This is like playing both sides of the board in chess and claiming you had an opponent.

This feels silly. I think this is just "ask for forgiveness, not permission" but made more clickbaity.

It also borders on a kind of edgelord attitude that I've seen from people who I wish not to work with again.

Raph has written about avoiding grinding in games very explicitly. This was one of the big takeaways from Ultima Online.

Speaking of, someone shared with me an AI financial challenge where they are pitting the LLMs against one another to make trades, manage risk, etc. and then track their performance against one another with starting capital of 10,000 USD each.

Their starting portfolios are ludicrous. They are trading BTC, XRP, DOGE, etc. I thought the idea was somewhat interesting, but then I felt like the only reasonable takeaway I had was that these models have intense brainrot from consuming twitter, reddit, etc. and as such have a completely warped view of "finance".

Have you been getting the annual booster? There is no agenda or gotcha coming, I am genuinely just curious.

This comment of yours contributes nothing and is exactly the level one would expect of Reddit. If you want better, start by doing better yourself.

These startups backed by venture funds are anti-establishment? Are you joking?

This is a core tenet of Startupist religious dogma. People really believe it.

That is deeply cringe.

Part of being deep in the establishment is that you have to proclaim you're anti-establiahment.

It's like the perfect pop song - "I kissed a girl" by Katy Perry.

Do I think she's kissed a girl? No, no I don't.

People like to think that they are anti-establishment and disruptive at a startup. They conveniently ignore who is writing the cheques.

What a weird take. I'm an engineer and I haven't worked at a single company that has issued windows laptops to engineers unless they asked for it. The default for a lot of dev work has been mac for a very long time. I think that's shifted in recent years, but still I'm actually kind of astonished to hear your take.

What’s “weird” about a take that’s based on both widely accepted market share numbers, that were cited in the article being the opposite of your anecdotal experience?

If this is true to the original, I am surprised to see this was table-oriented layout and not a bitmap image with clickable x,y coordinates.

It was common to make tables and use them to assemble a bitmap, where each cell had zero border/margin/padding and an exact size, and contained a "slice" of the image. Web authoring tools (and Photoshop) even had explicit support for generating this sort of thing, as I recall. This was I guess simpler to automate than defining clickable regions of a single image, and it allowed for the individual pieces of the image to be requested in parallel on slow connections (adding another dimension of progressive loading).

Yeah, I remember this. Macromedia Fireworks had a slice tool that I used quite a bit. You'd basically make an image which was your website, and then do all the layout with zero border tables. But for me, this was what I was doing circa 2004 before CSS was dominant. Earlier software from the '96 era like Frontpage I think would use bitmaps whole cloth, but maybe I'm misremembering.

Ah, nothing like trying to save the logo from such a website, then discovering the image you saved is partially cut-off and includes the navbar behind it instead having a transparent background.

Looking at the code, it has definitely been modified from the original... there is now CSS as well as a google ad tracker... but visually it's probably almost exactly the same.

Table-oriented layouts was a thing back then too.

I had the same thing with my caffeine sensitivity, but my nicotine sensitivity hasn’t gone back and it’s been over a year. I used nicotine lozenges daily for years but even after 12 months post-covid my body does not tolerate them.