Yup. With nothing but love for sqlite.

Garbage data analysis, reporting the statistical rebound from a statistically anomalous period (covid) as if it's some kind of trend. To the article's credit, they make no effort to hide their political motives behind misinforming their audience.

The very first sentence of the article says

> sharp drop […] as the COVID-era crime wave recedes.

I'm big on digital minimalism and have relied on Chromebooks for everything for well over a decade now. I have Gimp, Inkscape, and the other flagship Linux apps I need. I have ssh and my tmux/shell/vim development environment I prefer.

It would be nice if there were an open source alternative, but all that the open source community wants to deliver is rip-offs of the Windows XP experience. Chromebook is what desktop Linux was supposed to be, but nobody understood that the browser was the Linux desktop the whole time.

I seem to recall peppermint os started out as the Linux alterative to the windows netbook (circa 2009 maybe?), with the hope of being what chrome os is now, but after awhile of losing to chromebooks it looks like they shifted gears pretty hard.

We lack the moral courage to be honest about why real world community disintegrated and are therefore doomed to suffer these pedantic lectures that miss the point and point in random directions.

Do you also lack the courage? If not, could you be honest? Curious what you mean.

Immigration and assimilation policies in the west have been too rapid, faster than even those who think they're open minded can adapt to new people.

The result is a pervasive societal siege mentality with everybody retreating into their homes. The Starbucks data on where "third places" are thriving or dying aligns very well with this model.

The answer is as obvious as it is unwelcome, which is it slow down a bit and give people and families time to adapt to their strange new neighbors and neighborhoods.

Didn't read but will that article since it sounds interesting. But does Starbucks mention their potential to be a third place? Because as long as you have to pay for something to stay a certain amount of time it will never be a third place. It is, in my experience, a more relaxed place regarding the relationship consumed/time in the place compared to other cafés but that is not all that makes a third place.

I mean, I would never consider just go to a Starbucks and expect to meet people without having to pay for something

Seems like you lack the moral courage as well since you seem to be implying something but are not brave enough to explicitly say it.

Notably absent from your comment is what you honestly think caused the disintegration of real-world community. I'd posit that it's an expected systemic outcome of unbounded and undirected capitalism.

You are implying the author(s) are disingenuous or are drawing the wrong conclusions. What makes you think this?

Hopefully they double check, as I would hate for him to be buried alive in a box.

AI is enabling a new generation of exploits and hacks that will force tech to get a lot simpler, more human readable, and more privacy oriented.

Everything is going to need to be refactored for a world where bad actors have truly unlimited time and attention to invest in identifying privacy and security vulnerabilities.

That would be a great change.

Holding my first child for the first time decades later approached the sense of otherworldly bliss and joy that I experienced when, as a young teen in the mid nineties, I got X to work on my 486.

A swing and a miss. The future of materials is going back to plant fiber; wood, hemp, etc. There will be plenty of fancy composite materials for specialty applications; but our world has been made out of plastic for generations now and updated, improved plant fiber materials will replace it as the affordable, more sustainable, and equally functional alternative.

Why? Can you name a few example current alternatives and upcoming contenders?

Are we talking far-tech where plants and other biome actors are engineered to produce materials in a particular shape and manner?

Bamboo is one material that has seen some traction in replacing plastic, especially in kid food items etc. however they do break easier. Hemp is also finally starting to have a real comeback but still has a lot of roadblocks ahead because of almost a decade of “bad press”.

It is a financial question... Which product makes most profit, in whole? Whole includes, in part, "The Commons".

When?

Programmers would be better served by learning nothing except SQL instead of their current strategy of trying to learn everything except SQL.

They should learn about b-trees and how indexed queries can be done with them either with or without an explicit query language. Then they can decide what kind of data storage service they need. Understand what's happening inside the black box.

Yes, for sure, though I'd still start with SQL.

While I’d agree that understanding SQL basics is an important fundamental for novices to learn, I started using MongoDB 11 years ago and haven’t looked back.

I am emotionally invested in having been born in "the twentieth century" instead of "the 1900s."