I’m just brainstorming here, but do layoffs pave the way for hiring new grads at entry level wages, with more cutting edge knowledge?

Sure, that overlooks the loss of tacit knowledge that keeps the company running. I haven’t actually figured out yet how large companies can keep packaging out their senior employees that glue their disorganized systems together with undocumented knowledge.

Agreed. I participate as a thoughtless investor trying to maximize the growth of my savings but I hate that I have to even bother. Extra work, some guilt or anxiety around whether you made the right choices, and more complicated taxes. I think it’s horseshit that I’m effectively obliged to play in this casino the ruling class set up, just so my money retains its value against inflation.

I’m not against my money being used to grow businesses. But then just let the bank deal with it and pay me a fair interest rate for lending it to businesses. I still haven’t been given a good answer as to why the stock price of a company should have any effect on its day to day operations or revenue generation.

Fascinating thank you. Brings me back to ArcMap training days. I wonder if they have some data layer for “local population acceptance factor”.

Just out of curiosity, what makes them cheaper to build in populated areas? Doesn’t that mean the land value is higher when purchasing/leasing the site?

I found the website you linked to be easy to digest. Impressed with their work, from the perspective of someone who uses Linux but doesn’t know too much about this stuff (other than patch good). I like how they gave credit to both the human and AI.

Thank you, that’s fascinating. Not exactly aa egregious as a smart phone constantly sending out mic and cam data. But it’s nonetheless interesting Kash is being so open about it. Comes across to me as marketing the idea to the public that “if you let us and corporate America spy on you, we will keep you safe”.

Can you link to the evidence from the Guthrie case?

I’ve always figured it was theoretically possible. Interested in any cases of it in the wild.

I’m trying to be more Bayesian in life, but it’s a difficult lifestyle change!

I think it’s higher than a 50% chance of heads, because you have evidence for it being an unfair coin.

I dunno I suspect left leaning Nice Guys have rapists amongst them as well.

Wait I’m confused. Sam Altman is OpenAI right? And he says the DoW agreed to work with them but with the same prohibitions that Anthropic wanted?

If it’s the sending and receiving part of email, I’ve switched to purelymail (you could pick another) and put it behind my custom domain name. Because behind a custom domain, that’s the last time you’ll have to update your contacts as it won’t be dependent on which email provider you choose.

Searching through decades of old emails I do still use the Gmail account, but I just have to get off my butt to self host a local IMAP server for that.

That makes a lot of sense

lol what’s the Melania one? I want to read his tweet on that.

I hate when someone’s house has an Alexa or whatever and I either have to accept it’s listening to me, or spend social credit asking if they can turn it off when I’m there (I’ve never actually made that request).

Also where are the “think of the children” folks that are putting in the age verification laws. Shouldn’t they be concerned that a marketing agency built to profile individuals is privy to everything your kids do at school?

Oh man I’m installing this. Thank you!

Oh what’s tldr?

This is not something I’d ask of developers, but I like having a GUI for initially learning all the options and flags. It’s nice having a visual of which parameters are allowed together, where order matters, which ones accept arguments, etc. This is partly how I learned Ffmpeg back when I was still using Windows.

Once I’ve got a high level understanding, then I’m headed for the terminal.

Realistically I have a text editor putting a script or complex command together with the man page open on another screen. Not as friendly but generally works.

I don’t see TUIs a lot. Usually they are very linear. Would be interesting to see one with more of a 2D array of options.

That indeed helps maintain a more consistent picture of how he’s a douche. Still sucks a benevolent founder of a non-profit can’t stop enshittification in the long run.