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Dramatic swings like the ones we are experiencing are -- in the long run -- not good. Altman is the mis-allocation. It's like fiber in the late 90s. To be the firstest with the mostest, they are paying tippy-top prices (with other peoples' money) for something that could be done at 1/2, 1/4, 1/10... the cost a year later. There are so many potential scenarios ending a price collapse. Product ends up in warehouses, sold for pennies on the dollar, or in landfills. Suppliers go from record profits to bankruptcy.

And worst of all, most house slaves in this country have their pensions tied up in the limited number of funds offered by their company -- most of which automatically feed into this mis-allocation. The employee is powerless to opt-out of it without sacrificing his company match and/or vestiture.

Sounds more like #YesAllBrahminMen to me.

Oncology is mostly a scam.

As a card-carrying member of the "fuck off we're full" club, excellent.

Modern chunk generation is enough to make even a dual Xeon sweat. Doing it on a fanless ARM board would have sucked even if he did manage to ship.

This talk about "the future" is nonsense. UI is art, not engineering. What some love, others will inevitably hate. This is where unix/linux is light-years ahead of the competition. Unlike Windows/OSX/iOS, you can make your own mixtape.

That, and Steve Jobs died a long-ass time ago. The hand-wringing over "config files" in the age of qwen3 you can run on a 10-year-old GPU is no longer as relevant as it once was. Language got us this far. The checkboxes and picklists of PARC were a detour that is now (thankfully) in our rear-view mirror. Config files are awesome.

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TLDR; Paid shills argue with other paid shills over each other’s creative accounting.

Douglas Englebart once mentioned that with tools we'll be using for the rest of our lives, most learning curves (even the steep ones) are going to be "worth it" as long they are accompanied by a proportionally steep increase in power. Meanwhile, the average UX person's idea of "modernizing" -- more often than not -- boils down to flattening learning curves. If anything, the UX world's use of the word "modernize" as a synonym for "improve" betrays their philosophical bankruptcy.

If Englebart was right, then the open source desktop is already light-years ahead. It is the only place that provides the option to pick, choose, mix, match, & experiment. That, and the steep-curve GUI needed in one line of work may end up being entirely different from the steep-curve GUI needed in another. The move to "unify" desktop & mobile in the browsers & window managers (free or proprietary) is a glaring example of how one one size does not fit all. I cannot tell you how many people outside of our circle still mourn the loss of scrollbars.

Their whole operation seems like some sort of five-eyes information proboscis. If AI is putting them out of business, good.

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