theneverfox

I think it does fully explain it. Germany has never made CPUs, but they have definitely been there on the software scene though

Germany has long been a powerhouse on software. It trends towards mission critical stuff rather than anything consumer facing, but it's been very much around for many decades now

What are you talking about? What numbers?

Numbers are a tool. This is apples and orange drink, you can't reduce this to numbers

Because you can't just make up the numbers, everyone has to lie a little bit at every step or you get endless whistleblowers

It takes time to build that kind of administrative understanding

Come on... Things have been getting worse for a while, but this is a huge turning point

That's easy, brain drain. When programming was coming into existence, the US was in the cold war - Russia did have a lot of IT stuff too early on, it just wasn't publicly facing

And during this period, the US was spending infinite money investing because we had an ungodly strong economy - Europe, China , and Japan were doing reconstruction from the war and paying back loans, the global South was being economically colonized... The US and Russia were the only players with the funds to advance tech at the time

But if you fast forward a couple decades, every developed nation was doing things in the computing space. But the US had a huge lead on chip manufacturing, manufacturers were signing deals with Microsoft, and everything just kind of converged around the base architecture.

But even then, arm was invented in the UK, Linux came from Sweden (?), things were happening all over

So long story short, the US was in a position to invest while no one else was. That gave us a huge head start, one which, combined with a loosening of anti monopoly enforcement over the same period, created huge barriers of entry around certain parts of the stack

I'm literally wearing a shirt from a decade ago right now. It is made of 100% cotton, and the underarms have ripped recently

Why? Because my more recent clothing dissolved we when I tugged at them gently. Just fucking fell apart, not even at the seams, just tore like paper

So I practice on the plastic bullshit so I can sew up the cotton when I need to

I don't put software development in that category, just like I don't put bridge architects in that category

Even dancing in the infinite, us software developers are making things. Hopefully useful things

But the salesman? The investor? Point me to what they create

No... It makes way too much sense. I genuinely now think you're correct, I hate it, but your logic is very much solid

It's uncomfy, but I have to call truth as i see it

Don't interrupt your enemy's enemy dumbass

I'm not saying they're your friend, just don't interrupt the fight. Use it. Let them fight

Don't interrupt two enemies who are making a mistake, don't be a fucking idiot. Use the opportunity, win.

That's all that matters - win and never forget why you did it

I agree. I think personal mastery over your devices is a wonderful thing. Even when ephemeral - if you transfer a concept from device to device, I think that's beautiful

You know what... You run with that. I have no idea wtf it means, but if you stay pointed at the billionaires...

Well, a piece of shit launched at my enemy isn't my friend, but I'm not going to get in it's way either

It's not actually because of electricity, that was just poetic license

We can have everything we currently have... Just not like this.

The most profitable work in existence, hell an enormous chunk of human labor, is just playing with money. An imaginary thing. We do math on it, we gamble on it, we tuck it away to run interest functions on it... But it's not real. And we spend so much time on it

We made it the fuck up, and it rules our existence. It causes people to starve while we burn food. It makes us sleep on the street while homes sit empty. It enslaves us, year over year it controls more of our lives

If we just stopped, just flipped our priorities the other way around, we could feed and house everyone tomorrow. We could glorify the farmers and the workers, and we could spit at the finance people living in extravagance but doing nothing useful

IDK...I just wish everyone could see what I see for a single day, we'd never go back. The world is insane, but it doesn't have to be