I didn't know that working for a state-funded college meant my pay information would be public information until one day someone told me they googled me and found how little I was making...
> if the stakeholders knew how to do what they needed to build and how, then they could use LLMs, but translating complex requirements into code is something that these tools are not even close to cracking.
They don't have to replace you to reduce headcount. They could increase your workload so where they needed five senior developers, they can do with maybe three. That's like six one way and half a dozen the other way because two developers lost a job, right?
> Is nobody in these very rich guys' spheres pushing back on their thought process?
I will take a wild guess and say a qualified no
in the sense that nobody who report directly to these people
said anything against it
and my conspiracy theory is that they were not idiots
who didn't have their own misgivings
but they prized their own personal gain / "professional growth"
by being yes men over doing what they had a professional responsibility.
My favorite example is the Amazon Fire Phone
> Jeff Bezos reportedly "...envisioned a list of whiz-bang features... NFC for contactless payments, hands-free interactions to allow users to navigate the interface through mid-air gestures and a force-sensitive grip that could respond in different ways to various degrees of physical pressure", most of which ultimately did not end up in the final product. He also "obsessively monitored the product", requiring "even the smallest decisions needed to go by him".
Did nobody think that an expensive phone would make sense with a value conscious audience of Amazon.com?
If nobody (who directly reports to the CEO) dares question even a relatively minor thing like this,
how can we expect them to say anything about major/existential issues in a company such as "Open" AI?
There is a steelman argument for not pushing back on plans that don't make sense. You have to remember that folks like this are not just random mad men spouting crazy ideas. This is someone that has had crazy ideas in the past AND made them happen. In some cases, more than once. If you had a front row seat to watching someone deliver stuff that you thought couldn't be done, what you do when they came up with the next crazy idea? It is not unreasonable to subjugate your own judgement and just see where it goes.
> > This is entirely in keeping with how the KDE project as a whole works: for instance, if you search the KDE Applications website for "text editor", you'll find three: Kate, KWrite, and Nota. If you search for "file manager", you'll find four; and "web browser", three. Within the desktop, there are multiple start-menu tools, multiple app-switching panel-button bars, and so on. Even the "About" option on the "Help" menu is duplicated: one tells you version information (in one of two version formats, either decimal-number based or date-based), and one tells you about KDE as a whole.
I think they are ALMOST right.
Yes, different people use different apps.
Yes, it should be possible to download fifteen different web browsers or twenty five different text editors.
However, there should be a coherent DEFAULTS story.
By default, when you install an operating system, we should have ONE default COMPLETE web browser, one COMPLETE text editor, and so on.
I don't think when you install an operating system,
it should install an office productivity software suite
such as Microsoft Office or Libre Office by default.
> I don't think when you install an operating system, it should install an office productivity software suite such as Microsoft Office or Libre Office by default.
I don't see why not (apart from the Microsoft example which would be monopoly abuse). If I install a standard Linux desktop distribution (rather than a server oriented one) then I'd be quite happy to have LibreOffice or Gnumeric etc. installed. Office tools are used so frequently that it makes sense to include them along with e.g. photo editing tools.
And even ignoring OneNote and trial version of MS Office in more recent Windows versions, Windows has always shipped with WordPad. Microsoft's vision in the 90s was that the operating system should come with basic productivity tools like a plain text editor (notepad), a rich text editor suitable for writing letters (wordpad), a graphics editor (paint), software for sending and receiving fax and scanning documents (Windows Fax and Scan), along with a media player, a web browser and some games. You could be productive in the office with just a plain Windows install.
I find it weird if a distribution doesn't have it.
At the end of the day, a big selling point for FOSS products is always going to be the free-beer aspect. Bits are free, take as many as you want.
But there's also the appeal of centralized management through the distribution. Even if it's technically an opt-in checkbox during the installer, it's convenient that 95% of your software comes from a central source with a single standard way to get updates. I'd expect this is even more exciting at scale-- if you're managing 5,000 desktops, the FOSS answer is "have a cron job run apt-get update;apt-get upgrade a few times a month" and the Windows answer is "here's an aftermarket tool, and you're probably going to have to script a bunch of individual installers and deal with licensing gimmicks to make them all properly launch."
I see the appeal to someone who is new and shows up with an intention like "idk, just give me the internet lol". That's a perfectly fine and overwhelmingly common way to use a computer. I think even a mainstream distro that's offering a KDE desktop should do that.
For the KDE project itself though it's always put a lot of store in offering lots and lots of choice (maybe the main ideological difference with Gnome). Of course all settings have to have a default, and randomizing or forcing a choice on first use would be a hassle, but you aren't pushed down any particular path. I like this and I'm glad there's a desktop environment with an attitude like this.
I think that there is an attitude being evinced by the popularity of search terms like "best photo editor free 2024”. People do they same on forums, they would like to get the "best" one and ideally wouldn't have to spend the time and energy on finding it. Sometimes there is a natural choice, sometimes there's a choice that seems natural to some and not others, and the common case (imho) is that it's complicated. If you're just doing something once and it doesn't matter, use any tools that works, if you'll use it often and the outcome is important then there's not substitute for trying different things.
You might view it as multi-armed bandit problem with a subjective value function. Whether the value varies much between people is something else you'd have to figure out.
Another thing I think Linux distros should focus on—and I know some already do—is renaming default apps to be more intuitive. For example, instead of calling it “Caja” (or is it “Kaja”?), just call it File Manager (Caja) so new users know what it is.
As for including an Office Suite during installation, why not? At the very least, make it a pre-selected option that’s easy to deselect if someone doesn’t want it.
I have a front-facing dashcam in my car. It records videos when I drive. Would this be useful for others? The videos are not stamped with GPS coordinates but I don't go off road or anything so you can usually tell the name of the street or highway I am on just by the street signs. Are these dash cam videos worth saving?
> Can you provide any data to refute the numbers I shared? Because again, the job market is looking pretty good to me.
This is why everyone hates economists.
They have zero insight into how lives are for ordinary people.
I applied for a job at grocery stores and fast food restaurants.
I did not get ONE call back from any of these places.
Also another thing -- they keep saying rate of inflation is now under control.
Well guess what, the prices went up and have not come down. Wages did not keep pace with the high rate of inflation so unless you can have negative inflation somehow, there is still constant pain every day, every month. I mean it is so obvious and yet economists chase spherical cows...
> This is why everyone hates economists. They have zero insight into how lives are for ordinary people. I applied for a job at grocery stores and fast food restaurants. I did not get ONE call back from any of these places.
I understand your frustration with your personal situation, but at least regarding unemployment, how else would you propose we measure it? Unless there's some flaw with the methodology or the data that was collected, your situation is very clearly not the norm. Until we identify any possible problems with the measuring process, the number that's released is the best view we have of the employment situation nationwide. Are you saying that "ordinary people" are somehow excluded from the data? Or what?
> Also another thing -- they keep saying rate of inflation is now under control. Well guess what, the prices went up and have not come down. Wages did not keep pace with the high rate of inflation so unless you can have negative inflation somehow, there is still constant pain every day, every month. I mean it is so obvious and yet economists chase spherical cows...
The rate of inflation is under control, and I realize you might know better and are just speaking for "the average person," but comments like this reflect a gross misunderstanding of the concept of inflation. This is a perfect reason why education is so important to an informed and effective electorate.
BTW, you can, in fact, have negative inflation, and it is widely considered to be bad, for a multitude of reasons. [0]
Sorry, yes, I meant somehow have negative inflation without the terrible consequences (iirc Japan had it at slightly above zero for a decade and that was bad enough, can't imagine actually negative numbers enough to reverse the inflation since 2020).
> The rate of inflation is under control
Stop saying that because that message is clearly not resonating with people. They don't understand and they don't want to understand. Don't shoot the messenger here but this is a spherical cow. It doesn't matter that a car that has you pinned against a wall is no longer accelerating but it is merely attempting to crush you at a steady, cruising speed.
Yes, this was a big achievement and clearly we failed to communicate this message because the next question is ok great but how do I stretch my paycheck to meet my expenses.
And that goes back to the original problem -- there are fewer jobs than there were before. I have ZERO data to back this up but just my own personal anecdotes but it feels like at least for web developers that companies are laying off people AND hiring people back at lower wages. If they are not actively laying off, they are taking any excuse they can get to end a contract or "return to office" to force people to quit and come back at a lower salary.
> Stop saying that because that message is clearly not resonating with people
I’m not a politician running for office, so fortunately I don’t have to make it resonate with people. I will continue to say it because it’s true.
> And that goes back to the original problem -- there are fewer jobs than there were before. I have ZERO data to back this up but just my own personal anecdotes but it feels like at least for web developers that companies are laying off people AND hiring people back at lower wages.
I prefer to believe things that are based on data and evidence rather than feelings, even if it goes against whatever preconceived notions I may have.
Here’s an anecdote for you: I’m a developer and found a new job about 2 years ago, after the big tech layoffs started happening, and went from starting my search to offer signed in about 5 weeks, give or take. I still work for this same company and since the whole company is fully remote, there are going to be no RTO mandates, ever. I make more money than I have at any previous job in my prior 20 years in the profession. I have several close friends in similar positions as me. The job market is doing great!
I was going to say I have 10k plus hours on steam adventure capitalist but I'm not actively playing all the time. Most of it is an autoclicker over the night or the weekend.
I am so glad I am not the only one who hated it when other people would try to imply the work I did was trivial. If you want to say my work is trivial or "just" 0.5 story points, you should be willing to pick up this story.
Whenever I hear someone in a meeting saying "X shouldn't take that long, all you have to is A, B, C", I like to say "It sounds like we have a volunteer".
