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by wootland 3y ago
Opt-out telemetry is unacceptable, this also signals that the product team has no vision and the organization is riddled with bureaucracy. Great products get built by someone with a vision to create them, mediocre products gets created by p
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by wootland 4y ago
The value I'm talking about isn't educational value (although there is that too), it's cultural and social value. There's vast sums of money wasted on things far more malignant than supporting multiple languages for stud
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by wootland 4y ago
> A large population of impoverished non-English speaking refugees takes massive amounts of attention and resources from the school to cater to. They also add value. As you can see by the very interesting reply about indigenous languag
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by wootland 4y ago
> And most of these families not only don’t speak English, they often don’t even speak Spanish. They often speak a variety of indigenous languages common across rural Latin America. That actually sounds super fascinating and like a uni
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by wootland 4y ago
It does seem like there is a constituency that wants to make this political, facts be damned. Calling that out will probably invite them to continue down their chosen path as you say, but it's still worth pointing out false narratives,
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by wootland 4y ago
No, it's just accurate. A personal or business problem between two people is not political. What happened is a lot of people wanted this issue to be political, but they turned out to be wrong.
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by wootland 4y ago
Not one executive murdering another executive.
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by wootland 4y ago
I don't think there's anything political about saying "those people were wrong, I wonder if they'll change their views when presented with evidence that they were wrong". I also wonder if the people that jumped to c
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by wootland 4y ago
Why is one tech exec killing another tech exec "political by nature"? Seems the definition of personal or business related, not political.
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by wootland 4y ago
The CLI is the last place I want to be tracked. There's so much sensitive data there, and there currently exists a culture of privacy (that's under attack). Most timeless and excellent CLI tools have had zero tracking in them. G
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by wootland 4y ago
That seems like a fine way to do it. What we're talking about are apps that track you while you use them, not an opt-in one off bug report.
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by wootland 4y ago
The layoffs are certainly one piece of the puzzle, but the incompetent leadership style of Musk, complete lack of viable strategy and failing financials are also to blame.
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by wootland 4y ago
> there is no comment in the universe that would make you entertain a different perspective. You're correct in that there is no comment in the universe that would make me ok with being spied on. That's not a "knee-jerk r
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by wootland 4y ago
There have been constant problems since Musk took over. Just yesterday retweets were showing up in people's feeds without the attribution of who retweeted them, so they looked like random people showing up in your feed.
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by wootland 4y ago
> Which features of our software are people using, and where do we need to concentrate the most with our limited resources and bandwidth to provide our users the best possible experience. The best possible experience starts with not
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by wootland 4y ago
Incorrect. If you're in the 80th percentile, you're permanently locked out of opportunities available to those in the 99th percentile because they can build effective barriers with their capital. I'm hardly the first to say t
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by wootland 4y ago
In capitalism it does mean that you use it to stay on top. You attract more capital, build more moats, consolidate more competitors, exploit more labor... It's why we have a winner takes all economy with record high wealth inequality.
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by wootland 4y ago
I said "power law" not "power of law", meaning winner take all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
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by wootland 4y ago
I don't think there's been research done on generational wealth of funded founders, but there's plenty that shows highly skewed investment patterns: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/29/diversifyin
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by wootland 4y ago
I think multi generational wealth would mean that people are a member of the capital class and not the labor class (i.e. they don't have to work for a living). Those are the people who go on to be serial entrepreneurs, because, why not
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by wootland 4y ago
I'd say 8,9 or 10. Generally people who would be considered LPs for VCs and have political and/or media influence. It is the children of these people that are highly over represented in the executive and funded entrepreneur ranks.
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by wootland 4y ago
The vast majority of those people are middle/upper-middle class people in massive debt. The kind of upper-class Harvard grad that VCs like are most definitely of the old money variety.
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by wootland 4y ago
We're talking about wealthy entrepreneurs that raise millions of dollars from VCs, not average homeowners. One house passed down to 4 kids, isn't going to get those kids invited to Marc Andreessen's bbqs.
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by wootland 4y ago
If you have a family and live in the US, you will be saddled with mandatory health insurance payments that are basically untenable without a full-time job.
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by wootland 4y ago
That's not how most generational wealth was created. From mobsters that went "legit" (Bronfmans, Kennedys...) to people who build their fortunes off war profiteering, slavery, genocide, child labor... They weren't grin
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by wootland 4y ago
Does this mean it would be easy to move off Python all together? It seems like the problem stems from everyone using pytorch at the base layer. How realistic is it recreate those apis in another, more modern language. Coding in Rust, Go...
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by wootland 4y ago
> 1) Reviled by some very conservative types, often not willing to consider things from different perspective than what they are used to. If they would build the desktop, it would end up like Homer's dream car. I would consider my
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by wootland 4y ago
> So you have particularly skewed perspective; you should try a bit of operations, or at least devops, to normalize it. I didn't say that you should use Arch on the server, but it's great for the desktop. You can refer to this
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by wootland 4y ago
I actually don't want a package manager tuned for "my grandma" (the white whale of the linux community). I'm a professional dev, Arch perfectly suits my needs where as Flatpak/Snap... cause excruciating pain every t
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by wootland 4y ago
> They solve problems that arch/pacman didn't start even thinking about. Like reliably updating an installation, that wasn't kept in a tight loop with the upstream repo. So they've decided to degrade the baseline UX

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