oalae5niMiel7qu

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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
Money as voltage is an interesting idea. I've determined that "wealth" is really just low entropy (both in terms of energy and information), and economics is really just thermodynamics underneath it all. "Technological a
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
The purpose of this project is probably to create something that can be pointed to while saying "This is evidence that the entire Linux kernel could be rewritten in Rust! So now you have to agree to rewrite the modern kernel!"
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
That's odd. Abstractions in other programming languages reduce the line count.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
I've gotten rid of it even on Linux. You're right in that the full-featured desktop environments all do it the FreeDesktop way as far as I know. Even old-school XDM demands that D-Bus and seatd exist, which it didn't in the p
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
Seat belts are one thing, a car with a top speed of 35 mph is something else entirely.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
So if Bethesda fires all its developers and then gets its next game made by hiring those same developers as independent contractors, then Bethesda would be a solo developer?
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
When Python got its popularity, programming was an in-demand skill, so the thing that determined adoption was being easy for beginners to learn. Python was extremely beginner-friendly, so it became popular. Now, the thing that determines po
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
Our entire profession has been moving more and more in the "bondage-and-discipline" direction over the past 10 years or so, tracking with broader sociological trends that are also justified with arguments involving "safety&qu
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
>This matches my experience because you don't chose who you work with. That's what job interviews are supposed to be for. It should be easy to hire only the most skilled programmers, especially with the massive number of unempl
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
You have it inverted. Your "Light Side" is what previous generations of programmers called "Bondage and Discipline", because this philosophy assumes that a good programming language has built-in shackles to impose the wi
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
What if you hire voice actors for each of the characters? And level designers? And animators? At what point does it stop being a solo project? Only when outside investors get involved? Or does it only stop being "solo" if those in
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
If a project is far more work than one person can do (as this train simulator obviously is), the term solo developer is no more justified than it would have been if Steve Jobs claimed to have solo-developed the iPhone, even if he could have
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
If that's how it was developed, then it wasn't made by a solo developer. What you're describing is called a team.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
What does this have to do with my comment? You don't get to the "negotiating a price" part if you never knew what the customer might buy.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
>While working with networking stuff, I deployed OpenBSD and FreeBSD machines for routing, security and email serving. I was always in awe that I could just do stuff easily. You want to do something at boot time? There is a script that g
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
The hard part is even knowing what someone would pay for. I don't know if a sales guy knows that or not.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
Whether you can score a remote gig without a cost-of-living penalty affects your ability to achieve FIRE. If you're in the Bay Area at only $200K, you're on a treadmill.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
...and then you just get fired one day.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
It specifically makes it worse for high-skill drivers. If you were the sort of driver who never uses more than 10% of your tires' grip (even if it requires slowing to absurd speeds whenever there's a curve), you wouldn't see
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
The one time I rented a car with this feature, it claimed there was a car in my blind spot when there was none. It seemed to be reacting to a car that I had already determined was clear of my path.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
The fact that it beeps at you is also them blaming you for the problem.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
If you simply lock everyone up for their whole lives, you can prevent all kinds of deadly accidents. Eventually, somebody will argue that we are all morally obliged to accept being locked up for this reason.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
What we've become numb to is the massive amount of overreach that has already happened.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
There is no limit to how much paternalism most people will accept. Therefore, we're bound to lose all of our personal freedom eventually, "for your protection."
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
Submit it as a CVE.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
It has been locked away for the few from the beginning. They call it "safety", but the things it refuses are all about control. The big companies keep internal models that don't have the refusal training for things only the &
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
It's easy if you have enough data on Kevin Warsh, as the Big Tech companies probably do. They can probably predict when he'll print more money, and who he'll give it to.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
It's not obviously creating any wealth (which is just anything you own that you can get money for). What it's obviously doing is creating a whole lot of people who used to have money and no longer do, and a handful of people with
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
"Value", being subjective, is just warm fuzzy feelings. You can't measure it, let alone prove that it's proportional to anything (such as price, which is objective), and you can't pay bills in it. They say how much
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo ago
OpenCode, and all these other AI consoles, all do terminal I/O in the dumbest way possible. A good terminal program, like Emacs, uses escape sequences to create viewports, scroll text, etc. These sequences tell the terminal to do these

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