Maggie Appleton on this blog literally says "Yancey Strickler's companion idea of the Dark Forest theory of the web".
I have a Dark Forest Theory of Hacker News. If I stay out of certain threads i dont get blasted. So i dont post in them. Hacker News is like Liu Cixin's dark forest.
i hope someone would say "as Fatneckbeard pointed out, HN is a lot like Liu Cixin's Dark Forest" not "Fat Neck Beards's Dark Forest theory of Hacker News".
I did not write 1000+ pages of books about this that became a world wide best seller and responsible for the phrase being a house hold word. I just pointed out they are similar. It is not my idea. It is not even my adaptation of an idea to a novel context. Im just pointing out something relatively obvious, because the original book is widely interpreted as an analogy for China's 996 tech startup culture by the Chinese readership which made it a success in the first place, so I'm basically making a pop culture reference. Even if I wrote a blog about it it would not make it my idea.
Yeah I worry about this. There was no "C leadership", it was simple enough that dozens of people created their own compilers within a few years of C existing. this was back before the internet. they had companies sprouting up like Borland just making C compilers for personal home computers. C just ... spread. All these kids learning Arduino in school, they are learning C.
There basically is no other usable compiler than the official rust compiler. So it has this 'leadership' thing that ... C never really needed
I get it now. It's just like some grocery stores used to operate. They purposely moved stuff around so people have to wander in order to find things. Or they put common items far away so people have to interact with other stuff. Theory is that it increases sales.
i used to imagine similar opportunities with google books. but they have done basically nothing with it. and that's been like 20 years.
if anyone could have disrupted the corrupt and unfair academic publishing world, it was Google. they just found it an uninteresting task. they preferred to work on G+, Stadia, Google Code, etc, https://killedbygoogle.com/
maybe its because the article yesterday, 80% of jobs are gotten through networking, and if the rest are from leetcode interviews.. you kind of have decided to select against diversity.
fortunately the employers are now tracking like everything we click on and every time we move a mouse, every key we type, every second we are logged on... also every single IM/teams chat we send and receive, every phone call we make...every email we send, every sentence we typed out and then deleted because it sounded wrong,... so... they will have the data pretty soon.
my point is if you pick a time-slider window of 150 years, Europeans have started two world wars. Sweden collaborated with Nazis and i wonder how much violence resulted from that.
yes thats basically, going along the lines of the Chartalist / Modern Monetary Theory view of money, and combining it with the Petrodollar theory of money.
sorry - edit - tried to keep this short, keep messing up. Theres a lot of deep rabbit holes if you want to dig into those theories online.
just keep in mind a lot of economists disagree with MMT / Chartalism and some even disagree with what a Petrodollar is.
i too have been told for 50+ years the National Debt will bury us. Often by people like Ross Perot
Now that i actually have savings, i load on up T-bills paying 5 percent, and Ibonds paying like 6 or 7, now im thinking "God i love the national debt, its so awesome, its literally free money, i wish there was more national debt. The national debt should sell t-shirts and drop an album".
one thing that was fun about bare metal that we dont get nowdays (and we coudlnt with all the viruses and ransomware)