When I was working at AWS, around 2017 we started getting excited pitches from companies who wanted to be part of the 5G build-out, saying that obviously there’d be lots of opportunities for public-cloud providers. But I never walked away convinced. Either I didn’t believe the supposed customers really needed what 5G offered, or I didn’t believe the opportunity was anywhere near big enough to justify the trillion-dollar build-out investment. Six years later, I still don’t. This is a report on a little online survey I ran, looking for actual real-world 5G impact to see if I was wrong.
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The (Edited) Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto
mollywhite.net[The article] uncritically repeated many questionable or entirely fallacious arguments from cryptocurrency advocates, and it appears that no experts on the topic were consulted, or even anyone with a less-than-rosy view on crypto. This is grossly irresponsible.
Here, a group of around fifteen cryptocurrency researchers and critics have done what the New York Times apparently won’t.
NFTs Were Supposed to Protect Artists. They Don’t
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roland50.studioBefore I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers
daverupert.comWhat Doesn’t Need to Be Done
allenpike.comI’ve found there’s a second set of things that also matter, but tend to fly under the radar: the things that don’t need to be done.
The Complicated Futility of WordPress
coderjerk.comIt has always been an opinionated piece of software, and using it as a CMS has always meant chafing against Automattic’s assumptions about how and why their software is used.
Learning Patterns book
patterns.devShe was a notorious hacker in the ’80s — then she disappeared
theverge.comLine Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
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How Bad Is Your Streaming Music?
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Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.
Hyper Magazine
retrocdn.netWhy Lighthouse Performance Score Doesn’t Work
calibreapp.comFor a long time, the Lighthouse Performance Score was the page speed metric to track. Often, sharing a perfect 100 Performance Score was considered a sign of success. But as the page speed evolves, we need to critically evaluate if the metrics we’re using are still relevant and helpful.
How A New York Times Reporter Scammed Hundreds of Musicians
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Now Playing: My Raspberry Pi Weekend Project
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