I’m a game developer. Lots of work in that area but it’s hard work with lots of competition. Lots of time spent optimizing performance so you can run on weaker hardware. Insane user experience focus compared to web as well
Theory: The cloud took over the same way most trendy tech took over: resume driven development. Everyone on all the teams pushed for it because of how much value it adds to their resume and gradually more and more companies bought in, which accelerated the process because company d started feeling worried that they were behind the times since companies a-c already switched
The cloud is great for startups and tiny companies though
Isn’t it likely that patent law is going to lock ai down? One company will finally crack something general-enough in a way that gets it way ahead, will patent it, and will use that monopoly to gain control of the whole space, and the monopoly will never go away because all further improvements will also get patented by the ai legal team?
The brief openness of ai right now is a glitch in the system that will get ironed out soon. Only megacorps, and countries that ignore patent law, will be able to afford to license the patents to do any significant ai work at all
These discussions always remind me of some talks by Jonathan blow where he argues rust doesn’t solve the hard problems he needed it to. There are podcast episodes with better discussions, but the main one people link to seems to be this
I haven’t used rust, but I sympathize with his problems with pointers and learned a lot from the various ways people try to solve them
This is apocalyptic. Imagine something 100km from where you live, and that whole span between you and there being under water tomorrow. in a movie, that wouldn’t feel real no matter how good the special effects are, it’s too out there
Notice is says “for ads,” and not in general. The terms sneakily allow them to still
profile you or use your content in other ways, like training ai systems or reporting you to the government
If it’s no, but has a dozen asterisks, to the end user, that’s still a “no, this component does not work properly.” The footnotes can be 5 pages long but the chart is still straightforward
One day I’ll probably end up with a Linux phone, but I mean, not if I’m worried I’ll get surprised when it arrives
Speaking of upping their game, I have a friend who worked in photography, and photo and video editing. Over the years, the tools got better and better and more user friendly. The money started to disappear due to more and more people being able to just use phone apps to do it all. He adapted by… leaving the field completely for a tech job.
That’s what we will see: a far smaller percent of people who have the pleasure of paying their bills by working in the arts. It’s all already so commoditized, I don’t know a single artist any more who can do it full time except one woman with a gallery I met the other day on a road trip. Is she going to have to go back to her old career of environmental policy soon?
Out of curiosity, why is it only 5M and not 500M? You would think the same vulnerability applied to every server, not just one or one cluster, if they are using automated deployments
I recently turned down a m1 mba for $1100 in favour of a 2015 mba for $500. The keyboard is so dramatically better in the 2015 model, I couldn’t believe it. The battery is great, seems to last about 10h in a charge while writing and browsing and using discord.
I don’t care how fast it is as long as it continues to have those mediocre low travel keyboards. They’re better than their worst keyboards from the 2018 era but they still aren’t good
Off topic, but I just learned that the author of Watchmen (Alan moore) wrote some superman stories. The one I’m trying to track down right now is “for the man who has everything.” He described his writing process for it in detail in his great, short book on comic writing
Can’t we strive to be more civilized on this site?