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> No amount of baby cash, or white picket fences, or coercion, or lack of birth control, or whatever other set of schemes you can make, none of that matters.

This is a profoundly unscientific statement. All of these things matter, you just aren't willing (or rather think, correctly, that our society is not willing) to try them in earnest.

Because beforehand engineers could be reasonably confident that their work would simply accelerate a the growth of a growing pie; today, most expect that further development will be used, first and foremost, to replace labor. Most sectors do not grow indefinitely, so there's no reason to assume software has to.

To put it gently, yes it feels different: for people who haven't already saved a lifetime of SWE wages, this is the first credible threat to the sector in which they're employed since the dot com bubble. People need to work to eat.

> iPhone and macOS are basically the same product technically

This seems hard to justify. They share a lot of code yes, but many many things are different (meaningfully so, from the perspective of both app developers and users)

Lockdown mode costs ~nothing for devices that don't have it enabled. GP is pointing out that the straightforward way to implement this feature would not have that same property.

> Fermentation and pickling was dropped almost universally (in the West).

What are you talking about? What do you think pickles are? Or sauerkraut, for that matter?

> Advertising is not a recent evolution of capitalism, it's a foundational piece of it

What does that say about capitalism?

You'd be surprised how many Apple engineers are fixing many bugs, of this caliber, on a semi-regular basis.

That "Human Hours Wasted" is not just sitting there because engineers don't care about it, it's because there are many many other opportunities to save similar amounts of time. Crashes waste time, perf bugs waste time -- and security bugs are much worse.

JavaScript isn't the only programming language around. I'm not the strongest around with JS either but I can figure it out as necessary -- knowing C/C++/Java/whatever means you can still grok "this looks better than that" for most cases.

Why? How is it "discrimination" if it actually corresponds to a single user, who has been doing bad things to your server (e.g. slamming it with requests)? Do you expect to be able to go and knock on people's doors all day and not have them tell you off?

I think most have moved past SWE-Bench Verified as a benchmark worth tracking -- it only tracks a few repos, contains only a small number of languages, and probably more importantly papers have come out showing a significant degree of memorization in current models, e.g. models knowing the filepath of the file containing the bug when prompted only with the issue description and without having access to the actual filesystem. SWE-Bench Pro seems much more promising though doesn't avoid all of the problems with the above.

If monopolies are "non capitalistic", then why has every capitalist economy in history had such a tendency towards creating large monopolies? The same cab certainly not be said any those economies producing, say, worker control of the means of production.

> The class conflict shouldn't be between workers and employers.

Then why don't employers, the ones with essentially all the power here, tend to choose actions that go against the interests of the working class? Simple: regardless of what you think "should" happen, a study of history tells us what actually tends to happen in reality, and that tendency is towards class war between the ruling and exploited classes.

Anyways, in what way is "ownership" not rent-extracting in general? If you own shares of a stock and you get paid a dividend, that is rent plain and simple. All the arguments you can make against that being the case -- eg that you deserve a premium for parking your capital in a risky asset -- apply to advertising conglomerates and even literally renting out land too, so either they're all renting or none are.

What is this supposed to mean? Yes, people are unhappy with the choice of "high risk of losing 1/2 of your savings at an inopportune moment" and "watch it all decay away thanks to our inherently inflationary regime".

> For a lot of people, social media is the internet. They don't discover things on search engines, they are guided to them by engagement engines in walled gardens.

Sure, this is true -- but there are also many (though nowhere near as many) for whom the opposite is true. I think it's important to remember that there's value in speaking to a community like that even if it's not the whole world listening.

I think it's very plausible, looking at the individual events of the revolution, that a different king could have averted what eventually came to pass -- certainly, it could have been possible to have a much more 'moderate' result adjudicated entirely within the Estates General, or even without calling it at all. That alone is enough to suggest that Louis XVI, while 'unremarkable' in and of himself, was historically quite relevant precisely in that he was unremarkable. A remarkable king could have resulted in a very different result and thus course to history overall.

> and you'll be rehired and have to clean up the mess, then continue on

Not how this works. Yes, it happens sometimes, but there's no guarantee. Alternatives include:

- The rest of your team (or another tam) soaks up the additional work by working longer hours

- They hire someone else, or transfer someone from elsewhere

- The company accepts the lower output quality / whatever breakages result

- The breakages, even if unacceptable, only show up months down the line

So all that needs to happen is for your boss to believe they can replace you up to the point where they feel comfortable firing you. Whether that works or not is largely immaterial to the impact it thereafter has on your ability to pay rent / your mortgage / etc.

You really underestimate how much work goes into everything around you. You don't care because it just works: the stuff you use is by and large not crap, which makes the crappy stuff all the more noticable. Check out the housing code for your area: everything from the size of steps to the materials used for siding are in there. Or look at the FCC specifications for electrical devices that make sure you don't inadvertently jam radio frequencies in your local area, or the various codes which try very hard to stop you from burning your house down.

You're right that "there are parts of our society where junk isn't well tolerated", but the scope of those areas is far greater than you give credit for.

Even if they're your boss? Remember that most people here are not independently wealthy, they're stuck answering to someone who may not have so level a take on these things as you do.

> Depression can be caused by a chemical imbalance

And yet many other times, it can be caused or exacerbated by situational and psychological factors, including "being stuck at home all day".

> One of the most frustrating things when your really low is people giving advice like do exercise to feel better - please don’t do this.

Worse, antidepressants actually cause significant harm to many people who take them, often without even improving their depressive symptoms. This is very bad, and I would say significantly worse than giving general advice that might be inapplicable to some people.

There's no one-size-fits-all solution, and some people probably are legitimately just in need of more motivation to go running or biking or whatever else will get them the exercise they need.

Which multi-threading are you talking about?

But people's phones will scan a QR code from the camera: they're much more likely to do that then type in a URL while walking.

How do you mean 'a tmux session' to be something verifiable?

Nope, workers don't own the means of production -- this is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, baby.

Was this just 2 hours of the agent running on its own, or was there back-and-forth/any sort of interaction? How much did you have to set up scaffolding, e.g. tests?

> that's something you rarely see on Western forums.

No, it's quite common.

Looks nice! Though I have to say, you should probably avoid sbreak even for small allocations -- obviously it's slow, but even beyond that you have to deal with the fact that it's essentially a global singleton and introduces a lot of subtle failure cases you might not think of + which you can't really solve anyways. It's better to mmap out some chunk of memory and sub-allocate it out yourself.

What do you mean "perceive"? Why are there these "inner feelings" at all? They are not physical, and we can easily imagine a being that does not have them -- thus the whole p-zombie thought experiment. You're saying "qualia ... are just perceptions", and yes, that's the whole point. Defining qualia as qualia does not explain away the problem.

And clearly there is more to perception than informational content, unless you think that a copper wire transmitting video footage "perceives" in the same way as a human does -- which seems gargantuanly unlikely, given that how we transmit video is correlated with how our eyes work, so a priori you would not expect it to map onto "universal video footage" even if all matter were actually perceiving in some way.

I think you misunderstood GP, they don't seem to be a fan of dualism either and are in fact defending it as a valid position. The point about intuitive feeling was just a polite concession.

Like with many things, the reference interpreter is in ocaml because one sufficiently motivated insider wanted it to be.

The average human wipes out their retirements savings in one year?