For over a decade I never heard anything good about Arch. The most common pitch was something like "it's fun to fix when it breaks", so I was completely blindsided when Valve based SteamOS off it. What did they see in it? I was due for a new SSD, so I decided I'd run it for a week or two. The moment it started being a nuisance, I'd wipe the drive.

That was years ago and I'm still on it.

It's a level 2 system, it can't be operated unattended. Your friends are risking thier lives as several people (now dead) have found out.

It was as if a dark gray curtain fell slowly and I couldn't see through it. This was the retina coming off from the top edge and folding down over the bottom half.

Maybe there was something to the high-trust society we once had.

Perhaps it had something going for it that we lost when we decided to forsake it.

>Most users I've seen turn it off, something databricks must be aware of because they require admins permission for users to opt out of AI.

This is a very worrying trend of having AI enabled by default that you cannot turn it off unless you're the admin.

Wonder if this is going to be like when Twitter laid people off and the rest of the tech industry rapidly went from hiring pretty much anyone who applied to the current career apocalypse that software developers are going through.

This isnt shocking considering Zuckerbergs comments.

I'm kinda shocked it happened this fast though. We had headlines of billion dollar offers for AI engineers and a few weeks later it all came crashing down.

I wouldn't trust it, myself. I was laying out a new circuit board design for a client when my eyesight went all wonky. It turns out I had a detached retina. Yhe first repair procedure failed. The second procedure went well. Then I got a cataract in that eye. My retina specialist sent me to a cataract specialist. The cataract specialist told me "I was allergic to laser beams" and didn't recommend cataract surgery. And also to get used to audiobooks. Like I could write program code and design GUI's by listening to audiobooks. For "fun" I read. Sometimes I write books. I put up with a 'weird' double vision and gave up driving a car. Audiobooks indeed.

> Anyone can start a company and contribute the money required for that company.

No, anyone can't. That's the point. If the money is siphoned out of the lower class, then they have no capital (or free time) to start a business. They're barely getting by. It's a positive feedback loop in both directions (up and down). Rich get rich, poor get poorer (in general).