I think forking android could be viable if they put some weight behind it
The difference between this and fireOS is they're almost guaranteed sales. No foreign government is going to stick with an American company if they have a comparable option from a reliable ally at this point... That's got to be hundreds of millions of sales on that front alone
If they can make something good, polish it for a few years, and demonstrate they can lock it down that's almost guaranteed sales. And if they use that opportunity to further improve for a couple generations, they could become a real contender
The only question is will they throw enough resources at it and will they stick with improving it without giving up too early
Citation needed. He definitely holds the record for spewing shit, but nearly every literal thing that comes out of his is a lie and I think he used to talk a lot faster
Although if we account for how shitty the shit is, I could believe it
They censored mainstream media. They boost and censor mainstream social media. They lie constantly, so fast we can't keep up. The Democrats were neo liberals, they seemed like they were going to shift more progressive but now they're becoming neoconservatives
Lobbyists write the laws they may tweak before voting on. The Democrats let the conservatives stack the court, while refusing to do the same
The electorial college, voter suppression, and "it's whatever we give you or the orange guy who wants to destroy the country" has stolen our power
The system is rigged. Almost none of us want this, not just what's happening now, but the destruction of the middle class, the impossibility of housing, the enshitification of everything, healthcare that cripples you to use (if insurance doesn't just delay until you're also physically crippled)
No, this isn't us. We're not in control, our democracy has been hacked by a small number of very powerful people. We have to fix it - but this isn't our fault
When you're a billionaire. Then it turns out, you're just giving your heart to the crowd. And then, when you fund and speak at Nazi party rallies overseas, you're just fighting "woke" or something. And when you agree that "Jews are doing ethnic replacement" on Twitter, you just have to take pictures at a concentration camp and you're a "friend of Israel"
But I do enjoy when people get fired because they think they can do it too
The elections over. It's time to stop blaming voters and blame the Democrats, who even now are strategizing to move even further right and resist anything leftist even harder. They want to "get away from the dominance of small-donors that might not align with the broader electorate"
We are being oppressed. On one side you have fascists, on the other you have a right wing party willing to dip their toe into Fascism so the oligarchs will pick them next time. It's no wonder people check out
People will get unalienated when they have a chance to fight for their lives to get better, not just slow down the speed at which it gets worse. We need to pick a third party, and we need to start rallying behind it now, not just before an election
The most effective thing he could do to help grok... Or really anything he "does"... Succeed is to be as far as possible from them
If he fucked off to a desert island never to return, they'd all probably improve drastically. He has the Trump touch, anything he touches turns to shit
That being said, I wish he won here. I encourage billionaires to be spiteful to one another, and honestly this seems like it should be illegal anyways
I mean you can say that, but were houses/rent getting cheaper? Were median wages rising? The cost of groceries was actually falling slightly, but still way higher than a year ago
Yes, the numbers are worse and so is everything else. There's some amount of correlation, but when everything crashes in the coming months that won't prove the metrics are accurate...
The metrics will crash when our economy does, but that doesn't prove they're good metrics
That's not true at all, they're super helpful. I use them almost every day, they save me an insane amount of time and energy
What I don't do is rely on it. I'm the developer, I know what's going on, it has the memory of a goldfish. It also spits out code near instantly... Which I then read through and usually fix
But it makes less mistakes than I do writing dumb repetitive code. It will, 95% of the time, correctly tell me something in half the time it would take me to look it up, if not less
It's nowhere close to a worker replacement, but it's damn good at empowering people to do what they do
Quite possibly...I mean, they're kinda popping the bubble of lies about the economy and healthcare pretty obviously, and people are getting really sick of the bullshit
"Look over there, a migrant caravan is coming right at us!" Has been a pretty effective distraction for them before, but I think they've cried wolf on that too many times.
Maybe if they can produce a real migrant caravan they think they can win some people back? Maybe if they remove sanctuary cities, migrants can no longer go to the police so crime on migrants will skyrocket?
I mean, it does kinda seem like they're doing their best to do the exact opposite of what they promise...
A few months ago, I would've said how people try to engage you in good faith and how people would read walls of text and engage
Lately I feel people are scared and angry. Which is totally reasonable, but has some of the best parts of our communities
We also probably got a lot of new refugees and more interest from botters... But I used to get love with near every message I posted. Or at least honest engagement. Now? I get way less replies, and way more of them are reading into something I didn't say
Yep... My first "career" job was for a mid sized company. In my onboarding they gave me my employee number but said "you'll never need this, here you're a name, not a number". One time I emailed security saying I forgot my badge because it was with my lunch, and one of the founders called me up and gave me his prepackaged lunch because he said he usually doesn't get through them all. When we closed a big deal, they called us all upstairs to have champagne during the workday. Our mission was unambiguously to help people
Then we got acquired... They gave me my new employee ID and told me I'd be using it for everything. They just milked our contracts and refused wages until we all left
And unfortunately, mid sized companies can give an equally good experience with much better pay and job security... But they're being bought out to secure contracts and gutted at an insane rate.
It's late stage capitalism... If you want to keep growing but you've already destroyed your ability to complete, buy them out to take over their contracts
Oh absolutely... There's tons of petty tyrants out there too, which is different, but also bad or even worse. They might also be just staffing something just as soul crushing too, so it could just be worse in every regard
But small business means your boss is probably there to stay. Ideally, you meet the owner in your interview, often they're the same person. But if you find someone loyal to their people, you can actually give them your loyalty and they'll see you as a person
Security is not obscurity, and while obscurity can slow down a bad actor, it is not security and is not reliable
Transparency can lead to security through outside audit, the more eyes on it the more will security holes will be noticed
It's crazy how this simple thing I was taught on day 1 of my job just can't be properly understood by people. Not even just non -technical people - across the board we have constant leaks, in part because we don't collaborate to build together nearly enough
IDK if this would be viable with an H1 visa and I've seen many other options I'll be looking into, but here's what I normally tell people in this position: small businesses are built different
They're harder to find, they usually don't pay amazingly, but they're way more human. It's not all run through spread sheets, you work for humans who get to know you and (can sometimes) actually be like a family...(If they say that phrase it's a red flag though)
It's hit or miss, you likely would be working on legacy stuff or have to wear many hats... But it's work where you know what you're doing and who you're doing it for
I mean, true, although I thought they were pretty upfront on wanting to produce the fuel in-house and specialize two reactor lines
Which, yeah, isn't ideal... But if it works, they can't patent an element. They won't be able to monopolize the tech forever
It seems like a very elegant solution... If they can overcome the engineering challenges. There's probably far better designs that could be made from the core idea
I think deepseek shook them enough to realize what should have been obvious for a while... Brute force doesn't beat new techniques, and spending the most might not be the safest bet
There's a ton of new techniques being developed all the time to do things more efficiently, and if you don't need a crazy context window, in many use cases you can get away with much smaller models that don't need massive datacenters
I think forking android could be viable if they put some weight behind it
The difference between this and fireOS is they're almost guaranteed sales. No foreign government is going to stick with an American company if they have a comparable option from a reliable ally at this point... That's got to be hundreds of millions of sales on that front alone
If they can make something good, polish it for a few years, and demonstrate they can lock it down that's almost guaranteed sales. And if they use that opportunity to further improve for a couple generations, they could become a real contender
The only question is will they throw enough resources at it and will they stick with improving it without giving up too early