He's made about a million dollars for one piece of software which it sounds like he hasn't had to update in ten years, which isn't yacht money but is a comfortable fallback income. It's the sort of thing that gives you freedom to explore other things that might not pay the rent next month. Good on him and it sounds like he really has pursued other fulfilling projects.

Let's get team A to try selling something that doesn't exist, and team B trying to build something for which there isn't an obvious customer. Both may fail, but only one will look like assholes for trying.

The Democrats can make the Republicans vote. Vote to not convict Whiskey Pete, Little Marco, et al. Then hang those votes around their necks in 2 years. Make the GOP vote against raising taxes on the rich. Etc. Etc.

See, that's the thing - you think "honky" is an awful insult, when I grew up it was a punchline on national TV.

The question with these kinds of tech articles is always "can this be scaled to mass market levels" and the answer is almost always "No."

We've been doing that for years. AI allow you to fuck up much faster and more efficiently however.

Because filtering the training data is so much harder than just having them swim through the internet swallowing everything, like whales eating krill.

Not sure this is really news. Well, except that Texas has stopped buying American.

It's the time change that's the problem. Otherwise being near the timezone border would be an issue.

On the 5 year post. Don't want to think about how much time I've spent commenting here since then. Damn, I've been here almost 30 years. Still spending my work day in Linux.

Who's this old guy in the mirror?

There is no reason bitcoin can't slide back to being worth a dollar a coin. There no guarantee of value behind it. You can argue about whether fiat money is any better once the US went off the gold standard, but there is still a bit of irreplaceable value there; "the full faith and credit" means you can use it to transact business with the government, both by contracting to do public works for which the government pays you, and paying taxes and fees which are used to perform government functions and give you tokens such as licenses which show that you've contributed your share. Money's very liquidity for these purposes is a source of value, even if you can't redeem your picture of a President for precious metal. By contrast, Bitcoin literally isn't worth anything unless you can find someone (for some reason the phrase "bigger fool" comes to mind) to trade you something for it that does have value.

of production made the USSR what it is today!

Keep in mind that the "American Century" included nuclear nonproliferation. Which, to be sure, was already on life support. But it's dead now. We're all going to miss that.

It also included the US Navy guaranteeing freedom of navigation. We're going to miss that, too.

Whoosh.

Yeah, but it also lead to the kind of feature bloat that turned productive apps in overly complicated whales that were no longer usable for their original purpose.