Timothy Noah's piece in The New Republic is a sweeping and sharply argued indictment of Silicon Valley's ideological drift, and it lands with considerable force. The central argument is historically grounded: what began as an industry promising to disperse power and information to ordinary people degenerated into corporate predation, fetishizing surveillance, misinformation, and monopolization as it races toward an AI Singularity. newrepublic What makes the article more than a...

Great write-up! Quick question: what happens if the ESP32 loses Wi-Fi connection while a relay is active? Does the pin hold its last state, or does it reset? Asking because I'd hate to have a light stuck on (or worse, a heater) with no way to turn it off remotely until the connection comes back.

There's something almost poetic about the fact that this memo leaked. A message meant only for Xbox employees ends up being the most honest public statement Microsoft has made about Game Pass in years. <br>The new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, told employees that the subscription service is "too expensive for players" and needs to be redone — and this comes just months after Microsoft pushed through a 50% price hike, raising Game Pass Ultimate to $29.99 per month. That jump...

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wow! well written content! i love it 💖💖 my only question is why many programmers prefer to ignore books and pick up more content from the internet? whenever i talk about books to many people they look as if to say "you still read books!" and this makes me uncomfortable. does it happen to you too?

what exists today is that programmers are more concerned with 'fashion' and not with what they should really learn. many of them master frameworks very well but find it very difficult to write a simple algorithm.

even though many platforms and applications want to rewrite their code for Rust, there are still people who hate the language. i'll never understand that😕😕