Lots of founders had a blast running companies that were Uber for X back in the day. Heck "AirBnB for Pools" is swimply, a successful company!

Another issue is investors jump on hype trains and won't invest in new ideas.

Code is one of the best books in the field, I read the 1st Ed as a freshman in college and it was basically gave me 2 years of CS theory in 1 book, make all my freshman and sophomore classes really easy. Petzold has been an amazing author for 30+ years, he used to be MSFTs go-to guy.

I have to say though, KDE's session restore code works really well! I have a dozen other complaints about KDE but session restore is A++.

I miss the days when every engineer in a meeting room was gently rocking back and forth in chairs not making eye contact. 'tis was the expected norm.

Reading the Nexus Trilogy has made me realize how separate science fiction is from contemporary religious themes. Sci-fi can have fictional religious themes of course, but this is the first time I've ran into anything religious in a decade+, (outside of just window dressings in TV/movies)

Used to be everyone technical posted on the same couple of forums. Everyone was equal and generally a bit more polite. /. Was like that for awhile, and so was HN. Now there is no hacker culture, no singular ethos or set of guiding moral principles. 80% of SEs are in it for $ and that ruined it.

Reality is the barrier to entry was higher and only people who were really interested bothered.

Apparently if using the Nvidia proprietary drivers (needed for all my AI work) then the open source drivers for video decode don't work, or at least I've seen recommendations to not even try combining the two. What I found where reddit posts and GH issues, not quality documentation. :( 2008 vibes.

I'm old enough that I mostly use the command line. I never found a file manager I enjoyed, but Finder particularly annoyed me. Although I have to say, GIMP's file manager is the worst I've ever used.

MacOS works great after you install a new task switcher, window manager, and mouse back button handler. Oh and just don't use the horrible file manager.

Linux ... Does things. Poorly. Firefox on Linux is so bad. Please send help.

Large orgs already use internal package repos, and have for quite some time. This type of supply chain attack is weighed against the benefit of having a rich open source ecosystem that anyone can contribute to. Also stealing ethereum seems so 2010s...

Every paper I've read this year - this large problem is actually surmountable but no one has tried yet.

AI/LLMs right now are a wonderful mix of scientists going deep in one technique and and engineers going "hey, have ya tried this yet?" And YOLOing massive perf gains.