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People started saying this several years ago and yet it hasn’t really come to pass.

Candy Crush is probably the majority of that.

I think they are just saying MS will rush out yet more Halo games, ie Halo 14, Halo 15, etc

As someone who works in big tech with a partner at a similar big tech company _but with player coaches, DRIs, etc_ it is basically the same thing except messier.

Your manager who used to just focus on motivating and unblocking their people? Now they have to ship code too since they’re a player coaches! You’re a DRI who needs management to get your project unblocked? Too bad your player coach who has to ship code now also has 20 direct reports because the hierarchy was flattened so you can’t get time with them until next week and are blocked until at least then.

It is the hot new trend from the “thought leaders” who have all consistently copied each other’s bad ideas for the past 10 years.

Because most people in tech never took a philosophy course or an ethics course and think that tech is obviously a good for the world and that there are no downsides to advancing tech. So any efforts that try to apply ethics to it are overreaching, ignorant, and futile in the face of the good that is tech!

Just a Jack Dorsey thing. He writes all of his communications like that.

Not everyone is at a point where they are greenfield picking a language for a new project. Sorbet was built by a large organization (Stripe IIRC) and is used effectively by organizations with large Rails codebases. I think Sorbet is a great way to maintain velocity on a large Ruby codebase after the initial velocity benefits of dynamic typing have ceased and the dynamic typing is actually a drain on velocity.

Setting reasonable minimum wages would take care of citizens without a patchwork of programs being needed.

Low-end jobs aren’t non-existent. The EU still has people working at fast food joints. But the EU mandates paying those people a reasonable amount of money. The US is much more guilty of forcing people in low-end jobs to require government handouts despite being employed.

Anyone working in a full time job of any sort should be able to live without government assistance. The EU’s labour laws come much closer to that than American laws do.

Are they forced in? I thought they were given a choice of pursuing a treatment program funded by the state, or getting a more conventional punishment such as jail time.

I believe the above post is quoting Spotify, not making a guess.

> Could the US do better? Yes.

That is like comparing a toddler to Usain Bolt in a race and saying the toddler could have done better.

The US isn’t even trying to manage any money from its resources in a way that benefits its citizens in the long term. Americans should be furious about how poorly managed the wealth from these natural resources is being managed, but instead seem to think that America is too different from Norway to even consider doing a similar sovereign wealth fund. The same bad arguments get made about healthcare all the time.

Lots of American Exceptionalism in this comment and the replies.

The Norwegian state makes so much money off of oil because of how well they manage the revenues. The US could do the same thing but chooses not to.

The difference between the US and Norway isn’t in the amount of fossil fuel reserves one possesses vs the other. It is in how the money from those resources is used. The US privatizes it while Norway puts it towards the public good.

My understanding is that the various unions view Tesla’s actions as a threat to how labour works in Sweden. There apparently isn’t even a minimum wage in the country as everything is governed by these collective agreements. So if they let Tesla come in and not play by the rules it could open the floodgates for other large corporations to come in and do the same, slowly eroding the system.

I think the Canada thing was an honest oversight. The party in power isn’t even a right wing party. Pretty centrist. They don’t have any motivation to shift the overton window in the “maybe we’re okay with Nazis now?” direction.

There is a lot of research going into making kidneys without the markers that cause rejection. They hope to make pig kidneys compatible with human transplantation this way.

> Anyone getting hired by an American company is looking to immigrate.

That simply isn’t true.

Canadians simply make less. At a large, well-known company my partner works for they can trade one US req for two Canadian reqs.

TBH I don’t know why some places even bother hiring American devs. Canucks are half-priced and I can’t tell the difference working with a mix of US and Canadian employees.

I think AI will be less like the Industrial Revolution and more like a country finding large oil reserves.

Countries with strong social institutions like Norway do an amazing job of distributing the gains from finding oil.

Countries with poor social institutions (basically all of the developing world) end up enriching a small minority with the oil money. Even Canada doesn’t do a very good job of improving the lives of its citizens with its oil money.

Given the way the Western world has been going in terms of wealth consolidation, I am not optimistic about broad segments of the population seeing the benefits of AI.

> Mark “My other platform enabled a literal genocide” Zuckerberg

Can everyone agree to refer to Zuck like this from now on?

Gigging with a 24” kick drum is something I will never do

I played professionally while driving a Camry! A 20” kick drum and a mic for it is all you need, and that fits in the back seat of a Camry. Everything else can go in the trunk, at least with a reasonably-sized kit.

I swear by the Glyn Johns technique if you need something relatively simple!

https://musictech.com/tutorials/technique-of-the-week-glyn-j...

The drums themselves get to a point where it is diminishing returns on sound as you get more expensive. But you can always get another cymbal to fill a niche!

Wood vs Metal snare drums sound way different even with the same heads on them. There is definitely a difference from the construction of the shell. (I left a comment higher up too but snare drums are just so obviously different based on the material)

I am a former pro drummer (now a programmer which is why I hang out here)

The wood definitely matters. Beginner kits are usually made out of poplar and even with good heads and tuning they just sound bad compared to a kit made with a wood known to sound better. Maple and birch are quite popular, oak, bubinga, and ash all make appearances on high-end drum sets. I used to work in a music store and saw a lot of drum kits come through, and high-end kits even with the same heads and tuning as low end kits do just sound better.

Also, in the rest of musical instruments, particular woods are valued for their acoustic properties especially on string instruments. So I don’t think it is that far-fetched to say that it makes a difference in drums too, unless you also want to argue that an acoustic guitar made of particle board vs one made of maple are the same. (They do not sound the same at all)

Agreed. I don’t have a lot to add or a good solution, but that is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time.

No my assumption isn’t that consultants make good estimates. It is that nobody in our entire industry knows how to accurately estimate how long a software project will take, so I would be a highly sought-after rare commodity in our industry.

In this vein, my manager doesn’t appreciate when they ask for an estimate and I say “If I knew how to accurately estimate software projects I would be making millions as a consultant. But I don’t so I’m here”

The company I work for is on GCP and I live in fear of seeing the “Google to shut down GCP by $now + ~2 years” headline.