Doesn't feel like it's going to be long now before the world is hit with mass starvation - this decade I think:

BBC News

Cost of living: ‘There is nothing in the fridge’

Cameroonians are grappling with a fuel price hike as well as soaring food costs.

Always been a sucker for a good speech: "Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." Poetry.

He's captured my exasperation with me shiny technology:

What I try to do: "The highest paid most skilled engineers are generally language ambiguous, meaning they can quickly learn to code in any language, are not strictly tied to conventions, meaning they will do what works, are able to code in simple ways, and are extremely pragmatic to reach goals "It's the low end of engineers who overengineer, overcomplicate, are cultist about their tech stack, etc."

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@levelsio (@levelsio) on X

The highest paid most skilled engineers are generally language ambiguous, meaning they can quickly learn to code in any language, are not strictly ...

https://www.myrmikan.com/pub/Myrmikan_Research_2024_02_15.pdf The fall of the US dollar?

More Apple scumbaggery

theregister

Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta and hasn

PWAs demoted to OWB: Operating Within Browser

Some soviet-era animation:

He Flew In Only Once (Он прилетал лишь однажды, 1978) by Lev Shukalyukov

Watch "He Flew In Only Once" (Он прилетал лишь однажды, 1978) with English and Vietnamese subtitles. Animation directed by Lev...

My favourite short story, I bought a little city by Donald Barthelme

Interesting talk on human behaviour / advertising

US elite 1% opinions vs pleb opinions: https://www.rmgresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Elite-One-Percent.pdf

Easy to forget as a programmer that we're here to solve problems - that's it. If Costco's solution works, there is no need to waste money modernising it

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Scott Wessman (@scottew) on X

tech is great but worth noting that Costco is doing $240b in annual sales and uses this for inventory management

Aligns with me on how complexity gets into codebases: https://twitter.com/transmutrix/status/1750563200708309466

Just discovered

Marginalia Search

Marginalia Search

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies...

Looks like the kind of search I'd want

4 billion if statements

Blabbin’

4 billion if statements

I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments,...

Trains with built in obsolescence:

Dieselgate, but for trains - some heavyweight hardware hacking | BadCyber

[this is an English translation of the original article in Polish , we occasionally publish the best cyber stories from Poland in English] A train ...

A taste of what's to come

Express.co.uk

Financial contagion warning as HSBC is told to brace for £6.3bn hit

Bob Lyddon fears losses in Hong Kong and China could "blow a hole in the bank

“The big money is not in the buying and the selling but in the waiting” - Charlie Munger. This talk is a good one, basically a condensed version of Cialdini's book Influence:

Reflection is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural