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Money as voltage is an interesting idea. I've determined that "wealth" is really just low entropy (both in terms of energy and information), and economics is really just thermodyna…

The purpose of this project is probably to create something that can be pointed to while saying "This is evidence that the entire Linux kernel could be rewritten in Rust! So now yo…

That's odd. Abstractions in other programming languages reduce the line count.

I've gotten rid of it even on Linux. You're right in that the full-featured desktop environments all do it the FreeDesktop way as far as I know. Even old-school XDM demands that D-…

Seat belts are one thing, a car with a top speed of 35 mph is something else entirely.

So if Bethesda fires all its developers and then gets its next game made by hiring those same developers as independent contractors, then Bethesda would be a solo developer?

When Python got its popularity, programming was an in-demand skill, so the thing that determined adoption was being easy for beginners to learn. Python was extremely beginner-frien…

Our entire profession has been moving more and more in the "bondage-and-discipline" direction over the past 10 years or so, tracking with broader sociological trends that are also …

>This matches my experience because you don't chose who you work with. That's what job interviews are supposed to be for. It should be easy to hire only the most skilled programmer…

You have it inverted. Your "Light Side" is what previous generations of programmers called "Bondage and Discipline", because this philosophy assumes that a good programming languag…

What if you hire voice actors for each of the characters? And level designers? And animators? At what point does it stop being a solo project? Only when outside investors get invol…

If a project is far more work than one person can do (as this train simulator obviously is), the term solo developer is no more justified than it would have been if Steve Jobs clai…

If that's how it was developed, then it wasn't made by a solo developer. What you're describing is called a team.

What does this have to do with my comment? You don't get to the "negotiating a price" part if you never knew what the customer might buy.

>While working with networking stuff, I deployed OpenBSD and FreeBSD machines for routing, security and email serving. I was always in awe that I could just do stuff easily. You wa…

The hard part is even knowing what someone would pay for. I don't know if a sales guy knows that or not.

Whether you can score a remote gig without a cost-of-living penalty affects your ability to achieve FIRE. If you're in the Bay Area at only $200K, you're on a treadmill.

...and then you just get fired one day.

It specifically makes it worse for high-skill drivers. If you were the sort of driver who never uses more than 10% of your tires' grip (even if it requires slowing to absurd speeds…

The one time I rented a car with this feature, it claimed there was a car in my blind spot when there was none. It seemed to be reacting to a car that I had already determined was …

The fact that it beeps at you is also them blaming you for the problem.

If you simply lock everyone up for their whole lives, you can prevent all kinds of deadly accidents. Eventually, somebody will argue that we are all morally obliged to accept being…

What we've become numb to is the massive amount of overreach that has already happened.

There is no limit to how much paternalism most people will accept. Therefore, we're bound to lose all of our personal freedom eventually, "for your protection."

Submit it as a CVE.