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Plus the decline in Google quality and failure to diversify revenue streams?
He’s pretty couple to a story of popular stagnation at Google. Not sure where he could go. This is likely a puff piece to get people to propagate and push down old content.
Supply side economics says this is what we supply, you buy. Thats how it works.
They’re just people. Not divine mandates. There is zero real obligation to serve contemporary socio-political and economic norms.
Not really finding any of this progress in computing shocking though. Unix and that model wastes a lot of resources dealing with strings.
What a shock we reduce the amount of fluff to just enough symbolic logic to instigate appropriate electron state to solve a problem, rather than brag about a new DSL to tokenize, parse and logic to process bespoke template syntax in yet more asinine “file formats” …once you remove the chimps chasing Shakespeare, superfluous state doing nothing but propping up venture backed coder boot camp grads jobs we find super powerful software.
Shocking, I’m shocked.
But it’s the meat suits in charge of government that are the problem. We hide behind reductive euphemisms.
The problem is Nancy Pelosi, Trump, Biden, Mitch McConnell, Schumer, Feinstein, Grassley, RBG… the problem is leaving the same old ossified assholes in charge.
Electrical turnovers have flushed corruption and improved economic gains for public: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766
Stop voting for post world war, Cold War paranoids, who huffed leaded gas fumes prior to the ban. Ageist? Who cares! Look their implicit ageism deflating the next generation, doing nothing but ignoring global warming.
The problem is not nebulous social terms like “government” or “capitalism”. It’s the fucking nutjobs in power.
Everyone wants to take the Leave it to Beaver approach to our elders. The result is nihilistic indifference to the future as we wax poetic about the problem. It’s bizarre and pathetic how we continue to debate the issue in vacuous abstraction
That was a thing when I went to public school in the late 80s-90s. Easier for schools to manage assembly line thinkers. This is 100% intentional government policy. The kids who don’t fit in the system are “troublemakers”.
My family is full of PhDs and tutored me. Teachers tried telling my parents otherwise but the fam laughed in their face and pulled the “free speech” card.
Look at the ages of politicians, the material comfort they have, then question with a straight face why our society is ossified and half asleep.
What’s one more form of BS hallucination foisted upon the meat based cassettes we exist as?
Everyone’s a missionary spreading some mind virus about why their figurative babble is worth another meal on your dime.
Why let another meat suit infect you with vacuous prestige language? They’re just one of billions. The flow of stuff we need is just data anyone can learn to understand. They’re hardly magic beings with divine vision. Their semantics need not be the futures.
Turns out human meat suits are just driven by biology to survive and not egalitarian human philosophy and psychology
You’re engaged in vacuous min/max of categories and harm. Who cares about engaging. At the root of it you’re one meat suit whose existence doesn’t matter.
^ keep telling that to the “wrong” person and they might just do something about despite it being a disposable comment on a backwater social media forum
Some projects seems to be pulling “ops” functionality into a new monolith that is also the languages native environment (deno, vercel)
Still all Linux at the hardware layer and oodles of scripting language state, HTML/CSS. The web is a bloated mess after the “throw spaghetti at wall to try and gain market advantage, boost engagement” efforts of the last 10-12 years
MBAs ran software engineering as if machines were squirting soup into cans.
Covid lockdown was the perfect time to just not login and make Congress deal with it.
Only 1 million sworn LEO in US including local, state, fed. No way police can pull together a door to door dragnet with those numbers and 3 guns per adult in US. I mean look at the Ulvad police and assume many are just like that. Pathetic.
Gen Z seems aware it’s all political chicanery so unless the rural nutters blow stuff up, GZ and Millennials could leverage their 170 million strong to steamroll over 50 million GenX via politics.
IBM refused to risk its old tube business on transistors so Uncle Sam paid for it, gifted tech to IBM.
Internet was a government defense project.
Capitalism is just people. The euphemism is getting too deep. We need waders.
If Exxon can correctly model climate change back in the 1980s the Fed can correctly model how deep to cut others to hamstring the masses acquisition of assets for themselves over 12-24 months
Self pity and self blame are just euphemisms for the same emotional context of being down on yourself.
Not really sure he says anything here, leverages swapping one term for another.
It may be consistent within the context of human language but human feelings? How does “self pity” feel different from blaming myself for pitiful state of things as motivation to fix them.
I’m not so sure last century’s rent seeker investors who worm tongued politicians into propping them up are dropping novel nuggets of philosophy.
If you want to live by raw logic well, you’re one of billions, idgaf what you want.
^^ there’s social life under raw logic, sort of like regular life where I have no obligation to your existence, but everyone reminds you explicitly instead of hallucinating otherwise cordially
Hallucinations may not be all that bad unless they’re hallucination's that lead to atrocity. Like the hallucination we can keep burning resources to make AI bots.
Why our bubble in time is specifically owed resources to make barely updated iPhones each year?
Why these crappy synthetic gadgets? Why not compute in chemistry or biology? Business machines of the 1900s are not the only viable substrate for computing.
Invisible resource consumption pipelines offset resource savings elsewhere. Drink carts on airplanes have their own resource supply chain while most just think of the fuel costs.
Reducing life for the masses to “make money” has infantilized people. Not so sure why we’re afraid of pushing back against a generation that can barely hold its head up and the tacit ageism they put upon us to prop them up at our expense.
Abacus, slide rule, grid paper, mechanical pencil, or gtfo!
IT is data librarian work. I compute with raw materials of reality, not 1970s semantic babble. Software as an industry has a lot of fat to cut.
…The argument can work from various contexts. Not the flex you think it is.
Market of goods and services with prices determined by social behavior among buyers! Sounds like socialism!
I know language skills alone make it feel like yer smurt but when you go compose dumb logic, eh.
It would be government overreach to force such. Since I have no obligation to your existence itself, who cares what you have to say, or your philosophy? You’re just some pointless meat suit I have no responsibility to.
There you go; you got exactly the world you project you want.
Like in the “clearly people doing the work is why potatoes are on store shelves, not due to the shareholders of Ore-Ida, which is hallucination.”
This reads like empty circumlocution in defense of programmer jobs.
My boring EE and math degrees are from another era, before all this cool software jargon captivated the world. I am not really sure what all the verbosity of the DSLs, config formats, and many programming languages really solves from an engineering perspective. Much of it feels like baggage from the era before graphical computing first; iPhones don’t boot to a CLI, right?
Humanity burns a lot of real resources preserving computing history when the first computers were human mathematicians. What does a Commodore and Borland have to do with mathematics? Feels like nostalgia more than engineering.
I will keep iterating on personal computing experiments. Ye olde cranks of software lore and genius CEOs are just normal people hallucinating about their essentialness to society. Yawn. (I’m doing it too!)
The real energy vampires are not the sarcastic, but the toxic positivity crowd peddling Ponzi schemes passed on from dad and his 80s bitching Camaro crowd. Yes, yes, you did something within the constraints of physical reality. Ooh wow an expensive agency manipulating boondoggle; can I subscribe to your newsletter?
The next generation grew up on the internet. They’re aware of the hustle, whereas the aging out elders were maybe a bit less discerning given lack of education and experience; how were they know it’s just arithmetic and Boolean of memory addresses and semantic babble? Their special boys seemed convinced and the elders might have been a bit more accepting of hallucinations given their religious upbringing.
I ended up in software expecting to have a career in industrial controls, but entered that field at the tail end of offshoring, never got my foot in the door as networking became harder, internet was not so socially organized back then. Couldn’t figure out where to be at the right time.
I’m fucking sick of “software” as we know it. It’s elementary DSL parsers and git pull github.com/everything.git which given how things work with software is great but that that’s how things work in software is ridiculous.
We’re just normalizing to our innate sensibilities. We have no idea if we’re making intelligence or what that even means as us humans must work within the constraints we evolved into. We have no idea if we generalized consciousness as it could exist across space time.
You and I will never exist outside our universe and observe what makes it tick. We’re hanging out on Earth making mannequins talk, hallucinating we’re gods because of it. Humans are artificial intelligence given their lack of direct observation of so much of the universe.
Conway came up with his game of life after the universe. Sorry, AI researchers, life, consciousness and visualization were already created by reality. We’re just working on an easy to use Dewey Decimal system to catalog it.
Such memes have gone viral across our society. From big beer boycotts, to turning on Google and SV. Filter bubbles across contexts are turning on the source of their fascination; we’re out for video games, Hollywood, beer, celebrities, experts, politicians. Knives aren’t out yet but the sharpening stones are.
The real value of decades old value stores foisted upon us in deference to the investor class, for if we do not validate their decades old choices and memes, they will have no choice but to engage in punitive acts, drive fiat economy off the fiscal cliff!
People are getting fucking tired of it. Sooner than later they’ll resort to whatever behavior is necessary to meet their needs and shoot anyone who takes issue with it.
IMO Sam is one of those CEOs. He’s knows the semantic games, but his list of novel accomplishments is as long as my dogs, who also just follows along with elders demands. Really not all that impressed.
OpenAI employees look even worse now, concerned with network access via one of the billionaires classes Special Boys.
Sam once Tweeted we’re all stochastic parrots, incapable of knowing where we’re going or whether it’s worthwhile to go there. Admission enough to me he sees things as pointless pageantry to exploit.
Tech workers have externalized a lot of this kind of hurt.
I have little sympathy for STEM heads who projected “screw you got mine” who then find themselves in a similar position.
It’s just meat based cassette tapes on Earth, engaged in vacuous min/max metric hacks given the physical constraints of reality.
Industry leaders fed on elders memories of war time production norms and educated us such was “normal”, so we normalized it in code for money, regardless of the externalities.
Elder generations need to have their authority over the next generation nerfed hard. Exploitation of youth to prop up some aging out figurehead smacks of old divine mandate memes.