dustbitying

why speak about an integer number of humans in a percent?

to soften the blow?

because they're speaking to investors, often institutional for whom it's more useful to know the rates and who don't particularly care about the lives of the employees joining the job-seekers?

what's the difference between a subroutine an a proper C function??

theyr'e so close to what they're in principle.

IMO, C functions are the answer to the problem exposed in the famous quote "goto considered harmful".

assembly is all about GOTOs.. C provides a *structure* way to deal with them without getting bored to day (it all becomes way to much to soon)

but I think (for reasons that I wish I could get into) that in the end, the goto-based assembly code can go up to multiplication, but then with C and their computer-functions one can go beyond exponentiation.

What is there beyond, I can only name by reference but wouldn't say I undesrtand it... which tetration.

so riddle me this: why is 2[op]2=4 for all these operations: addition, multiplication, exponentiation, tetration, pentation!?

imma go keep being insane. thxbai

I've been waiting for civilization franchize to do this.

by this point anything less than free form chat with the other 'leaders' won't cut it

where the mods plug advanced (post-chatGPT) AIs into this.

it happened already, but it's still "military grade and security cleared" away from plebs but I am a crazy person so feel free to disregard what I say if it makes you queasy. (q easy, cue ez)

also, it's online.

> There is absolutely no reason to impose such a limit.

regardless, I'm pretty sure that somewhere within Apple, they think it makes them more money this way, for the immediate term at least.

> Reduced need for education. Right now, about half of college graduates do jobs that don't require a college education. For many people, going to college is not cost-effective. That will increase.

you seem to implicitly assume that a college education is an unnecessary expense for most and that therefore, it shouldn't be really given away so readily. this suggests to me that you assume that the real purpose of college is job preparation. your reasoning makes sense from the perspective of a higher level institution (or corporation, or possibly a government) seeking to be as efficient as possible regardless of the impact on typical human individual's well-being.

college is not a 'factory' (or any sort of industry) that 'manufactures' workers for companies.

given your argument, it seems your gripe is with object orientation rather than with turing-completeness.

and the goal, the dream, of every human is to live off charging for rent

I remember the thankfully now extinct, era of browser toolbar add-ons... yikes

on the other hand, there's a strong incentive for group-organizations, specially profit-driven and "the show MUST go on" kinds of organizations to never depend on a single (or a small sub-group) of people to keep things going; lest somebody important gets hit by the proverbial bus.

IMO, this is also part of the challenges that come with dealing in software (understood as some sort of novel "substance"); in great part we (as a culture/civilization) haven't figured out how to deal with software (and in general, with digital artifacts) in the best way.

it's a disappointing choice of words to say the expertise is getting diluted. it's not diluting, it's spreading, getting disseminated.

to say that it's diluting softly implies that it's getting lost, that we're running out of a specific 'innovation' when in fact, it's getting adopted, integrated into our regular lives. Of course it's initially imitated, this is part of how it's getting spread (copied). People will imitate it so to learn what the 'innovation' (as a noun) actually is.

humans are natural "copy-cats". this is how kids learn.

so why are ideas imitated? it's human nature.

and not only humans, other apes are known to do this "monkey see, monkey do"

there was an interesting experiment in that human children, as opposed to chimpanzees, would imitate the nonsensical aspects of behavior, making it as though chimpanzees are more 'rational' or more 'logical' than human kids.