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> It actually might kinda look like the "economy" of Starcraft: you gather resources, decide what to build with them, and order it all around according to your whim. There will be a handful of guys playing, and everyone else will be a NPC.

I guess if the “players” are sociopathic enough they might decide to just wipe out the NPCs. The possibility of someone like Putin or Musk becoming the sole member of the post-singularity humanity does make me pause.

> AI, especially accelerating AI, is bad news for anyone who needs to work for a living. It's not going to lead to a Star Trek fantasy. It means an eventual phase change for the economy that consigns us (and most consumer product companies) to wither and fade away.

How would that work? If there are no consumers then why even bother producing? If the cost of labor and capital trends towards zero then the natural consequence is incredible deflation. If the producers refuse to lower their prices then they either don’t participate in the market (which also means their production is pointless) or ensure some other way that the consumers can buy their products.

Our society isn’t really geared for handling double digit deflation so something does need to change if we really are accelerating exponentially.

They might also be more biased and less able to adapt to new technology. Interesting times.

> Doing 4 sprints over 2 months to make a prototype

That’s a lot of effort for a prototype that you should be throwing away even if it does the right thing!

Are you sure you’re not gold plating your prototypes?

I think you missed the point. AI chat is not compatible with the solitary focused programming session.

At that point you’re still paying the opportunity cost by losing out on selling your surplus.

Just install it from Brew and run the service in a separate terminal tab.

It’s also cheaper than dealing with the exponentially increasing costs of climate adaptation.

> If you really want to get involved, you should start with your local community and make things better in your hometown. You can't change country-wide politics.

Isn’t that basically Russia

> Granted, this one has a very rigid syntax that doesn't allow for variation, but it could be made more flexible.

That’s kind of the killer feature of an LLM. You don’t even need to have your fingers on the right place on the keyboard and it will parse gibberish correctly as long as it’s shifted consistently.

In my case I couldn’t get Rust working and ran into strange compilation issues with linker errors with the MacOS standard libraries. Tried installing them from Nix which fixed some problems but caused other ones.

Everything just worked outside of the Nix environment so ended up dropping it.

How many of them actually work though? If you end up having to go fix upstream packages then having a tool manage your environment is not useful since you still have to understand the domain.

With Nix I usually ended up in a situation where I had to both figure out how to configure my environment _and_ fix the upstream Nix packages. At that point it’s just easier to stick to Homebrew and some custom shell scripts.

Quickly skimmed through the Flox site and it looks like it’s based on Nix. The problem with the competitor https://www.jetify.com/devbox and most likely in Flox is that Nix makes trivial environment setup really easy but when you need something more complex it falls apart because the Nix packages are often unmaintained and simply broken.

So https://slsa.dev/?

Do you?

If you can’t verify it then that’s a rumor. The world doesn’t owe you an explanation and you can’t be informed of everything.

That’s why you verify the information from other sources.

I couldn’t read it, it’s behind a paywall.

There’s a world of difference between blindly trusting an LLM and using it to generate clues for further research.

You wouldn’t write a legal argument based on what some random stranger told you, would you?

I actually thought S2 is a Cloudflare service at first.

Linux support seems to be getting there. Windows support is on Microsoft to deliver.

That relies on the user configuring git hooks correctly, which is a similar problem as noticing that transparent decryption is configured correctly.

> But it is complex, mostly unnecessarily so

Unnecessary complexity sounds like something that should be fixed. Can you give an example?

The sane way to solve that problem is to hire people in different time zones to get coverage. Some still need to do weekends but even those are not the same in every country (e.g. Israel).

How does having such a large surplus that you’re an exporter of food jive with national security? It sounds like they already produce more than enough. Exposing food production entirely to market forces is, as you point out, a bad idea.

> Why would a person who founded a startup, and put countless unpaid hours into building it, then have to pay for the sale as if it were employee income? What would be the incentive for them to have done anything more than be someone else's employee?

I would expect the incentive is the massive payout (even after tax).

If a startup founder would be better off as an employee because they have to pay the same amount of tax then it sounds like it was a bad idea to begin with.

Getting your income through a corporation instead of as a salaried employee is not inherently more valuable for society. We don’t want more startups for the sake of having more startups!

Is “let me check the docs” an appropriate thing to say in an interview setting?

Sometimes it’s not even about cutting corners. Just pushing back against poor meeting culture and declining pointless meetings can easily give you a 2x boost.

Why are you treating vegetarianism as the alternative to red meat?

You can drastically reduce the “redness” of your diet by eating chicken and fish. Even pork is less “red” though I’m not sure if it counts as red meat for this study.

> My usual instinct is: try rubbing the synthetic material; if it releases thousands of particles in thin air, stay away from it

How thin should the air be and how do you measure the particles?