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by saulpw 1y ago
Thanks for your VisiData donation! Donations like yours continue to motivate us to continue to maintain the tool, and in fact we're putting out a new release in the next few weeks.
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by saulpw 1y ago
I don't believe the user's primary complaint is the UI of their devices. Why should they take time out of their overworked schedules to have a debate they aren't already having?
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by saulpw 1y ago
I agree that all of this is madness, but to be fair, 100% of computer programs have bugs, so I don't think this is any more damning than systematizing all of humanity's processes with computers.
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by saulpw 1y ago
> We couldn’t reach potential customers directly (there was no web), so we had to groom editors of computer magazines and feed information to them, hoping they would print it in their magazines. Editors of computer magazines were the &qu
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by saulpw 1y ago
The essential tacit knowledge can't be captured in books. It has to be learned by experience, participating in (and/or developing) a functioning organization that's creating the technology.
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by saulpw 1y ago
"Rapidly over a year or two" That time window is when the code is not legacy yet. When the developers who wrote the code are still working on the code, the code is loaded into their collective brain cache, and the "business
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by saulpw 1y ago
Do you mean a market/profit-based economy when you say "capitalism"? Because it's becoming increasingly obvious that giving all the profit to the people with the investment capital is not a great way to structure either
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by saulpw 2y ago
"It's a problem they want to solve for themselves", but note that they haven't tried all the alternative recommendation services and are only creating one as a last resort. They want to solve the problem , which is a d
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by saulpw 2y ago
https://specificsuggestions.com/
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by saulpw 2y ago
Sometimes corporations are end-users. When someone creates a fork of a project, they are no longer an end-user; they have become a producer.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Many years ago I heard of a fire in a restaurant (in France maybe?) where most people died of smoke inhalation. The only survivors were cigarette smokers.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Man, I want this, but IBM AT level, 32-bits with at least a 386 and 8MB of RAM.
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by saulpw 2y ago
> the freedom to change the software to the user's needs. How is this not exactly helping end-users? Corporations are producers, not users. And no one is complaining about MSFT or any other corporation using OSS as users, but only
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by saulpw 2y ago
The GPL was "To prevent free code from being proprietarized" by for-profit corporations. In addition the origin of Stallman's open source philosophy was a printer he couldn't use because of closed-source software. From
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by saulpw 2y ago
In practice it doesn't mean more contributions though. If MSFT used his project for profit and contributed back, he wouldn't be complaining. Instead they forked his project, without even sufficient attribution, and now he has to
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by saulpw 2y ago
This was OpenAI.
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by saulpw 2y ago
The OSS philosophy was conceived to help end users, not for-profit corporations. Then for-profit corporations co-opted the "Open Source"(tm) label to ensure they could benefit from all this free labor. You and many others are f
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by saulpw 2y ago
I tried it recently. I asked for videochat services like the one I use (WB) with 2 specific features that the most commonly used services don't have. It asked some clarifying questions and seemed to understand the mission, then went
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by saulpw 2y ago
This is a vapid answer, like "write your senator". Of course I do, every chance I get. It doesn't seem to have meaningfully affected our political process.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Okay, so what's your proposal (or any proposal) to fix this funding disaster? As a technical person I don't know how to affect the political process, and am thus disinclined to participate meaningfully. People with political abi
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by saulpw 2y ago
For one, C has types and type-checking.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Perception is politics.
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by saulpw 2y ago
You can quote statistics to show that "inequality is the same", but that's obviously not the case. To wit, Bill Gates became the richest person in the '90s with wealth of $13 billion. There are now 10 people with more
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Life on Mars (1977)(theatlantic.com)
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by saulpw 2y ago
I haven't heard that actually.
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by saulpw 2y ago
That's thought-terminating. Remember that basically every MAGA accusation has been a confession.
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by saulpw 2y ago
And the US specifically was founded on the concepts of 'rights' and 'freedoms'
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by saulpw 2y ago
I'm sorry, but only in April of 2025 you are wondering if there is an actual plan? Were you paying any attention at all from 2016-2020?
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by saulpw 2y ago
I also presumed the elections were fair, but there is evidence that they weren't (beyond the usual tactics of disinformation and voter disenfranchisement). Analysis of voting patterns in swing states looks pretty suspicious, to the ex
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by saulpw 2y ago
Board membership is more like volunteer work, they meet for a few hours once a month to rubberstamp the CEO's strategy. It's oversight rather than 'work'.

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