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AOC dancing in college, Vivek Ramaswamy rapping to Eminem like 2 weeks ago.

See, I very naively thought that it would end with his impeachment. Like, I wasn't surprised by the law breaking, but I figured that he'd be ousted by a simpler thing like emoluments or something. Oh to be young again...

Indeed. Any problem with small business breaking in right now is mostly a function of the fact that our system for anti-trust has completely fallen off. Like the story about Microsoft and Phil Spencer wanting to buy Nintendo or Valve - in a sane world, they wouldn't even consider it because that's a clear case of consolidation that is harmful for consumers.

Libertarianism is a great system if you're using it as a backdrop for a cyberpunk dystopia.

Agreed. My lead at work wanted us to start trying/using Cursor.so (VS Code fork with AI as a builtin feature) and it's been pretty transformative. I don't see a lot of "hey write me a program that does x" but in my (limited) use of this, a simple "why doesn't this function work" has been pretty amazing.

I have a feeling this is a branding issue more than anything. When you could ask google plain language questions a decade ago and get responses, that seemed amazing. This to me seems like that but more advanced and I just hope they sort out the truthiness and privacy implications. On the one hand, I want the tech to advance, on the other, I would like it to not be such a privacy nightmare.

Decades old PC software can run on the latest hardware (often much better than it did on its original hardware).

This is increasingly less true as the software dependencies get more complicated. See also, Rockstar selling pirated games because that was the way to get it running...

I don't have a lot of specific love for any company, but Nintendo getting acquired by literally anyone would be a sad day.

The version of this I always think of is the one in which you're playing a video game and get stuck. And unlike today, where you might spend an hour before you give up and lookup a walkthrough, in the 90's when you got stuck, you just... stayed stuck. Like, "well, I guess I'm going to spend the next week or two on the Water Temple running into every wall and bombing everything until hopefully something opens." Oh and it turns out the solution is something you tried within the first 15 minutes but didn't get quite right.

Up the Long Ladder is an episode in which they picked up some backwater folks with Irish accents, in which the hot Irish woman existed mainly to yell about how men are useless and then bang Riker after coyly attracting him by asking him to wash her feet. It is widely regarded as not a great episode, and the only way they could have stereotyped the Irish further would be if someone ran through each scene yelling about how they're always after his lucky charms.

No, not even close. Housing is a necessity. It's not a new iPhone. You can't just say "wow housing prices are way too high I guess I'll fuck off to the forest." This is already in the initial stages of systemic collapse. The lords will keep squeezing and raising prices, and more and more people are being left behind. You see this all over, notably in the rise of homelessness and tent-cities.

I reject the entire premise. There are a ton ton ton of jobs that are way easier to deal with than working in fast food or retail. The "marketable skill" trope is just more classist bullshit so you can focus on the guy barely squeaking by instead of the record corporate profits and massive CEO compensation. I would be willing to bet actual dollars that anyone complaining about these folks making too much money wouldn't last a single shift.

Also, we're talking about fucking California. Even in the low-cost areas of CA, $20/hr still means roommates and ramen.

It's not really because the developers are cheaper, it's because the vast reduction in complexity is cheaper. Let's say you've got a great general app idea and you're going to build a startup. Your app is going to have to be mobile and desktop. To do that well, natively, this means:

• you're going to need a backend dev who are probably going to be building APIs that are touching on web tech.
• You're going to need a developer team who can target Apple platforms, Android, and Windows. I lump Apple together here because although it's not entirely fair to say that it's as simple as they promise where you just click a box and your iOS app works on macOS, you're at least able to work in the same general toolset (Swift, SwiftUI, Xcode, etc.)
• You're going to need designers who can design to the specific needs of the platforms, which is also going to mean more domain expertise.
• testing for each of those platforms.
• This is true regardless, but you're going to have to deal with more platform-specific support. More platform specific documentation, etc. How do you do think x on platform y? Where is the button on this platform vs that one?
• maintaining feature parity as you continue to build is going to be much more difficult, and you're going to have to decide if you want to maintain feature parity and slow the whole process, or give up and launch on some platforms first (hopefully there is no one that uses a Mac and an Android phone or Windows and an iPhone or an iPhone and a Samsung Tablet or that gets annoying real fast.)

In short, moving from one platform to two natively doesn't double complexity and cost, it's far, far worse than that. It's not that a good web dev costs $70k vs an iOS dev that makes $90k, it's that a good iOS dev costs $90k, and a good Android dev costs $85k, and a good Windows dev costs $80k and one of those people hopefully is familiar enough with each platform to be the team lead so you can tack on another $20k for them...

And all the while you're building that team and building your 3 different platform native apps, a competitor or several will launch on Electron and web tech and take the market because no one except us nerds give a shit about whether something is using the right platform idiom or even knows what they are, and far fewer still have any idea how to check RAM usage and the like.

Posted elsewhere, but what do you call 4 nazis drinking with a 5th person? 5 nazis.

Indeed. It's like the world championship of cosplaying as a smart person.

broken clock yada yada

This. Alex Jones has been a not-infrequent guest. Jones, and others that Rogan has platformed in the guise of "just asking questions" are akin in my eyes to the ol' "What do you call four nazis drinking with a fifth person? Five nazis."

Aside from that, he's got a massive amount of absolutely horrifically bad scientific and medical opinions. I've heard him described and Gwyneth Paltrow but for tech bros, and even that's a little generous. Shove a lemon up your hooha or whatever Gwyneth is up to is probably not quite as problematic as "take this horse tranq to cure your covid" esp. during the alpha wave.

Also, in a lot of cases, supermarket tomatoes are nowhere close to ripe. Supermarket tomatoes are generally garbage anyway, but if you can give them a day or two to ripen.

I like VS Code, but it regularly takes up 3-5 gb of ram on my systems to edit 2-3 text files.

You know, as an amateur with massive impostor syndrome who's probably going to be applying for jobs soon, this comment and those like it give me strength.