Well, I mean, there’s the whole “Metaverse” thing, and it’s been more than a decade since I read Snow Crash but I recall it being, pretty clearly, a cautionary tale…
I don’t think the metaverse was the part they were warning about… I think it was the hypercapitalism and corporations taking over control from the government’s
The last sentence of the article however, shows why that’s not much of a consolation:
In other words, it is activist hedge funds and modern executive compensation practices — not corporate law — that drive so many of today’s public companies to myopically focus on short-term earnings; cut back on investment and innovation; mistreat their employees, customers and communities; and indulge in reckless, irresponsible and environmentally destructive behaviors.
To be fair, I had this happen to me once with Nvidia’s open drivers and I switched back to the default… but just once, and either way if you do it properly and you won’t have to worry about this stuff. It was an easy fix to switch back that took all of five minutes away from me—and that’s if you count the boot time. You shouldn’t.
Sucks that your rick roll got taken from you. I understand how hard it must feel, so please know that I’m never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you
Bah, 2 whole days? I learned React in 1 day!.. then another, and another, and then I got a book, and a few years later… I learned how to fix whatever ChatGPT spits out in React in 2 days!
This person also lectured me on using AI to write code. Saying it was better than a human (in 2023), and that it made him senior level. They practically mocked me when I told them ChatGPT was pretty bad at coding.
Hey, I used to be a “Full Stack Developer”… then I took an arro… went part blind, had a couple heart attacks, got burned out… and still learned how to fix the ChatGPT stuff in 2 days! 😄
I’d say something about them being the type of person to think that just because the car’s running it means the engineering is top-tier, but then again I’d be surprised if he actually bothered really testing the code before saying that shit.
Either way, they sound like a genius and like one day they’re going to become the CTO of a hot new startup that will eventually replace Amazon on the Big Tech leaderboard.
I mean.... More computers run Linux or gun hurd than virtually any other OS at this point... Virtually every phone, virtually every smart device -- my smart light bulbs run Linux! My ptz camera ran Linux! A lot of smart televisions run Linux!
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