randmeerkat
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Comment · 9 months ago
> Thank you. I love it when someone poetically captures a feeling I’ve been having so succinctly.
It’s almost like they’re a professional writer…
Comment · 11 months ago
> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so.
I’m tired of this sentiment. Imagine if people said, why develop your own cloud offering? Can you really do better than VMWare..?
Innovation in technology has only happened because people dared to do better, rather than giving up before they started…
Comment · 11 months ago
> Mac hardware, on the other hand, has never been better than it is right now!
I thought the same until trying a framework laptop with Ubuntu. Mac is the “IBM” choice, no one gets fired for choosing it, but quite frankly there’s better options these days.
Comment · 11 months ago
Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/
Comment · 11 months ago
> What's Tesla's forward PE? Close to 200?
Nope, close to 300 actually…
Comment · 11 months ago
Do you have a tutorial that you like?
Comment · 11 months ago
Hacker News serves +4M requests per day using nothing but two FreeBSD servers…
Comment · 1 year ago
> sometimes they manage to meld it into one goal, because money is power.
Money is a measure of power, but it is not in fact power.
Comment · 1 year ago
GNU Emacs actually self funds from the essence of the universe. You can launch that feature with the command `C-x b r r r`
Comment · 1 year ago
> No idea. But curious- why would something that was published a decad or longer ago not be of interest today?
Because if it isn’t in the “hype” it’s worthless, obsolete, trash…
Welcome to the new world of tech, that warms its hands by burning the old world.
Enjoy the vibes…
Comment · 1 year ago
> It’s honestly kind of sad. Google could still print money without the endless spying…
They literally couldn’t.
Comment · 1 year ago
Wow, a phone with a battery that's so bad, they're selling an extra one to strap to the back of it, on launch day... The most innovative thing that Apple has done recently is figuring out how to have their CEO deliver a gift wrapped gold bar to the president. [1]
Comment · 1 year ago
This is such a beautiful piece. How did you learn about it? How does one get further into this world?
~ C.S. Lewis