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-friendly, so it became popular. Now, the…
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 justified with arguments involving…
>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 programmers, especially with the massive number…
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 language has built-in shackles to impose the…
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 involved? Or does it only stop being "solo"…
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 claimed to have solo-developed the iPhone,…
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 want to do something at boot time? There…
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 whenever there's a curve), you…
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 clear of my path.
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 locked up for this reason.
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.
It has been locked away for the few from the beginning. They call it "safety", but the things it refuses are all about control. The big companies keep internal models that don't have the refusal training for things only…
It's easy if you have enough data on Kevin Warsh, as the Big Tech companies probably do. They can probably predict when he'll print more money, and who he'll give it to.
It's not obviously creating any wealth (which is just anything you own that you can get money for). What it's obviously doing is creating a whole lot of people who used to have money and no longer do, and a handful of…
"Value", being subjective, is just warm fuzzy feelings. You can't measure it, let alone prove that it's proportional to anything (such as price, which is objective), and you can't pay bills in it. They say how much…
OpenCode, and all these other AI consoles, all do terminal I/O in the dumbest way possible. A good terminal program, like Emacs, uses escape sequences to create viewports, scroll text, etc. These sequences tell the…
Credit cards are trivially traceable to your legal identity, since anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer laws require that credit card companies keep this information. The government can subpoena this information…
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-friendly, so it became popular. Now, the…
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 justified with arguments involving…
>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 programmers, especially with the massive number…
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 language has built-in shackles to impose the…
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 involved? Or does it only stop being "solo"…
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 claimed to have solo-developed the iPhone,…
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 want to do something at boot time? There…
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 whenever there's a curve), you…
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 clear of my path.
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 locked up for this reason.
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.
It has been locked away for the few from the beginning. They call it "safety", but the things it refuses are all about control. The big companies keep internal models that don't have the refusal training for things only…
It's easy if you have enough data on Kevin Warsh, as the Big Tech companies probably do. They can probably predict when he'll print more money, and who he'll give it to.
It's not obviously creating any wealth (which is just anything you own that you can get money for). What it's obviously doing is creating a whole lot of people who used to have money and no longer do, and a handful of…
"Value", being subjective, is just warm fuzzy feelings. You can't measure it, let alone prove that it's proportional to anything (such as price, which is objective), and you can't pay bills in it. They say how much…
OpenCode, and all these other AI consoles, all do terminal I/O in the dumbest way possible. A good terminal program, like Emacs, uses escape sequences to create viewports, scroll text, etc. These sequences tell the…
Credit cards are trivially traceable to your legal identity, since anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer laws require that credit card companies keep this information. The government can subpoena this information…