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.

Yes and following your analogy, you'd also have billions of dollars in VC money and a Time magazine cover for having a car that is Very Good at rolling downhill.

aw you even made a little link, that's so cute.

here's a few other ones you should check out:

• Nuance - a subtle difference or distinction in expression or meaning
• Semantics - the study of meaning, changes in meaning, and the principles that govern the relationship between sentences or words and their meanings
• Colloquial - characteristic of conversational idiom where words have connotation that go beyond what some turd on the internet links to and thinks they're an edgelord
• Edgelord - a redundant and pointless idiot on slashdot whose only contribution to a discussion is nitpicking meanings of words from online dictionaries to make themselves feel better presumably since their life is empty and pointless

I'm finding with claude now I have to run at least 4 or 5 parallel sessions, so that the gigantic overhead on getting any fucking small thing done is masked.

it defaulted to opus 5 today, and after going round in circles, asking unnecessary questions, asking me if I really want to deploy after I'd 'shouted' at it 5 times in a row to just get it done, it took nearly 2 hours to deploy a custom page for sleeping fargate tenants. It's absolutely excruciating, and when I complain it says I need to adjust thinking or effort or one of the other 25 nebulous and impossible to understand configurations. What a joke.

So he literally says "it's not feasible to prioritize" and "I'm not sure what to do". Is that 'complaining', where you come from? Cos it sounds like overwhelm and turning to colleagues for support.

People making strawmen about people complaining makes them look bad.

work game me a win11 laptop which I immediately wiped with cachyos. finding and launching an app is nearly instant. Sometimes I have to log into a windows server and it just makes we want to kill myself, I have no idea how some developers use windows all day long.

if their response to the existential crisis you describe is "ok we'll remove ads from search results" then they're even more detached from reality than I thought

oh you're the guy that likes them.