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by saulpw 1y ago
Yeah, the Linux kernel has ~12m lines of code. <1m are the core, the rest are drivers.
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by saulpw 1y ago
> in the long term it never works out because sooner or later an idiot and/or asshole will plant their arsecheeks on the throne, after which you're fucked. Seems like this can happen in a democracy just the same.
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by saulpw 1y ago
We can continue to experiment while also going slowly. Evolution happens over many millions of years, giving organisms a chance to adapt and find a new niche to occupy. Full-steam-ahead is a terrible way to approach "progress".
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Programming People (2016)(leftoversalad.com)
72 points by saulpw 1y ago|19 comments
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by saulpw 1y ago
There will always be people who won't think. The specific problem the OP is noticing, is "promising juniors" who then fizzle out and become these people who won't think. I think this is an interesting category to look
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by saulpw 1y ago
The capital gains tax could be 90%+ on any gains over $10m (and 99% over $100m), so they can still sell out, but it would cap liquid wealth at $100m dollars. However, they would still have a billion dollars of ownership, and the societal p
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by saulpw 1y ago
An interesting fact I learned: the original definition of "Passion" is the intimate suffering of Christ on the cross. It brings new meaning to corporations wanting Passion from their employees.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Only a hundred years? At current energy usage rates, even though energy usage increases year-over-year, every year, without fail? And of a fundamentally irreplaceable element that is only forged in supernovae? How dare you.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Not OP, but yes, "defund" meaning to reverse the excessive budgetary increases of the past 5-10 years, which increased militarization of police, alongside increasing qualified immunity precedent. Some people took "Defund The
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by saulpw 1y ago
Except those summaries are deeply flawed and incorrect, so it's like having a secretary with memory loss and possibly dementia.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Why does it require mixed-case? It's for TODOs, not healthcare. If I want to use my insecure password to try out your service, please let me! It took extra code here for you to try to be secure, when it's now generally known th
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by saulpw 1y ago
A sword can kill one person at a time. A gun can kill 10 people at a time. A bomb can kill a hundred people. A nuclear bomb can kill thousands. You can certainly commit mass slaughter with less technology. But then you need either a) mo
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by saulpw 1y ago
This is why workers are "losers" according to the Gervais Principle. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by saulpw 1y ago
Yes but technology exacerbated them. The great wars of the 20th century killed 10s of millions of people, 10x more per year than any other conflict.
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by saulpw 1y ago
That sounds 10% better, not 10x better. That's close enough to 'peaked'.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Being able to? Perhaps. Actually doing more good with their money? I have yet to see it writ large. (10 out of thousands is a pathetic proportion to use as evidence for this.)
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by saulpw 1y ago
Apparently it's not a quote by the author, but a participant.
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by saulpw 1y ago
When do we get to call Trump a dictator? When he ignores court rulings? When he floods the zone with illegal executive orders? Do we have to wait until he calls himself a Dictator and insists everyone else do the same?
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by saulpw 1y ago
But the robots are doing our thinking and our creating, leaving us to do the chores of stitching it all together. If only we could do the creating and they would do the chores..
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by saulpw 1y ago
I disagree with the toplevel statement. In high-school science terms, productivity is like accuracy whereas efficiency is like precision. You can be very "productive" at a high-level without being efficient. Similarly you can b
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by saulpw 1y ago
It seems that every version of MS-DOS from v2.0 onward was actually developed by Compaq. I had no idea. > That relationship had been established in late 1982. Back then, Gates had contacted Canion and asked, with some concern, if Compaq
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by saulpw 1y ago
I agree, I think public bathrooms are really important. Feces on the sidewalk is a health issue and impacts economic value too. But we have to acknowledge that the instant you make a bathroom "public", it becomes a place to do dr
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by saulpw 1y ago
I agree with you. I would hope for more like 2 billion and that we could keep some urban nerve centers, but either way it's a far cry from the 8 billion oil-guzzlers we have now.
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by saulpw 1y ago
It's not static, global wealth been growing at 3.8% per year for the past 25 years, which is historically quite a high rate. 10 more years at that rate would be 50% growth, or $750T. The numbers you're talking about aren't f
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by saulpw 1y ago
One unified global government sounds like a nice ideal, until you realize that a few rogue billionaires can seize control of it through legal means. This happens on a national scale already, of course, but at least there are other nations.
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by saulpw 1y ago
50X is not enough anymore. They should strive for 100X.
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by saulpw 1y ago
There is only $500T wealth in the entire world. You're saying in 10 years, Microsoft will be worth 15-20% of the entire world?!
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by saulpw 1y ago
People without jobs don't have much money to spend on things, esp things that won't get them jobs. Services require money to run (and even without staff, internet services that use AI require money to run). If people don't
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by saulpw 1y ago
The counter-proposal to IPv6's 128-bits was 64-bits. This is 16 quintillion devices, which seems fine. Doubling the address space is a good strategy when you need more. Quadrupling it is over-engineering.
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by saulpw 1y ago
The design of IPv6 is for computers, not for humans. How do you even say an IPv6 address aloud? You need to be able to communicate "192 dot 168 dot 50 dot 1" over a voice medium.

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