skeeter2020

What about:

>> In an era obsessed with both hedonism and productivity...

This sounds like the exhausting root problem, and I don't want to participate in maxing either.

overall I had a very similar experience, but did make a few very good, long-term friends out of it that have survived our kids growin up and apart.

not only do they exist, they are by far the more common variant. Whenever you hear about a massive unfunded pension liability it's a defined benefit plan.

same - I was like "headline reads like PR but I guess it's good..." reminder to self: there was an Amazon before the bald bookseller

>> I took the pay and bought the computer

This was such a common experience for devs in these days! Even very experienced devs like Andy Hertzfeld talk about building software in exchange for hardware. We would have just spent the money on sw/hw, so it was just simpler :)

not when by your own rules it's legally ruled "not theft".

thye could describe in detail how the LLM did this. That would explain how much - if any - human in the loop was involved, was it comprimised credentials, did it find new exploits or use known ones, etc. Evidence would mean details, not a smoking gun.

ChatGPT is way above typical CPM, maybe $60-$100. That puts it in the same category as premium YT verticals. If they can sell enough at this price point it would make a big impact, but I'm super-doubtful they can do that; campaigns are basically blind at this stage, and I would not be surprised if this was intentional.

ChatGPT ads are sold as being super-well positioned based on the detailed context of the chat session but I have seen very little evidence of this, or perhaps their ad inventory is so small they can't find anything relevant to display for a session. Regardless they are ridiculously expensive, approaching what is charged for NFL broadcasts to huge, captive audiences without providing any of the data needed to assess effectiveness and ROI.

that doesn't feel tone deaf to me, and is a legit strategy to kick-start deeper happiness and satisfaction. I a huge component of money-related unhappiness to me appears to be context, i.e. people who need more.

It's funny when popular blog writers get criticised for turning blog posts into books (usually while leaving the original posts accessible) when I feel this is way more honest than doing exactly what you say. Resilient Management by Lara Hogan and An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson do the former and are two of the most useful SW Management books I've ever read.

Relational DBs have been around a very long time, and I suspect the processing/transfer time was not the bottleneck, while data access was, so redundant data with the standard relational model wasn't the primary concern.

maybe this is a good thing though, where someone with a huge, legitimate contribution and legacy gets to cash in on their status, vs. the typical influencer.

true - my first reaction was this seems like a weird milestone, as people like Vint Cerf don't really retire and stop, just change how & where they contribute. This seems like a nothing story pushed by TC and Google PR, more than a real event.

we're going to need a lot of very tiny syringes and band-aids!

No doubt there's great programmers with philosophy backgrounds, just like I've worked with many from chemistry, physics and music. The conversation here though, is a bunch of pompous arguing over minutiae and correctness, trying to win using the densest phrasing and allusion to deep knowledge of esoteric readings and history, i.e. much like my one university philosophy class. Meanwhile people from all backgrounds are busy getting shit done and actually winning.

Russ: "Anyway, next thing you know, we IPO, stock triples in a day and AOL gobbles us up. All of a sudden, I'm 22 years young and I'm worth 1.2 billion. Now a couple decades later, I'm worth 1.4. You do the math."

Richard: "Okay. Well, that's a gain of $200 million over 20 years. Um, 16.66 repeating. That's less than 1% return. Inflation is, like, 1.7. I think CDs are 2%. So that's less than a CD."

>> 150M at 5B revenue is not great: that's 3% margin!

and yet everybody - including Microsoft - is in a big rush to sell us AI services, which could look an awful lot like a historical utility business. 3% will be a dream return in that scenario!

>> receive 2–5 support tickets per week. I read every one of them.

I don't think reading 5 tickets a week is the flex you think it is. Now if you responded with lettermail to every one, that would be impressive.

We have a larger family and Costco combined with access to a decent grocery store that's within walking distance is great: get deals on larger quantity staples and milk, eggs and bread several times a week.

Walmart does this too, and it's one of the worst experiences/value-propositions I've ever experienced. It might be better in the US but in Canada it's expensive, poor quality and painful: pick three.

What about the price-quality aspect? Costco blows Amazon away here IME. Plus there's the fact that someone can become an employee of Costco out of high school and spend their entire career there, with decent wages and benefits. That's not happening at an Amazon Prime fulfillment warehouse.

so Step 1: Be Bobby Fischer? super helpful for us mortals...

except that was never used against the powerful and wealthy, just the same poor who pay the price today.

Maybe - or is this closer to the naked theft we saw out of the collapse of the Soviet Union? That's still playing out...

I'm not typically a fan of government intervention in markets but Canada's marketing boards do stop this sort of concentration, so while we have higher average prices we do not get massive swings in prices, nor the physical conditions that come directly out of production consolidation that lead to events (or justifications) like avian flu at the same scale.

I first read this in 2001 on an outhouse door while treking in Tasmania:

ODE TO THE WOMBAT

As you pound along the track

Eyes wide open and ears pinned back

You may have noticed those queer square turds

And thought, if not expressed in words,

The pain of such defecation

Baffles the imagination.

But it ain't done to entertain us—

The wombat has an oblong anus.

So if at night you hear pained cries

Outside your tent, feel no surprise.

With eyes shut tight, teeth clenched with pain,

A wombat's gone and crapped again!

almost like it's by design!

"Google was a different company n years ago" where n is how long they've been there + ~6 to 12 months

I think it's fine if a person (1) recognizes and appreciates the situation, and (2) can make it work without starving to death. There are a million examples of luxury in the first world and we're ignorant of most of them.