any constraints, really. pretty cool!

i read that Boeing paid developers in India less than $5/hr for the 737 MAX software

we just need a little more AI

i would go with lowercase and just have it be a reserved word like the other ones. but I’m not super picky, i generally like to stick to what people are used to, and i can understand the reasoning behind the choice.

i wish there was a place where normies didn’t want to work so we could all go there

guido, why did you make python so weird?

setting one number is a little silly tho. somebody with 4 kids has totally different needs than a single person. especially if someone has a kid with special needs the costs can be huge. obviously that doesn’t apply to these CEOs but I would say one person doesn’t need more than 100k

how would android or chrome have the funding for development outside of google? really weird plan to fix this, seems like there are going to be a lot of unintended consequences.

and the ironic part about this, it comes at a time when google is on the verge of being destroyed by new technology and their own enshittification. i haven’t relied on google search in years now, it’s so bad. some monopoly

~all of them, i would wager

well, you asked “why” to a different question and i was answering that. but if you understood my response, that would give you the context of why you got downvoted. it comes down to you arguing the opposite of what you think you are, because you didn’t read the article or understand the context of the comment. you ‘chose violence’ instead, for no reason.

i mean, i did that for you. but you ignore it, even now when insisting it never happened.

techdirt has been gold across multiple decades now. I’m really glad more people are starting to become aware of it!

my college buddy and startup cofounder had a pathetically slow old laptop. he asks me the other day, “should i buy an ipad pro?” i was dumbfounded. bro you don’t even have a proper computer. we went around a bunch and he kept trying to get really bad ones like a base model mac mini. finally i persuaded him to get a 16" M1 Pro for a grand (about 700 after his trade in) and he couldn’t be happier.

I’m still using my M1 MBP like 4 years later. Don’t even care to upgrade! these things are great value

it’s what we all called it in first grade. past that bot so much

i heard of it as kid on some cooking show on PBS in the 90s. I thought it was super weird, but my mom had heard of it. Except it was cheddar cheese, not american. I tried it and thought it was pretty good, so i bring it up when people talk about apple pie. it never fails to weird them out if they’ve never tried it!

to keep from arguing the opposite of what you think you are

yeah let’s build “ghost printers” wait are we in a cyberpunk dystopia?!

drugs of course. i thought everyone had heard of it already!

it’s not my position, but the book author’s. i doubt i could do a good job explaining it, as i haven’t gotten very far in to it.

sometimes people are curious, and just want to know that the information exists. that is me. I’m reading the book as a challenge for myself, because i disagree with the premise.

other times people i guess think that you could cover a complex topic like this in bite-sized spoon-fed internet comments and memes. i feel pity for those guys.

but why do you have those options? why wouldn’t you have had them in the past?