While micorsoft is not 'evil', historically their priorities, objectives, and business model have not aligned well with the FOSS community and its needs.
Geeks tend to forget this part. When you strip away ideology and niftiness, a lot of these distributed solutions just don't offer anything substantially better (or even significantly worse) to justify mass switching... esp solutions that require things like 'everyone runs their own server', which tends to be the type of thing that only works for small communities.
Unfortunately we have already been through 'distributed', it was disrupted by 'centralized'. Distributed struggles to compete when scaled, and has mostly become a buzzword for hopeful people who have forgotten the past already.
One issue is too much investment capital (and its associated expectations) and not enough good opportunities to invest it in. It is one of the things causing behind the scenes friction with the 'trade deficit' obsession we see today. A lof that trade money comes back as investment dollars, which increases competition for investment opportunities that domestic investors have to fight over.
However, flamethrowers were not being sold as toys in CA before this, so they tried to head that off by tweaking an existing law to cover a new product that got around the law by having a reduced range.
Musk found a way around the current rules, they tried to fix the rules to maintain the intent. Musk is also pushing a new, more dangerous use for what was previously a carefully applied tool.
Consequences are for poor people. If people lose their homes due to other people playing with his toys, well, it is their own fault for living so close to other people!
Eh, it is legally and interesting issue, which if you are a legal nerd is kinda neat.
Within that, the rules about employees vs independent contractors, how much power companies have over the behavior of such people, and what legal protections they have, is of significant interest to tech nerds since so many of us operate in that space.
Well, the tie in is that Uber is already in trouble for not vetting drivers well enough. The secondary and perhaps more interesting part though is the intersection of state law regarding firearms, corporate policy, and how policies can be applied to employees vs independent contractors.
In the US, it was less about 'demand' and more about 'lower cost' since Uber does not carry the same liability insurance as cab companies, and many of the people working for them operate at a (hidden) loss.
I think the idea is to punish the company that originates the call. Even if one is using VoIP, at some point some telecom connects that call to the shared network. If they were held accountable and the fines were higher than the money they are making off the calls, we would probably see some changes.
I know most people in this thread are pointing out issues like 'pay more' or simply trashing companies for wanting to hire talent,.. but there is a piece of story that I think highlights a big part of the problem.. linkedin and 'being found'.
Hunting and hiring, when not going through people's social networks, has become a pretty frustrating experience all around. Candidates get a never ending stream of spam that barely matches their skills, and employers are hard to find since they are mostly hidden behind generic recruiters that will not tell you who is hiring till you agree to work for them.
The noise to signal ratio has gotten really bad, and the middlemen have been making it worse.
3. People who just find it plain fun : People often seem to forget that hobbies are not just about showing off, but for having fun. Film is a different experience and a different skill, and some people enjoy it more.
4. Edge cases in accessibility : Price out a monochrome 4x5 camera or a UV rig, or the speciality high resolution stuff. Digital prices are orders of magnitudes higher than film in some domains and if you wanna play with the capabilities, film is still a LOT more accessible for amateurs.
Reddit is a pretty general site, the quality of what you find varies wildly by subreddit. The front page is pretty bad, but individual boards can have some of the best discussions around.
Who is 'us' in this case?
Machine learning is not exactly a new field and people have been publishing research in commercial and peer reviewed journals for decades.
While I know it is a really lucrative field, younger ML people seem to be really obsessed with ignoring all that came before them, including their own field.
Esp when the person doing the hiring is mostly thinking in terms of their next job in the next year or two, so if the college aged warm bodies do a crappy job it will be someone else's problem.
For all but the most entry level and 'warm body' openings, I rarely see much interest in which technologies candidates know in the first place.
Managers seem a lot more interested in what types of systems you have built and problems you have solved unless they are just trying to fill disposable seats.
Eh, or economics in general.
There is a whole parallel economy with prices orders of magnitude higher than the 'normal' one, mostly so people who's wealth is also orders of magnitude higher can demonstrate to others what class they are in.
Many proponents see this as a feature. They are in favor of a deflationary currency, so any BTC that is lost for good increases the value of what they are holding.
Well, it is both really. Stores go with the best compromise between things their preferred customers will respond to vs licensing costs. Boomers still have the most disposable income so that tilts things in their favor, which also gives the services that provide the music incentive to offer attractively prices packages for that age range.
Wealth is a bit of a special case.
When it comes to movies, music, books, etc, zipf's law tends to come into play which produces about an 80/20 split (20% of the artists having 80% of the mindshare).
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While micorsoft is not 'evil', historically their priorities, objectives, and business model have not aligned well with the FOSS community and its needs.
Geeks tend to forget this part. When you strip away ideology and niftiness, a lot of these distributed solutions just don't offer anything substantially better (or even significantly worse) to justify mass switching... esp solutions that require things like 'everyone runs their own server', which tends to be the type of thing that only works for small communities.
Unfortunately we have already been through 'distributed', it was disrupted by 'centralized'. Distributed struggles to compete when scaled, and has mostly become a buzzword for hopeful people who have forgotten the past already.
One issue is too much investment capital (and its associated expectations) and not enough good opportunities to invest it in. It is one of the things causing behind the scenes friction with the 'trade deficit' obsession we see today. A lof that trade money comes back as investment dollars, which increases competition for investment opportunities that domestic investors have to fight over.
The problem with darwin taking care of this is the amount of potential colatorial damage.
However, flamethrowers were not being sold as toys in CA before this, so they tried to head that off by tweaking an existing law to cover a new product that got around the law by having a reduced range. Musk found a way around the current rules, they tried to fix the rules to maintain the intent. Musk is also pushing a new, more dangerous use for what was previously a carefully applied tool.
Consequences are for poor people. If people lose their homes due to other people playing with his toys, well, it is their own fault for living so close to other people!
Eh, it is legally and interesting issue, which if you are a legal nerd is kinda neat. Within that, the rules about employees vs independent contractors, how much power companies have over the behavior of such people, and what legal protections they have, is of significant interest to tech nerds since so many of us operate in that space.
Well, the tie in is that Uber is already in trouble for not vetting drivers well enough. The secondary and perhaps more interesting part though is the intersection of state law regarding firearms, corporate policy, and how policies can be applied to employees vs independent contractors.
In the US, it was less about 'demand' and more about 'lower cost' since Uber does not carry the same liability insurance as cab companies, and many of the people working for them operate at a (hidden) loss.
I think the idea is to punish the company that originates the call. Even if one is using VoIP, at some point some telecom connects that call to the shared network. If they were held accountable and the fines were higher than the money they are making off the calls, we would probably see some changes.
Oddly enough, I never get around to learning graphical IDEs for the same reason. I have work to do and already know how to do it in Vi.
Exactly. Compare that to the cost of a digital back, which has a sensor size WAY smaller than 4x5.
I know most people in this thread are pointing out issues like 'pay more' or simply trashing companies for wanting to hire talent,.. but there is a piece of story that I think highlights a big part of the problem.. linkedin and 'being found'. Hunting and hiring, when not going through people's social networks, has become a pretty frustrating experience all around. Candidates get a never ending stream of spam that barely matches their skills, and employers are hard to find since they are mostly hidden behind generic recruiters that will not tell you who is hiring till you agree to work for them. The noise to signal ratio has gotten really bad, and the middlemen have been making it worse.
3. People who just find it plain fun : People often seem to forget that hobbies are not just about showing off, but for having fun. Film is a different experience and a different skill, and some people enjoy it more.
4. Edge cases in accessibility : Price out a monochrome 4x5 camera or a UV rig, or the speciality high resolution stuff. Digital prices are orders of magnitudes higher than film in some domains and if you wanna play with the capabilities, film is still a LOT more accessible for amateurs.
Reddit is a pretty general site, the quality of what you find varies wildly by subreddit. The front page is pretty bad, but individual boards can have some of the best discussions around.
And in the ultimate irony it turns out galactic level trash isn't much more advanced than what we already have.
Who is 'us' in this case? Machine learning is not exactly a new field and people have been publishing research in commercial and peer reviewed journals for decades. While I know it is a really lucrative field, younger ML people seem to be really obsessed with ignoring all that came before them, including their own field.
Esp when the person doing the hiring is mostly thinking in terms of their next job in the next year or two, so if the college aged warm bodies do a crappy job it will be someone else's problem.
For all but the most entry level and 'warm body' openings, I rarely see much interest in which technologies candidates know in the first place. Managers seem a lot more interested in what types of systems you have built and problems you have solved unless they are just trying to fill disposable seats.
Eh, or economics in general. There is a whole parallel economy with prices orders of magnitude higher than the 'normal' one, mostly so people who's wealth is also orders of magnitude higher can demonstrate to others what class they are in.
Many proponents see this as a feature. They are in favor of a deflationary currency, so any BTC that is lost for good increases the value of what they are holding.
Yeah, but a whole new one usually starts right after.
Well, it is both really. Stores go with the best compromise between things their preferred customers will respond to vs licensing costs. Boomers still have the most disposable income so that tilts things in their favor, which also gives the services that provide the music incentive to offer attractively prices packages for that age range.
Wealth is a bit of a special case. When it comes to movies, music, books, etc, zipf's law tends to come into play which produces about an 80/20 split (20% of the artists having 80% of the mindshare).