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Cake day: July 14th, 2023
  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDPEnglish
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    13 days ago

    The original source was much more sensible.

    The comparison makes sense for evaluating whether you’re over-invested in something. Like, if Nvidia suddenly poofed out of existence, would it seriously be worth 16% of everything the whole country makes in a year to get it back?

    Owning a car that’s worth 16% of your yearly income sounds reasonable, no matter what your actual income is. A Pokemon card collection that’s 16% of your income is probably too risky, no matter what your actual income is.

    Also, GDP is a decent scale to use for charting investment in a productivity tool, because if GDP ramped up at the same time as investment then it looks less like a bubble, even if they both ramp up quickly.

    But that’s not what we see. We see a sudden and volatile shift, nothing like the normal pattern before the hype.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•But here we areEnglish
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    14 days ago

    One time, I went to the store with a friend on SNAP.

    Friend: “I gotta pick up some steaks to pay my neighbor for patching the roof”

    Time to check out. I pay for my stuff first. Second transaction for the steaks.

    Person behind us was already annoyed that we had to do two transactions.

    Friend: “EBT for this one”

    Person behind us: “Are you serious?!”

    Me: 😳

    Friend and cashier are unphased, don’t even look

    Me after we leave: “Does that happen a lot?”

    Friend: “All the time. Doesn’t matter what you buy though. Too expensive, too cheap, too many calories, not enough calories, too much sugar, too vegan. They find something to be mad about.”

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Fever dream phone. Also, no apps.English
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    17 days ago

    Honestly, the developer experience was shit.

    They tried to leverage their decades of prior investment and use it as an advantage, but what it actually felt like was a wobbly Jenga tower where every little thing had a caveat and no clear happy path.

    Contrast that with iOS, where it felt like they basically started from scratch.

    I think Microsoft thought they were lowering the barrier to entry by allowing existing WinForms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight (lol) devs to reuse their stuff, but in practice it made it harder to get started. Every app felt like a legacy codebase from the jump.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Fever dream phone. Also, no apps.English
    481·
    17 days ago

    Hard to say, actually.

    • .NET took an unexpected turn towards cross-platform FOSS
    • A third major player in the smartphone market may have abated the enshittificatory forces for a bit longer
    • Having a platform that’s consumer-oriented, in contrast to their mostly business-oriented offerings today, might have clued them in to consumer sentiment a little better
    • Having a viable path towards profitability outside of enterprise services might have made the all-in gamble on OpenAI less appealing
    • Butterfly effect etc.
  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•"You exist to make money for us"English
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    21 days ago

    I think you gotta put more work (hehe) into defining what you mean by “work”.

    Some people think of work as an inherently exploitative activity, where someone who owns the means but lacks the skill to use them loans the means to someone who has the skill, in return for some of (most of) the benefits of the labor.

    I think that arrangement actually strips a lot of fulfillment from life, because the people who do the work don’t get to make decisions and the people who make decisions aren’t forced to understand the real impact of those decisions.

    But if you just mean “doing something useful” or even “doing something meaningful” (since much of what gives life meaning isn’t explicitly useful), I think it would hard to disagree with you.

    I think a lot of people who call themselves “anti-work” aren’t opposed to putting effort towards something meaningful — I think it’s actually because of their sense that their day job is meaningless (and maybe even undermining meaningful pursuits) that they call themselves “anti-work”.