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That's not lobbyism, that's straight corruption. Lobbyism is, at least in theory, about convincing politicians

Obama making an account on Twitter is a marketers' success. Twitter became popular first, politicians wanted to appear there second.

WSocial just went to politicians directly,it's not known by general public. Good news is, it rarely helps with commercial success

Not marketers, lobbyists

Practically, if you choose a big enough server, it's rarely a problem. mastodon.social is the most popular one, maintained by Mastodon the non-profit itself.

Biggest turn off and a killer feature depending on who you ask is a lack of Algorithm. That's why people who move away from Twitter feel disoriented, but people who were never on Twitter in the first place are alright.

Terry Tao, Bert Hubert, Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf), Bunny Huang are just a few in my feed. But Mastodon is more about peer-to-peer communication than celebrities farming engagement indeed.

No signs of enshittification either so far, barely any new features being added TBH

There is no reliable data on how many of these jobs shouldn't exist at all, even without AI

Does it ever end though?

Try translating some prose from English to another language, then, in a different model, back to English

Yeah, they created a team that accomplished something (or a team that created a team), so it's well-deserved.

Are there other companies? Where you are submitting PRs that solve no known problem?

Who gets a sense of accoplishment from prompting an LLM? Do you get a sense of accomplishment when AI draws a picture or writes a poem for you? I guess there are some minds I'll never be able to comprehend

I would use strategic nukes in 100% simulations, just because I can

Still I can't think of an event where Swiss cops would be able to collect similar footage.

There are people with cardboard signs, and there are BLM protests or occupy Wall Street. Can't remember when the last disruptive protests were in Switzerland, but in Germany I'd say tame protests are the norm and disruptions are an exception

Search has degraded for sure, but still better than anything else? Maps - I guess you mean Apple ones are better? Can't tell, I am not on Apple, but if you don't use Apple products, there are not many alternatives to Google maps

I think it was ruled that 1 star review without any words at all can be considered a defamation

In software I can imagine a worker-owned consultancy, but not a product company. It would imply staying in one place working on one product for your whole life, which doesn't sound inspiring

Technically true, but I don't think anyone tracks education levels of refugees.

I think the Swiss are not known to be particularly open-minded in Europe. They have ton of money though and the landscape is great

I believe people migrating to Switzerland are largely educated Europeans, so population density must be their biggest concern about migration

I think at least in Germany it's not true - among people coming to Germany there are more refugees of various kinds than professionals

I'm not a Brit, but I do enjoy British culture, including writing. I haven't been able to read any of Ed's rants to the end despite generally being on the cautious side towards LLMs

C, C++ and Rust are the only ones that stuck, but programming languages graveyard is full of C++ killers. Rust is around because it offered something new.

Well, alright, scalability + expensiveness create ideal conditions for monopolization. Assuming it's cheap now, scalability still doesn't go away. So it's a) cheap b) easily reusable, you make it once cheaply and quickly and it stays with you forever, and can be used by others too - I don't see a condition for lots of job creation in software engineering here.

Software boom due to SMEs looks very unnatural to me, because what makes software so special is its ability to scale, so it naturally tends to monopolization

"Like unsafe Rust, but more convenient to use" is basically every imperative language around there, I still don't understand the specific niche that Zig intended to fill

How is software engineering not a domain? If other domains can be easily learnt, sure this one can too

I don't understand the idea behind Zig. What I have read sounded like "let's make a language like Rust, but not memory-safe", which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Well, the abstract also says they were not feeling well because of that, I guess that's what matters

I mean, it's right there in the abstract. The study showed that people working remotely were more isolated outside of work too.

Personally I enjoy working remotely and value time spent alone, but the data looks interesting