296 karma · joined January 17, 2016
The economics of Oranges and juice are fascinating. In Florida, we had a major outbreak of citrus canker that made most of the oranges grown here unsuitable for sale by USDA standards (still safe for consumption). So, off to the juice factory to be stored in those massive vats.
Synthesizing texture, adding faces, meh. It's all an array of pixels to aid hallucination. The sooner we break out of video = impartiality, video = truth, the better off society will be.
Choosing what to record, how to crop it, what to show destroys videos supposed fundamental impartiality.
It's more like AWS RDS for MongoDB.
Mongo the org should play MongoDB like Google does Kubernetes, Golang, Chromium, etc. Have your people in there, funded, steering the project as 'FOSS' while you release actual products.
Mongo dropped the ball by having no on-ramp product like GCPs Firebase. Their Cloud provider hate is just a flailing reaction to bad business and existential fear.
Stop being a crybaby when someone makes a few forms and buttons that spins up a vm with your DB software running. Of course cloud providers would want a tight integration with their systems.
Managed Kubernetes on AWS makes k8 stronger, managed Firecracker on GCP and Azure makes Firecracker stronger.
A well configured OS is magic, and with Lamby on the purism team, I'm sure it's going to knock socks off.
In my opinion, anything more hands on is a bit complex for kids. Maybe show them how to do a few silly things on the bash shell? espeak is a fun text to speech cli application it should be in your distros repo, it's sort of like the Microsoft Sam voice app that came with early Windows. Text editors, games, all fun for kids exploring.
I'd eventually show them how to add software and update it. Then they'll discover fun things naturally. Maybe not necessarily programming.
10/10 would add to my daily RSS feeds!
The most offensive to modern sensibilities (and advertisers) isn't the naked people, but the gore, self harm, and extreme fetish communities.
I personally prefer working with people I can have a high level discussion with and they deliver their portion with best practices, good communication, baked in. That's valuable. I believe it makes your work distinct from someone without those skills.
If it were all anonymous and I can make no distinction, you're equally valuable. There are cases where people from poorer places should and do get the higher wage.
When the West had an industrial culture, we could compete with inexpensive labor because we had superior skill concentration, logistics, and capital investment. If you're willing to pay a premium, do so. It was Consumer indifference that let it happen.
If you can't utilize someone to their potential because of some political or social barrier, that's an absolute shame.
Lol, imagine as the farmers are in the fields, and merchants in the shops grinding away to make a few dollars a day. This remote dev is making a 10x multiple of their pay. Sweatshop? Ha.
Calling it a "Software Sweatshop" is a little hyperbolic.
It's about setting a tone and building a culture.
Talking to handlers only gets you so far. When your livelihood is at stake, and you want guarantees, you have to use the correct channel. They're not attacking the government. They're asking for clarification.