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New comment by plumthreads in "The End of Eleventy"

plumthreads — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:14:27 +0000

> One minute you are saying large companies use the product, the next that it was always for hobbyists and shouldn't target corporate features?

You are conflating 11ty with Build Awesome (pro)

> That is not a business -- no profit motive. It is most definitely a business, even if you don't think it will make a lot of money. Also the whole point of comparison is claiming that people will not pay that much money for Build Awesome.

New comment by plumthreads in "We Will Not Be Divided"

plumthreads — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:28:57 +0000

Anthropic have a pretty progressive corporate governance structure, so there is a good argument that they will stay true to their principles. However, this will likely be the biggest test for how strong that governance structure is up to now.

New comment by plumthreads in "72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study"

plumthreads — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:09:45 +0000

If competitors offer passable services for selling indie game developers, then indie game developers would be able to earn more money (due to competition).

This is why developers are hopeful for alternative services.

New comment by plumthreads in "72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study"

plumthreads — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:51:31 +0000

This is really the key here. Many people are commenting their experience as a games buyers, but this article is about the developers. Monopsonies are usually linked to lower wages in labor markets. In this case lower profits for developers from selling their games.

New comment by plumthreads in "The profitable startup"

plumthreads — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:09:52 +0000

A $4.2 million seed round from Sequoia also didn't hurt. Maybe they were able to eat pizza instead of ramen because of that.

New comment by plumthreads in "Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?"

plumthreads — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:17:03 +0000

While what you mention is true, I'm not sure how it undermines the bitter lesson. Optimizing the use of hardware (which is what NNUE essentially does) is one way of "increasing compute." Also, NNUE was not a chess specific technique, it was originally developed for Shogi.

New comment by plumthreads in "A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself"

plumthreads — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:43:01 +0000

Those technologies offered actual utility, that's the difference.

New comment by plumthreads in "Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work"

plumthreads — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:57:12 +0000

I got the impression that DJB was criticizing the arguments for why quantum computers won't work. Not trying to demonstrate why they will work.

New comment by plumthreads in "Who Pays for the Arts?"

plumthreads — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:15:56 +0000

I recently read Cory Doctorow's "Chokepoint Capitalism" and William Deresiewicz's "The Death of the Artist" which both decry the sentiment that somehow Big Tech has been a boon for artists.

The reality is that anti-competitive practices in these companies has made them more of an extractive monopoly rather than a market to connect artists and art "consumers." To your point on revenue sharing, both Youtube and Spotify have laughable revenue shares to the point that even well known musicians have to tour nonstop to make ends meet. At what point does "exposure" benefit the artist more than it benefits the platform for having free art?

New comment by plumthreads in "Carlos Ghosn: How I escaped Japan"

plumthreads — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:32:05 +0000

You're claiming Japanese in America are representative of Japanese in Japan which is not the case. It's straight up racist too.