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  • None of those are major breakthrough. They’re more computing power. It’s still the same technology.

    Today llm are the prime candidate for a breakthrough. They still have to prove themselves though, to prove that they’re not just a fancy expensive useless toy like the blockchain.

    Risc-v is not meant to be a breakthrough. It’s an evolution.

    Internet was a breakthrough. The invention of the mouse was a breakthrough.

    Increase in power or in disk space, new languages or os, none of those are breakthroughs. None of those changed how computer programs were made or used.

    The smartphone is a significant thing. Wi-Fi is not really important though, because you don’t do anything more with WiFi than you can do with ethernet. The smartphone though and its network, that is a big thing.


  • There is a lot of fake progress. In computer technology some things were refined, but the only true technological novelty these last 20 years was the containerization. And maybe AI. Internet was the previous jump, but it’s not really a computer technology, and it affect much, much more than that.

    And Moor law has already ended some years ago.





  • bouh@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLook at that fragmentation!
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    That’s mostly fluff though. Like you show, the core is either Linux or bsd and gnu, and then you have a handful of families.

    That’s not fragmentation, that’s freedom.

    And compatibility is a big factor too. Because of gnu and posix basically, almost anything that works on one distro will work on another.

    Imagine if each distro was completely locked from anything on another one. That would be fragmentation, and we wouldn’t be talking about it, because it would be shit.








  • You are describing here someone who will get wrong and isn’t able to work properly. If this is the kind of person you are looking to hire, then good for you, and your hiring process is perfect. But good employees will hate your company, because you consider them like bad ones. Many people will also end up acting like bad employees because that’s how you consider them, so why should they bother?

    This the problem with modern management and hr: it is hostile to employees.