Love the functional programming entry, but disappointed it’s not the Year of the Linux Desktop.

Based on this rationale nobody should use Linux either =))

Linus losing is temper over a contributor messing up is not the same as calling people who maintain a free service (github - unless Zig was paying) monkeys. Correct me by all means, but did Linus call someone a personally denigrating name like that?

Either way, I like linux but I've avoided operating systems like freebsd and openbsd for less, so I agree. I've said plenty enough against Linus when he did lose his temper and started cussing at people.

And to be clear, I consider people who defend him (and in this case Andrew) far worse of an individual than the original offenders. People mess up, they're led astray by being put in positions of leadership and authority. That I get, and that's why i'm calling him out here. If he was random person, I wouldn't have bothered. But the enablers and defenders are the real problem. I hope you're not one of them. If you are, I consider you people responsible for every single work place bullying and toxic environment out there. People do great things without being classless uncivilized bullies.

Calling the Github clowns monkeys is being charitable.

IF $1900 is the bounty, it means it doesn't hurt enough.

I remember going for the highest paying bounty in the Ethereum VM several years ago (I think it was ~$400 DAI/SAI). I did it because I wanted to force myself to learn the internals and to see for myself if the bounty system works. I think I spent a few weeks debugging and ended up splitting the bounty.

As long as the user-facing issues are disconnected from the technical issues, it's going to be hard to get the true value.

This is, personally, a controversial topic- I can take both sides of the debate in my head. I use markdown intensely and feel the deficiencies deeply, but wasn't able to see how there are real alternatives given the ecosystem (e.g. Obsidian).

I do think things are ripe for changes in this space.

The processor is built of transistors, built of silicone. The paper that wraps the box that wraps the processor is simply a mindless container. Yes, there’s nuance when it comes to “wrapper” companies but it in the end they may just be wrappers. Back in the “web 2.0” things were called mash-ups and everybody didn’t try to make them look like companies.

Your definition is off in a few ways:

Middlemen are brokers, intermediaries. Almost every job is in the middle of something including the ones labeled “real” - e.g. manufacturing uses some things to produce others. Some of the jobs you refer to as middle, are not actually middle - e.g. accounting.

You probably wanted to refer to white collar jobs or maybe just services.

Middleman are not what you think and your argument sounds off from the bat just because you use that word.

The lay misconception and wrongly attributed revolutions, discoveries, inventions is so common it has a name - Stigler’s law of eponymy.

You confound the AI product with the AI revolution.

You confound my point with some other of your own misreading.

To repeat: The claim of the article is clearly incorrect. It's precisely the AGI "fantasists" that have engineered the incredible technological landscape we now live in.

If you disagree, it would be useful to frame your argument in a clearer and less condescending fashion.

so planes that don't flap their wings can't fly

Not sure those two really capture the essence. Plus you need to capture the luminance too. Something like <R,G,B>.bikeshed.com is what's needed.

That's awesome. Having done a bit of contract ping-pong and karate (many times as collateral damage of one of the legal teams) as a founder, this makes a ton of sense, now :)

This point and the article is more interesting than the OP, IMO