Edit: I RTFA'd, containers can't adjust `privacy.resistfingerprinting`. Boo

I thought this would be over by now, I certainly haven't bought physical this decade. Who is buying physical, parents of young kids?

> As of v9.0 in August 2024 the project relicensed from MIT to GPLv3+, with the explicit goal of staying copyleft and resisting future commercial capture of the codebase.

The value of copyleft for decentralization is too often overlooked.

> Developing an entire architecture and then abandoning it because it turned out that it didn't scale too well, or couldn't handle some edge cases, is not a major mistake or problem any more.

Cool, but I can count on one (two?) hands how many times in a 30yr career I had the opportunity to do this, except when I "made the opportunity" by coding the solution fast enough that the PHBs couldn't say no. LLMs should be even better for this of course.

But it's rare, and those times I forced the issue were good for my career but not always for the team. Most of the time, once an organization has a working product, you want to stay in the lanes, roughly, of that product, which is IMO where the coding time advantage vanishes.

- Mythical man-month is about organizations not individuals

- No Silver Bullet: "I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation." Clearly he's NOT talking about the 10x dev building the whole thing themselves, which everybody knows is faster, better, probably doesn't even need a spec. Organizations are who need specs -- they have clients, business people etc. An organization with a single developer moves at light speed -- but this doesn't scale.

Nobody's disputing that LLMs give multiples for certain development tasks. The main thrust of the argument centers on how unimportant coding time is ... for organizations. Coding time is a HUGE lever if you're the one dev building everything, but that's not a repeatable pattern.

Did cucumber go away? I never hear about it anymore.

Why? Most of the article was about the productivity of teams.

> This is a very academic approach to the subject - read what other people have written about it

Meta-studies have tremendous value. He's asking a simple question: if LLMs are changing the world, let's look at what studies are showing.

> My experience has been remarkable, and, like others, I'm finding real joy in being able to move past the code to actually design and play with whole systems and architectures

Great! What does that have to do with the age-old problem that software development doesn't scale to teams well? It is indeed a "50 year old problem", so please tell us how LLMs solve it.

I might further argue that the startup-y fintech culture led to good tech culture. The fact that they didn't start as a bank (as opposed to say SVB) means that they didn't have to be as conservative, or integrate with some horrific ancient tech stack.

I'm pleased they've had such success with Haskell, but much like Jane Street and OCAML, I think the language choice is almost accidental*, as much as the companies would like you to believe otherwise.

I would like to know however what they're doing for front-end. I would guess that all of this Haskell is back-end only.

*EDIT by "accidental" I mean to the business side. Jane St had some good trades, Mercury had great focus and execution. They also have some good tech :)

In any case, I think the "Haskell tax" concept (where you can pay well-paid programmers less if you have a Haskell shop) is stale by now. Rust attracted away a lot of FP-ers, plus mainstream langs like C++, Java and even Typescript got smarter. Haskell's biggest problem by far is the tiny labor pool, which Mercury seems to wisely avoid.

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Imagine what this means if you are trying to gauge impact of a post. Remember, X is giving them zero information about who they're preventing from seeing it. Impressions is the main datapoint so if you can't figure out why you've lost 98% of your impact, how on earth are you going to evaluate it vs other platforms?

And yes, each platform has a cost. There's a LOT more to social strategy than just "copy and paste this announce to every platform".

They said nothing of this in TFA, all they talked about was decimated view count. The obvious conclusion is X is censoring them, like they pretty much do to anybody that Elon feels like censoring.

The usual way, via the criminal code. My old business treasury was scammed into transferring funds on-chain to an impersonator. We were able to recover losses through an insurance claim which required us to report the theft to the police.

The alternative would be lavishly funded public research, which sounds great to me! But is that going to happen?