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Because joining group A means you will soon be out of a job once group B out competes group A.

The side effect of this is also that the value of software itself has never been lower, so starting a new software business isn't very attractive in today's market.

If you did that you would also have to provide the timestamp every time you wanted to look up an ID, and now we're back to UUIDv7 again.

It doesn’t have anything to do with indexing more than one thing.

The issue with truly random IDs is that inserts are scattered throughout the B-tree index, which cause page splits, fragmentation, and poor cache locality. Using a timestamp prefix makes new IDs sequential, so inserts tend to land near the end of the index, which avoid all the B-tree trashing and improve write performance.

Sanctions force them to treat you terrible, it is the intended effect of sanctions.

Look at the fuel cap, the green part of the front wheel, or the vertical frame split behind the fuel cap. AVIF smooth the details out too much.

Why do you think YubiKey would be an allowed option? Sites will require Google/Apple password manager and use this as a proxy to prevent bot accounts.

What do you do when Apple ban your Apple account?

> any tool that becomes more powerful tends to become more specialised and expensive to operate,

Isn't that exactly what is different about AI automation? AI is more generalized and cheaper to operate.

Any time big corp implements strong sandboxing they'll inevitably put the user inside of the sandbox.

If AI continues to improve at the current rate for 40 years then there is unlikely to be such a thing as a career.

Manual labor and trades is likely to be one of the last things to go, so the whole "dropout of school and go into trades" crowd may have been more correct than ever, though their original reasoning was not.

You can’t really do that with PNG today either, because of all the PNG optimizers that quantize images before encoding them to PNG for better compression.

> They definitely play them to connect with others who play the same game.

Once anyone can generate any game, movie, or artwork they can imagine with a simple prompt, this shared experience will disappear along with it. The amount of content available will fragment the space so much we'll eventually lose the shared experience and novelty that brings enjoyment and fulfillment from these activities in the first place.

Pointless comparison as you the user still have full control over all of that on Linux.