. Today? The same kit costs $650! Just in the past week, we found out Raspberry Pi's…
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Not Only Is the Mac Mini Outdated, It's No Longer Mini
Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/03/its-not-quite-a-mac-mini-but-its-my-server/
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Please Fund More Science
Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal. Either we get a vaccine good enough that R0 for the...
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The infrastructure behind ATMs
ATMs are connected to banks by networks which operate little-understood payment rails.
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Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives
Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
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Don't fire your illustrator
Understanding (and Art Directing) AI image generators
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Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
Remote and offshore software outsourcing was a perfect business concept ten years ago. Not anymore. Here is why.
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Stephen Wolfram on Steve Jobs: A Few Memories
Stephen Wolfram shares personal memories of Steve Jobs, how their paths crossed, and the support and encouragement Jobs provided over the years.
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The deterioration of Google
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques
Back to: Three Unexpectedly Good Things VR Will Probably Cause | Forward to: Upcoming Appearances: Washington DC and Baltimore
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Lessons from Stripe
How working at Stripe changed my outlook on optimism, ambition, and recruiting.
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Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvement...
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Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)
The fact that Paul Graham personally has billions of dollars at stake with OpenAI doesn’t mean that his public opinion on Sam Altman’s trustworthiness and leadership is invalid. But it certainly seems like the sort of thing that ought to be disclosed when quoting Graham as an Altman character reference.
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Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers
This post is an excerpt from my 2020 software developer pay analysis . Read the rest of the analysis here .
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Pocket Casts goes open source
Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, and since we’ve been tapping away trying to make the best podcast client for people who love listening to podcasts. And! The team has been working really…
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The End of OS X
OS X is retired, but fortunately, its legacy appears to live on in macOS 11.0.
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Intel Honesty
The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government to pick up the bill via purchase guarantees.
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Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Bank transfers as a payment method
Bank transfers have exploded as a payment method in India and may become more common in much of the world.
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Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
Pushing back on the cult of complexity.