I cant help but wonder, are these kind of posts on the HN front page because all the programmers are nervous about their jobs and looking to switch to maker/woodworking jobs? It scratches some of the same itches, for sure...
I feel like most tech-oriented folks are just simply all about solving problems.
I've always enjoyed doing stuff in the physical realm MUCH more than doing pure systems and software stuff. There's something about everything about the process between having an idea and getting a physical object at the end that you can touch and incorporate into your daily life. "I made this," is about a million times more satisfying to say than, "I bought this."
Transitioning into a maker role is VERY difficult. Every once in a while I tangle with the idea of building cabinets, tables, etc and every single time, the math just doesn't work out. Once you factor in labor costs (your time), you cannot build furniture at anywhere near the cost-effectiveness of a traditional cabinet shop. If you go up-market and try to cater to rich folks, then you're stuck with a much smaller market, which is made even smaller by the fact that those folks are looking for exceptional quality and who are usually more interested in creativity and authenticity than an amateur like me could ever master. They want a third-generation master woodworker who has been doing it for 50 years and built the cabinets that were installed in all of their friends/neighbors/other fancy homes in the area. They don't just want cabinets/furniture, they want a story to tell their friends and family.
But making my own furniture, cabinets, and shop tools as a hobby. Yeah, I dig that and get a lot of enjoyment out of it.
My grandfather was a custom cabinet maker and my dad was in construction. I've been in woodshops before I saw a computer (yes, I'm old enough for that to be possible). No matter what I've done for actual jobs, I've always enjoyed going back to building a physical thing.
engineers have long been interested in woodworking as a distraction from work. its one of the many dream jobs/hobbys for engineers when they get enough money
Yeah most of us are so fucked. With almost no way of protecting ourselves. No real amount of assets that will give enough power to save ourselves from the people in a position that can maximally leverage AI and lock others out. I see a future where these capabilities will be locked behind super high price pay walls. Why wouldn't they? How recoup investments if the price doesnt go up?
It's like inflation for quality of life. Right now we're in the stimulus check phase, and people feel great about having been handed some cash. The next step is that cash has been spent, and what's remaining isn't worth anything.
And just like welfare bucks, people will quickly grow accustomed to getting their "intelligence" handed to them from the machine, while their own intelligence atrophies. Breeding dependency
Doesn't that say more about the massive crumb tray nobody ever bothered to empty at the bottom of mathematics?
I'm sure someone will point out something like the 4-color theorem as a counterargument. Where is that kind of theorem proving in this generation of AI? We seem to have hit a dead end rather quickly.
And because it's accurate the AI will know how to weigh that accurate information against other accurate information in such a way that it will give you a great answer without any help. In other words: any amateur will be able to do aircraft maintenance! What can go wrong? /s
There are multiple hyper-warming scenarios that have been postulated over the years. Look up the clathrate gun, ocean circulation collapse, arctic albedo flip.. some are now considered unlikely.
I don't know if any would be a Venus scenario, probably not. But we don't really need that much warming to kill ourselves off. Average global temps in the Eucene were up to double what they are today, that would do the job :)
And while not all the way to Venus, Earth's history has multiple mass extinction catastrophes that have happened. Some have been due to things like asteroids, or volcanism but also just chemical imbalance. An ice age is small beans compared to those...
Apple should also be forced to allow the user freedom to choose at least one other OS. But maybe thats too much to ask. I think it's not too much too ask, but I am probably an outlier.
Dont start about Asahi please. I know it exists.
Okay we force Apple to give the consumer freedom to choose at least one other OS. But none other exists, so what should Apple do? Create a second operating system themselves to give the illusion of choice? Be forced to bankroll an independent team such as Asahi (which you don't seem to consider valid)?
Well, you asked what's wrong with it, and being entirely unusable on a lot of the target hardware its trying to address sure seems like a problem. I didn't realize I needed to give them money to properly speak true statements.
I don't blame them, it's not like Apple makes it easy for them. They're definitely working hard on the project and I wish them luck. But one can't act like it's actually a viable OS to generally run on M series hardware. It kind of works on a select few models.
I actually have exactly a clock as a mental model of the year and the seasons. December is 12 o' clock.
But weirdly, I dont have a mind's clock to represent the day. Precisely because it feels to me that the clock shape is unfit to show time. Because 03:00am feels wildly different from 03:00pm. My mental representation is a 3d spiral slightly offset and looping back on itself. So imagine two clockfaces when looking from up top, seethrough. The bottom one is a bit to the left so you can see both well. Each consecutive number goes a bit higher. After 12 midnight the numbers quickly decend down back to 06:00am. I have this image for as long as.I remember.
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