stevenlangbroek

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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
That's not what I mean. You can't just retrain and get a job in a new field and maintain your mortgage, rent or your kid or partner's needs, and downward social mobility is incredibly painful (think personal bankruptcies, pre
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
Thanks man, that means a lot <3
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
haha close! i saw my mom get frustrated not remembering where her programs were located, so I wrote a little numerical menu for her with her programs listed in order of use. each number was secretly another .bat script that would then go to
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
Nothing to apologize for!
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
Depends on who & what you ask. Aggregates hide important nuance. For who? At what cost to who? Do the people who bare the cost have a say? Would they agree that it's worth it? What's their life worth?
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
Is all demand equal? How is demand induced, by who and for what benefit?
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
Correct. But don't you want something from the future? What do you imagine it to look like? How far is it from what you hope it might? What are you willing to do to bring them closer together?
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
So? We produce enough food for 10 billion people every year, there's only 8 billion of us and a billion are hungry. Those seem like legible KPIs for shareholders (i.e. humanity) to pursue, no? And while World GDP is up, it's come
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
I have bad news for you...
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
Keep writing please! Where can I find your writing?
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
No, there's a difference between doing well for yourself and exploiting the labor of others to capture stupendous amounts of excess capital, then reinvesting part of that to make even more.
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
it sounds like you should learn a bit more about grief. also, please, for god's sake, read the original. I've linked to it in at the top of the article. As to envious, I'm a Director of Engineering. What exactly do you think
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
"technology is neutral, deployment is not" is that a reasonable statement? if so, congratulations, welcome to the club bud! you're a luddite now. we meet on tuesdays, please bring cookies if it's your first time.
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
Not much for a while, then when I was a teenager I got into Flash / ActionScript, this was around the 2advanced era, if that means anything to you. I did a little bit of that & HTML, CSS and PHP throughout high school, then landed
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
As a typography nerd, I am also mourning the death of typographic style. Em-dashes and ligatures <3
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
Hey! I'm not insulted at all. My position is that of a Luddite: I think technology is neutral, but deployment is not. My critique is structural, and I don't blame people in or out of tech for adopting AI to be able to survive. No
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
You mean after the dot-com bubble and after the financial crisis? I mean, not to disagree, but what point are you making here?
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
You're giving "yet you participate in society" vibes that I don't love, but let me address a few things: - We're not indentured workers yet . We should always have been fighting for their dignity & rights, beca
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
I'm sorry, or you're welcome :D
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
I agree, but would dare you to go one step further: there is no accountability for harm because, being the "bourgeoisie" under neoliberal capitalism, capital insulates them from consequences.
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
What you're describing is akin to Jevon's paradox. Let's see. The Industrial Revolution, I think a good analogy, caused years of death & suffering before raising standards of living, and even then only so because of mass
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
i zoomed in on a specific aspect of the experience, that of course doesn't mean everything is bad across the board. i've gotten great joy from programming, especially with other cool people, for most of my life. i'm grieving
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
> Ah you textile workers are so whiny... hell yeah baby, I'm a proud Luddite.
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
i dunno. i'm happy to read in the comments here (and elsewhere) that my experience is not unique, many others have similar experiences and are going through the same feelings: grief. i think we're allowed to grieve, don't you
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
oh I probably should, but I'm kinda busy with checks notes trying to feed my family :D
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
I can't speak for all managers obviously, but that's what we want. Now though, suddenly we're expected to contribute code again and C-level is completely ignorant about the tradeoffs they're making. Compounding this is t
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
I've worked at many over the past 20 years.
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
heh yeah the irony is not lost on me. should be fixed now.
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
Yeah this was just a failure on my part, I was too lazy to go the ISR route and was on the Cloudflare free plan. I was not expecting any traffic haha.
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by stevenlangbroek 4mo ago
the writing is a tribute to a 2014 similar article, based on my experiences since. it is absolutely a reasonable articulation of reality, although through a sarcastic or satirical lens. you might have different experiences, that doesn'

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