The issue is that UI/UX is in a terrible place. Your comments would be valid if this was 15 years ago.
UX is in the gutter with extra clicks and terrible workflows in almost every website. UI is a catastrophe of mobile first, but not really, but sort of kind of we want power users but we need regular users, and all our UI kits look like total ass that is incompatible with so many other things.
This website is a great example. The webpage doesn't load instantly and instead forces the user to wait for text to appear. Great UX engineering guys, make the user wait!
Let’s not act like backend dev is much better. They’re two sides of the same coin.
The entire web stack – backend and frontend – is a mess because the nature of the web is cumulative development over two decades, leading to a pile of abstractions upon abstractions that by some miracle remain mostly interoperable and backwards compatible.
Terrible culture that rewards psychopathy. Every CEO is an insane individual that has no remorse for any terrible action they do. This makes perfect sense that their entire corporation would reward breaking rules. It's what they would do afterall.
Fraud is basically the only career path in our current fake economy. Everyone is committing fraud on some form or another. Your company, you personally, your government, etc.
As sensationalist as this sounds I agree. I think a major turning point was when tech became a big business by charging nothing.
1. It’s impossible to compete with free so business that do add real value are at a disadvantage
2. A future where tech adoption slowly was accepted and people eased into being comfortable actually paying for things the value never happened and now feels impossible, as free is expected.
3. It’s created bad incentives. Like keeping people on their devices as much as possible and only show them things that enrage them or confirm their prejudices.
4. None of it is really free because someone pays for it all and those costs are born by society anyways, while having less choice.
5. I think over time this ethos has become mainstream and it’s essentially a fraud mindset. Nothing matters as long as the line goes up.
(This process and the end results are surprisingly similar to academic fraud. “Everything is free” is the same thing as inventing whatever results people want to hear. Both will ultimately lead to the same, unsustainable end result, as people will no longer trust research because everything is fake.)
Even though I have very high moral standards and refuse to work at shady places, almost every place I have ever worked, and places people I know have worked, have committed some kind of fraud. I don’t know if they all met the legal definition of fraud, but they are all fraud in my book.
I’ve seen fudging analytics and subscriber numbers to lie to ad buyers. I’ve seen people intentionally hold items over from one quarter to the next for accounting purposes. I’ve seen events use dubious counting methods to inflate their attendance figures. I’ve even heard stories about hospitals moving patients from failed surgeries back to their floor before they die in order to fudge the surgery survival stats.
A lot of this is Goodhart’s law in action. But also, when these very tiny frauds go unchecked in a competitive marketplace, everyone becomes forced to do them. If law enforcement won’t punish them for being evil, the market will punish them for being good.
Bingo. This is why in the latest writers guild / SAG strike, the studios would not budge on transparency for streaming residuals. They've lied too much to let the true numbers of streams for their content be seen.
It's ironic that one of Gino's partners in crime, Dan Ariely, has been writing bestselling pop-sci books about dishonesty, based on his own faked data.
All of this stuff is so fake. Quantum computing is a vaporware scam and I've been saying it for at least a decade at this point. Waste of time and money by VCs who wants government money forever.
Quantum computing seems to be in the same realm as nuclear fusion as a power source. My Quantum theory professor used to say that in the 1960's, when he was a physics student in the Soviet Union it was "the energy of the future, in 20 years everything will be powered by nuclear fusion".
When i was an undergrad student 20 years ago I did hear that "soon, quantum computing will change the world", and yet here we are, every year someone builds a new machine but no one has yet to factorize that 21 = 7x3 in a general way.
You could also say we are already using fusion power - via solar panels. We have a massive ball of plasma powered by fusion in the sky and we are harvesting the energy it creates at an ever growing scale.
Whether we'll be able to replicate it profitably at small scale is a question.
Some part of geothermal energy comes from gravity which could be argued is not related to fusion (even if the matter undergoing gravity was created in fusion)
Geothermal energy is derived from differences in kinetic energy between different layers of the planet (so extracting it saps kinetic energy from the planet's rotation). The energy stored in the Earth's rotation comes from the kinetic energy in the Solar nebula, which itself comes from stellar explosions in the primordial universe, which themselves were caused by fusion.
Wait, you had a quantum theory Prof in the 60s, but you also were an undergrad 20 years ago? That's a ~40 year period in between, makes me curious to what happened.
The professor taught GP quantum theory during the '00s, and in the '60s that same professor was a physics student in the USSR, where it was said that by the '80s fusion would power everything.
"Copying a file across your own personal devices is still painful."
No. I have never had an issue with Dropbox or Discord for simple file sharing.
For encryption I use Mega with Signal for key sharing.
MegaSync is fantastic for files you want to sync between everything and has builds for all the popular distros. The fact that he doesn't list Mega is worrying to say the least.
He's a nuDev creating a solution in search of a problem.
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