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Some are very hard: Bibliotik offers very few opportunities to build ratio. Very few people download any given random book, and there is no source of free credit. The economy is very feudal with no real inflation.

Some are easy: the ratio requirement on btn is nominal, and the real requirement is that you seed single shows for at least a day and seasons for a week. The system especially penalizes 'Hit and Run' downloads (i.e., not seeding for the required amount of time) rather than overall ratio. This acknowledges the ephemeral interest of a given TV show, and that each new show release is effectively a 'holiday' event.

As a concept, it's used as an escape hatch whenever it wants to avoid public scrutiny.

The Flock(tm) cameras are very conspicuous. Even the dullest among us can see these engineering senior-design contraptions ruining the most rural landscapes. You don't have to read EFF press releases or read interviews with Snowden to understand what is happening. It was a baffling miscalculation not to anticipate this backlash happening.

It's not just "conservatives" who are behind this. The Clinton and Obama administrations did their best to undermine our right to privacy at every step and turn, just as the others have.

At the same time, our security state apparatus is in a full-force China panic; they've failed to offer a better social contract. We are the ones actually getting a social credit system, without getting anything in return.

Then Steve Jobs just decided to flake out on them because it wasn't the direction he wanted to take the company.

> Hell is working on other people's NoSQL code.

> Hell is working on other people's Python slop code.

> Hell is working on other people's enterprise Java code.

> Hell is working on other people's Windows Forms/GUI Builder code.

To quote Jean-Paul Sartre: Hell is other people.

Were you only relying on the difficulty of producing "working" from replacement skill/rate "software engineers" and their level of disinterest being the only real circuit breaker?

By the time I graduated, computers were cool again.

Predicting the job market is like predicting the stock market. You don't necessarily know where things are going to end up, and simply being reactionary will lead to sub-optimal outcomes.

Learn things that are hard to do, or you wouldn't finish if you weren't coerced with a final grade.

One positive in the current environment is that people who actually know computer science won't be forced to toil endlessly on what are essentially CRUD systems, and can move on to solve second- and third-order problems where their actual computer science skills can pay off. We can stop reinventing (slower and slower) webpages and 3270 terminals.

Related: The authors wrote a paper on their design of the layout engine.

It has opioid-like addiction tendencies.

Lots of people who used kratom to wean themselves off opioids are now addicted to 7-OH. This includes many people over the age of 30.

OnX appears to be heatmaps as a service for outdoor recreation. They have to cover their opex costs.

These are not the subscriptions people have in mind when they say they hate the subscription model. People dislike obvious rent-seeking behavior; they really dislike it when there is no technical reason something can't be sold to them in a one-time transaction; and they hate it when a product that was offered as a permanent one-time purchase is then only available as a subscription service.

We see the same pattern over and over again: (1) subscription service starts and operates at a loss, (2) people recognise this and sign-up, (3) the service gradually enshittifies to the point where there is no real value propisition, (4) company banks on having enough customers from 1 and 2 that enough people will put up with 3 that they can remain profitable.

How does this align with my interests?

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