lmfaoooooo "don't worry everyone, we have this $25B to take care of all the bank failures!"
Recently I purchased a music collection again and host it on my nextcloud so I can stream my copies of my music to myself.
Streaming is a good way to make money for companies, but it also means that they don't bother investing in risky but potentially lucrative new acts because there's no marginal benefit to finding a new act.
Besides that, the amount of power it gives is dangerous. Certain songs already have been taken off the radio because they were offensive. Eventually cancel culture will come for music, and when it happens that offensive but important cultural history will be erased, and if nobody has their own copy of that history then it'll fade from the collective consciousness, to be thrown in a vault never to be released.
Streaming is a good way to make money for companies, but it also means that they don't bother investing in risky but potentially lucrative new acts because there's no marginal benefit to finding a new act.
Besides that, the amount of power it gives is dangerous. Certain songs already have been taken off the radio because they were offensive. Eventually cancel culture will come for music, and when it happens that offensive but important cultural history will be erased, and if nobody has their own copy of that history then it'll fade from the collective consciousness, to be thrown in a vault never to be released.
I'm sure that's the case, but I'm also sure that for bigger institutions it's hybrid but more self-hosted than people think.
There's a reason why every company is pushing to sell the cloud, and it isn't because they're intending to make less money that way.
There's a reason why every company is pushing to sell the cloud, and it isn't because they're intending to make less money that way.
It's like "You don't want to lose weight! Do you know how uncomfortable being hungry is?"
I strongly believe that in the near future this will be how things start to turn.
Stuff like aws is acceptable right now because they're unlimited money. How about when there isn't unlimited money?
Stuff like aws is acceptable right now because they're unlimited money. How about when there isn't unlimited money?
Apple has been about shitty proprietary cables since the beginning.
There's one video cable that only appeared on 2 models of Macintosh before disappearing forever.
There's one video cable that only appeared on 2 models of Macintosh before disappearing forever.
I bought my son a book called 365 bedtime stories. I liked it because the data shows that having 500 books that are age-appropriate is equivalent to having a four-year degree at the end of their childhood in terms of benefit. I have tons of other books, they are everywhere, but I thought that one book that has 365 books worth of stories sounds like a good deal.
Anyway, on to my actual point. One of the stories was about a hen who found some wheat seeds. She decided to go plant the seeds, and ask if anyone would help her plant them. Everyone said no. Later, she asked if anyone would help her harvest the seeds, and everyone said no. After that, she asked if anyone would help her take the harvest to the mill, and everyone said no. Finally, she asked if anyone would help her bake the bread, and everyone said no. After all this, she asked if anyone would like to help eat the bread. Of course everyone said yes. And the hen angrily told them to fuck off, she and her chicks ate the bread and it was great.
I really like that story, I think it's the sort of story that you should tell kids.
Anyway, on to my actual point. One of the stories was about a hen who found some wheat seeds. She decided to go plant the seeds, and ask if anyone would help her plant them. Everyone said no. Later, she asked if anyone would help her harvest the seeds, and everyone said no. After that, she asked if anyone would help her take the harvest to the mill, and everyone said no. Finally, she asked if anyone would help her bake the bread, and everyone said no. After all this, she asked if anyone would like to help eat the bread. Of course everyone said yes. And the hen angrily told them to fuck off, she and her chicks ate the bread and it was great.
I really like that story, I think it's the sort of story that you should tell kids.
There's no reason why the tuition plus per student grants shouldn't be enough to pay a few teachers per class. If they can't make it work, it's time to start cutting. I bet there's an army of administrators who don't do anything but harass teachers that would be a good start.
They should start bussing in busloads of Albertans in the next election to vote for Trump in the next election. Suddenly election security becomes uncontroversial again
The original IBM PC had either 16 or 64kb of RAM on the motherboard.
I can't wrap my head around an IBM PC machine with so little stock memory you couldn't even run PC-DOS 1.0
I can't wrap my head around an IBM PC machine with so little stock memory you couldn't even run PC-DOS 1.0
The UK doesn't have any neighbors who would be refugees. Who exactly would be migrating? The French? The Germans? The Dutch? The Norwegians?
So let me get this straight: people are crossing an entire continent and part of the ocean to land in the UK. What business do those people have in the UK? They could have stopped at literally any country along the way.
So let me get this straight: people are crossing an entire continent and part of the ocean to land in the UK. What business do those people have in the UK? They could have stopped at literally any country along the way.
Spending billions of dollars of debt to reduce inflation is like thousands of people fucking to increase virginity.
Certainly explains why the idea of a very low cost city car isn't even remotely considered an option when it's actually the best option.
Toyota is facing massive attacks from the ESG crowd for wanting to create all kinds of vehicles including internal combustion engines, hybrids, battery electric, and hydrogen.
As of 2021, Toyota is the world's largest automotive manufacturer in terms of vehicle sales. They didn't do this by chasing turning away customers. They did it by producing vehicles people want to buy.
Some people want battery electric vehicles, but not everyone does. Some people want the flexibility of a plugin hybrid electric vehicle because while a battery is perfect for day to day driving, when you're paying more for your green vehicle than a standard vehicle it better be capable of doing what's required including driving to the next city. Some people think other green technologies will be the future.
We know that historically, technologies backed by governments and industry don't always end up being the successful ones, and technologies opposed by governments and industry aren't always unsuccessful. One fantastic example of this is MP3 -- despite having the world's establishment firmly against MP3, it became the de facto standard for music. Another example is WiMax, a long distance data transmission standard developed in the 2000s which had some big infrastructure investments such as the governments of Taiwan and South Korea and companies such as US carrier Sprint. Despite that, LTE ended up as the dominant technology.
The same can also happen with movements that are supported by some governments to push their own agendas. The Soviet Union supported the Esperanto language early on, a constructed language intended to be easier to learn with the idea being you'd bring people together. Despite that, Esperanto isn't a major language, and English has become the world's lingua franca.
Segway is a great example of a company that's all-in on a certain idea, and the government is in support of the idea, but despite that they failed. Segways were supposed to become the transportation of the future, but instead they failed so catastrophically that today the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of a Chinese company.
So with all that in mind, it doesn't make any sense to get 100% behind any one technology, particularly if the reason is just that some governments and companies are backing it. For a company as big as Toyota, build all the things and let history decide what technology works for them. In that way, no matter what ultimately wins, they'll be in that business. That's unlike many companies today that are struggling to get into the latest trend late.
As of 2021, Toyota is the world's largest automotive manufacturer in terms of vehicle sales. They didn't do this by chasing turning away customers. They did it by producing vehicles people want to buy.
Some people want battery electric vehicles, but not everyone does. Some people want the flexibility of a plugin hybrid electric vehicle because while a battery is perfect for day to day driving, when you're paying more for your green vehicle than a standard vehicle it better be capable of doing what's required including driving to the next city. Some people think other green technologies will be the future.
We know that historically, technologies backed by governments and industry don't always end up being the successful ones, and technologies opposed by governments and industry aren't always unsuccessful. One fantastic example of this is MP3 -- despite having the world's establishment firmly against MP3, it became the de facto standard for music. Another example is WiMax, a long distance data transmission standard developed in the 2000s which had some big infrastructure investments such as the governments of Taiwan and South Korea and companies such as US carrier Sprint. Despite that, LTE ended up as the dominant technology.
The same can also happen with movements that are supported by some governments to push their own agendas. The Soviet Union supported the Esperanto language early on, a constructed language intended to be easier to learn with the idea being you'd bring people together. Despite that, Esperanto isn't a major language, and English has become the world's lingua franca.
Segway is a great example of a company that's all-in on a certain idea, and the government is in support of the idea, but despite that they failed. Segways were supposed to become the transportation of the future, but instead they failed so catastrophically that today the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of a Chinese company.
So with all that in mind, it doesn't make any sense to get 100% behind any one technology, particularly if the reason is just that some governments and companies are backing it. For a company as big as Toyota, build all the things and let history decide what technology works for them. In that way, no matter what ultimately wins, they'll be in that business. That's unlike many companies today that are struggling to get into the latest trend late.
I haven't contribued to the source code in a long time, but I'm still partial to FreeBASIC
In fact, for my next book I'm working on making a "how to program in FreeBASIC" book wrapped around a book about computer first principles. Lots of kids these days lack fundamentals, which is going to be a huge problem in the future.
In fact, for my next book I'm working on making a "how to program in FreeBASIC" book wrapped around a book about computer first principles. Lots of kids these days lack fundamentals, which is going to be a huge problem in the future.
On the upside, even though the banking system continued to fund ISIS, at least we made sure Dick Masterson wasn't allowed to create a patreon alternative because he has some friends leftists don't like.