dragontamer

Video game makers have a more well rounded set of art, music, code and writing.

> The directors with of such [joint-stock] companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.

This Adam Smith?

Adam Smith was against Joint Stock Companies (aka: the predecessor to the modern company). Specifically, he believed that shareholders will never watch over the money with the same care as a merchant who watches his own money.

ZIRP goes back to 2010 actually, when interest rates dropped so much in an attempt to stop the great recession.

No.

The number of valid permutations of 10 things is 10!. Reviewing all 10! Things is clearly exponential or even worse than exponential.

We can get the count of 10! pretty easily, far easier than trying all combinations manually.

Menus from Win95 are uniform. All buttons took up one row and a full width of the submenu. (Even if you don't have a shortcut key assigned, the space is taken up and wasted)

It's well acknowledged that modern designers and users benefit from large vs small, and other varying styles of organization.

Menus only had top menus vs submenu vs sub-sub-menu (and so forth). Yes a good menu is useful but...

A ribbon offers many more tradeoffs. It's harder to design a good ribbon, but the best ribbons are always better than even the best menu. The important features will be physically larger with more text and space. The less important or niche features might just be an icon with tooltip, possibly hidden behind a subcategory of the ribbon.

In theory, you can use the modern Ribbon to make old school menus. But why bother? If you made the switch to that XML design language, you might as well take all the benefits of the Ribbon

Or hell, if you like old school menus, you can still make them today. Those .RC editors still work in modern Windows 11. But give it a shot and you'll see how restrictive and bulky old school menus are in practice.

The Menu + quick access bar was good for developers but terrible for users, at least compared to the ribbon.

Ribbon is absolutely an improvement for users but is more work for the XML layout and learning how to organize it.

I'm rather convinced that Ribbon is still the best way to organize quick actions, show their shortcuts (Alt to see keyboard shortcuts), and also have enough text to describe all the buttons. But it'd be nice if it were easier to make good Ribbons.

Menu was braindead easy, albeit through ancient process of .rc files and whatnot

I mean that Facebook employs very few employees. And now the top companies of the world seem to be tech.

So the idea that the wealth is going to workers (and using Mark Zuckerberg as an example) is extremely contrary to the facts on the ground and the cited reality.

Tech famously employs the fewest people, and now tech is the richest.

This is the next frontier for OSS tooling of electronics projects. Professional PCB software will FEA solve your PCB and look for noise or radio issues (did this trace accidentally become an antenna??)

KiCAD cant do this. So it's cool to see a project trying to tackle this problem.

Those financial instruments are the circular financing that's feeding the beast.

Learning German beginner here (I'm somewhere above A2 but probably not B1 yet).

I had exactly the same concerns as you. My brain was very confused by this name and I was wondering if I got something wrong.

Turns out it's just an American making fake-German. Huh. So this is what it feels like....

It's a better job than a lot of fake German words by Americans. But it's still not quite right to me.

There's second order effects to this.

I still enjoy writing code by hand, but it's incredibly lonely here. No one at work talks about code details anymore. I'm basically by myself now.

I'm a bit of a holdout, but I can tell you that what used to be lively discussions about architecture are now just "ask Claude" responses. No one else wants to think through their code anymore.

There is value in doing things no one else likes to do. But only if this path delivers results in the long term. It's not certain that my path does that but if this field is truly collapsing I'd rather give it a shot with my brain intact rather than doing nothing.

10TB HDDs were like $200 just 5 years ago dude.

Computer parts are unaffordable this year.

Yes. They'll stop after there's no more noteworthy problems. What a wonderful concept for theoretical Mathematicians.

You realize that they don't want that, correct?

Since when have tech companies stopped spending on marketing?