“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
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31·4 days agoThis is kind of the dark side of this IPO, which is that they have negotiated with the Nasdaq, which has one of the most popular index funds in the world. It’s what houses many Americans’ 401ks and their retirement portfolios.
There’s a lot of money on the line here. And if Nasdaq can figure out a way to include SpaceX, then technically that means that they’re going to get billions of dollars of inflows into that fund.
You’re balancing, on the one hand, lots and lots of money, and on the other hand, credibility and the safety and security of passive investors’ money. My view is that that was a bad decision by the Nasdaq. I think it’ll come back to bite them.
This is as about a big of a story about technology impacting people as it gets. I am not fan of reading investor recommendations, but this is one of the biggest stories of our lifetime. If AI was a real developing profitable industry it would have real technologies and impacts to gesture at consistently, but since it is more a belief of an implementation soon rather than a working profitable implementation now the only way to quantify the degree to which a belief in something that doesn’t really exist (AI) and yet is warping other very real things (the rest of technological development) is through economic terms.
Weird angle but I also think this is a result of big business ruining video games and not understanding at all how to make a profit from them.
I am sorry but if the route to monetizing a fuckton of people obsessed with a game running around in real life visiting real places involves needing to turn to using that data to train murder drones to make a profit… you are a pathetically bad game designer and don’t understand the value you have been handed.
Make better video games, losers.
It must be confusing — upsetting, even! — to hear that somebody is willing to accurately and vociferously tear into a tech industry largely controlled by people with no regard for their users or workers, who are willing to bathe their products in mediocrity all because it’s the thing that everybody else is doing.
I love you Ed
The heavy users of AI are even dumber than the CEOs, at least the CEOs are getting rich.
1·10 days agoI agree, for multiplayer video game design I think this is where the most difficult kind of artistry comes in.
It depends, all of the multiplayer games I play voice chat is great, but I don’t play popular games that attract asshats.
I play a lot of multiplayer games and I find that gaming constantly teaches me that no matter what, it always comes down to the quality of the community.
Every other aspect of design is a comparatively merely a detail.
2·12 days agosuggesting that it would lead to an order of magnitude increase is surely premature
The US is continuing to worsen in performance on meaures of small business entrepreneurship in essentially all industries in the US, software and software adjacent industries are no different especially if you don’t get distracted by the AI bubble inflating that value of a bunch of illusions claiming to be businesses.
It is easy to see how the inability of the average person to try a new idea, or risk taking on a project that may not pay off immediately translates directly to a lack of available developers for open source software projects.
The impact of Universal Healthcare would be huge for open source development in the US, the amount of programmers that would be pushed over the line from “just making ends meet while having a work life balance” to “ok maybe I could devote some time to open source development”.
Don’t get me wrong though, I think we need to normalize straight up paying developers for Open Source Development. Just because it is open source doesn’t mean it doesn’t take labor, that is not the argument I am making.
Github and the whole culture that it came out of it used to (it feels sooooo good to say that in the past tense) be globally hinged on Silicon Valley, why would you not expect to see a anomalously high number of US developers on it?
Ok then, you are labelling yourself as a pathetic loser.
Black pill ideology is most deeply rooted in misogynistic online communities heavily populated by incels, or involuntarily celibate men.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/What-does-black-pill-refer-to
Either Universal Healthcare is on the menu or society falls apart, pick one.
But where will the maintainers for these alternatives come from, when barely anybody has stepped up in the 30 years of rsync’s existence?
Universal Healthcare would increase the pool of willing developers by an order of magnitude here.
You most certainly are, use a different metaphor/descriptor.
FOMO doesn’t work on people that know you are selling them a scam…?
No it will not be a net good.
Processing at least for 2d stuff.
Yeah, the current backlash over LLMs in any capacity is a meme.
No, you just don’t want to face the fact that a growing number of people are less gullible than you.
Microslop is incapable of not strangling the things it acquires impulsively and obsessively, there is no plan just chaos with cycles of culling.