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No it seems like lots of the orders are very particular or maybe automated based on price or some other factor. Books in linked article are not exactly valuable but pretty unique and potentially not many copies around.

I wouldn't say that

In more or less the same position and couldn't agree more. I'm also remote so this combo is the best I've ever had it. My previous job net pay was more than twice as much but I wouldn't go back to managing people onsite ever again.

ok so then why haven't we seen stories about other stuff that REALLY REALLY matters here, like the withdrawal of funding for Jodrell Bank Observatory, or the death of Gunther von Hagens ??

story has absolutely nothing to do with 'news for nerds', but editors know it's going to generate lots of vitriol and clicks.

shameful shit.

not content with stealing my data, now you're going to lure me with your amazing navigation and give me Alzheimers???

I, too, often say to myself "bit rusty on the old command line, maybe I should hand roll an unreleased kernel".

Yeah same. My first linux was Mandrake and all I can remember is chasing down random rpm's to get something working.

I haven't experienced any dependency hell since switching to pacman, although yeah APT is a pretty close second.

ok, now imagine your kid was taking part in a clinical trial and ended up dying in pain and some guys made a ton of money out of it.

still fine ?

still a million times more impressive than that shit Nadella was bragging about

The compatibility layers you mention are functional workarounds to run an application on an OS for which it has no native release.

This article is about a carefully considered standard that lets anyone anywhere open a document on any device running any application. The story here is that the monopoly incumbent chose to shit all over that standard just cos, so I feel like you missed the point a little bit.

I'm not sure what the value proposition is of fortelezaai, seems like they just strung a bunch of containers together, probably made a nice admin UI, but starting at $3k/mo ?! You must be kidding.

data sovereignty is a big issue where I work and I just set up something similar with vllm, but honestly the hardest part was compute for inference which these guys totally gloss over.

I don't think there was ever 'mutual trust'. In the 50s/60s it was just the done thing to stay in one place and work your way up. If you put the internet in front of any of those guys and they discovered you could get more money for the same work in Alabama, or be a digital nomad in Bali, I'm certain they would have done so. The 'mutual trust' in your mind that has been broken smells more like "I'm sad because we invested in staff and they decided they don't want to work for our company for the rest of their life in small town America". In other words - quite a long way behind the times.

that's a really tough one. There's a pithy phrase which I like:

but as always other people have life events, relationships, ambitions, etc etc which mean you don't get the quid pro quo. Particularly hard for small-medium businesses.