sandwichbop

> freelance roles, self-employment, and side hustles

> However, the work has traditionally come with some downsides—namely not having the steady, dependable income a corporate job brings.

What I also wonder is how they manage taxes and healthcare where traditionally corporate job handles, a simple W2 and company issued insurance. The tax law in the US feels overwhelming without a dedicated CPA

>so out of sheer luck

this sounds more like survivorship bias no? You can keep playing lucky if you want, but that's more on being lucky. I like to keep risk low and so the objective is reducing the need to be "lucky", to get more consistent results without luck and this is where having those economic fundamentals work. Economics is more than stock-picking, that's more of a finance thing imo.

>It got me thinking--something similar happened to digital cameras where all the cheap point and shoots were replaced by phones so that now standalone cameras are an expensive niche for photographers.

exactly, I think it'll be better now to settle in with OpenPOWER rather than later to not get caught off guard. This whole affordable PC era was a temporary illusion and we can't relie on vendors providing us mitigations since even those eventually cease. Personally I still can't afford a Raptor machine atm but I'm getting in by working on stuff in QEMU with the recommended openPOWER debian release

it is expensive, as far as I understand it (I'm still just learning about it all), it is for those need total auditability, they mention EU a lot but also this seems catered to actual individuals who really want a truly open system that doesn't scarifice performance (RISC-V seems great for embedded but is still not there for high end workflows). To me, this sounds like a reasonable price for what they're providing but I understand it's definitely outside the price point of many but I must wonder if there's anything more besides price, is it really just that they're too expensive and this is why there's so little talk about it?

The developer did nothing wrong, reimplemented it from scratch and gave you a mention in the original readme. If anything this happens all the time like Oracle v Google. What you do now is create something even better (and keep it closed source) but he is not required to do anything

>is software development in decline?

it's more that with the Fed's rate hikes, cheap money is in decline and so people have to think harder about whether or not it's worth building that next speculative project without carefully really thinking about the certainty of returns.

Surprised to see this here, was just reading about it on the bard page a few minutes ago since I been killing time waiting for chatGPT to come back up for Plus Users. I think it would be really cool if we could get a Bard extension for Google Colab, maybe some integration with the Colab Pro would be really interesting analogous to the Data Analysis Plugin

this is neat but you should probably include the github link somewhere in the Youtube description

I've had the best experience so far with chatGPT Plus using the Data analysis plugin, well I WAS having the best experience until it went down today. Still waiting to get back to it

Pretty neat, I like how uncluttered it is compared to the regular site on mobile. Bit confused with the icons on top, I guess the first one is top stories and the star is trending?

It's cool to see these kinds of things running, even if it's just for 'why not' reasons. The 'Try it out' demo was really neat! Love the idea of these tools. Maybe we'll see something like a Jupyter Notebook or Apache Zeppelin running solely in the browser without any need for a backend besides something that serves a static page, especially as we see WASM and WebGPU continue maturing.