Is that... good? I mean take maps -- what more can possibly be done to that product that wouldn't just make it worse? It's done. The fact that's the default choice for mapping and just works is fantastic really. There aren't any competitors doing anything revolutionary either because there isn't anything revolutionary to be done.

The technology has actually gotten better since I last spent a significant amount of time with it.

Meta has shown pretty convincingly that you can literally stream VR apps/games over Wifi from a PC to a headset and have a great experience. You will need some compute on the device, as close as possible, but the bulk of the computing could be moved off.

Imagine if the vision pro could just be plugged into a small compute module with a battery or just plugged directly into a Macbook. It would be lighter, cheaper, and more flexible. I think a lot more people would have been interested in it.

― George Bernard Shaw, probably.

Capitalism not natural order; it has rules and winners and losers. It's actually more like sports. With sport, the goal is to create entertainment by rewarding physical excellence, mental excellence, and successful risk taking. Similarly, the goal of capitalism to create a better society by rewarding physical excellence, mental excellence, and successful risk taking.

What happens to a sport when players cheat or exploit the rules to win? It's no longer entertaining! When the best players can no longer win that's boring. And, in sport, when that happens the rules are changed or enforced better to bring it back in line.

Capitalism is the same. We are reaching the point where we are no longer properly rewarding excellence that is benefiting society. So the rules need to be enforced and rules need to be changed to bring that back in line. Inequality of this magnitude shows that rewards have outstripped the benefits to society and needs to be corrected.

A massive number of businesses have failed in my city due to high rents. There are actually a good amount of commercial vacancies and in healthy market you would expect landlords to lower their prices to attract tenants -- but they don't. The actual value of the property is increasing at a rate that they actually don't have to rent out the space. The economics make it better for it sit empty. This is effectively destroying wealth for small business owners.

Selling food isn't extraction. Growing more food, improving yields, creating better products, and serving more customers is wealth creation.

My point is that an increasing amount of economic growth doesn't come from producing more value. It comes from finding ways to extract more revenue from existing value. Smaller packages for the same price, subscription fees, service charges, planned obsolescence, monopolistic pricing, rent increases, financial engineering, and other mechanisms that increase profits without a corresponding increase in output.

In other words, "growth" is being driven by capturing a larger share of the pie rather than making the pie bigger. Just look around, this is what everyone is complaining about!

Examples are rent-seeking (making money through ownership, monopoly power, licensing, etc), financial extraction (financial manipulation, speculation, debt, and asset appreciation), housing and land appreciation, middlemen and platform fees, and corporate consolidation.

This is contrast to building factories, software, infrastructure, or goods and services that didn't previously exist. What you might define as "creating".

I don't know how you cannot buy something. You have to have a home, food, transportation, and even entertainment. The extraction economy has come to all of these things. Maybe fewer and fewer things are "worth the money" and that is a bad thing, don't you agree? I feel like you're not approaching this conversation in good faith.

Creating wealth doesn't. Extracting wealth does. We have long switched from a creating economy to an extracting economy.

It's definitely nothing I've ever had to think about when using attributes but I can appreciate someone looking into this and making the case that they could be implemented better.

As for attributes themselves, what I've found is that languages without this facility tend to implement them anyway using whatever hacks they can. In C, this is typically done with macros defining constant values. In scripting languages, it's often done with comments.

Web browsers use UTF-16 internally. So Windows isn't even largest "platform" that uses UTF-16.

The core libraries of .NET are written in C# and it's like a completely different language:

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/Sy...

One might not make use of it application code but these features a major part of the platform itself.

How many other jobs can we apply this to?

Certainly if the user gets a bad impression from the free version that's on the provider but if you're writing about it then you shouldn't get to be that ignorant.

I just don't know how many people have an overly negative opinion on AI assisted coding because they've just used the poor versions of these products given out for cheap/free. A similar critique is basing one's opinion on AI based on summary that Google provides for free in their search.