There's been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I have some thoughts. My take: it was mostly baked into ...
“If difficulty itself becomes a badge of honour, you've created a trap: anything that makes the system more approachable starts to feel like it's cheapening what you achieved. You become invested in preserving the barriers you overcame.”
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR...
Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.
Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.
https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
I spent most of my twenties believing that purpose was something you found once and then held onto. A winning lottery ticket you kept in your wallet forever. The self-help industry reinforced this: find your passion. Discover your why. Land on the thing that makes you leap out of bed
On Version History: the rise of the Glasshole.
Version History is back! This time it's the full, bizarre story of Google Glass, with @davidimel and @vicmsong — and one of us looks much cooler wearing these silly things than the rest. https://www.theverge.com/podcast/839712/google-glass-smart-glasses-version-history
A differential diagnosis for the weird and the awkward
In this week’s Installer: kanban boards, Metroid, and adorable robots.
This is the end of Hollywood? Come on.
In 2008, The Nature Conservancy bought thousands of acres of Adirondack forest, including the historic Follensby Pond. Now, part of the area will open to the public for the first time in 100 years.
15,000 acres of New York’s Adirondacks has passed from private hands to parkland — and for the first time in 100 years, will be re-opened to the public. 6,000 acres along ten miles of the Raquette River will now allow hiking, paddling and camping, while 9,000 additional acres around the lake are protected as a freshwater research preserve supporting rare cold-water species. The Nature Conservancy https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/forever-wild-adirondacks/
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