Yeah, it was a political decision, not one based on how well the Linux transition worked.

They used Linux for quite some time productively. It wasn’t a failed transition at all.

Tbh, it’s not entirely wrong, which is the reason why it works so well as rage bait.

It’s really not about Linux, but it is about supporting anything and everything out there with a single app. Use Electron and you can have the same app running on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, your car, your game console, your smart fridge and in a website.

Of course the result sucks, but if you can cut development effort into a fraction while also supporting systems that you would have never supported otherwise, that’s not a bad deal for businesses.

What really gets me is “And he said Quote Unquote Your mom is fat.”

It’s like putting both starting and ending quotation marks before the quote.

They used Cloud Computation and AI (“Actually Interns”) way before it was cool.

Yeah, that sounds seriosly painful.

It’s not about condemming him.

What he did was basically kick off the whole genre of research. And for that he is still credited and well-known.

But it seems you missed the context of this thread. It started with someone sarcastically joking that cocaine is “famously good for your health”, to which someone sarcastically mock-backed the claim by referencing that Freud did back cocaine.

There’s no need or point in defending this very debunked claim.

Btw, Freud recommended cocaine as a medication against alcoholism. He administered cocaine to an alcoholic friend of his, and it did nothing against his alcoholism. In fact, the friend died soon after off a combined alcohol-cocaine overdose. This did not stop Freud from claiming that cocaine is great. He even got his girlfriend hooked on it.

Freud did start the whole field of research, but his own research has been debunked a very long time ago. There’s basically nothing of his research left that still counts as “state of the art”, but sadly many uneducated people still repeat his nonsense.

It’s kinda like believing that Carl Benz’ earliest car patents still have any relevance in modern car design. We credit Carl Benz for kickstarting the research in combustion engine cars, but nobody would be stupid enough to think that early research in that field has any relevance to today’s practice.

Actually, masturbation as treatment for “hysterical paroxyism” had its peak during victorian times.

That is true, but that still doesn’t make any of his advice correct.

LOOOOLOLOL. I think there are some initial investors who, in the beginning, legitimately thought it would be a good deal. At this point, the investments are driven by hype, and investors know they are, but they’re gambling that they can ride it to the top without being caught holding the bag. That’s why it will collapse violently. Because the moment it starts going down, everyone is going to dump it.

This is it. Bubbles happen BECAUSE investors know what they are doing. They ride the bubble hard, hoping to get out just before it pops. The later you jump, the more you gain. Unless you jump too late.

All this, including the popping of the bubble, is done on purpose.

High-level capitalism is certainly the place where you should never mistake mallice with incompetence.

What’s dishonest or fraudulent about a capitalist doing capitalist things?

If you think there’s some honest, genuine and honorable capitalists out there, you must be really credulous.

Pretty much, with the difference that corruption can only happen if it takes something off it’s path, so to say.

If the path itself is bad, being bad is not corruption.

If steel rusts, it’s being corrupted. Rust itself cannot be corrupted, because it is what it is.

And yes, I very much think that capitalism sucks.

ChatGPT is a fronted for specialized modules.

If you e.g. ask it to do maths, it will not do it via LLM but run it through a maths module.

I don’t know for a fact whether it has a photo analysis module, but I’d be surprised if it didn’t.

To be corrupt, you need to have another purpose than personal enrichment that you are corrupting in favour of personal enrichment.

The whole goal of capitalism is personal enrichment. There is no other purpose that could be corrupted.

It’s like saying that you make water wet or that you burn a fire.

Read it again, slowly, without anger, and I’m sure you will be able to understand it.

The concept of a “corrupt industry” doesn’t really make sense.

Corruption only works in non-profit/political/governmental contexts. It’s when you have a job that requires you to value some specific higher goal more than your own personal benefit.

The whole purpose and the higher goal of an industry, same as capitalism in general is personal benefit. A capitalist cannot be corrupt. Or to put it differently: The thing that would make e.g. a public servant corrupt is the modus operandi of capitalism.

Edit, since a lot of people don’t seem to get it:

Corruption means that you have some higher purpose that is corrupted in favour of personal gain.

Capitalism has no higher purpose than personal gain. A capitalist prioritizing personal gain is not corrupt, he is a capitalist.

Saying a capitalist is corrupt is like trying to make water wetter or trying to burn a fire.

What we call corruption for a public servant is ideal behavior for a capitalist.

This. Last time I built a PC I spent a week researching all sorts of components only to end up with an incompatible motherboard anyway, having to send it back and order something else.

Building the whole thing took around an hour, not a big deal, but everything else that went into it… It’s like having to start your risotto by planting rice.

In 2D games X is right, Y is either up or down. I haven’t seen any engine where X is inverted, but Y can be either direction. Interestingly, I haven’t seen Y as down in any 3D environment yet.

Sounds like the network people at my company. They are asking us to spend more time in the office, but they don’t provide enough desks, they don’t provide working wired LAN and they only provide semi-working Wifi. All with proxies that don’t work and filters that don’t let me access the webapp I am supposed to maintain, which is blocked for “being a commercial website”. Thanks, I know, I have to program that crap.

Technically, there’s a lot more options. Any axis can have any name. The reason why these two main systems exist is because of 2D coordinates.

A 2D coordinate system can either be viewed top-down (piece of paper on a table) or from the front (pixels on a screen). So while X stays the same in both of these options (and thus isn’t contested in 3D coordinates), Y is either up (on a screen) or ahead (on paper), and Z then gets whatever axis is left over.

That’s basically what it comes down to: Is your XY plane a piece of paper that you look at from the top, or is it the pixel coordinates of the screen you are looking through?

That’s why X is usually not contested, because it’s the same on a piece of paper that you view top-down and on a screen that you view from the front.

Y is then one of the two potential axies for either a top-down or a side-scrolling view, and Z is the remaining axis.