Articles by dxs
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[flagged] Why did one day of AI cost more than a month of servers? (junueno.dev)

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Why electric car batteries last much longer than researchers thought (sciencenorway.no)

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Twenty Glorious Years of Dedoimedo (dedoimedo.com)

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When AI Files Your Taxes: Who Pays When It Fails (smarterarticles.co.uk)

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Donald Trump, Champion of Renewable Energy (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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What If the Work We're Busy Automating Is Needless? (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Radio astronomy with Fat Daddio cake pans (scientificamerican.com)

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ARM Never Made a Chip, Dolby Never Built a Speaker (cringely.com)

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Fedora 44 Gnome review – We're not in Kansas anymore (dedoimedo.com)

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The Most Recognized English Word (irreal.org)

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The Small Lies Developers Tell to Keep Work Moving (shiftmag.dev)

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Musk's Galactic Ripoff (robertreich.substack.com)

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Apple Gave Siri Hands (cringely.com)

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Elon Musk Is About to Make Saving for Retirement Even Harder (prospect.org)

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The Market Behind the Wall (cringely.com)

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The first century Roman aqueduct at Segovia carried water into the 1970s (maketecheasier.com)

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Twenty Year Old Unicorn Goes AI-First Without Mass AI Layoffs (shiftmag.dev)

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Two Brains (cringely.com)

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Car Cutaway Illustrator J Yamada Turned Technical Briefs into Fine Art (flashbak.com)

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The Most Expensive Mistake in the History of Computing (cringely.com)

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AI: The Thirty Percent Confession (cringely.com)

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Climate Explainer: El Nino/La Nina and tropical storms around the world (aljazeera.com)

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Killing PRs was the easy part, now technical death keeps the CTO up (shiftmag.dev)

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Seriously Off-Topic, But: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.c...

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Starfish Prime, a nuclear detonation 250 miles above the Pacific in 1962 (maketecheasier.com)

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Konrad Zuse and the Z3, the first programmable computer, May 1941 (maketecheasier.com)

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The Art of Money Getting (kk.org)

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I'm writing again (Cringely) (cringely.com)

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Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (scientificamerican.com)

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The clean-up cost of AI code is what the velocity narrative leaves out (webflow.com)

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How to Kill: A 6-Part Guide for Urban Assassins 1973-1984 (flashbak.com)

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The Rise of the Bullshittery (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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AI Won't Save Us from the Talent Crisis We Created (Sep 25, 2025) (techtrenches.dev)

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A structural change – only 13% of emails are written by people (elpais.com)

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Chinese Electrotech Is the Big Winner in the Iran War (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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[flagged] Schools Never Taught Critical Thinking: AI Exposed the Lie (smarterarticles.co.uk)

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Percussive maintenance, planned obsolescence, and other PC myths (howtogeek.com)

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Why Isn't Everything Different Yet? (AI, where are you?) (davegriffith.substack.com)

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service (hatchmag.com)

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Priced Out by AI: The Memory Chip Crisis Hitting Every Consumer (smarterarticles.co.uk)

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The Nation of a Birth (cuencahighlife.com)

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What is consulting? (The Batman trap.) (bitfieldconsulting.com)

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And no more Copyleft, either (davegriffith.substack.com)

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Perfectly Imperfect, a social network like the internet of yore (elpais.com)

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Forty-five years later, still paying for convenience (cuencahighlife.com)

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Payment fees matter more than you think (cuencahighlife.com)

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Rig for Turbulence (davegriffith.substack.com)

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Linux, Product and the Art of Essence (dedoimedo.com)

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Emacs Is a C-Based Lisp Runtime, Not a Text Editor (reddit.com)

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Locklin on science: Coding assistant experience (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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Self-Employment: Ownership Is Not Freedom (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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AI Will Not Save Cybersecurity: Why the Arms Race Favors Attackers (smarterarticles.co.uk)

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When 20 Watts Beats 20 Megawatts: Rethinking Computer Design (smarterarticles.co.uk)

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Brain Dumps as a Literary Form (davegriffith.substack.com)

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Is it Really So Much Better Now? (walkingtheworld.substack.com)

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Stop Typing and Start Deciding

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Six incredibly hyped software trends that failed to deliver (infoworld.com)

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Dedoimedo's Greatest Sites on the Internet (dedoimedo.com)

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Modern Life Is Good (walkingtheworld.substack.com)

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A Month Exploring Fizzy, "Kanban as it should be" (zolkos.com)

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A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong climate forecast for 2026 (climatedrift.substack.com)

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Engineering coffee producing vs. climate change, high demand, speculation (elpais.com)

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AI, the forty percent problem, and the future of work (smarterarticles.co.uk)

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The man who died three times (cuencahighlife.com)

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Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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Pop _OS 24.04's New Scratch-Built Cosmic: Hands-On, with Screenshots (fossforce.com)

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The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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The 10 Most Mind-Blowing Discoveries About the Brain in 2025 (scientificamerican.com)

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How to Choose the Best Programming Languages, Libraries, and Patterns (freecodecamp.org)

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Claude Code made $1B in 6 months – my AI-coded iPhone app shows why (zdnet.com)

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Model Collapse: The Bubble Economy Is a Hallucination (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Vibe coding: What is it good for? nothing (theregister.com)

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The Last Programming Language, and the End of (A Bit of) History (davegriffith.substack.com)

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What if a tiny black hole shot through your body? Physicist did the math (sciencealert.com)

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Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

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Destroying Value Wherever They Go (irreal.org)

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Zorin OS 18 Hits 1M Downloads in Just One Month (linuxiac.com)

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Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand (linuxcareers.com)

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Why Software Development Fell to AI First (davegriffith.substack.com)

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Cameras, Cameras Everywhere (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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From Scripts to Scale: Python, Mypy, and the Rise of Static Typing (simplethread.com)

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AI layoffs to backfire: Half rehired at lower pay (theregister.com)

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Mathematical proof debunks idea the universe is a computer simulation (phys.org)

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Of Two Minds: Revolution and technology-driven progress (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins (thenewstack.io)

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The Agile Modeling Method (agilemodeling.com)

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I'm a Senior Developer and I Still Google Everything (Perfectly Normal) (dev.to)

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The Return of Assembly: When LLMs No Longer Need High-Level Languages (dev.to)

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Crichton, Spielberg, Horner, Jurassic Park, and Chickenosaurus [audio] (bbc.com)

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The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky (techcrunch.com)

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Janus-I Flying Suitcase (x-controlsystem.com)

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Easter Island's giant statues walked to their final platforms (arstechnica.com)

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Coming: A Repairable Printer with Refillable Ink Cartridges (fossforce.com)

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Coming: A Repairable Printer with Refillable Ink Cartridges (fossforce.com)

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How Steel Balls Are Forged [video] (laughingsquid.com)

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Ken Isaacs: "How to Build Your Own Living Structures" (1974) (flashbak.com)

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Is Worse Better? (funcall.blogspot.com)

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World record: Held his breath for nearly 30 minutes (sciencenorway.no)

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9 Linux certifications to boost your career (networkworld.com)

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I Hate Barney (popupbackpacker.com)