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Sucky customer service is a direct economic function of reduced competition and increase monopolization / cartel dynamics.

The PC revolution in the 1990s is one of the core drivers of inequality, where the rich took almost all of the dividends from the vast productivity gains from personal computers as the prime development of Moore's law rocketed computers from 66 MHz to over 8 gigahertz.

Judging by the gleeful texts of CEOs, collapsed hiring, internal policy changes and pushes, and the additional decades of centralized political control, it's clear this is going to be even worse..


I must have missed the 8GHz CPU era.

It was supposed to be "a" gigahertz, Google transcription fail.

If anything, the prospects for war are far higher now, because drones provide economic victory to a gigantic number of countries against a larger foes.

The fact that open source is a national security concern should have been something that a crazy orange man should have triggered.

Thus was obvious decades ago. And open source is the key model for collective development in a secure manner for disparate countries to secure their software base.

Alas, I fear they will only concentrate on the server side. The securing of the desktop should be a parallel concern as well, to help prevent your citizenry from becoming DDOS slaves.


One of Java's the ecosystem fundamental platforms is that it's multi-threading. It's gone through too many models.

And since Java has a metric ton of blog posts from the 2000s and 2010s, a lot of search engines lead you to older models.java itself has gone from green threads to OS threads and back to green threads now.


Write one, stop anywhere.

Maybe within the strict confines of these cases made by Microsoft, which also have inherent monopoly designs behind them.

Office documents are still fundamentally opaque to data extraction and generation. The user interfaces of the components are still heavily restricted to dedicated applications as opposed to providing some sort of means of embedding them in other contexts such as gasp a web page that might have an actually good Excel interface.

And I would say in general llm should be a massive boon to closing the compatibility gap between free office applications and the barriers put up by proprietary ones, particularly format. Parsing and saving

If we can have an office document foundation similar to what Labor office does to provide generalized libraries and code for parsing office document formats saving them across many platforms, something that just piecemeal across most programming languages and environments, it could be a huge boon to open days formats represented by these relatively important file formats:

The spreadsheet

The word document

The presentation

The flowchart/chart

Well, Microsoft with things like OLE kind of pushed some of these capabilities across the Microsoft ecosystem. That sucks and it failed because it was within the Monopoly.

But the vision was a good one.


Drug war is a war on our democracy.

30000 jobs equals 10 billion dollars?

10,000,000,000 / 30,000 = 333k per employee?

I guess that tracks for a company that is 50% lawyers for suing their own customers /s


Because you say it is?

I obviously disagree. I mean, on top of this we are talking about not-open OpenAI.


There is a win 3.1 port for wider screens that do box will run


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