saulpw

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by saulpw 8mo ago
Everybody knows that the boat is sinking.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
This "Epstein Fury" war is really doing the trick, isn't it
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Unfortunately, no, simpler systems often take longer to create. It's always easiest to just add some janky widget hanging off the side, than to rejigger the whole system to be simpler. It's like the Pascal quote: "I have ma
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by saulpw 8mo ago
And you sound like someone in 1995 saying "everyone will have their own webpage!" which is kind of true but also note how many people actually make their own custom website. Even for people who do have their own "custom&quot
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Tokens cost money; bugs get created and have to be found and fixed. Mature software has been more valuable than new software since 1946.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Sounds like they wouldn't need someone like you anymore, now that they've got AI to do the parts they're not good at =)
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by saulpw 8mo ago
There's no non-disparagement clause, so how about you left them use your name etc, and then you can come out in public and say those mean things and shame/embarrass them.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
I think it's the "always on" nature as opposed to the bandwidth. But maybe one begets the other.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
I agree that 32-bit is the golden age, but 64-bit is enterprise bloat. I personally would go for 1995 vs 2005, but I think 2005 was a lot better than 2015 in terms of interfaces.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Hope is not a plan, unfortunately, so if that's all we've got, I don't have much hope.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
It's more like, here's 80 pages of too much information, just give me the API in a tight section here, with an architectural overview. Usually these tools are used to compress, not fluff.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Best practices are always situation dependent.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
You think you're being clever in calling me out but you're just being a troll.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Sure, everyone should have access to healthcare and education regardless of income, I agree. This is separate from the amount of wealth a person should be allowed to accumulate. We can certainly lower this amount of wealth when society ha
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by saulpw 8mo ago
I think you're wrong, it's quite clear that there are objective levels of wealth that are positive for people to aspire to, and levels of wealth that are beyond what any one person should be able to control. You can strawman all
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Yes, it is reasonable for some people not to have to work for survival. A person can earn non-work through age (retirement), vulnerability (disabled, children), lottery, or contribution. We want neither pure communism nor pure capitalism.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Not anymore for software.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
The limit should not be a fixed dollar amount, but rather relative to what it gets you. We want to allow people to earn the luxury of retirement at a young age, including healthcare costs (not included in the US), children's higher ed
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Billionaires are gross, millionaires are fine. You're committing the "slippery slope" fallacy in defense of excessive wealth inequality. (And if you genuinely believe what you're saying, recognize that your words are b
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by saulpw 8mo ago
This comic ("Is it worth the time?") is categorically incorrect, because it assumes a static system. Instead, when you make something take less time, you can do it more often. Sometimes, much more often. See: Jevon's Parad
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Chuck Feeney Also I stand corrected, Chouinard is the other instance.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Only one billionaire has ever given away enough money while he was alive to not be a billionaire. Ever. Pledges don't count. Also Warren Buffet giving away 99% of his wealth still keeps him a billionaire.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
I like that idea, and I agree. a 10x spread of $ between skill levels, and otherwise by hours of effort and years of tenure. Yes the flight attendant who's worked there for 30 years should have more ownership (and more influence) tha
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by saulpw 8mo ago
I love the idea of "downward mobility". In particular over the past 30 years we've created a new class of ultra-ultra-rich with even more wealth than the robber barons of the gilded age had, and we need to figure out how to
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by saulpw 8mo ago
And yet, when they worried about what television would do to a generation of brains, they were right. The Boomers, as a generation, never became wise, and their brains are mushier than ever.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
It's charitable to frame this as resentment towards capital who gets the "credit". I'm sure people would grumble about this regardless, but the real resentment stems from them systematically eroding our ability to affor
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Heh, maybe how articles say "a 7 minute read" they should also include the time it took to write it. "a 3 hour write"
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by saulpw 8mo ago
LLM-generated documentation is great for LLMs to read so they can code better and/or more efficiently. You can write it manually, but as I've discovered over the decades, humans rarely read documentation anyway. So you'll b
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Number must go up. It's a problem with capitalism in general.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
The number of unsheltered homeless people has doubled in that time.

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