> It's not that the terms are unpopular, it's that every system that doesn't have strong capitalist roots has lost out to more capitalist systems.
The arch of history is long, and we are naturally biased to think of the present as the culmination of history - but it's just a point in time. I do not think "socialism will save us" - but I believe there is a breaking point where society simply will not accept a - as you put it - "more capitalist system".
Politics and economic systems go hand in hand, any economic system, practiced in extremis will be destabilizing. I posit that theoretically the "more capitalist system" wins over the less capitalist one, up to a point, where winning comes at the cost of killing the host society, and thus itself. This is simply a thought experiment, I am not making any declarations on where the US is on this axis.
The best time to have moved the Overton window was decades ago. The second best time is now. It's also relevant to this age, as the current strain of capitalism is showing its ass, and everyone can see it.
Modularity is not a binary choice - it's a spectrum with tradeoffs.
One might maliciously (IMO) argue that the single motherboard in Framework products that you presumably find perfectly fine, could have been designed as several interconnected ones, that are individually replaceable. On the surface, it can seem like an unimpeachable criticism, but once you consider the cost in complexity, performance and BOM, then the "less modular" single-motherboard option becomes much more reasonable.
Framework went with soldered memory because that was the only way they could hir the memory bandwidth performance numbers they wanted for this product in the context of the segment it occupies. If you value the ability to replace/upgrade RAM over 256Gb/s, then this is not the product for you. If you think Framework shouldn't compete in this segment due to a confluence of ideological reasons and the technical limitations of slotted RAM, then the CEO disagrees with you, as do the future buyers of the compact desktop
> It's not hard to make, its a relatively simple CLI tool so there's no moat
There are similar open source CLI tools that predate Claude Coder. Its reasonable to assume Anthropic chose not to contribute to those projects for reasons other than complexity, and charitably Anthropic likely plans for differentiating features.
> Also, the minified source code is available
The redistribution license - or lack thereof - will be the stumbling block to directly reusing code authored by Anthropic without authorization.
I'm not affiliated with Anthropic, but it seems like doing this will commoditize Claude (the AIaaS). Hosted AI providers are doing all they can to move away from being interchangeable commodities; it's not good for Anthropic's revenue for users to be able to easily swap-out the backend of Cloud Code to a local Olama backend, or a cheaper hosted DeepSeek. Open sourcing Claude Code would make this option 1 or 2 forks/PRs away.
> I don't see a route where I could reasonably have much more than say 10 million 10 years from now.
You have to ask yourself this- how much is enough, and how hard are you willing to work/risk for it? On the low end, how much is the minimum, and what pros would make that acceptable, quality of life, risk, anxiety levels, etc.
Your way forward will be much clearer when you know what your parameters are, even though life may happen between now and the end date of your plans.
> And we know exactly why Meta is doing this and it’s not because they have some grand scheme to build up AI. It’s to keep these people away from their competition
I don't see how you can confidently say this when AI researchers and engineers are remunerated very well across the board and people are moving across companies all the time, if the plan is as you described it, it is clearly not working.
Zuckerberg seems confident they'll have an AI-equivalent of a mid-level engineer later this year, can you imagine how much money Meta can save by replacing a fraction of its (well-paid) engineers with fixed Capex + electric bill?
Using outdated tensorflow (v1 from 2018) or outdated PyTorch makes learning harder than it need to be, considering most resources online use much newer versions of the frameworks. If you're learning the fundamentals and working from first principle and creating the building blocks yourself, then it adds to the experience. However, most most people just want to build different types of nets, and it's hard to do when the code won't work for you.
Nvidia segments its big iron AI hardware from the consumer/prosumer segment. They do this by forbidding the use of GeForce drivers in datacenters[1]. All that to say, it is possible for the H100 to to have excellent Linux support, while support for the 4090 is awful.
Yakuake supports invoking the terminal in windowed-mode, if that's the profile you choose for it. I don't follow the purpose served by spawning an invisible background terminal; that doesn't seem to be common workflow, but I suspect you could wrangle it in your shell startup file so that the terminal self-invokes in hidden mode - but having 2 running copies (invisible and windowed) may result in both appearing when you press your global shortcut.
> a terminal available at a short-cut/button-press that will always show it but not fully hide the rest, no matter what other context you're in
I cant be the only person who uses Quake-style terminals at fullscreen. The second part of your sentence is the crucial bit: the ability to instantly conjure a persistent terminal regardless of whatever else I have on screen.
> That is a pretty cynical take. FSF good, OSI bad.
I ascribed no moral value judgement on which is better. However , Tim O'Reilly isn't exactly shy about who the target of those early Open Source conferences (OSCON) were, and what they were attempting to achieve - which they succeeded at.
> To recapture the spirit of open source as being about freedom for actual users (as opposed to free labor for jailed SaaS)
That spirit was never there; "Open Source" was created to be corporate -friendly as it was predated by Free software, which is rigidly committed to users freedom.
...or it could turn out to be a 3D-TV moment - the jury is still out.
For a while, all OEMs had 3D TV models, and it seemed their ubiquity was inevitable by sheer force of manufacturers ramming the products down consumers throats (like AI). The only debate was over which solution was superior: active or passive. 3D movies are still with us, so the tech didn't completely disappear - only from the consumer space.
> Western industrial culture was based on substance - getting real shit done.
And what did that get us? Radium poisoning and microplastics in every organ of virtually all animals living within thousands of miles of humans. Our reach has always exceeded our grasp.
The arch of history is long, and we are naturally biased to think of the present as the culmination of history - but it's just a point in time. I do not think "socialism will save us" - but I believe there is a breaking point where society simply will not accept a - as you put it - "more capitalist system".
Politics and economic systems go hand in hand, any economic system, practiced in extremis will be destabilizing. I posit that theoretically the "more capitalist system" wins over the less capitalist one, up to a point, where winning comes at the cost of killing the host society, and thus itself. This is simply a thought experiment, I am not making any declarations on where the US is on this axis.