In dumb people terms, corporate gig economy players are using algorithms to artificially depress wages of random workers for work that is very similar in scope, if not the exact same (they work similar hours, in a similar area, with similar vehicles and in some cases they are even getting offers for the exact same job with wildly varying wages)
Kitty has done great work in this regard. The Keyboard Protocol and the Image Protocol is top notch. Accurate keys was a much needed change. The image protocol blows sixel and ascii out of the water. The thing that baffles me is that so many people are resistant to these two things because they don't like the lead dev.
Yes, those pure, angelic and kind trillion dollar tech companies are being bullied by the big bad evil EU government because they are jealous of their success. They're just haters
Its not like it has anything to do with them consistently violating people's rights and having the biggest monopoly in the history of the world. Get it twisted, you must defend them tooth and nail because one day, it could be you. /s
I feel like the better "model" would have been to make a free and open source language with some structure to lead it (even could have been in house only like sql or something) and then create highly specialized tooling to go with the language sort of like Microsoft or Jetbrains does. I don't really condone this either, but at least it would have a chance to get off the ground.
Its a reallyyyy hard sell to pay for a language just so that you can create software, especially something that sounds scary like Pascal. (idk anything about Pascal specifically but thats the vibe I get and I guess people will feel similarly) what happens if I build something with a proprietary language and the rug gets pulled out from underneath me? Thats the kind of concern people should have. Thats a LOT of trust before even starting programming. Especially when so many great languages with great ecosystems already exist for free and extensive examples and docs.
I honestly feel that. I love programming like crazy, I use Linux, but I genuinely just don't care one iota what features my phone or TV has... I just want to browse reddit, read webnovels, call my friends and family, watch and listen to music/videos, and take a few pictures. Sometimes I play with Termux. All these other features are just not important.
I think the thing I like most about my phone is the OLED screen, which has been basically the only feature I've cared about.
Of the 74 million children in the US, 11 million live in poverty. The average American makes 40,000 a year and healthcare and housing are more expensive than ever. Yes, the things that are problems have changed, medical advanced have been made, but most of that is out of reach for the majority of people unless they are willing to take on millions in medical debt for things like cancer and diseases that have preventable measures. just the fact that we have to reel back that far to paint a good picture of the present, says a lot. Let's be real, this audience is generally wealthy and are not necessarily going to be in touch with how the average person lives.
Sure, that's still not the win you think it is when the material conditions of the average person is pretty awful all around. I laid out a small percent of that in my original comment. and that's not even considering the poverty "first world" countries rely upon from the heavy exploitation of the "3rd world" from slavery conditions, to coups and death squads funded by US corporations, to stealing their resources.
The US has one of the highest child poverty rates of any "first world" nation, minimum wage is lower than it has ever been, we pay more for healthcare than any of these same nations and have worse healthcare outcomes than Cuba, housing is an impossible dream for most... Wealth inequality is just one indicator of a larger problem, not the problem in it's entirety, and poverty is still one of the biggest problems of the modern era. Saying that we are slightly better than the 1800s isn't the win people seem to think it is.
I find the fall of the South African apartheid pretty fascinating all around. I wasn't really even aware of this aspect. Fun fact, this is where the BDS movement started (boycott, divest, sanction) and the majority opinion at the time was that the apartheid would never end... but after a long time of continuous pressure from many different pressure points, it caused a lot of stress which led to its collapse.
pretty interesting that this was done on a Toshiba T-100. What a neat computer.
but pretty much every country does some form of this as a method to subtly propagandize citizens of other countries. Its surprisingly easy to pull off.
blinkenlights is amazing! The entire time I was learning programming I thought to myself "hmm I wish I could see what the memory and registers actually look like at any given step" and bam, blinkenlights. Its an amazing piece of work.
the context of the article is that as a manager, you can say that you value one thing all day long and do lip service to this hyper-idealistic set of goals... but that people are going to intuitively sense what is actually important to that person by what they incentivize and hold important through actions.
an exaggerated example would be a manager saying that they value communication and talking through problems, they can proselytize about the values they think a team should have all day and night. But when everyone under that person sees that person consistently yelling or going off on people when they try to communicate with them about a problem... we are probably just going to shut that person out or hide things from them because its not worth the stress of trying to communicate with that person.
this isn't about people striving to please their boss, its about perverse incentive structures and your superiors words and actions matching.
Exactly. I stopped using it entirely, and I noticed that I would write something and then pause, expecting copilot to take over for a while after quitting. It felt like my brain wasn't really engaged.
Its anecdotal, but I feel a lot better after giving it up and I think I can do a lot more when I can fully reason about the problem after poking at it from different angles.
Pretty much everything. From Stockton Rush who would disregard safety, to British Petroleum who thinks the EPA is the ultimate evil. You may die from lead poisoning in your store bought food, but that is a sacrifice they are willing to make.
We are already experiencing how destructive LLMs have been to information, news, art, articles, blogs, novels etc... not even from the framework of money or copyright, but from the lens of culture and our daily experience. This very well means that any corporation can just suck up anything you create and crap out ten thousand times more "content" that is sanitized of all human context and meaning that buries the people who they stole from and everyone else in cheap meaningless trash. How is the inconsequential? That's massively destructive, even more so than tech already is over the past 2 decades. Of course people have a problem with that. It's not just about money or barely surviving.
Exactly. Even then, the situation regarding text books is insane. Something like these could easily be fixed in many ways. Just in my opinion, text books should be free, based on publicly funded research and MIT or CC licensed and free and open to anyone who wishes to learn. The fact that we gate keep knowledge (that is often research funded by tax payers) behind wealth is a giant she embarrassing stain on this country and this era.
Same here. It's to display the hypocrisy of those in power who declare things in their favor as beneficial and those that are not beneficial as harmful and bad.
In reality it's almost the opposite, it's bootstrap capitalism for the little guys, and "socialism" and government handouts for the ultra wealthy. (I put socialism in quotes because this term is extremely commonly misused.)
I'd say yes. Especially since cross platform support is becoming more of an expectation and the tooling is starting to enable that out of the box. It's definitely something I consider when picking a language and a framework. That's genuinely one of the biggest hurdles here, software availability. Picking Linux, Mac, Android and Chrome is getting a lot more common
this phenomenon is easily experienced while fighting an Elden Ring boss... very often players will spend 2-3 hours fighting a boss, learning the patterns and trying their best... and sometimes its just impossible. but then you sleep and boot up the game the next day and you get it first or second try. Its a really well known thing in the DarkSouls community and it is common advice.
Very interesting. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that measures like "return to work" and things like that are basically methods of "soft layoffs" where they basically put up a giant filter that they know will ensure a certain percentage of people will have to quit, or will quit for some convenience reason.
This is insane lmao. Why not just edit out the line that added into your .zshrc (or by extension the .bashrc) instead of running through all these complicated GUI specific things just to basically rename the file so that ZSH doesn't load it when it runs a shell???
This is exactly why you should learn to use your tools properly, learn just a tiny tiny tiny bit of posix shell (which works for ALL posix shells sh, tcsh, bash, zsh etc...) so that you can understand what the heck is going on.
Like seriously, this is day one stuff. Your shell loads a configuration file and you can set programs to run on start, or configure shell options, set aliases etc... This is nuts man.
theres no absolute free speech in the US. There are most certainly plenty of things you cannot say and protestors are often violently silenced by police and riot squads. Then the media upholds its end of the bargain by heavily re-enforcing the State Dept. position while besmirching the message of the protestors and misrepresenting them in any and every way imaginable.
You can say a lot of awful shit, but you really can't openly oppose the State with any real threat of power. I mean, I wouldn't really call the US admitting to assassinating Malcom X, MLK, among others, the pinnacle of free speech... all theses people did was speak out against injustices that they observed... and that's just one incident. This happens everyday.
My point was that these skills translate to the BSD's, mac, the cloud, android, desktop linux, etc... not to say that only two categories exist. I think even if you do frontend you would benefit from learning linux, but it was one of the larger examples of people who could eek by, by skipping it. It's also not that hard to do and brings a lot of benefits.
WSL is fine as a user and can be really helpful... but one thing that I've noticed is that a lot of Windows devs use that as a shortcut and will target applications at WSL, which usually don't work on actual Linux whatsoever. They only work on WSL. A part of that is their fault, a part of that is WSL, but it sucks either way.
Most AI projects are like this because Python is especially horrific to work with package wise. I've also noticed this phenomenon with Windows Docker. Idk what it is exactly, but the Dockerfiles these guys write work on Windows Docker, but fail miserably on Linux Docker. Its like "how is this even possible?"
So its nice for Windows people, but not nice for literally everyone else.
Yea. They all do it. It's a well known exploitable tax loophole. You have to be rich to even take advantage of this method of tax evasion. This is probably one of the best digestible write ups that I've seen on the topic, I highly recommend just reading it.
> Why should you develop on Linux in a world where the environment for developing on Windows is constantly improving?
Is it? Is it though? I've used both extensively, and I have a Mac M1... and by far Linux is the best for development, Mac is second, and windows is dragging farrrrr behind both.