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Took me way too long to realize that there are as many incompetent people working in medicine as in any other profession

If only you could use ChatGPT during an interview the same way as when you're employed. Then everyone would finally recognize how outstanding you are

Huffman? The guy involved in lossless compression?

I believe writing the pure kernel is doable in time, but Linux has a ton of drivers, also implemented in C. I also believe it's not unreasonable to assume that those are the source of most of the issues that Rust would solve. I'm nowhere close to actual kernel development myself though either.

Migrating such a huge, complex code base over however as much time to a different language seems completely unrealistic to me though. What you're saying is right. It makes more sense to keep a pure C Linux kernel and work on a replacement in parallel. No matter how great a new language is, you can't expect an entire community of seasoned contributors to adopt it. It's unreasonable

Thanks for providing the additional clarifications, I think pretty much all of it is valid, I just have a slightly different perspective.

Most people would likely agree with you that investing into a home through dept is reasonable. I don't disagree.

I also agree that you can utilize loaned capital in a way that your earnings outperform the debt incurred.

You're still gambling though. You can not afford to lose your home, or that loaned capital. Maybe you feel like your chances are good, and maybe they really are, but you're relying on your personal prediction of the future to ultimately resolve that debt.

A "real" investment is just as much gambling, but the fallout from failure is entirely different.

Garbage blocking garbage. Fuck Reddit

These times really make me think. Not everybody was instantly a Nazi back when Hitler came up, there was a progress. So there must have been plenty of people who thought he was a clown with a bit too much influence.

These new politicians seem like a joke compared to the Nazis, but the Nazis probably seemed like a joke to plenty of people back then, too. Like, this is not a joke what's going on right now

Just FYI for whoever needs to read this: If you go into debt for a single investment, it's a mistake. You are supposed to invest your excess, into as many isolated pools as reasonable. If you're part of the majority of the population, which doesn't have an excess, you are not investing - you are gambling.

Billions of completely unrelated developments of niche topics in languages most people don't understand and then also hundreds of competing solutions to the same problems.

Very good points, thank you. I don't even want to disagree with you too much. The system is the root cause of the problem. If I understood you correctly, we're in agreement on that.

However, while the system exists, having the right people in these leadership positions is important.

I recognize that many people in leadership positions receive compensation that seems insane compared to the value they contribute to society - or often even to their shareholders!

I just honestly still believe that it's incredibly hard to pick one person to lead a billion dollar enterprise. That's not a common task, I would assume. And being a sociopathic egomaniac is kind of the barrier of entry for these positions anyway. Could you pick the right candidate from a pool of people with those disorders?

Still, I hope we agree that this is systemic.

That's a good point, and I don't really have enough insights to properly respond to that. I did think about Peertube, and I believe that a site like TikTok is different, because it relies on the ability to broadcast a large number of short videos, specifically with lots of skips.

Streaming one video for several minutes, and skipping between numerous videos every couple of seconds, is orders of magnitude more expensive. Video compression works on the idea that you store entire pictures rarely, and then just encode the difference between each frame. When you constantly need the start of videos, you constantly need the full picture of the first frame. This induces a much higher bandwidth requirement than with video that streams for several minutes continuously. Also consider the response time that is required to make the TikTok experience work. Then also consider that you need to attract enough content contributors to make this work. You can't just upload some ancient archive of 45 minute videos. You need to drive the machine.

So, to produce a TikTok experience, you also need to design for an attractive ingress of free content.

This is just not replicable in a free environment.

I actually personally fully agree with you.

I just see a different picture in the industry. Decision makers also use AI to evaluate your work. If the AI judges that your solution is not good, you face more resistance than if you submitted a solution close to the AI expectations. You are inherently incentived to not introduce original thought beyond what your executives can have explained to them by AI anyway.

I fully understand that this is short-sighted behavior, but it's real bottom-line-thinking of today.