For the FAANG companies, they do it in part so they can then turn around and make those flashy claims you see in headlines like “95% of ours devs use [insert AI product they are trying to sell] daily” or “60% of our code base is now ‘written’ by our fancy AI”.
What in the Kentucky fried fuck is this? I feel like I’m going to get a virus on my phone just from reading it.
Maybe we will lose low effort artists but gain great music by passionate people.
This is such a bizarre take.
I wouldn’t characterize musicians who depend on some financial return as “low effort” at all. Almost all the best musicians, going back to classical music and beyond, were dependent on their music as a source of income.
If anything, the people who do music as a side hobby are usually more “low effort” than those who actually make it their main career. And if artists can’t make money of their music anymore, we’ll really only get music from rich people who can afford the lessons, instruments, recording studio, production, etc. as an expensive hobby rather than a source of income.
This isn’t really an answer to the ‘universal negativity’, but for a somewhat reasonable analysis of the pros and (surprisingly high number of) cons as well as some interesting grey areas, there’s an old LWT episode on this topic: https://youtu.be/AJm8PeWkiEU
The median age of first-time buyers rose to 40 in 2025 from 38 the year before, and is up sharply from 33 just five years ago
In case anyone else was wondering what “typical” means, they’re referring to the median. Not sure why they wouldn’t put that in the headline since, unlike “typical”, it actually has a clearly defined mathematical meaning.
I have no idea how I originally found this, but it is one of the coolest things I have ever seen/heard: https://youtu.be/l_MyUGq7pgs
Any company that pays for ads closely tracks the efficacy of ads and can more or less prove that the ads are worth it. There’s no guess work.
Wow, that is an insanely impressive engineering feat. Stuff like this is why I still love the internet. Thank you for sharing it!
I’m surprised no one has mentioned hobby horsing yet.
Also, do you remember what platform you saw it on?
Maybe that’s why it says, “at first.” They couldn’t find it until it got loud. :)
Oh, nice! Thanks for explaining that. I didn’t realize there was a way to run a cluster without HA.
I’m not sure how well that works if the cluster is only designed to be temporary, since removing a productive node from a cluster is a bit risky
Good callout. Just did some reading on the concept of maintaining a quorum, which I didn’t know about. Definitely need to be careful if I go with that approach, but it does sound interesting! I’m not entirely opposed to leaving the old laptop as a node and then using it for experimental stuff or maybe running just one specific standalone service on it after moving the critical stuff to the new server.
Sounds pretty straightforward. Thanks for the info!
That’s a fair point, but I kind of want to tinker around on the laptop without worrying too much about breaking things and figure out what all I actually want to self-host. That will help me figure out what sort of hardware I need.
I think we should have a progressive inheritance tax similar to federal income tax (except maybe the 0% range could be a little larger), and by the time you’re in the $400k+ bracket, that rate is 95%+ (or even more potentially). But as with all taxes that primarily target the wealthy, the trick is to proactively close as many loopholes as possible (i.e. parent sets up non-profit and makes kid president), otherwise the tax will barely accomplish anything.