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I've been thinking about this and while it's true that I have been trying to find a viable subscription model for my business over the last couple of years, that's not really important for you.

But it does benefit you in a very real way.

I work alone. I'm very good at spinning up features in a few hours. With a subscription model I can release these changes continuously, so you get new features and improvements on a weekly or monthly basis.

If I had to come up with a release schedule I'd have to make a lot of decisions about cordoning off different features, coming up with names, marketing materials, deciding what goes where. This is a huge mental and technical overhead. I'd be juggling git branches across multiple pieces of software, the website, and beyond. I'd be incentivised to put more and more things behind the next paywall and I'd be getting less and less real work done.

I don't have the marketing clout of Apple or Microsoft. They can take a different approach. I've tried a few and now I'm trying this!

One more thing, I do plan on adding some more cloud-based features as time goes on. I'm already managing a Chat GPT integration, and in future I'm picturing an online content library and search to let teams quickly access decks and slides for demos. But that's future stuff, so not relevant to your question just now.

Short answer: it lets me, as a solo developer, give you more cool stuff.
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Your comment is down voted, while the comment above calling people of a certain race "monkeys" is upvoted. That says something about the crowd here.

Reminds me of the images of George W Bush as a chimpanzee. Didn't see any more such images when he got his successor.
> If you want to create a world where there's no bullshit jobs at all then you'd be creating a world where millions are unemployed.

With such absolutes we're entering wild hypothetical territories.

An alternative viewpoint would be that no bullshit job => everyone does a humane job with a purpose. Wouldn't that be nicer than breaking one's body or mind for a soulless job, artificially so just to get money to put food on the table? I think we're fairly happy to not have to hunt for food and plant crops.

A second alternative would be that millions (90% so... billions? all?) being "unemployed" would mean (as you seem to imply) they wouldn't get paid (or they would through some flat social revenue) and money would rapidly cease to have any meaning as we understand it.

Both cases converge to a post-scarcity economy[0], one popular example of which is the Star Trek economy[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekonomics
Five years ago the Mister people were similarly unable to STFU about raspberry pi’s. Mister is still emulation, it still has tons of issues, and it’s still $700 invested before you’re actually playing games. Meanwhile we’re in a golden age of RGB mods, flash carts, and optical drive emulators for original hardware.
On road use is banned. Also, the cost per gallon of leaded gas is at least $10/gallon now, which is a pretty large incentive enough for people not to use it :)
The clear hypothesis in the question was "for jobs that AI can do just as well as a human".
Are you a libertarian? Much wage theft is not paying for time worked - a violation of one of the sacred Contracts you little rascals love so much.
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The internet isn't fun.

- If not all, most sites now force you to inhumanly deselect all cookies and "legit" consents that without would be making cash off your data.

- Most blogs have a ever so annoying scroll model of "Subscribe to my blog, enter your email" or prompts of: "Login with your gmail/apple mail". (medium)

The same goes for "Do you wish to visit this in said mobile $app?" restricting any UI interaction until you click a tiny "no" button. (Reddit)

- Web Pages now hijack the back button to the home page.

- Loading times are abysmal, over 2mb to load what?

From when, where you could hop over the small rainbow coloured fence and enter a whole new lush garden, full of organic nature and green with a forest leading you to the backtracks...

Your now encaged and faced with a dull grey corporatised agendaed wall. Locked in to an garden with over-beaten grass; divided and with less equality unless you're willing to sacrifice everything.

Where's the interoperability?

Discord isn't fun. Servers die quickly, subscription models, forced UI changes.

Nothing fun with Facebook, Twitter and what they push.

Removal of dedicated server's from online games takes away individually.

You rarely are able to play with others on other consoles. And then your at the mercy that $corp doesn't cripple the game; let alone plying without internet.

You had clients. ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! BBSes, forums... and now your kept to being a slave of what, two? WhatsApp, Discord?

Sure, outside, the niches of Telegram, matrix, slack et cetera all exist but the general populist don't follow those.

VR isn't it either. It has -it- but I can't wait 15 minutes for a VR room to load because I'm stuck on 2mb broadband.

Anything else interactive is gate kept and freedom is kept non-existent as that if you try, your thrown against an electric fence of Terms & Conditions threatening electrocution if you do.
> I think we can already see AI replacing junior developers.

Even if this is the only effect we see, it still has pretty major consequences for the future. How would one become a senior developer in the future if there are almost no opportunities for junior developers?
I am not convinced ai tools will replace those bullshit jobs, when every other piece of technology since has not obviated those jobs, perhaps has created more even. There must be some inherent value for keeping the working population occupied on these sorts of things during the day. No time or energy left after a work week to plan revolutions perhaps, or to harden oneself against consumerist propaganda, or read into what the actual verbiage of what public policy is saying.
Because their current market valuation was massively inflated because of the AI/GPU boom and/or bubble?

In rational world their stock price would collapse if they don’t focus on it and are unable to deliver anything competitive in the upcoming year or two

> of the market where they're doing much better than nVidia?

So the market that’s hardly growing, Nvidia is not competing in and Intel still has bigger market share and is catching up performance wise? AMD’s valuation is this highly only because they are seen as the only company that could directly compete with Nvidia in the data center GPU market.
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Nobody hip wants to live in those places. Wait til their properties double or triple AND the county changes the rate to build those 6A schools.

TX, too conservative for anything like Prop13 and tollways owned by very smart Spaniards.
They are preferred not because of inherent superiority of AMD GPUs. But simply because they have to price lower and have lower margins.

Nvidia could always just half their prices one day, and wipe out every non-state-funded competitor. But Nvidia prefers to collect their extreme margins and funnel it into even more R&D in AI.
I was raised in a very religious household, but I left the fairly young. I spent the next couple decades around a large amount of both religious and secular people. It’s been my anecdotal experience that religious people are exponentially more likely to volunteer and donate to help others. I’ve seen yards cleaned, homes rebuilt, soup kitchens hosted, mobile laundry services and free shoes/clothes for the homeless, church closet giveaways (basically a free yard sale for the community), hundreds of doctors filling a convention center volunteering their time and money to treat people for free,… I don’t doubt non-religious people are doing these things, but I don’t think it’s at the same scale, and the secular nonprofits that are offering this kind of help often skim a lot off the top to pay beefy corporate salaries.
This sounds accurate to me—I found my way into a company that offers 10 weeks paid leave for both mom and dad, unlimited PTO, flexible scheduling, work from home, among other things. A director just left for round two of her parental leave, I know at least two other people who are currently on it, and a lot of the developers are parents (quick mental straw poll suggests ~50%), many of whom explicitly have time off during the work day to take care of kids. I'm certainly not planning on going anywhere else any time soon.
A far more recent and relevant example is that of secretarial and typing pools in offices.

Pre personal computers, this was a viable career: taking notes in meetings, typing up and sending letters, dictation, filing, etc. functions that, for 99% of folks they just do themselves.
What you're saying makes sense from a procedural sense, but the article pointing out that there's 50B in stolen wages means that the punishment for wage theft isn't aligned with what's needed. In fact, the power imbalance between employer and employee means that it's far harder to for employees to recover their wages or punish the other party -- which, to me, means that the state needs to do even more to help.
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this is way better, and should be at the top.
> I would intuitively go with the decoupled tools every time.

Seems to me that the problem is, each of these "decoupled tools" you mention isn't some specialised little awl or hacksaw ("the Unix philosophy..."), nor even a do-anything Swiss Army knife -- but a whole stack of cloud services, "integrations", and administration tools in its own right. A whole machine shop of machine shops. Building your own custom setup out of that is hard. You'll end up with something at least as unwieldy as a really big do-anything single-vendor mega-machine shop stack of cloud services, "integrations", and administration tools.
A huge percentage of the software that is getting built today is little more than a CRUD app with some sort of domain specific data model.
> Not bettero or worse than software emulators.

FPGAs and the associated dev tools allow for timing analysis/timing constraints that cannot be done with software based emulators.
Is that on highway 168? Beautiful drive. Always loved the Westgaard Pass.
More than that, a second implementation of CUDA acts as a disincentive for NVIDIA to make breaking changes to it, since it would reduce any incentive for software developers to follow those changes, as it reduces the value of their software by eliminating hardware choice for end-users (which in some case like large companies are also the developers themselves).

At the same time, open source projects can be pretty nimble in chasing things like changing APIs, potentially frustrating the effectiveness of API pivoting by NVIDIA in a second way.
Oh, of course that must be what closed circuit meant.

For some reason I just thought “looks like the switches are little doors, like in a floor plan, and they are all closed now” and I never examined it.
It feels like "Make the AI software work on our GPUs," is on some VP's OKRs, but isn't really being checked on for progress or quality.
That’s correct. I’ll add more details soon
I didn't say she's incompetent. I said the opposite. I assume her and her team and her industry know how to eliminate scalpers. I said

> They obviously prefer scalpers exist.

I'm sure they have their reasons for this. But everyone else shouldn't act like scalpers are the bad guy then.
This is no different than living in a city, going to work in person and renting cheapest, crappiest place of residence you can. You could say "There is always someone willing to tolerate shittier living conditions and undercut you" if your pay was based on your cost of living. But it's not. Your pay is based on the supply vs demand for the type of work you do. If it so happens the work you do is worth enough to support you living in a large city(and your sales skills good enough to take advantage of it) great. There is plenty of people who work in person and can't afford more than a room in a bedsit in a city. Imagine how much better their life can be if they can do their work remotely and they can rent a house "in the hicks" for the same money.

There will always be people willing to do your job for cheaper as well as these that take 3x what you take and do half. Such is life.
> I can't see "US" and "Mexico" from space.

You are speaking with an adult. These arguments do not work on me. I pay income tax to the US, not Mexico, and if I don't, the US throws me in a real prison cell. Countries are very real to me.
I don't think every search warrant needs to be executed with a pre-dawn raid. I do think that these measures are called for when investigating a domestic terror group with an avowed animosity towards law enforcement. The old adage about safety regulations being written in blood is also true for law enforcement procedures, and while I agree these measures are sometimes excessive, I don't think it's excessive in cases like this.
Low income mothers can get formula from the government.

https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic

It was probably all theft to exchange for drugs.

During the pandemic there was a formula shortage and allowing theft rather than punishing it probably ensured some children went without unnecessarily.
This is the sort of thing people never really warn you about.
> I want my presentation software to have a set of features and then never change until I make a very deliberate act of upgrading to a new version while still having the old one around in case I get stuck.

Note that I'm not using the App Store for distribution, I'm using Sparkle, which means that it never updates without you allowing it to.

Also , if it's a dealbreaker for a lot of people, it would be trivial for me to make older versions available for download! (I keep them all, and this has come in very useful on some recent support calls).
I stand corrected I guess! Apparently I’ve seen someone try to do it once now?
Yeah, I've seen something similar but they were calling it "time theft". Funny enough this company had a reputation for stealing time, so they'd know
Well, the truth is painful, the lie is expensive - while she's pretending to be your friend, everything is ok. And if you actually had a friend who was that beautiful and graceful and dedicated to you, everything would be ok!

Whether the service is pathetic or not depends on how it's used.
I don't like those things either.

But a counter argument is that uBlock origin, Pi-hole, and Reader mode in Firefox go a long way to blocking those things and creating a nice reading experience.
> I mean having a useful professional network for getting jobs

Why does this need to be local? Even when I was working in the office a good chunk of my professional network wasn't for in the same city as me.
The country you live in doesn't have the machines to make those goods.

The country that has the machines, wants cash. Where will you tax the revenue from? Are you hoping for some sort of technological charity? The Chinese will just ship us 10 million ass-wiping robots for the nursing homes for free, because they're a kind and benevolent people?

I understand things perfectly well.
I think this problem is a symptom of another problem though. I mean the fact we have to scaffold stuff out like that suggests our programming languages are shitty, wasteful and lack sufficient abstraction over common problems.

If we're paving that with junior developers or AI then we need to push the problem up the stack a bit more.

Example the other day. It took me 30 minutes to work out how to read a damn CSV in Go. Yeah I can ask ChatGPT to do it to me, but why the hell is it so damn unintuitive getting to there. Today I want to plot geographic data in R. This is also a hill to climb.

The instructions are simple. Our abstractions are just crappy and ChatGPT is just a shit crutch over a crock.
Isn't that a feature and not a bug for light switches?

It's not uncommon to have multiple light switches control a single light socket - switching any of them changes the state of the light, therefore you cannot consistently say state-x = light on, state-y = light-off.
We should go back to checkboxes. The problem here is having the text change and be too clever.

[x] Mute

[ ] Mute

"Oh the X means it's muted"

Windows 95 and probably an older Mac had it all figured out.
How would you explain a tensor to a computer scientist?
8-10 regular sites, then mindless scrolling. Hundreds of bookmarks I'll never re-visit.
I do miss forums.
Hope they wouldn't end like google. But you are right. Thank you Cloudflare.
And amazing. I normally don’t play games through multiple times in a row, but I played Replicant through Al endings and then finished the endings in Autamata immediately after.
From the ARCHITECTURE.md:

> Those pointers point to undocumented functions forming CUDA Dark API. It's impossible to tell how many of them exist, but debugging experience suggests there are tens of function pointers across tens of tables. A typical application will use one or two most common. Due to they undocumented nature they are exclusively used by Runtime API and NVIDIA libraries (and in by CUDA applications in turn). We don't have names of those functions nor names or types of the arguments. This makes implementing them time-consuming. Dark API functions are are reverse-engineered and implemented by ZLUDA on case-by-case basis once we observe an application making use of it.
That doesn’t seem obvious to me. What have you learned that makes you say that?
I believe it would reduce the transfer to the Moon. The Moon's orbit increases by stealing rotational energy from the Earth -- this happens because Earth's rotation carries its tidal bulge ahead of the Moon angularly, so the bulge pulls the Moon forward. The tidal harness uses some of the motion of the water to do work, so it gets carried less farther ahead by Earth's rotation, so it pulls the Moon forward less.
I agree here. I thought it was dumb but the OS works around it really nicely; the only time it ever got in the way was with some non-native software
If you seriously think 40-49%, whatever ridiculous mis-read stat you're choosing to use this time, of 30-34 year olds are home owners I have a bridge to Hawaii to sell you. I'm 40, make around 300k and know a LOT of people my age and the vast, VAST majority don't own houses. I owned a house in 2016 and sold it, I don't want to own a house because I'm single and they're $800k minimum here, none of my friends want houses because for 99% of us it means moving 45 minutes away to some suburb. Would they take a house a block over here downtown? Absolutely, but that's $2mil+.

I can count how many times I walk into an ACTUAL house, like a free standing house not a condo, apartment, or townhouse - on one hand over ONE year. I think I have 2 friends with houses out of 20+ here in Denver, and I'm of course including condos/ths, anything purchasable. Almost everyone I know over 30 lives in a 1-2 bd apartment. And this is hackernews where I can pretty much assume someone like you is so far from the average American reality you have no idea what's going on.

There's already a post right above this from some compsci engineer talking about how, oh no, there really are a lot more americans making over $100k than you'd imagine!!

You don't have any real humans in your life to use THAT anecdata from? You sound like you're vastly out of that age range, your "you're too confrontational uwu" style of writing and you're obvious lack of knowledge related to the topic at hand.
Musk is actively brown-nosing Putin, an enemy of the US. He should be thrown in prison never to come out.

Musk is preventing Ukranian armed forces from using Starlink. The guy is absolute scum of the earth.
Are you freaking kidding me!?!? Fire those MBAs immediately.
RIP Checkbox, 1990-2009, you were perfect and unambiguous but for some reason smartphone designers hated you.
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This predates the BLM movement and such.

I’m aware of maybe ten or so property crimes committed against friends, family, and employers, with damage and theft ranging from low-thousands (2024 dollars—some of these were decades ago) to $20k or so. I’ve never once known the police to do anything but scoff at the notion and treat you like an idiot if you go in thinking they’re going to investigate anything at all, no matter how much evidence is available.

And all the people concerned were/are white and middle class, for the record. Even then, nothing.

It’s one of the reasons I tepidly support the more extreme end of “defund”. Let fucking wal-mart or whoever’s getting actual value from the cops pay for them. Me and mine surely aren’t getting our money’s worth.
Some of the discontent comes from Firefox not being very interesting compared to other browsers.

The various Chrome-clones are doing interesting things like adding toggleable vertical tabs built in (Vivaldi, Edge) or even vertical-only (Arc) and Arc is playing with using native OS widgets for UI across platforms for example.

There’s also functionality advantages. All the chrome-clones have better out of the box profile support, as does Safari as of the last major release or so. Safari also IMO has a better stock tab groups implementation than any of the other major browsers.

Firefox can be fixed up to support these things, but you’ll need multiple extensions and if you want to make it all look good (e.g. hiding the ugly sidebar header, extending sidebar into toolbar area, configuring Sidebery/TST/etc), a substantial amount of tinkering is needed. More of this should be rolled into the base browser and “just work”.
> So, again, it's not at all clear that AMD being in the compute GPU game is the automatic win for them in the future. There's

You’re right about that but it seems that it’s pretty clear that not being in the compute GPU game is an automatic loss for them (look at their recent revenue growth in the past quarter and two by in each sector)
That’s definitely part of it: in the 90s you saw a ton of “on the internet” patents which looked a lot like the examiners not having had enough experience to say that something was either an obvious adaptation of an existing concept to the web or that the two systems had almost nothing in common other than using a computer (I remember a patent troll hitting a customer with a 1980s patent for cash registers connected to a minicomputer using a phone line, claiming it covered their web store). A younger generation of patent clerks hired with more experience seems to have helped there.

The other problem is funding: look at the patent examiner listings right now and think about how many people they’re going to be able to get with the federal pay scale having been prevented from keeping pace with the market for years:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?l=&l=&a=CM56&hp=publi...
Technical writing is one of those jobs where it's tempting to think that AI will indeed take humans' jobs. But only a company that has gone bananas would do that. All it takes is understanding that the deliverable is not the job; there's so much more to it. I wrote about it here for my fellow writers: https://passo.uno/ai-anxiety-tech-writer-howto/
What is a character animation system? Is it something like AAlib?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib
I'm not saying Flash was the key to website design or the web as a whole but it was definitely a key to animation, visual creativity and the likes.

As FruitLoops Studio is for Audio.

If you want to do the same you have to now know JavaScript, some library and some UI frontend.

Flash enabled you to add interactive to other than just a straight up black text on a white page.

You can't even copy text now on some SPA sites nor head back in browser history without being hijacked to their home page.

What we got isn't it either.
Housing cost per annual income ratio is actually quite favorable in the US compared to elsewhere.