What about building along the ocean coastlines and/or pipe water in from coastlines? If you can't use it unless it is desalinated, then figure out how to desalinate it and what you'll do brine/salt.

They are obviously talking about writing code against expectations greater than these simple tools. Why troll with the hyperbole?

I don't actually think the CLI tools and JavaScript apps I work on are particularly "simple". I think they're the level of complexity that most developers spend effectively all of their time building.

Kernel / database / systems engineers are a pretty rare breed.

I wouldn't call Linux's stance silly. A working OS requires drivers for the hardware it will run on and having all the drivers in the kernel is a big reason we are able to use Linux everywhere we can today. Just like if they had used a more permissive license, we wouldn't have the Linux we do today. Compare the hardware supported by Linux vs the BSDs to see why these things are important.

> Coding is the last part, and the easiest one. The real value is in understanding the world (the processes involved) and modeling it in a way that cuts a good compromise between ease of use and complexity.

Coding and modeling are interleaved. Prototyping is basically thinking through the models you are considering. If you split the two, you'll end up with a bad model, bad software or both.

What is this estimation based on? I'd think once the bubble pops pricing would start to return to normal levels and the general consensus seems to think the bubble won't last that long.

"once the bubble pops" people probably won't be interested in buying RAM.

If you would have asked me 5 years ago this wouldn't even become a bubble. I'm still amazed it did. It really taught me how much of the modern economy is just grift.

Who are '"once the bubble pops" people'?

> That model depended on personal wealth or (more often) patronage.

"They make something for themself, .."

For the vast majority of people this means doing it on the side, in addition to their day-job. I've known a lot of artists in my time and we all have day jobs. You do art for yourself because you love to create, not expecting to make any significant money on it.

Right, which works great if your daytime job is being a professor at Oxford, but maybe less so if your only opportunity is farm labor or other physically exhausting job.

Today, more people have the opportunity to dabble in art than ever before.

Personally I've found it much easier to sustain creative stuff on the side while doing a non-knowledge-based job than a knowledge-based one. Mental exhaustion is much more of a drag than physical. (Though the knowledge-based hours were longer too, which I'm sure was a factor.)

He started writing his stories long before he was a Professor. It was while he was a young man fighting in the First World War.

Right, which works great if your daytime job is fighting in the trenches, but maybe less so if your only opportunity is software development or other mentally exhausting job.

Bravo lol

Because Fedgov stopped any real anti-trust regulation over a century ago and have shown they have no will nor ability to change that since.

Computers (they each had their own) in public space and no phone until 14. Worked great w/o no filtering or whitelisting of any sort.

How do you define "merge-quality" and how to you determine a PR is of merge quality? Particularly when you are generating a lot of them with no human oversight involved?

I only buy archival (flac) downloadable files. Some places I've purchased music from..

- https://bandcamp.com/ - https://us.7digital.com/ - https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop

If I can't find them there I will grab the audio off youtube or hit the torrents. Used to buy CDs and rip them, but those are getting hard to find (and it was a PITA).