ramesh31

Pangram et. al are complete total nonsense. The academic world was trained for decades to rely on tools like TurnItIn.com because they were fairly reliable; searching for hashes of known text is a simple tractable problem, and so being non-technical they've conflated the two. There's no going back now unless you are performing pencil and paper proctored exams.

You just stop caring. Everyone else did about three months ago. Time to find something new to care about.

Written by someone who's never seen a major enterprise Slack bill

Did you consider he would have thoroughly evaluated the top contenders objectively and gone with the one producing the best results? Honestly I wouldn't expect anything else.

>"Let this be a warning to shit companies with shit products and shit business models."

...that you can be a shit company with a shit product and a shit business model and still make a shit ton of money and get hired by Google?

The thing I'm always struck by with these kinds of interviews is just how mundane it really was. We tend to ascribe this sort of legendary status in retrospect to projects like this that makes it seem like it was an elite group of techno wizards in Valhalla who spent their life's effort on it. But very very rarely is anyone thinking "this is the most groundbreaking revolutionary work ever achieved that will be adored by millions for generations" at the time, it's just regular joes showing up to the office and saying "yeah this was a thing I worked on for a year back in the 90s".

An open source client means nothing. You're still downloading a 3rd party binary from the app store and using their infrastructure.

>"If you can just barely afford a home, that also suggests that you don't have enough financial cushion to deal with all the little surprises that come with homeownership. Worse, you might be ill-positioned to weather a something like a recession. Recessions are nasty things and have a tendency to cause people to lose their jobs and become underwater on their home loans in rapid succession."

Except you have to live somewhere, it's not like buying a boat. All of these dangers apply equally to owners and renters. Yet the protection you get from owning in that situation is massively advantaged over renting. Lose your job and can't afford your mortgage? Oh no, guess I'll have to take out a HELOC, or apply for forbearance, then wait years to be foreclosed on and declare bankruptcy. Lose your job and can't afford your rent? Sheriff's knocking on the door in 90 days to throw you on the street.

I mean it's pretty obvious these things (Signal, et. al) are just honeypots for the three letter agencies, right?

>Why not join a book club, or find some other outlet which serves your intellectual curiosity?

It's the stakes. Sure it was fun and intellectually satisfying, but ultimately it meant something because there was a prestige that came with cultivating a skill that brought the ultimate external validation: abnormally high pay and prestige. It was the blending of those two things that made it so special. Not a soulless pursuit of money, but also not a naive pursuit of something for passion alone. You could spend your days diving deep into something fascinating, and it was highly lucrative to do so. Now it seems we're left to choose one or the other.

>"I really don't understand what the point of being so rich is if it doesn't let you tell a moron like Trump to fuck off."

Because they aren't really that rich. It's all a house of cards built on numbers in a spreadsheet, vague IP valuations, and server racks. The people controlling the true wealth are getting exactly what they want in the form of inflation on commodity and asset prices.

So both major (and the only meaningful) possible Node alternatives have been absorbed into proprietary monoliths in the last year. We all know how well the Joyent years went, RIP to open source innovation at this point.

>"Any details about the streaming ui lib they mention or about the format of the ui code?"

It's SEP-1865: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/seps/1865-mcp-apps-interacti... and https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps

Particularly for high performance code when branch prediction is taken to account

Indeed it depends where you're at on the ladder. First time home buyer hoping to move up lands squarely in A if you have any sense at all. The goal of course being B when you're in deep equity after decades.

I do think it will continue on in a sense. Think of how Ferrari or Bentley employees are highly skilled technicians who work on one car at a time to completion, versus the auto line worker at GM screwing down a panel over and over. There is still room for both for different reasons, just at vastly different scale.

>"it it'll make my house just that much cooler."

To you it will. To the next buyer it's a liability. In a world where paying off a mortgage was a possibility, this was fine. Now you're beholden to the median desires of the real estate market with every decision you make on your house.

>"Something I've always wondered: What keeps the guards and thugs of the ""elite"" from just killing the elite and taking their money?"

Read Leviathan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)

>"There needs to be a "what stage of grief are you in" question."

There's a different level of acceptance that embraces this stuff and just leans into it. The grief is still there, but I'm working through the depression and into this stage. Accepting that you've been pushed from a craftsman to a machine operator really sucks. But machine operator is still a job, even after machines get really efficient. Maybe some people can still hang on to their artisanal workshop existence for high value small batch goods. But most of us will just have to make that move to the industrialized model or fall into redundancy.

Under what criteria exactly is Israel a "foreign adversary"...?

Yeah, reality is this fall/winter is when we start seeing the shift from "engineer guides claude on their laptop" to "PMs write tickets and everything else is hands off until pressing the merge button".

>"The next level up of decacorn is sub 100 so if we only tracked that it’d be a bit limited."

That's kind of the point though, isn't it?

>"to compete with Google and the likes, the scale, cost and complexity would be huge."

CloudFlare's entire business is scale, cost, and complexity. They are powering like half the web at this point. Wouldn't really call them a "new entrant".

Isn't the $1B unicorn number from like 2015? I feel like that's a pretty typical series A/B valuation at this point.

Yup. Examples examples examples. All of the descriptive stuff is just nonsense that confuses the point. Makes perfect sense when you remember that these things are not intelligent, but truly just autocomplete on steroids.

>"This is a common experience with any unfamiliar genre: it all looks or sounds the same at first, because the point of a genre is to express variation within a specific, familiar structure."

If it were a question of genre, sure I get that. But we're talking about effectively all commercial art at this point. It has nothing to do with "western superior" racism or anything like that. Japan does not have this problem at all, even though they invented the anime aesthetic.

Where is the Chinese Mario, Elden Ring, or Metal Gear? What studio is producing a truly original distinct visual language?

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>"the end of human labor can’t come soon enough."

Are you so certain that the benefits of that will be equally distributed to people like us?

>"Connecting dots across knowledge, lived experience and purpose remains, to me, a deeply human pursuit."

Connecting dots doesn't pay my mortgage and put the kids through school. Writing Javascript used to. So now what.

I reached the depression stage before even realizing that what we are all going through now is indeed grief. Here's hoping acceptance can come soon enough and lead to something more productive.