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So there are no middle(people) in Medicare? Or the defense industry? Single payer may just as likely future calcify the structures.

True, but hiring CNC programmers is a significant limiting factor in growing such businesses.

That’s an effectively intractable (and common problem). Even when there is a board involved, a skip-level approach to pointing it out is very likely an end of employment situation. Machiavelli had adv…

Oh, that sounds like a challenge… Is the challenge here the same as with digital simulations of electronic circuits? That is, at the end of the day analog physics becomes confounding? Or are you doing…

No, StepFunctions is a different beast. I didn't build it, so I'm just guessing but I suspect it's running a shared backend for all state machines so there is no static initialization,…

I think the biggest issue with workflow tools vs code is that a visual representation of a software system doesn’t made it any less complicated, and often the workflow system makes it even worse. I s…

I've used MessagePack[1] and MemoryPack[2] for some internal binary serialization. It'd be nice to have a (safe) BCL option. [1] https://github.com/MessagePack-CSharp/M…

> Sure but do you actually need the absolute best people around? No. You need a great _combination_ of people. Over my career I have seen teams assembled with “the best” folks to great fanfare an e…

Interesting that the folks making the broadcast weren’t listening to it.

If AI can make a dent in the CAD/CAE interoperability problem I would be delighted. As a former Autodesk’er and long time amateur CAD jockey on “systems of opportunity” I’ve felt this pain and kn…

That’s true, the front-facing VMs always need to be there (hence the product I’m working on — so at least you don’t need to run them). The real work is done in serverless, in batches. Basically I thin…

That’s a depends situation. If you’re using direct service integration instead of Lambda, it can be cheaper. And, if you use VMs only as the front-end to push batches of requests to serverless compute…

> Just keep in mind that a business's role in society is to deliver something and bring in a profit. No, that’s just another lie you’ve been made to believe. Corporations exist to serve the pu…

> Microsoft on the other hand is a typical SKU-mover As far as I can tell there is nothing typical about Microsoft. The sophisticated, deeply-root long game they’ve executed extremely well puts the…

I don’t consider myself a typical “entrepreneur” and I don’t think others generally would, either. The thing is, I have businesses that just made obvious sense. They aren’t in the glorious technology …

You could ask Apple to charge ~$4K for them so there are fewer “on the street”.

Approved, removes 24k lines of code.

I’m grateful for our local “community telcos” that deliver far faster connectivity and far lower prices, and with generally great service. I have toyed with the idea of starting one for my current nei…

> The dream is that your kids make a steady income at something they can enjoy or at least tolerate while not risking their physical health. Yep. The thing is, white collar (desk) jobs are bad for …

> I don't know a single person who has encouraged their kids to skip college and go into the trades. Same-ish here. I have a brother in the trades (of seven siblings) and at least two cousins.…

So as a CTO, why do people think it’s extra cool that I build wooden boats, too? One of my role models is a retired Chevrolet mechanic who has never had to worry about money. The stigma is just one mo…

The trades seem like a great gig these days.

In the face of this I give up trying to identity business opportunities. Stealing sand to sell on the black market? Hundreds of billions in revenue? I’m out - I clearly suck at this capitalism thing.

I saw this as well. Shall we call it “entanglement “?

I think of the word in the context of the attempt, rather than the outcome. We agree on the situation, but I do think folks are “falling for it” as they are the storyline of job scarcity (also pure BS…

Many people are being told “you work better in the office“ by their leadership. If that’s not gaslighting I’m not sure what it is.

I’d quibble that the Cascades don’t have an age as they have continually been destroyed and renewed. They started at some point and have never stopped. What I mean by “the gorge” is what is monumental…