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4 dagen geledendiscuss

I fully agree with that.

Past experience has shown what while Turing complete config is powerful, it is also a double edged sword and I would be wary of using it.

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11 dagen geledendiscuss

I admit I was a little bit curious about DOGE and its outcome, as a software guy I've seen huge amount of bureaucratic inefficiencies, sometimes wondering how some companies could survive wasting all that money for nothing.

I've also often be irritated by the slow and sometimes absurd processes of French administration, and I am pretty sure the whole thing is far from running as efficiently as it could.

That said, I gave way too much credence to Musk and his clique, turned out the efficiency theatre was nothing more than a smoke screen to cover a different style of operation.

I am not sure they even tried to cut waste in a meaningful way, or if they had the competence to do so.

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21 dagen geledendiscuss

Zuckerberg was barely adult when he started Facebook. And he probably bumped into a few older guys who thought they knew better than him, and history proved them wrong.

He likely developed some irrational belief that clever and young beats anything else, and saw an echo of his own bravado in Alexandr Wang.

Turns out his heuristics were not calibrated properly.

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27 dagen geledendiscuss

It is the same reasoning as with the regular Decimation. It is all about disciplining their employees.

And it works.

We're not saying many ex or current Meta employees talking about their experiences here, even if I am sure that HN is pretty popular among this crowd.

And of course this is not unique to Zuck/Meta. We don't hear much from people working for Musk either.

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28 dagen geledendiscuss

He is one of the well known netcode guy.

But from the few interactions I had with him I would say he is quite abrasive, stubborn and probably somewhat on the spectrum.

But there is a special kind of unpleasantness in writing/debugging netcode for large projects, I don't think you can be agreeable and still you your job correctly.

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30 dagen geledendiscuss

The trajectory of id software is interesting.

The company was successful, had one of the most prestigious brand in the game industry, was early enough to capitalize on the rise of PC gaming, incredible talents and tech.

Yet it didn't transform into a Blizzard or Epic.

And it seems that both the early success and stall were the responsibility of one very talented but somewhat obtuse nerd.

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vorige maanddiscuss

I think the rationale is that they are already using typical car factory automation, but they see a huge potential market for general purpose robotics in the coming decades, they don't need the humanoids, they are simply dogfooding a future product.

I think this is smart and not very risky. Tesla is playing a similar game with Optimus, for now Hyundai/Boston Dynamics is at least 5 years ahead.

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vorige maanddiscuss

I am not one of them but quite a few programmers prefer not having to use the mouse at all when working.

The terminal is an old but astonishingly powerful user interface that is still evolving.

Good terminals can be very snappy and configurable in ways that most GUI are not.

There is also arguably an aesthetic/fetishism appeal to it.

I've worked in the terminal at some point of my career, as there was not many other choices, and I understand how someone can get really used to it.

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vorige maanddiscuss

It can be used for many things. But the main use is reverse engineering.

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vorige maanddiscuss

I tried it a few times and was not convinced by the autocomplete.

I found it less effective than free copilot autocomplete on vanilla VSCode.

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vorige maanddiscuss

If you think about it states are not much different than corporations.

Taxes is human labor dedicated to the maintenance of state.

I think it is naive to think that once humans are not needed they will magically be fed by the machines.

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vorige maanddiscuss

If you own a factory, what you see is a big box with input and output, human labor is just an annoying variable, removing it won't turn the entire thing "free".

The owner will still expect to trade the output for something else for his benefit.

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vorige maanddiscuss

You missed the point entirely.

What fuels the economy, for now, is human work. Being a consumer simply means that you are heavily incentivised to take part (by working).

If machines can do the same or better, whoever owns them will end-up seeing unproductive humans as dangerous and wasteful bloat.

It won’t be a life of infinite leisure if you don’t own machines.

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vorige maanddiscuss

Otherwise you could say that humans are working for free as well, as they can cultivate their own food and even build themselves by making babies.

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vorige maanddiscuss

Of course, but none of them is working for free, each consume energy and materials.

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vorige maanddiscuss

It is never really “for free”.

It appears free because machines, like perfect slaves, don’t ask to be paid for work.

They still need to be fed though, energy, iron, etc.

No matter how you turn it, it can’t be free. Meaning you can’t benefit from it without owning it or trading something.

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vorige maanddiscuss

I genuinely have no idea how that transition would happen.

And I agree that it would pose many unforeseen challenges.

This is why the transition is the interesting part, not the sci-fi end game with a world populated with billions of robots doing everything.

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vorige maanddiscuss

No, you don’t feed machines with bitcoins or any kind of currency, you feed them with Joules, Iron, Copper, rare earths etc.

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vorige maanddiscuss

Yes, the transition is unlikely to be linear and without conflict, if this was ever possible. But I am sure that some would be happy to control armies of bots and very few humans.

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vorige maanddiscuss

I have not, but I am curious.

I think the end-state is not that interesting, but the transition could not happen overnight and seems both difficult technically and would be unlikely to happen without a fight.

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