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by ctrw 3y ago
To quote a Canticle for Liebolitz: To survive the Church's slow sifting of the arts, you have to have a surface that can please a righteous simpleton; and yet you need a depth beneath that surface to please a discerning sage. The sifti
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by ctrw 3y ago
Why not tie housing price to minimum wage? We don't end up in a feed back loop that explode unlike in your example.
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by ctrw 3y ago
A job is worth only so much. When wages raise above that amount those jobs disappear. Street sweepers are one example.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Reality disagrees. Software isn't tooth brushes. The simpler and more specialized it is the cheaper it is to maintain. The more complex it is the harder it is to maintain.
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by ctrw 3y ago
I'd hardly call a $400 per year per seat contract top dollar. There is software out there that is both much worse and costs in the tens to hundreds of thousands per seat per year.
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by ctrw 3y ago
If you want professional developers pay professional rates. A doctor asks for a hundred bucks for 15 min.
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by ctrw 3y ago
I wish that half the executive initiatives I've seen ended the same way as this post.
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by ctrw 3y ago
I still get a laugh of ecma 404. The first time I looked it up I refreshed the page a large number of times before I realized it wasn't an error.
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by ctrw 3y ago
The way you compare a technical drawing of a steam engine to The Fighting Temeraire oil painting.
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by ctrw 3y ago
We stopped people dying from easy things so now they die from hard things.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Anecdotes aren't data. Cornhs disease is know to go into sponteneuous remission in around 10% of patients for no reason what so ever for years to dacades at a time. So if you have batch of a thousand people each going from one fad diet
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by ctrw 3y ago
The most ridiculous make work rule I've ever had was being forced to use objects instead of functions because it was apparently easier to claim oop code as capex than fp code.
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by ctrw 3y ago
That doesn't solve the problem, it just pushes is down the road a bit. The exponential growth is merely offset by a constant factor once. Unless we figure out how to push transistors in the 5th, 6th etc dimension with every new generat
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by ctrw 3y ago
I disagree it happened instantly, it's just that Boeing didn't make any new planes for 20 years that made it to the sky. Even the Max was a redesign of an existing design.
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by ctrw 3y ago
A reminder that US life expectancy dropped two years in a row before covid19.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Yes, they are fighting a war of survival against the Zerg.
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by ctrw 3y ago
What a world to live in, where the right wing is the one which pays attention to reality and the left ignores it. A bit like the fact that immigration in Australia is now the main reason the RBA is driving interest rates into territory that
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by ctrw 3y ago
Think seti at home. Instead of wasting all the compute on bitcoin we pretrain fully open models which can run on people's hardware. A 120b ternary model is the most interesting thing in the world. No one can train one now because you n
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by ctrw 3y ago
Or just doing a bit of research on which ISP provides static ips with the ability to serve continent. Not everything has to be Google scale.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Or hire a static ip and expose whatever ports you feel like. Its amazing how far we've fallen from the internet of the 90s when you could get this done on most ISPs with all of a phone call.
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by ctrw 3y ago
You uncle McRacy doesn't have 200,000 followers. Your cousin McFatt does.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Mods are raging that they are getting paid. Users don't care because mods are power tripping assholes who make spez look classy by comparison.
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by ctrw 3y ago
The way to save the internet is to force everyone to have a recent picture of themselves next to any post they make.
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by ctrw 3y ago
I can provide agpl software for a printer driver which none the less doesn't let you load the source code for the printer driver. If the original case for the GLP is still not covered by the AGPL in $current_year open source licenses h
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by ctrw 3y ago
A license for the internet of the 90s, not the one we have today.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Will no one think of Amazon's profit margins? We need new licenses that let developers get more of the pie because no one is benefiting from the GPL in the age of cloud computing. Who cares that Linux is open source when I'm locke
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by ctrw 3y ago
We need a Benjamin button movie set in the work place where you have a 20 something starting today and working back till the 1960s so people can see what we've lost.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Yes imagine how well a cast iron bike would handle. Or a wooden one. There is a reason why even steel is not used any more in bike frames.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Get a load of this boomer thinking you still have the luxury of a cubicle. Open offices are the norm in tech regardless of salary.
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by ctrw 3y ago
Transformers is modern AI the same way that a cherry is an ice-cream.

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