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No argument here.

If we cared enough to be effective, we would be subsidizing / encouraging local manufacture of all of those at a competitive, non-luxury price.

I guess I’m weird. I like refactoring ugly mud and doing performance improvements. I like working on the slow, intentional, process-driven flow of actually migrating services betwe…

But then you end up in a state, 2 years down the line, where every single person that works in that code base haaaates it and adding any new functionality takes weeks or months. Co…

Young people cringe too much. Personality is good. Why does everyone want to find themselves on a safe, but boring, ranking system? (I know why. It’s way safer and we’re in dangero…

And by making it so that an employee can safely quit at any time without losing their ability to, you know, not get blasted by insane surprise bills - e.g. healthcare.

You have to have enough liquid to be able to invest. If basic needs aren’t being sufficiently eased, there’s no money left to invest.

And much of the time, that friend is the online friend.

Goodness, how is that being tolerated? I guess it can’t be stopped without a lot of political capital; but 16k lines of code is HUGE, and I cannot imagine that it’s actually 16k li…

> Ditto for stuff that's simple. A JSON endpoint that runs a SQL query and returns some JSON? If it works and a glance at the tests looks OK then I trust my agents wrote it properl…

Are you intentionally invoking the same style of argument of Ancient Aliens and rejecting all public - that is, *in the open* work that thousands of scientists have done over the l…

The only way one can claim that the middle class isn’t shrinking is to have a floating definition of the middle class. If you lock it in any way to something like “home ownership a…

I struggle to imagine that all 50 years have been wholly blocked from all international research students. That seems highly implausible. Edit: for a comparison, it took the Soviet…

The patent system is very strong evidence that there are shortcuts. So many that we have laws designed to protect and incentivize version 1. Sure, there’s some hard lessons along t…

Within the last, like, ... 3 months, I think.

It scares me how much of this is true - people truly weren't doing all of this before; but like ... some of us (like myself) were, and we were trying to push other people to write …

This is what I've seen. There has been a middle-ground though, that I've seen. I was using Jetbrains' AI Assistant, or whatever it's called, during an interview for the (nearly) fi…

Yeah, passthrough is pretty icky, for sure. I just take the headset off. It’s not good enough for passthrough.

Well, there’s probably several reasons: 1) because they’re not doing those others spheres of work 2) because they don’t think about the work nor how tired they are afterwards 3) th…

I think you deeply underestimate the value of good advertising and the charisma of the ones doing it - especially when they're sharing their story more than trying to sell you some…

Weirdly, the experience with Virtual Desktop on the Quest 3 is fast, high resolution, clean, and all that wireless on WiFi 7.

The most incredible tech on the planet is just a useless, Rube Goldberg machine without an application for the tech. VR has lots of uses, but it takes someone outside the field who…

I'm not a lawyer; but I believe that even if they take payment through BTC, etc, they're going to need to take sales tax, etc, based on the location that their subscriber is ... wh…

That’s exactly right. Finding ways to get paid for your work, and all the very complicated way taxes interact with it all, unless you’re going all-in on ads, is a messy problem tha…

Your perspective locks in on a worldview where spirit / soul and body are intertwined and impossible to separate. There are positions that treat spirit and body as separate things,…