There are currently exactly two SMRs in operation in the world, neither in the US, and there are over 100 designs in the air. Contracts are not success, deploying actual working reactors is success.

On the one hand, Apple grabbing other people's revenue stream.

On the other hand ... Patreon's entire business model is to stick their fingers in other people's revenue streams. I was so excited about Patreon back when I signed up over a decade ago. Aggregating micropayments and then efficiently disbursing them! Awesome! But AFAICT they have turned into a cozy wrapper around credit-card fees, plus they keep trying to turn themselves into a social network or media platform or something of the sort. I mean, great, everyone is trying it, but why should I shed tears for their problems?

A weekly gathering uses Meetup. Meetup SUCKS, but they layer in all of these appeals to getting a subscription, because ... I guess they we get access to the Prime Suckage? Like, do they have an entirely different set of engineers and managers running a parallel system which is much more user-centric?

I can't imagine this will be any better. Facebook is terrible in so many ways. I am willing to pay for a YouTube package to get out of YouTube's ads, but over time I'm gradually realizing that doesn't solve the core problem (productive YouTube watching is a contradiction in terms). I _might_ be willing to pay for a Facebook package which had no ads, no AI come-ons, and didn't surface rando rage-bait to me, but I suspect their offer will be the existing Facebook but moreso.

Oooh, ooh, or if they had a version of Facebook where they didn't run scammer/counterfeiter ads, where the scammy sites are re-using the original IP holder's exact marketing materials to sell their counterfeits. Hahahaha, imagine!

The fact that the person can contribute as both the employer and employee isnâ(TM)t really where the win is. The win is where the employer is actively trying to provide positive perks for the employee. Many major tech companies have equally as good 401k provisions (where you can reach the statutory max) because they are trying to provide good perks without increasing salaries. But at other companies, the 401k can have meager matches with annoying vesting provisions and terrible load funds.

The point of hiring is not to hire people who know the answers to riddles under a time limit. The point is to hire people who can get up to speed on the job reasonably quickly, work well in concert with their co-workers, and then grow the position and product and company going forward. Honestly, the best candidates for most tech jobs won't be bothered to optimize for your particular interview - I'm not saying they'll outright fail, but rather they have many opportunities, so for them the interview is a mutual affair. They are also interviewing you, and if you interview them in your asshat persona, they will likely just move on.

Mostly, they just coast on monetizing stuff they wrote decades ago. What lets them maintain their positions is not their crack software teams, it's their business relationships with other companies that their users need to interact with. And lobbying. Not clear how AI is going to do much for any of that.

People may report security holes faster, because the fix will generate more holes, while unrelated maintenance might provide a shorter lifetime to any given hole. Churn works to the favor of attackers.

I already have a pulldown which lets me send email from five different aliases that deliver to my gmail inbox. In Settings under "Accounts and Import" there's a "Send mail as" section for setting this up.

Say what you will about whether this is justified or not, but calling this an "open-source group" is a disservice. Open-source advocates will happily go on for hours about the problems caused by closed-source software, but almost never encourage violating IP, because open-source software itself relies on vigorous IP protections.

Not sure why you'd have to fly around the country to apply in person. Before Indeed or Monster or whatever, we didn't fly around the world applying for jobs in person, most people just applied for jobs in person where they lived.

Previously companies making bullshit products had to bid hard to acquire developers to write their stuff. Now they are saving on the developers by sending that money to AI companies ... but it's still bullshit products. We're due for another economic downturn to take the tide out and see who isn't wearing trunks, as Warren Buffett once put it, so that the developers left over can aggregate into fewer companies that are trying to do actual things.

For decades, companies have been gradually outsourcing and automating more and more of their hiring pipeline. You might be processed through multiple layers of people who have absolutely no idea what the job you're applying for entails, but they could definitely 86 your application because it was missing a keyword or whatever. Then after the process they ghosted you, because they had a "better" applicant, but they wanted to keep you on the hook just in case, and what better way than to get back to you three months later to see if you're still interested?

To some extent, all of this is just democratization of the entire process. Students have outsourced and automated their classwork and grade acquisition, along with their resume and cover letter and application process. Applicants are overwhelmed with bullshit openings that they have to grind to find the actual opportunities - now employers are overwhelmed with bullshit applicants.

It's almost like the solution is to strip away all of the automation and do this stuff in person! If it's not worth employers meeting applicants IRL, maybe their jobs aren't worth filling in the first place?

The reason I started using LocalSend was because while testing the export functionality of an iPhone app, I would airdrop to my Mac, airdrop to my Mac ... oops, now it doesn't work? But they are both able to browse the network, I'm sitting in the same chair, I can airdrop to another device which can airdrop to my Mac, five minutes later it's all working fine. LocalSend has worked every time.

My best guess is that it's the magic sauce that lets airdrop know that the devices are near each other or something, which is great right up until they can't see each other AND THERE IS NO BACKUP OPTION. Sure, I can bounce shit off some cloud service, that's great.

Everyone gets out of joint about specifics of the different practice-based skills we no longer teach. Something also lost is that practice skills can be mastered using ... practice. We have replaced it with a lot of more wooly teaching which I think is intended to teach the ability to properly consider the problem and search for the core concepts. The issue with this is that we have very little evidence that humans can actually learn that level of discrimination en masse, and we also don't really understand why some people have a will to dig in and understand, while others don't (and that will varies across topics).

An additional bit is that we keep pushing teaching down to younger and younger kids. You can try to push college-level concepts in a 10th-grade classroom, but most of those students simply aren't developmentally ready for those concepts, at least in part because you haven't taught basics. So instead of building a cohort of 10th graders who are able to do college work, we've built a cohort of college students who can't do 10th-grade work.

I mean, the elected elites don't have time to make legislation, they are too busy going on talk shows and podcasts and being wined and dined by unelected elites.
  Evidence is that often enough their patrons write the legislation and regulations and send it in for a rubber stamp.