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@Daojoan
Much respect. Subscribed.
@marcosflobo
GPT for cost reduction, definitely. Or more broadly - GPT for optimal solutions through well-architected frameworks.

@marcosflobo
Yeah, documentation could be better. The new backend system should help that.

@cloudnativefdn

@marcosflobo
Yeah, the aggregation model is great for establishing a consistent metadata store for the company. Also, the plugin model makes it very extensible.
@cloudnativefdn
@marcosflobo
Interested in hearing more. We're about a year into our Backstage deployment.
@cloudnativefdn

"So many people who used to work for wages instead started businesses that there was less competition for wage work, and overall wages in villages rose as a result."

The 12-year #BasicIncome pilot in Kenya is resulting in tons of new businesses, higher wages, and happier less-stressed out people.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/12/1/23981194/givedirectly-basic-income-experiment-abhijit-banerjee-tavneet-suri

The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment in Kenya are in

Money always helps, but for the very poor, one lump sum can last a long time, according to new research on the GiveDirectly pilot, done by MIT economists Tavneet Suri and Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee.

Vox

Visualize thousands of dbt models in this 3D DAG viewer

https://medium.com/inthepipeline/e101871c1577

Pretty stunning to view some of these DAGs, especially GitLabs massive project!

@anderseknert
Yeah, hopefully this will become more common with support in node 21 https://nodejs.org/api/single-executable-applications.html.

There are other ways, like nexe too

Single executable applications | Node.js v25.5.0 Documentation

@anderseknert
Did you try running it with npx?

In 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 gave us a stark, terrifying, but very valuable lesson in how thin our collective values are once push comes to shove. Within WEEKS after lockdowns started, the op-ed class repeatedly suggested that

- We should suspend child labor laws (they claimed, incorrectly, that children weren't harmed by COVID)

- The elderly have already lived long enough and should be willing to die now to help the economy.

- The weak and compromised should be regarded as expendable.