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GenZ believes in people. When they give up, they won’t give up on the system, they will give up on people. I’d keep a watchful eye on that development.

I’d say the people in the beginning and end have a tangible resentment, and not necessarily an existential crisis. In other words, GenZ would be resentful of having to start fresh against the barbarian Millenial/Boomer horde, and Boomers would be resentful of any attempt at reformation where their scraps from the race would be worth less.

It’s only Millenials who would neither resent GenZ or Boomers because they were already GenZ once upon a time, and know they have to become Boomers to survive.

That would be my best argument for why Millennials are in some deep psychological shit.

At the beginning of the race we see the incessant vain jockeying of a group trying to socially manipulate constantly and fit in, and on the other end (the actual end of the race), you see a group constantly trying to justify and protect what scraps the race allowed them to keep.

And in the middle you run as fast as you can, hoping you escaped the beginning of the race, hoping you make it to the end with some scraps you can call treasure. You run away from the beginning of race, disgusted at what you once were, and disgusted at what you need to become to survive until the end.

It’s in that moment of realization you wish the universe imploded. All that running kills the soul.

I wonder how much he charges for ad campaigns like this.

He’s done this plenty of times.

Another example:

Guest randomly talks about low credit, Joe: Where do you even find your credit score, Guest: Credit Karma is pretty good, it tracks your credit for free

It’s the podcast version of product placement.

That’s a provocative thing to say. What should China do if that is indeed the case? They can’t continue being the world’s factory if they only have 1-3 kids per family.

I wonder why impulsivity doesn't get as much attention, no pun intended.

How about

C suite to fire the senior engineers because a tier-1 consultancy convinces them they can deliver their product utilizing AI tools

Said consultancy knows AI can't deliver it, and uses mostly manual labor for it

All programmers end up at these consultancies

And the world keeps going as it thinks AI is solving everything, but it isn't. It's still Kumar in IT that's ssh'ing into the box.

It's kind of been one of my main critiques of companies like Palantir. You really can't just dump a company's data into the big ML tumbler and expect useful/sellable products to just pop out. Take a random use case like, I don't know, Pepsi. Maybe Pepsi can get some insights about their supply chain and customer preferences. Alright? Okay. Did the world end because that happened? Not really.

Shifting gears back to programmers - AI will be a super smart programmer that will write a bunch of your code. I worked with some super smart programmers, and they can manage to write a lot of super smart code that eventually becomes a clusterfuck too.

We'll just go from unwrapping human shit code, to unwrapping AI shit code (or even better, unwrapping a mix of human shit and AI shit). The job prospects here are even greater than you imagine.

Long as you maintain the belief in the fundamental truth, that anything in existence is capable of writing shit code, then the world will never end for programmers.

He carefully keeps that one out of sight.

Hate to deify a Steve Jobs, as if he needs more god-like overtures, but that is what will always make him different than your Tim Cooks of the world (or your Sundar Pichais of the world as opposed to Larry or Sergey, your Activision-Blizzard management versus just the original Blizzard team).

Two completely different types of animals. In a sense, that’s why we usually describe this loss as a company’s soul leaving it. The why goes missing and the what, which is always money, is all that’s left.

Compare to this instead:

https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/laptops/yoga/yoga-2-in-1-seri...

They also have a list of which of their laptops they tested with Linux:

https://support.lenovo.com/pl/en/solutions/pd031426

Again, System76 doesn't have a price yet for their Ryzen 7 laptop so I can't say if this Lenovo is overpriced in comparison. Maybe, maybe not, but given this Lenovo price, I'm pretty sure System76 ain't going below $2000.

Both actually, the markup is extremely high on their stuff if you try to get a gaming rig from them.

I built all my PCs since I was 13, and I can say it's not as involved as people think. You really kinda screw in the motherboard, pop in a cpu, and a graphics card/ssd (or if you have no need for a discrete GPU and you get one of those CPUs with decent integrated graphics, you are basically only popping in a CPU). There is like two wires that go from your PSU to mobo at best. The thing is pc hardware prices are already absurd since Covid, so when you add in this extra markup on labor, you are just getting something that's way beyond normal prices. You might look at a $1600 price tag and scoff at it as nothing, but its really a $800 dollar machine with all this extra stuff added or marked up. I've seen people look at $2000 pre built machines and just think they are crazy for buying at that price. It's like ... I don't even think its a money thing, it's like a scammy thing. Imagine if I show up and sell you a iPhone 10 at iphone 14 prices. It's the principle of the matter.

You know, there are some afternoons where I don't know what to do with myself. Setting up/building a PC is an hour for me. If it's new to you, it might be an afternoons worth of work. It's not an endless multi day fiasco, I promise.

In general, how serious are these driver compatibility concerns for modern laptop hardware?

Not Crypto, AFVs.

The pitch:

This is not another scam Crypto startup. This is an institutionally backed, fully transparent AFV.

VCs:

Oh, I see. Yep we're in.

I think that will help get it started. Then swap to a non-profit monthly sub model where people are simply paying for use (pay out the cost for labor and hardware at that point only). A utility bill essentially.

Yeah, I think we could crowdfund a billion dollars for this, but we'd need some really competent people making sure it gets used optimally.

He has no objective capability anymore to be self aware, and it's made worse with prescription drugs.

When the feds come knocking on your door asking about several billion dollars going missing, and you let yourself do the talking via blogs and interviews versus your team of lawyers, you have absolutely lost your mind. Certainly don't add adderral or alcohol, or anything to the mix. Go into a small dark room and smoke some weed you junkie crook. Keep quiet, your inner circle already ratted on you. Have some respect for the $250 million your parents scourged up to bail your stupid ass out, reprehensible fuck.

He’s high as fuck on Adderral right now. The Adderral high can make you feel like the dumbest shit you are doing is the most brilliant thing in the world.

It’s not as simple as picking up your phone, or … well, it’s not as simple as putting on glasses.

The proverbial luxury condo building adjacent to a slum in the third world. It’s funny, I’m not sure if I can claim the last sentence as an analogy because that’s exactly what you see in India.

It is what it is.