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To quote a Canticle for Liebolitz:

To survive the Church's slow sifting of the arts, you have to have a surface that can please a righteous simpleton; and yet you need a depth beneath that surface to please a discerning sage. The sifting is slow, but it gets a turn of the sifter-handle now and then– when some new prelate inspects his episcopal chambers and mutters, "Some of this garbage has got to go." The sifter was usually full of dulcet pap. When the old pap was ground out, fresh pap was added. But what was not ground out was gold, and it lasted. If a church endured five centuries of priestly bad taste, occasional good taste had, by then, usually stripped away most of the transient tripe, had made it a place of majesty that overawed the would-be prettifiers.

Why not tie housing price to minimum wage? We don't end up in a feed back loop that explode unlike in your example.

A job is worth only so much. When wages raise above that amount those jobs disappear. Street sweepers are one example.

Reality disagrees.

Software isn't tooth brushes. The simpler and more specialized it is the cheaper it is to maintain. The more complex it is the harder it is to maintain.

I'd hardly call a $400 per year per seat contract top dollar.

There is software out there that is both much worse and costs in the tens to hundreds of thousands per seat per year.

If you want professional developers pay professional rates. A doctor asks for a hundred bucks for 15 min.

I wish that half the executive initiatives I've seen ended the same way as this post.

I still get a laugh of ecma 404. The first time I looked it up I refreshed the page a large number of times before I realized it wasn't an error.

The way you compare a technical drawing of a steam engine to The Fighting Temeraire oil painting.

We stopped people dying from easy things so now they die from hard things.

Anecdotes aren't data. Cornhs disease is know to go into sponteneuous remission in around 10% of patients for no reason what so ever for years to dacades at a time.

So if you have batch of a thousand people each going from one fad diet to the next you'd get around 100 of them telling you very loudly that whatever flavour of the month cured them. The 900 who didn't just move to the next fad.

The most ridiculous make work rule I've ever had was being forced to use objects instead of functions because it was apparently easier to claim oop code as capex than fp code.

That doesn't solve the problem, it just pushes is down the road a bit. The exponential growth is merely offset by a constant factor once. Unless we figure out how to push transistors in the 5th, 6th etc dimension with every new generation.

I disagree it happened instantly, it's just that Boeing didn't make any new planes for 20 years that made it to the sky. Even the Max was a redesign of an existing design.

A reminder that US life expectancy dropped two years in a row before covid19.

Yes, they are fighting a war of survival against the Zerg.

What a world to live in, where the right wing is the one which pays attention to reality and the left ignores it.

A bit like the fact that immigration in Australia is now the main reason the RBA is driving interest rates into territory that will create a ressession because the government has set impossible to sustain immigration targets and told us as much: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/migration-surge-adds-to-i...

Or that Australia has been in a per capita ressession and the only reason why the economy has grown in the last 9 months has been immigration: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/10355306...

But you're a racist if you pay attention.

Think seti at home.

Instead of wasting all the compute on bitcoin we pretrain fully open models which can run on people's hardware. A 120b ternary model is the most interesting thing in the world. No one can train one now because you need a billion dollar super computer.

Or just doing a bit of research on which ISP provides static ips with the ability to serve continent. Not everything has to be Google scale.

Or hire a static ip and expose whatever ports you feel like.

Its amazing how far we've fallen from the internet of the 90s when you could get this done on most ISPs with all of a phone call.

You uncle McRacy doesn't have 200,000 followers. Your cousin McFatt does.

Mods are raging that they are getting paid. Users don't care because mods are power tripping assholes who make spez look classy by comparison.

The way to save the internet is to force everyone to have a recent picture of themselves next to any post they make.

I can provide agpl software for a printer driver which none the less doesn't let you load the source code for the printer driver.

If the original case for the GLP is still not covered by the AGPL in $current_year open source licenses have failed.

A license for the internet of the 90s, not the one we have today.

Will no one think of Amazon's profit margins?

We need new licenses that let developers get more of the pie because no one is benefiting from the GPL in the age of cloud computing. Who cares that Linux is open source when I'm locked in aws and can never leave? What does it matter to users when their data is stolen to train Ai models and they don't even know what's in it?

We need a Benjamin button movie set in the work place where you have a 20 something starting today and working back till the 1960s so people can see what we've lost.

Yes imagine how well a cast iron bike would handle. Or a wooden one. There is a reason why even steel is not used any more in bike frames.

Get a load of this boomer thinking you still have the luxury of a cubicle. Open offices are the norm in tech regardless of salary.

Transformers is modern AI the same way that a cherry is an ice-cream.