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Two answers: (i) late stage capitalism: who cares about going through a 400 pages spec sheet to try and reverse engineer the ludicrous Chinglish [1] in which a
by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Two answers:
(i) late stage capitalism: who cares about going through a 400 pages spec sheet to try and reverse engineer the ludicrous Chinglish [1] in which all non-mainstream manuals are written today (wanted to declare war on China by myself when parsing through a Xinje PLC manual recently) when you could be fired at any time, a health emergency can bankrupt you, you generally feel more and more powerless, from your daily life to the once-in-a-lifetime-but-happening-every-week events such as economic crises, pandemics, wars, automated labor, x-flation, climate change, and so on and so forth.
(ii) product refinement: we no longer are interested in a few lines of assembly which barely show two lines and a dot moving on the screen [2], we want that feeling, silky smooth user experience which some companies spend billions to provide, but very few individuals can offer by themselves, examples would be something in the tier of Bartosz Ciechanowski [3], scottbez1 [4], or Chris from Clickspring [5], for a more hardware bent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong
[3] https://ciechanow.ski/ https://ciechanow.ski/
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip641WmY4pA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip641WmY4pA
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PwAQZNLy0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PwAQZNLy0I