I bet my fiancée that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.
She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.
Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.
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When everything was built in C and C++ back in the day, it wasn't uncommon for teams to wait a long time for their code to build.
We've now brought this to web dev in the form of JavaScript bundlers which take even longer to run.
And we call it progress.
"the same managerial types who bitch about the entitlement and unrealistic expectations of young people are the same ones that also eviscerated the bottom rung of the career ladder — typically by offshoring many of these roles, or consolidating them into the responsibilities of their increasingly burned-out senior workers — or see AI as a way to eliminate what they see as an optional cost center, and not the future of their workforce."
YES 👏👏👏👏
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Jesus there are so many problems with this article.
"Java was ... created to have as few implementation dependencies as possible."
Bro, what?
Also they lost me with that graphic at the top that claims front-end makes up only 20% of the effort of writing an app.
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@_benui also
- horrifying millitary applications (the same AI that can drive a car can be put to work doing lots of other things)
- sweatshop labor, because all the new computers being put into the car definitely come from somewhere
- disinformation (even though this is really abt self-driving cars in general, see Tom Nicholas's video on the topic)
- solution worse than the problem, since full auto is touted as a solution to traffic, but cars are definitely not the solution to traffic, and in fact make it worse (studies have shown that self driving cars increase the total road miles of owners)
- owned by a huge corporation (tesla, google)
- destroys well-paying jobs (Uber in particular had a huge stake in developing self driving cars, because they hoped it would allow them to replace their human drivers. Definitely not the best paying job, but some people's livelihoods nonetheless)
- works by stealing stuff from the internet (self-driving cars are trained using Captcha data)
Actually, I was going to ask if you designed this genius graphic so I could give you credit. IMO these squares are solid gold. "Fucks the environment" covers objection #1 to crypto, for example.
Genius.
You hit so many of the current corp/tech/labor/environmental OMGs, and didn't use a single word that some a$$ legal dept could object to, because it could mean many, many people.
A tip of the hat to you!
@austinsmith i tried to keep it tech-independent
throwing blockchain, ai in there was v tempting
i put in ads?
the image above is a 5x5 grid of black sans-serif text on white. the contents, in order of top to bottom, left to right:
top row: only solves rich people problems; monetizes existing human relationships; only makes sense in silicon valley; works by stealing stuff from the internet; "bug" causes death.
row 2: horrifying military applications; under the hood it's sweatshop labour; dis-information!; solution is worse than the problem; only works for cis white dudes.
row 3: owned by huge corporations; what if everything was finance?; ads!; doesn't actually work; everything is a subscription.
row 4: horrifying police applications; destroys well-paying jobs; obscene levels of waste; actually just multi-level marketing; CEO is a real piece of shit.
bottom row: fucks the environment, concentrates wealth, based on idea in dystopian story, requires real world to change to fit solution; exploits addictive behaviours.
"Based on idea from dystopian story..." that was a warning, not a fucking instruction manual!
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