Sure, but it is really interesting to think that the 50s arts and 60s youth movements as top-down "soft power" countermeasures to the USSR and communist revolutions, and that it's not so spontaneous as it's typically thought of.

Something similar was happening with CIA promotion of abstract expressionism in art:

https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/did-you-know/la-cia-y-e...

The dimensions closed seems like a weird form factor. I'd be interested in a folding iPhone (horizontal or vertical), but this seems off.

It's a cultural thing, but you can do incremental PRs towards a large goal. Giant PRs that are expected to be reviewed never really seemed worth it imho.

I don't think a PR needs to be tens of thousands of lines for a review to take more than 20 minutes. I've worked on projects where you can't reasonably get a branch set up and running somewhere to test it within 20 minutes if you need to set up dependencies, peripherals, external systems, etc.

Then if you are lucky, the telescreen is in an unusual position. By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, you might be able to remain outside the range of the telescreen.

It's comical how close to the telescreen this whole thing is.

> The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

Unfortunately he was a registered Democrat.

So was Trump. To a true scammer, politics is just another grift.

Finder is really limited in many ways but it's one of the only FM that supports Miller columns, which I use quite a bit.

Same here, but there’s something to be said for an advertisement that you remember clearly for 41 years ha:

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan...

I remember plenty of stupid worthless garbage, doesn’t mean it has any value

The ad in itself probably has no practical value. The surprising nature of its staying power is curious. And curiosity is a strong signal. Good luck.

Maybe I'm an outlier here but I moved into front end to steer products and the resultant architecture into making sense from the incomplete or contradictory "requirements" we got from product and even UX. I've been doing this for over 20 years and every company has needed good engineers to make the product a logical reality.

LLMs piping out UIs from PM prompts aren't solving that imho.

I'm a backend engineer working closely with a single frontend guy on an internal app and after creating a pr in his repo, it was immediately clear that AI can build some nice brochure sites, but UI state management, clean UX, good performance and API dispatch handling still require you to know what your doing for things to work well.

I think that frontend devs merely have to move from debating their frameworks to focusing more on user problems, maintainability, performance etc. but that is every dev right now...

I spent 2 years developing and polishing a front end web application, and then some other engineers at my company pointed Claude at it to try to reproduce it. The slop it crapped out would make most if not all our users leave for the competition. Then they had the nerve to ask me to explain what was bad about the sloppified version. I'm looking for a new job.

For the founders maybe, rarely the employees. (No not employee #2, etc)