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So is insulin. But at least in the US, it is expensive.

Our economic model encourages this kind of race to the bottom enshitification of everything. Unfortunately there are no high-tech solutions to this problem. The technology we need …

> I'm curious: in your many years of being a consultant to these bad teams, where the manager really thought they were top 20%, did you get a chance to talk to the rank-and-file te…

> Does it make sense to degrade the performance of good software teams because bad software teams exist? Consider the classic statistic "most drivers think they are above average".…

> Have never seen a company so quickly and completely just throw away all of their public good will. This behaviour isn't really all that uncommon. An obvious recent example would …

This article about the state of general computer knowledge of university students might shed some light on things: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc... N…

Maybe they are considering that we shouldn't build and optimize our society solely for the purposes of maximizing revenue. Would it be better to live in a world where Twitter (for …

You should reduce your consumption as much as possible. In the case of cars, buy a used one when you need one. Don't give companies that you don't think have earned your money your…

Does anyone know the technical details of the decompilation? What tools were used, what problems they ran into, etc?

This is the first episode of a documentary series called Funny Business [1]. The fifth episode is also on Youtube [2]. Does anyone have links for the others, I haven't been able to…

> AGI is inevitable because computation is universal and intelligence is substrate independent. What the article is asking, albeit obliquely is: how do we know that to be true? It …

I've spent my entire career doing backend systems engineering (C/C++/Rust/Java). On occasion I'd find myself wanting a UI, so I'd reach for Qt. But it seems more and more that it w…

> My sales team keep asking me to add AI to X product. Doesn't matter if it's not required, or even makes sense they ask because the competition is doing it and they get asked by o…

We use Microsoft Azure AD B2C to manage users. AD itself is a nice (for enterprise software), is used all over the place and is pretty stable. B2C on the other hand is a different …

Thanks -- fixed.

The whole 737 Max debacle made two things clear. First, Boeing doesn't prioritize safety anymore. Profit is the driving factor in their decision making. You can read about the issu…

> Simpler code base from not having to worry about concurrency and multi-threading This kind of thing irks me when I read it. I don't understand why people think of microservices a…

The anxiety part of this sounds like something meditation could help with. I've found this book ( https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati... ), at least the ea…

Sure one way to read this story is "I don't want to work harder" and criticizing that attitude. Here's another way. As the worker, already working full-time, maybe you have better …

Sure you can find an edge case in my general statement. > The evidence of people usually choosing to retire The key word in that is "choosing". A huge number of people even in G7 c…

This kind of concern crops up in UBI discussions all the time, but I think it gets things backwards. Instead of asking if some significant number of jobs will go unfilled because p…