2025-03-04
34000 Requests Per Second on a Modest Laptop: A Quick and Simple Guide
How to build a high performance application server and a C API client for it.
Another Tim Cook Product Announcement Teaser on X: āThereās Something in the Airā
Basic Apple Guy (with screenshot): The same tagline from Appleās 2008 announcement for the original MacBook Air. On the cusp of that announcement at Macworld Expo, AppleInsider photographed a bunch...
How to Find the First 100 Paid Clients for Your Startup: 45 Growth Ideas I Gathered
Real actionable SaaS growth tips. All from my real experience of making startups.
A good, long profile of author Robert Caro, in which he reveals...
A good, long profile of author Robert Caro, in which he reveals that heās written 951 pages of the fifth (and final) installment of his series of books on LBJ...
2025-03-03
ChatGPT and Other Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought
OpenAI, Google, and other companies appear to be sucking up much-needed traffic to websites and massively screwing publishers over in the process. AsĀ Forbes reports, new data from the content...
Rick Steves announces that he is cancer-free. āPSA 55 to PSA 0.09...
Rick Steves announces that he is cancer-free. āPSA 55 to PSA 0.09 to PSA <0.03ā¦Yes! If you know prostate cancer, you know the happy story of those numbers.ā š¬ Join...
AI: An Agent For Dark Web Monitoring
The dark web is a hidden space for violations of privacy. AI can be incorporated into existing tools to do it faster and more efficiently. Big tech companies are looking...
Unreasonable Goals Are Actually Easier to Achieve: Here's Why
"Be realistic" is a common advice, but it's often backward, says the author. Most people are convinced they're incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for "reasonable" goals. This...
Apple Details Upcoming Changes and Improvements to Child Accounts, App Store Age Restrictions, and More
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors: In a whitepaper posted to Appleās developer site entitled āHelping Protect Kids Onlineā, the company details several improvements itās rolling out in upcoming software...
āNo constitutional text is well written enough to save the rule of...
āNo constitutional text is well written enough to save the rule of law when the American people elect a president who doesnāt believe in the Constitution, especially when he is...
High Schools Training Students for Manual Labor as AI Looms Over College and Jobs
High school shop classes are back in a big way as students prepare for a future in which artificial intelligence has taken over so-called "white-collar" jobs. As theĀ Wall Street...
Menswear writer Derek Guy on Zelenskyyās lack of suit in the WH:...
Menswear writer Derek Guy on Zelenskyyās lack of suit in the WH: āI dislike the idea of respectability in dressā¦because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing...
First-Ever Asteroid Mining Mission Loses Contact With Earth
Last week, California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history." The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft,...
America Alone
From Angry Staffer on Bluesky on the Trump/Vance/Zelenskyy meeting: The public nature of the meltdown amplifies the embarrassment. Unlike past Oval Office tensions ā like Nixonās private rants or Clintonās...
Analysts Warn That If AI Agents Succeed, the "Internet Will Go Dark"
Personal AI assistants are slated to take over this year ā and if they do, the internet as we know it may not exist any longer. AsĀ Business Insider reports,...
Jeremy Keith on the Web on Mobile
Jeremy Keith, writing at Adactio: Ask anyone about their experience of using websites on their mobile device. Theyāll tell you plenty of stories of how badly it sucks. It doesnāt...
The Size of the US Federal Workforce Has Not Grown in the Last 50 Years
John Cassidy, writing for The New Yorker (requires a free account to read, annoyingly): Of course, these calculations canāt be taken literally. Even Musk has said that he wants to...
Putin Is Ready to Carve Up the World. Trump Just Handed Him...
Putin Is Ready to Carve Up the World. Trump Just Handed Him the Knife. āWhat happens if Russia unleashes its aggression against Europe, unchecked or even aided by the United...
Good grief, the last two paragraphs of Heather Cox Richardsonās piece on...
Good grief, the last two paragraphs of Heather Cox Richardsonās piece on Trumpās not-so-new alliance w/ Russia. Kremlin spokesperson: āThe new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This...
Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific
From the very first second, you can tell there's something's very wrong with Netflix's AI-powered remastering of "A Different World," a "Cosby Show" spin-off that aired on NBC from 1987...
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