This is saying if you have a module with public functions A and B, they shouldn’t call each other, right? But it’s not saying that module A shouldn’t call module B’s public functions. That’s what I thought it meant at first, but that seems crazy.
Capitalism remains a problem.
I don’t think worker owner businesses would be so rabidly eager to do this AI shit. It’s ghouls and anonymous shareholders. People who don’t even work on the stuff being made.
Right. I think there’s an unavoidable risk in that someone’s political skills can carry them further than their practical skills would justify. Like I’ve known a lot of people at work who make solid engineering decisions, but aren’t as well liked as the suck ups.
We need workers cooperatives instead, where decisions are met based on consensus of employees
Something like that, yes. Need to figure out a way so people who know what they’re talking about have a voice.
If simple majority at my job made decisions, they’d still be editing python2 directly in production.
Good. Fuck that management. Oust them and give the company to the people who actually do work.
It definitely seems like we’re setting ourselves up for a dystopia, where no one knows how to do software anymore. Like the time machine or Idiocracy. Management just wants short term gains, and they don’t care if there’s no one around in 10 years with any experience
Sam Altman is a piece of shit and I will celebrate when he fucking dies. I hope he knows. I hope he knows people want him fucking dead. I hope what little scraps of a soul he still has are screaming in despair.
Switched to linux a couple years ago. Been mostly fine. The day to day is a basic-ass plasma kde desktop. I power the machine on. Type my password. Open firefox, steam, etc. It’s fine.
One time after updating and foolishly following some “sudo apt stuff” to try to fix something preventing it from updating, it booted without a graphical environment, but reinstalling the nvidia drivers fixed that from the terminal. That was admittedly scary, but people in the discord were helpful.
I’d still rather have that kind of hiccup than support Microsoft.
I would be shocked if the game was ground breaking. I fully expect more of the “NPCs just go back to default if you kill their buddy and wait a while” like we’ve had for 20 years. Plus all sorts of other jank and nonsense. I just don’t think Microsoft can pull off something new and great.
But even if they did: fuck em.
Capotalism. Workers aren’t the ones making the decisions or keeping the profits.
I guess we’ll keep discovering this in new contexts without ever addressing the problem.
I expect not to buy it because fuck Microsoft. There are other games and other entertainments.
I expect I’m in the minority.
I can imagine a nightmare where they add a monthly subscription for something to get a foot in the door. “Just $1.99 for unlimited cloud saves! Storage isn’t free you’re supporting the devs!”
A lot of people will pay it because “gamers” are, famously, little better than children.
Then it’s downhill from there. More subscriptions. Free service thinned. Popularity gone.
It’s what always happens when that kind of person gets in.
Anyone else read Roadside Picnic?
The title of the novel derives from an analogy that is proposed by the character Dr. Valentine Pilman, who compares the Visitation to a picnic:
A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Cars drive off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. In the morning they leave. The animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. And what do they see? Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around… Rags, burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind… And of course, the usual mess—apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire, cans, bottles, somebody’s handkerchief, somebody’s penknife, torn newspapers, coins, faded flowers picked in another meadow.[7]
In this analogy, the nervous animals are the humans who venture forth after the Visitors have left, discovering items and anomalies that are ordinary to those who have discarded them, but incomprehensible or deadly to the earthlings. The explanation implies that the Visitors may not have paid any attention to or even noticed Earth’s inhabitants during their visit, just as many humans do not notice or pay attention to insects and wildlife during a picnic. The artifacts and phenomena that are left behind by the Visitors in the Zones were garbage, which are discarded and forgotten without any intentions to advance or damage humanity. There is little chance that the Visitors will return again because for them it was a brief stop, for reasons unknown, on the way to their actual destination.
Read the book. It was okay. Heard nothing about this movie.
I do feel like advertising is kind of self sabotaging though. Ads are so invasive and aggressive that I make heavy use of ad blockers.
Does your colleague have a solid definition of capitalism, communism, and socialism?
Stuff like “there are several organizations competing to sell you widgets but the organizations are owned by the workers instead of some faceless ghouls and far-away shareholders” sometimes doesn’t fit neatly into their model.
It can be an entry point into left wing thinking, because a lot of people resent management and other useless authorities.
Workers need to seize what they’ve built and send these c-suite goons out into the desert.
You can use uv to manage python versions and deps now. You shouldn’t fuck around with your system python much.
The other day one of the other devs messaged me with “you wanna see a dead body?”
He’d found some code that had been running in production since 2003, with so many problems and smells. Wasn’t in source control, either. Many hard coded plain text passwords.
Sadly, he had to touch it enough to fix a production outage.
Teams is a huge piece of shit.
Why is every meeting its own chat? With no threads! Why are the team channels like fucking forums instead of chats? Why do I get notified between 0 and 4 times for the same message?
I hate teams. I have never had a memorable problem with slack. Maybe some things can be fixed with better use behavior, but good software guides users away from bad patterns.
No, I meant one where the business is owned by all the workers, not one where the owner also does some work.