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Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
This week I realized rice, grains, seeds and potatoes all used to be peasant foods
And the kings actually just ate a lot of fresh meat like beef, venison, wild boar, swan, and peacock, and imported fruits and spices like saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pepper
A king's diet was high in protein
A peasant's diet was low in protein
So the question becomes, do you want to eat like a king or a peasant?
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
This is awesome! Tyler is letting you test drive Omarchy straight in Windows. Then you can turn it into a full dual boot if you like the taste. We will make this official.
Omarchy is awesome. Repartitioning your drive just to see if you like it isn’t.
Announcing Try Omarchy for Windows, the full Omarchy desktop running on Windows 11.
tryomarchy.com
• One signed 8 MB app, with no prerequisites or command line
• Automatic first-run setup, including Windows virtualization
• SHA256-verified runtime and image downloads
• GPU acceleration through VirGL and Venus, with automatic CPU fallback
• Full Omarchy 4.0.1 with every theme and screensaver
• Two-way clipboard, audio, folder sharing, and fullscreen
• A properly scoped Windows key that only controls Omarchy while focused
• A persistent desktop that boots straight back in after setup
• No VMware, VirtualBox, partitions, bootloader, or dual boot
• Uninstall by deleting one folder
@dhh
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
Now imagine these euro critters being able to scan all your private messages, group chats, AI conversations. They could ensure so much dEmOcrAZy! And launch 100x more criminal prosecutions against insubordinate citizens.
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
Anthropic’s CEO keeps talking about AI wiping out jobs because he’s trying to IPO this year.
If he positions Claude as armageddon for jobs, his TAM becomes “all white-collar human labor,” not just AI agents or SaaS.
It’s completely self-interested. All the concerns he’s expressing about job disruptions are fake.
It’s a marketing gambit to create hype and FOMO among the people he needs more than anyone else this year: institutional investors like BlackRock, Fidelity, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds.
If these investors pay for tickets on the hype train—if he can make them believe that AI will eliminate half of white-collar jobs, with Anthropic, as the dominant leader in enterprise AI, positioned to capture the surplus margin—the IPO will be oversubscribed and Anthropic can raise more funds for the company at a higher valuation.
But Dario (or, at least, his bankers) knows that these investors are more fiscally disciplined than they used to be. A lot of them got burned during Covid SPAC-mania and don’t want to risk it again. They’re going to challenge Anthropic about whether it will ever get to sustainably high gross margins, or if its arms race with OpenAI will lead to kilowatt-hours permanently suppressing gross margins. They’re going to ask pointed questions about Anthropic’s massive capex and whether it will ever generate accretive ROIC.
And Dario might not have the answers they’re looking for.
So that’s why—to answer Austen’s smart question—you keep seeing Dario in the news and the podcast circuit, spreading doom and gloom about widespread job loss.
It’s not to make you afraid of losing your job. It’s to get Wall Street afraid of missing out on his IPO.
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
Code quality won't save you from bugs. The most beautiful code is still littered with coupling issues via over-investment in abstractions and DRY and virtually no OCP adherence.
The solution to maintainability always has been at design quality - AI or not.
Design quality and code quality are not the same thing as many are screaming at you to keep you convinced for many selfish reasons. If you fail to couple over an immutable source of truth and observe OCP for new features by copying then adjusting for perfect solution fit, then you haven't solved maintainability issues.
You can have the worst looking code absolutely wipe the floor with the crispiest, cleanest, jaw-droping code you've ever seen. I'll take that bet every day. The industry is in a wild goose chase to make amazing code, fast; and that's what's burning all the power for AI, tax money for go no where death march projects and resource (people) Tetris for management in the dilbert land of enterprises.
The cancer treatment pharmaceutical didn't want the tobacco manufacturer to be out of business much like your ide manufacturer didn't want you to stop DRY and chasing pretty code.
@EventModeling #EventSourcing.
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
FFmpeg is moving to Rust 🦀
Our use of C and Assembly in FFmpeg has been an unacceptable violation of safety.
FFmpeg will be running 10x slower - but we're doing it for your safety.
All your videos will appear green - safety first, working software later.
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
From startup to shutdown, loading Windows 3.1, MS Word, and MS Excel, on a computer several orders of magnitude slower and with 1000x less RAM than a modern PC.
Note how snappy everything is.
iT's dOinG mOre
No it isn't. We don't have to live like this!
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
Nederland heeft in slechts één maand tijd 130 miljard euro aan ongerealiseerde winst gemaakt op het Groningse gasveld.
Ik vind op zijn minst dat we daar 36% van mogen zien als grondstof dividend dit jaar. Toch mooi weer zo'n 2600 euro p.p.
Box3 drama 🔂
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
oog can't sleep. walk outside cave. middle of night.
papa already there. sitting. looking at nothing.
oog: "papa?"
papa: "sit."
oog sit.
long quiet. bug noise. sky big and close.
oog: "papa can't sleep?"
papa: "papa just thinking."
oog: "about what?"
papa: "cold season coming. need more hide. need more dried meat. fire pit cracking, need new stone. koom need new wrap, growing too fast. fru need new spear, old one splintering."
papa say all this flat. like reading from wall scratching. not complaining. just... listing.
oog: "papa think about this every night?"
papa look at oog. little smile. tired one.
papa: "papa think about this every MOMENT. just only say it out loud at night when nobody listening."
oog: "oog listening."
papa: "...yeah. oog is."
quiet again.
oog: "papa. when does it stop? the list?"
papa laugh. real laugh. the kind that surprise him.
papa: "oog. it don't stop. you just get better at carrying it while smiling at breakfast."
oog sit with this. heavy thing disguised as a sentence.
one day oog will have own list. own night sitting. own bug noise and big sky and a head full of everyone else's needs.
and oog hope... oog hope someone sit next to oog and say "what papa thinking about." so the list can live outside oog head. even for one minute.
that what papa needed tonight. not solution. just a witness.
love, oog
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
The insane 36% unrealized gain tax may have passed in the house, but the law still has to pass the senate.
This website makes it incredibly easy to e-mail a bunch of senators & make your voice heard.
Do your duty, and send at least 5 today. 👇🏼
vermogensval.nl
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
Het box 3-plan is een Orwelliaans gedrocht.
Vermogensaanwas is (deels) een eufemisme voor geldontwaarding.
Overheid voert beleid om inflatie te veroorzaken. Logischerwijs stijgt de prijs van je bezittingen.
Overheid: Aha! De ‘waarde’ van je vastgoed, goud, aandelen is gestegen, betalen!
Ze doen alsof elke koersstijging vermogensaanwas is. Dat is het echter pas écht nadat de inflatie is goedgemaakt.
(En dan niet de CPI-inflatie, want we beleggen niet voor potten pindakaas.)
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
A guy who worked for TI back in the day told me that after they created the first electronic hand calculator, they got a call from Bell Telephone.
The folks from Bell sounded uncertain and worried. You see, when they were creating the first push-button phone, they did extensive tests to determine the exact best pattern for the numerical buttons - the pattern that would be easiest for people to tap in the dark or by muscle memory.
But now they were concerned they’d completely blundered, because they saw that TI’s machine had the exact opposite layout.
“So,” they asked. “What did your tests show?”
The guys at TI just stared stupidly and said “Tests?”
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
Software engineers have negated every advancement in transistor density, computer architecture, compilers, and computer networking over the past 30 years.
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
"Fundamental" truths about software:
- Code is liability
- The more code you have, the more bugs you tend to have
- The more complex a system, the more important architecture becomes
- Writing maintainable code is a lot more effort than just getting it to work
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
What is happening right now?
ChatGPT/OpenAI outage for 3 hours
Heroku down for 4 hours (even their status page is down!) NVIDIA dev docs as well (runs on Heroku)
Pipedrive (CRM) issues for 4 hours
What else is down… and are these connected? Something started 4 hours ago…
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
There's a way of programming that I've been doing for decades and I realized recently it doesn't come naturally to many folks, so here's a pro tip:
Write to the interface you'd like to have. That is, write the code you want, even if it doesn't work, then make it work.
Pim Elshoff * The Entrepreneurial Employee retweeted
Was in an Amish furniture store a few years ago talking to the carpenter when a notification on my watch vibrated, and I glanced at it. “What’s that,” he asked. I explained to him that my robot vacuum at home was notifying me that it was stuck. “Oh! And what can you do about that,” he asked. “Nothing,” I replied. He smirked and went back to talking about chairs.
I still think about it from time to time.
