But also deeply unhappy people

Post programming questions online and you’ll inevitably get someone saying, “don’t reinvent the wheel.” Why is it so bad to step outside the box?

This is totally different… That’s not deference to authority or conformity, that’s fundamental best practices

If you want to do more than play with code puzzles, the first question you should ask is “how have others solved this problem”. And the second should be “how have others approached similar problems”

Code is castles upon castles built of sand… Even the language you use and the rock that runs it are entirely manmade. Coding is a fundamentally collaborative process, and if you want to innovate you need to understand how and why things were done the way they are first.

Otherwise you’re going to write really shit code, even if you’re the cleverest coder to ever live, the code will be shit because it’ll be a huge pain in the ass to work with for everyone else. And probably for yourself too, once your realize why things are done a certain way and understand that it’s usually there’s been a ton of thought and discussion that led it to being the way things are done

If you’re asking questions without comparing the proposed benefits of your new solution to the normal approach, you’re not yet prepared to enter the discussion on how things should be done

So of course the correct response should always be to remind you that you should first learn how others did it. That never goes away, it’s something we remind each other constantly even at the deeper levels of understanding

It’s good life advice too. Humans aren’t nearly as creative as we like to think, as a species we hardly ever have truly new ideas. The way our creative process works is by rearranging the concepts we already know in new ways. If you want to be an innovator, you should be constantly finding wisdom in others and the world around you

As for the deference to authority? That’s because we live in uncertain times and people are scared. It’s more comforting to think someone knows what they’re doing instead of acknowledging the truth… We have very big problems that we are not confronting as a species in any meaningful way.

That tendency as a species is one of those very big problems in fact

Am I reading it wrong? Did ban ai via social contact not win?

Are you sure you’re not mixing up Debian for Ubuntu?

I’m pretty sure Debian just said they weren’t going to allow AI contributions

Just imagine him slamming together hulk hands going “it’s sundar-ing time” at the R&D offices. Then one by one punching out monitors and telling employees “you’ve been sundered”

I’m pretty sure that’s how it happened

It’s so crazy to me how Google went from like, a full decade ahead of the rest of the world in AI to unable to complete with the better hobbyists

Enshitification is a hell of a drug

They’re only a like 300 hundred people in total, to run a fab they would have to expand to a point they are no longer valve

We really don’t, there’s the same groups of crazy people who travel will over the county going to these things. It’s the same people, they basically do it professionally

The culture war comes from the billionaire controlled media, they looooove this stuff to distract from the increasingly obvious inequality problem so they push the narrative constantly

Americans are overwhelmingly tired of having it shoved down their throats everywhere… Even the crazy conservatives just want the “far left” to stop (the far left is just a term they gesture at, it’s all made up)

I think there’s two distinct concepts at play, thin skin and thick skin. I do not consider them interchangeable concepts, even if they sound like it

Because the world Bank and IMF fucked them when they resisted selling off their country through outside investments, leading to their currency being debased and ultimately giving them weak footing for international trade

They’ve never really recovered from that, and they’ve also flitted back and forth between wildly different economic interventions desperately trying to fix things

Yes?

A domain is a url, like oaksprout.com. A provider is a server/computer that the domain points at. Many services sell both together at an upcharge, but a domain itself usually costs like ~$15 a year

If an IP address is a mailing address, imagine a domain as a way to pay the post office so people can just address it to oaksprout. You could have them forward your mail to your house, or you could send it to a PO box or business address, and change it whenever you want

The provider is like the mailbox in this metaphor… It receives the mail and holds it for you

It really never did though. People have never stopped buying high end furniture

I said necessity, not luxury… If we enter a global depression, there won’t be cheap IKEA furniture anymore

The market for high quality furniture never went away. And if we enter a global depression, a local furniture maker will again be a necessity

I’m picking up furniture making. Handcrafted furniture will always be needed

A system is what it does and all that

Nvidia won’t recover from this…AMD is going to sweep the market, which will mean games are built to be AMD first

It takes decades to recover from a misplay like this. They just handed over the market on a silver platter, the fuck you to gamers barely even matters

Yes. Everything is monitored, and it sucks. We’ve internalized it even, you can’t so much as have a hobby without dumping money into it to signal you take it seriously

I want to believe you, can you break it down more?