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Eh, most of the benefits are offset by the stress of having to care about the needs of corporate america and all the ensuing implications of making a living by destroying society. Just because it's not a physical job doesn't mean this stress won't kill you.

It's also worth noting that developers remain some of the most proportionately under-compensated jobs compared to the revenue we drive and we're all aware of it. It's the shareholders that need to justify their existence.

The dysfunction at those places is more than enough to cause burnout by itself. Source: I work at one such job now.

> I'm happier making my own deal with the boss.

And i bet your boss is even happier!

I suspect many of these open source developers are employed in this capacity on some level by for-profit corporations (which sadly does bring a high degree of dysfunction in terms of resource allocation). But I can't imagine being this productive as a side-gig.

Hell no. That's what the state and taxes are for. I certainly don't need more crap from a gift shop in my life. The reason why I'm proud to be an american is because we fund stuff like this an national parks and libraries and the best postal service in the world. Without these things we're just sad, ignorant people obsessed with money and comfort

I don't think it's depressing—every generation has to find their own voice.

Strikes me as quite a positive thing that the romance was removed from this situation.

> You can configure it with a GUI, or in XML, or using a type safe Kotlin DSL.

This is making me realize I want a CI with as few features as possible. If I'm going to spend months of my life debugging this thing I want as few corners to check as I can manage.

The browser is a platform lockin. One with shitty search and spam on most pages and javascript.

Maybe we need a new type browser that doesn't try to be an app platform but rather tries to be a document browser.

> The fact is that if you want to maximize your "market value", you still need to be _very_ good at React.

In some sense yes, but full-stack engineers are nowhere near the top of "market value". Frontend has a pretty hard ceiling on compensation. Past a certain level of advancement you'll never need to build a UI again.

If chatgpt is scraping the web, why can they not link tokens to source of token? being able to cite where they learned something would explode the value of their chatbot. At least a couple of orders of magnitude more value. Without this chatbots are mostly a coding-autocomplete tool for me—lots of people have takes, but it's the tying into the internet that makes a take from an unknown entity really valuable.

Perplexity certainly already approximates this (not sure if it's at a token level, but it can cite sources. I just assumed they were using a RAG.)

80 years ago we were intentionally firebombing European civilian populations. I don't think it's a comparable situation. Israel has no justification for engaging in total war tactics (or rather, the justification is contemptible and holds no water).

Yes, blog posters keep writing. This does not imply anything about whether or not it's a waste of time to read.

But, substack is where the comments are, and the comments are generally the valuable part.

Israel is using AI to murder people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...

It's not clear this is any different from just bombing random locations, but we're certainly already at the bad place. By the numbers Israel certainly seems incredibly bad at precision bombing, possibly the worst state ever to do it, for a state that is allegedly trying to.

Surely google translate would be less of a waste of energy.

The downvoting here (as well as comment scoring) is probably my least liked thing about the site. It exacerbates the already prominent issue of hivemind and seems to actively lower the quality of discussion. People seem to mostly vote based on emotional reaction. On paper, a downvote just doubles the value of a vote. Meanwhile the graying of comments that never deserved to be downvoted to begin with is infuriating and seems to mostly stifle interesting conversation.

Personally, I advocate for abolishing the downvote and the scoring and switching to randomized comment order.

That's hardly isolated to this site. COVID did a number on us.

Fwiw, people have been saying this since the site started. Don't worry. There will always be a safe space for rich assholes to divorce themselves from reality and romanticize their exploitation.

> You’ll get your data synced for you

How does this happen without an interface for conflict resolution? That's the hard part.

Graphs don't really capture the entirety of hashmaps and other indexing concerns. Other than that yea I agree.

I cannot overemphasize how dumb it is to allow your isp to see what you're doing.

> If what you desire is a tiny, curated web full of like minded skilled technologists, like it was before Usenet eternal September, that exists today.

I mostly remember porn. Granted, i was a child.

> There's a corner of the Internet where people have been reclaiming their digital independence by hosting their own websites

Or you can log off. There's no need to post. Plus there are church doors in your physical community.

I don't really see much benefit to hosted blog posts when the conversation is on social media.

It's not cheaper. However, Coca-Cola does consume an enormous quantity of water and it is popular and it does drive the cost of water up. I'd prolly be pissed too if I were mexican.

Medico city is basically at the level of the water table, no? Building a sewer must be a serious pain in the ass.

Brita filters most certainly do filter out "microbes". Just with low certainty that drops over the age of the filter.

Anyone who claims the west is clean has never been to philly

> Given that, Apple is stuck trying to catch up to the rest of the products in the AI space

Oh, of course. Like...? Nothing else has access to relevant data. That's like 95% of the pitch of siri.

Voice assistants are just fundamentally embarrassing to use, imo. The only exception of which I can think is while driving.

I'd appreciate an insight into what above poster allegedly misunderstands.

> If that profit were put to better use elsewhere it would be.

how economists managed to fuse math with mysticism I have no clue. This certainly never came from adam smith.

> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -Phil Karlton

Let the tooling figure out the formatting, just sweat the syntax. And build whatever you can!