Readit NewsIf you think they exist naturally, you're only looking at one of thousands of independent variables. If you average them out, we all tend towards mediocrity.
When someone appeals to hierarchies (e.g., "there's always a bigger fish"), they're just admitting to using a painfully one-dimensional worldview.
Facebook made the transition to mobile faster than other competitors and successfully kept G+ from becoming competition.
The instagram purchase felt insane at the time ($1b to share photos) but facebook was able to convert it into a moneymaking juggernaut in time for the flattened growth of their flagship application.
Zuck hired Sheryl Sandburg and successfully turned a website with a ton of users into an ad-revenue machine. Plenty of other companies struggled to convert large user bases into dollars.
This obviously wasn't all based on him. He had other people around him working on this stuff and it isn't right to attribute all company success to the CEO. The metaverse play was obviously a legendary bust. But "he just got lucky" feels more like Myspace Tom than Zuckerberg in my mind.
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certainly I see the economic sense in continuing with Python, but for some folks there’s a limit to how much lipstick you want on your pig
I don't think the software engineering field is particularly rational and mostly follows trends or what looks good or familiar. We have a proclivity to assume that anything old is legacy. Most developer have never studied any CS history and are quite young, so they're bound to reinvent the wheel as well.
I think its fine to use older technology if its the right fit for the problem, and since the tech is battle-tested, you can read up as to why it went out-of-fashion, and as a result can minimize the risks with using it. It's "predictably disappointing".
as an aside, while I agree that bytecode-based analysis has its drawbacks, I think it's a tool worth having in the overall python toolbox. I spun off pycnite from pytype in the hope that anyone else who wanted to experiment with it would have an easier time getting started - https://github.com/google/pycnite
I have recently jumped onto the "write python tooling in rust" bandwagon and might look into a rust reimplementation of pycnite at some point, because I still feel that bytecode analysis lets you reuse a lot of work the compiler has already done for you.
That way we can use Raku as a scripting language for deployment.
Basically sometime around the 00s-10s, seemingly everyone decided to become a massive dickface with zero concept of social cohesion, and it's just me me me me me me, and fuck everyone else.
Society needs a reset, pretty much everyone has just become vile, angry and inconsiderate / extreme main-character syndrome.
for sure, today’s LLMs lack the last two on the list, and there is probably a rational debate to be had whether these can just emerge in the substrate provided by the LLM-like setting or whether the brain provides some hardwired additions to loop around focus selection and perceive-model-decide-act that will need to be grafted on to LLMs to achieve AGI