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I always knew this saying:

you kill 'em we grill 'em

as Bart's Roadside Cafe slogan. Usually seen on plaques in the tourist trap shops in vacation towns.

For those too young to know, call waiting is standard now your phone tells you when you get a call while on another call, but this used to be a paid upgrade feature and if you didn't have it, the person calling you would get a busy signal (instead of ringing it would just beep) and you had no way to know.

Mono is not great because for the last ten years Microsoft shipped .net runtime has run native on Mac and linux without wine, so mono has not been seen the investment.

Self awareness is definitely a redeeming quality, and it's clear you have that. Something to build on, if you want.

That's not how many car deaths per year, in the us it is in the 40,000 range for the last several years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

Not sure where three million came from.

I see your point, but I'm here for Android 17.Are you in the wrong thread? Or am I?

Here, use this tool it makes you fast and it only costs you not understanding what you ship.

But when the tool screws up and breaks things we'll blame you and not the tool.

We must go fast so you must use this tool.

TBH, I wanted to volunteer on a local crew that maintains hiking trails. I didn't... because they were all about taking endless pics and u/l it to their FB and maybe IG. So I avoided sth I wanted to do make my city better. But no way could I avoid their need to share everything with big tech.

Its hard, and this is a common issue. I have to stop and ask what good am I doing by avoiding it? Usually it's worth the price, because making the real world a better place out weighs most big tech issues.

At least that's how intrt to evaluate things, while still minimizing my own footprint where possible.

Depends how you look at it. You could have a couple hundred million, and then if you add a single billion you still "only" have "about a billion" the difference between a million and a billion is crazy.

You can still have a house with all that old world charm if you want. You're just going to have to do a custom build and pay extra for it.

I completely agree, and at the same time you'll have to convince every contractor and person you workw with that you actually do want the higher quality items, trims, etc. Almost at every turn folks will steer you toeard cheaper alternatives, because most folks don't notice or care.

I'm not disagreeing, but it will be more effort than just paying more. It will mean sourcing vendors/contractors that are prepared to do the work too. Personally, I feel it's worth the extra effort and cost, but I understand why not everyone does.

Pushing SSL was probably the last big tech effort/push that actually benefited users. Sure it made self hosting a little harder, and probably consolidated some tracking behind bigger players, but overall end users did benefit.

Most of what I see now is purely for their benefit and users don't benefit.

While true, the latest opus model has 1m token context. Which is a lot more than the previous 200k limit. Hard to fill that up with regular work, but easy if you try to oneshot a whole product.