I loved this one too and I believe it is an excelent followup: I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. (The most uplifting video I'll ever make.) @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mq6gmPo0s
Although it's not a very thoughtful article and manages to ignore the sheer number of people that today use the internet compared to even 10 years ago, I can myself relate to what's said. Old days internet was about communities and businesses ran by people with their own interests and products and servers, now it's tech giants and their networks ran by algorithms trying to milk and eat and replace those communities and businesses. I myself stopped using social networks and all of sudden I have nowhere else to interact. Sad.
depending on the scale of what you want to do, you might not need to have a lot of capital to get some online service up and running. however, you might find it difficult to have access to the same advertisement resources, you can be cloned right away, you can be blackmail-bought, you may find limitations put in place by hardware makers or by the ecosystem owners and you might have to share your revenues with those guys.
so, although you can start with nothing, others start with a lot more - and capital reproduction and primitive accumulation keeps happening, whether you like it or not.
you have an answer in marx's capital: all surplus is wage theft because the capitalist, who does nothing, gets money from those who do the work. so any more money you get is not free, it's just a slight reduction in the money which is getting stolen from you.
just want to thank the developers and community for their amazing effort. i just started webdev in python (which i did not previously used) and sqlalchemy's docs are amazing. again, thank you!
The strange order of things, by Antonio Damasio.
It's about the development of emotions and feelings, culture and ideology, technology and whatever else makes as human through the lenses of evolutionary biology, namely through the development of the neurological systems. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32335976-the-strange-ord...
Others: The Wealth of Nations by Smith and the first books of The Capital by Marx.
I agree with this. From my experience, people who feel lonely (and feel saddened by that) tend to become overly worried about what others think of them and obsessed on making an impression. That usually leads to them becoming an echo chamber of themselves and starting to act "artificially", which is noticed by others as not being authentic.
I'd say that sharing, which arises from mutual interest, is the cornerstone. So being in places where people authentically share mutual interests and cooperate is a great place to make friends. Sports associations (team sports, climbing, hiking, with the added bonus of physical activity being awesome for mental health) community centers with activities (chess, musical groups, dancing)...
I believe Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist, would have a different opinion. To everyone interested out there, i suggest reading The strange order of things.
It's about the development of emotions and feelings, culture and ideology, technology and whatever else makes as human through the lenses of evolutionary biology, namely through the development of the neurological systems.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32335976-the-strange-ord...
I understand that, however I'm still not very convinced (obviously not saying it's not a huge amount of work) for the reasons in my other reply in this thread. Thanks for your answer and sorry for my ignorance!
Sorry for my ignorance, but take, for example, Qualcomm chipsets, which are used in millions and millions of devices. There are 5 main series (2,4,6,7,8), a maximum of 9 generations for a total of 33 variations. I understand that 33 variations are a lot, but don't they share a lot of code? Apple Silicon has, at the moment, 5 variations in 2 generations (M1, M1Pro, M1Max, M1 Ultra and M2), and this number is going to grow quickly.
Then we also have MESA drivers, which support, for example on NVIDIA, dozens of GPUs on a variety of architectures.
I am getting this totally wrong? Is the effort that much greater than, for example, those projects? Is a Snapdragon 429 that much different from a 630, 665, a 750g or a 845? Apologies for so much text and thanks a lot for your answers!
There's this years long quest to keep old phones alive, which is amazing (i'm myself using lineageos). But what are the odds of doing the crazy stuff people at asahi are doing with mX macs? There are absolutely no drivers for that hardware, and they are building everything from the ground up.
Of course it's a huge amount of work given the considerable amount of different chipsets, cameras... but am I dumb to believe there would be a lot less work to upgrade no new generations of the same chipset? Aaand would it be less secure?