If your fiber service loop is coiled more than Eddie Van Halen’s guitar pickups, you should be working for Fender, not Verizon.

Macroeconomic theory was surprisingly deficient in the mid-century Soviet Union, or rather someone there took Marx's surplus value theory to the logical extreme, while ignoring all other research on the subject. But hey, not the first time people slavishly follow a single source material to their detriment. (most religions are the same way)

I'm sure the Billionaire class will tell us normal people what to do. We put them on a pedestal, put them in office, or let them buy our votes in elections.
And you're a Marxist if you aren't on board with allowing our innovative captains of industry to steer this country, no this entire world, to greater heights.

Note: Crucial P310 2TB SSD is under $250.

Sure. So?

No, it is not. It is around $300 for Samsung. Maybe do not believe the sensationalist headlines.

You can delete the modules or move them some place else. What the kernel does not find, it does not load.

Demand software developers start caring about memory print of their software again. Both in RAM and storage.

Unironically. We've lived out at least a decade and a half of "this software stack is utterly unoptimized garbage" "who cares, just slap bigger system requirements. We're not spending money on optimizing something that doesn't matter to anyone since hardware is advancing so fast".

It's good that every decade or so we get a memory and storage crunch and developers actually have to rediscover things like better compression algorithms and methods, proper garbage collection, and general software optimization.

Seriously, have you seen the size requirements of modern games? Have you seen the retarded chugging of modern office software running win11 on 8GB RAM machines when they have to actually start swapping? Have you experienced the joys of Chrome and all the memes about it being a ramvore?

What in the actual fuck are those tabs doing eating gigabytes of RAM? And why in the fuck are most Chromium based browser installs now almost a gig of storage?

You could do the same things a decade and a half ago on 4 gigs RAM and tiny SSDs that were less than one gigabyte and the system flew and most things except the porn torrents could be stored on it.

And then you consider "ok, what did we actually get for that insane increase in system demands?"

Built in always on spyware. Slightly redesigned UI according to the latest fashion trends. A few arcane additional features barely anyone uses. Games with "that unreal look" that look worse than unreal games a decade ago. And "modern" webpages that essentially ask you one question: "Would you like scrips with those scripts so you can enjoy scripts while you're enjoying scripts".

While reading a text based news article.

Just kidding. They don't ask.

Again sex is not binary it is much more complex.

It's not a mutation per se but a difference in how genomes get expressed.

That said it wouldn't be entirely inappropriate in the cases of gender dysphoria to call it a birth defect. Since it is something you are born with that causes a uncomfortable medical situation.

Because I played a bit of Warhammer 40K I met several trans girls. Seriously go play Warhammer you will meet some trans girls.

There was always a bit of friction between the trans girls and the gay community because when the two of them got together for support groups the gay community was primarily focused on activism while the trans groups were focused on general support group stuff for medical reasons. Basically the details of their transition.

In practice this means that yes as our technology advances trans people will more or less go away because we'll figure out the exact specifics that cause gender dysphoria.

My advice as far as understanding all this is think of this, imagine going to work and everyone looks at you funny because of how you are dressed. The next day you come in wearing a floral print dress and everyone calms down and treats you better but you feel very very uncomfortable in that dress right? That's gender dysphoria. When society forces you to express gender characteristics that don't match the ones you feel natural it causes substantial discomfort mentally. I don't know about women but it's something any man can easily imagine provided they have any imagination whatsoever which being a nerd I would expect that you do.

It's not just about cross-dressing imagine getting treated poorly because you're not in a floral print dress and aren't wearing makeup. And imagine what you would feel like if you just had to dress like that every single day to fit in with everybody else. That's gender dysphoria.

It's a medical condition that has a specific treatment plan and it's certainly true there are means of treating it today are ridiculously primitive and if our society somehow doesn't collapse they will gradually get better and better until it's just not a thing anymore.

But getting back to calling out a birth defect that's a loaded phrase because dropping defect implies the person in question is inherently defective. That might not have been your intention but you picked up on it from somewhere and you should be aware of it. Basically you want to avoid those kind of negative medical terms because outside of medicine they tend to get misused to dehumanize people.

It's the same reason we stopped saying retard. It became a way of dehumanizing people and after world War II we learned that dehumanizing people is extremely dangerous.

Obviously. But never underestimate the incompetence of stupid people that on top lack a technological education when they think they can do tech and who needs engineers anyways. The Darvin Awards, for example, document quite a few impressive respective fails.

They are not going to get AGI. We are _very_ far removed from that and we reliably know LLMs cannot do it. The LLM industry will collapse catastrophically, there is no other way this can go. The only question is when.

A current 2TB Samsung SSD is more around $300.

The extreme observed price for a specific old model comes from old hardware sometimes being more expensive because some people need that specific model as a replacement part. Looks like somebody did not do their homework.

Yep. And that is because old, out of manufacture hardware sometimes gets expensive. A current Samsung 2TB is more like $300.

What a fail on your part.

Why do you assume I have not looked at the literature? Pure arrogance on your side.

As to your "spotting" claim, yep, tell yourself that. Not true in he least, but if it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling, what the hell. What I can spot is nonsense. That seems to be a skill in really short supply among philosophers. It is a core skill among STEM people. I do know that some philosophers have actually working minds, for example from the respective lecture I took. But a philosopher teaching at a technical University has learned that words to do not impress but meaning may do so.

Reminds me of an exchange with a philosopher I had where he complained about the arrogance of mathematicians to claim "1+1" was "2". The guy did not even know the very basics! Since I have studied some set theory and logic, I of course know that "2" is a syntactic (!) abbreviation. The idea that yes, mathematicians had thought this through was too much for his brain.

As to the citation you have, it is completely empty and has no meaning. It is simply a claim with no support at all, not even any attempt at an actual argument. There is nothing in there. You should also probably look up "fallacy" and "argument from authority". Please do not assume that using big words and convoluted language does impress everybody.

It's done by whatever schlub worked for the cheapest on weekends in between other work.

The goal of vibe coating, or realistically letting generative AI build software for you out of stolen assets, is to not have to pay somebody who can actually write applications properly.

So it's going to be slap dash. As the saying goes, fast, cheap, good pick two. Or in the case of genai I guess you get cheap at least. For now anyway.

Indeed, same as general survival. Getting-rich-quick is far more important. Tomorrow? Who cares!