runninganyways

I think I know why personal websites aren't popular anymore. It's the same reason retro video games aren't as fun as they were when they came out.

What's missing is the context of the time when they were popular. They were new and had a high-tech aura about them.

Nowadays making a website doesn't differentiate you in a good way unless you have a super creative way of coming up with the website and a lot of content to fill it with.

Nowadays you have to take it to the next level. What's a skill that's beyond the reach of most people? This could be why PCB business cards are so appealing. Because it's a thing most people can't do and if you can do it it shows your technical prowess. I think that's my personal web pages were popular back then and why they won't ever be popular again.

Good news! I am unique. My experience is valid. I really needed to hear this.

Or you could write the 10 lines of JavaScript that'll do what 99% of people use Google analytics for

No, then everyone will use extensions that support their favorite features and the browser wars will start all over again

Isn't it more expensive to launch a geostationary satellite? If their big thing is communication how are they going to compete with Starlink (which isn't geostationary btw)? How is it profitable for anyone to dream of competing with Starlink at this point. I am a layperson but it seems like game over unless Rocket Lab finds a way to compete.

The article only mentioned communications satelites and I don't think anyone is going able to beat Starlink in that area in the next 5-10 years.

I'd be open to not receiving benefits. The only one I really need is healthcare and I can get that through healthcare.gov.

The productive like the people who do slave labor in China to produce all of our gadgets?

I earn $100,000 a year writing god awful code for a doomed software company. Am I contributing more to the public good than the restaurant worker who cooks my food, the guy who changes my car's oil, or the guy who hauls all of my garbage away?

Clean code is not a phase. That's an obnoxious thing said by non-programming amateurs who find themselves in positions of authority.

In my opinion this is just one symptom of the overall illness our society is suffering from. There's no unity among people. It's very much a materialistic society. Everyone thinks everything should be safe. The government has become the arbitrator for fucking every conflict which further prevents us from seeing the humanity in each other. And that's critical because there seems to be less humanity in us every year.

The Injustice system is just an outgrowth of this madness. People in this country don't think right and so you go to justice system that ain't right. But they don't care as long as they're not the ones in prison or jail. it's literally good that other people are in jail because that makes them better than other people. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if this country reverted to some form of slavery. Our society is sick. So our justice system is sick.