Robert X Cringely is back to blogging
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6 hours ago
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brk
10 minutes ago
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Skimming through his posts he was also “back” to writing in 2023. Looks like he wrote 2 things then. Maybe he’ll do a longer run this time, maybe a good half dozen posts before another 3 year break?
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tjansen
16 minutes ago
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I wouldn't be here if I hadn't somehow obtained and read Accidental Empires as a kid. Still no empire of my own though :(
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thought_alarm
10 minutes ago
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It's always fun when an old relic pops up in ye olde RSS reader. His feed would have been one of the originals I started following 25 years ago or so.
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raugustinus
7 minutes ago
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Dang we're getting old ey?
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geocrasher
50 minutes ago
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   memories of slashdot rush in
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ChrisArchitect
7 minutes ago
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zingababba
17 minutes ago
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Who?
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homarp
1 hour ago
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<insert minecraft server kickstarter joke>
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Fricken
23 minutes ago
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There's no content past the headline. He didn't actually write anything beyond the announcement that he is going to.
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baal80spam
1 hour ago
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I absolutely loved his "Triumph of the nerds" trilogy. It's my childhood!
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suprjami
44 minutes ago
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Me too!

I have a list of similar content here:

https://github.com/superjamie/lazyweb/wiki/General-Tech-Ente...

Haven't updated it in a long time but hope you find something nice.

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linguae
35 minutes ago
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I would love to see a follow-up series that covers the dot com bust, the revival of Silicon Valley’s tech industry thanks to mobile and cloud tech, and the modern AI boom, starting with deep neural networks ran on GPUs and culminating with large language models.
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calmbonsai
53 minutes ago
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Oh this guy who lied about his Masters Degree. No thank you.
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TruffleLabs
35 minutes ago
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For clarity, he has a master's degree, not a Ph.D.

Via NYTime Nov. 16, 1998 article "Compressed Data; Stanford Gave Writer A Start, but Not a Ph.D." -

"The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that Mr. Stephens had not been a professor at Stanford University and had not earned a doctorate there, as he had claimed."

"A university spokeswoman said that Mr. Stephens had worked as a teaching assistant and earned only a master's degree."

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/16/business/compressed-data-...

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