"I honestly have to say that it's a better programmer than I am, it's just not anywhere near as good a software developer for all of the higher and lower level concerns that are the other 50% of the job."
It seems to me that any range of uncertainty on aggregate demand is at orders of magnitude more than we could build even if we 10X’d the current madness.
Pause all current advancement in GPU and model R&D. How much matmul would the world consume if everyone had all-you-can-eat access to January ‘26 frontier models at all-to-yourself performance levels at 0 incremental cost?
Compare to, I dunno, unlimited pizza or unlimited electricity. Yes, if you’re smelting aluminum the latter would be a big deal. But a lot more people want to code SaaS faster and better, or have an omniscient personal assistant on call 24/7.
On a similar note: just the other day I was thinking about how the Unixy systems I used 20+ years ago used to nudge/push you toward creating several actual partitions during installation. Maybe /, /usr, swap… maybe one or two more? IIRC, I think some of the BSDs, at least, maybe still do? Always seemed weird and suboptimal to me for most installations, but I remember being told by graybeards at the time that it was the Right Way.
still makes sense to prevent overruns right? IE /home/ cant drop the whole system just cause you torrented too many debian ISOs and blew out your disk.
same for /var/ or wherever you store your DB tables like MySQL.
Ah, yeah, that makes sense, thanks. My experience as "sysadmin" has largely been from the standpoint of personal systems for which that has mostly not been a big concern for me.
I have always made /home a separate partition.
This makes it so much easier to reinstall and/or wipe out a distro and install a new one. All of my files are left undisturbed.
I assume roughly the same caveats would apply, though? Buffering might be set wrong (and have no mechanism to be updated because the program never checks again), etc.
It’s my understanding that Chan Karunamuni was largely responsible for leading the iPhone X home buttonless interface, which, I agree, is fantastic and probably the best bit of UI to come out of Apple in years. Also, the Dynamic Island, which is less impactful, but really good and clever! Anyway, he’s excited about Lemay, so I am too. https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/05/acclaimed-apple-designer-says...
This was really helpful and easy to follow. I came across this term the other day in that article that was going around about defining OOP and was a little baffled and thought "uh, I'll come back to this", but this gave me the perspective I needed to get it.
It's one of those things that's hard to get for most of us not because we don't understand what it is, but that we don't understand what not having it is like. Most languages in common use have this.
It can be similarly difficult to explain to people what structured programming is, because basically everything is structured programming now. The hard part is understanding what non-structured programming is, so that you can then understand the contrasts, because there is so little experience with it anymore.
Hey, any thoughts on this short NYT video analysis?
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