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I stopped updating my website, https://aaroncurt.is , a few years ago when I got too busy, but the contact information should still work. Comments here are my personal opinion, not my employer's.
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Comment · 14 hours ago
What is this?
Comment · 3 days ago
Because it will absolutely have hidden errors.
Comment · 6 days ago
Woah when I said "headline" I meant "explanation"!
Comment · 6 days ago
Wow, thanks so much for the detailed headline! There really is no substitute for having things explained by an expert.
Comment · 7 days ago
Comment · 14 days ago
Ok, I hadn't seen the jump video when I wrote the above. That's more impressive than the ramp video.
Comment · 14 days ago
Comment · 17 days ago
Exactly. No O, just CR.
Comment · 17 days ago
There was a brief moment where programs had decent built-in help you could search to easily find where stuff was in menus. Didn't need a billion parameters or a giant faraway data center...

Or, better, the global menu search. Intellij's shift+shift shortcut is great.

Comment · 19 days ago
Like I said, I'm privileged and happy. It's my teacher friends, service industry friends, and factory workers I feel bad for. I just wish the USA was still a country where workers were well compensated, like they were from 1950 through about 1990.
Comment · 19 days ago
https://youtu.be/Wxdo4UpHBn4?is=DfljtOwP5kLP1eCm shows some evidence of the structural changes I'm talking about.
Comment · 19 days ago
> If the company goes bankrupt you lose your money but so do those groups.

No, generally speaking, the CEO gets a golden parachute. E.g. Adam Neumann got 1.7 billion severance for being a douchebag cult leader and bankrupting wework.

I'm not complaining about my situation-- I'm doing really well. Making $207k / yr and living at the beach in LA. I'm just sad that we've switched from a system where normal workers can make actual money to a system where hyperfinancialization means a leisure class at the top, selected by lottery, has all of the real wealth and power.

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