Why would it be detrimental to society? Many companies have developed all the products they're likely to ever develop, so why would you maintain the same level of operational costs as when you expected growth? There's no guarantee that the prices charged before the acquisition were sustainable either.

They don't just maintain these products, they enshittify them to extract the maximum possible profit from captive users, until someone else comes in and builds everything from scratch all over again.

This is crazy inefficient yet it's not captured in our economic theories, so we're essentially blind to it.

It’s a country that plays football, so I’d account for the potential of it being a common turn of phrase before dismissing the entire report.

It's not meant to be an academic paper.

Comments from throwaway accounts carry the same weight as AI slop.

Controlled flight into terrain is a thing

Broken - getting `ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR` when trying to open it in Chrome

And, to the point of this proposal, `dict` and `frozendict` don't have an inheritance relationship either.

You can hope that an LLM might have some instructions related to DevEx in its prompt at least. There's no way to completely fix stupid, anymore than you can convince a naive vibecoder that just vibing a new Linux-compatible kernel written entirely in Zig is a feasible project.

I appreciated them at the time I encountered them (mid-2000s), but they were definitely a bit cringe in their frequency and shamelessness. I wonder if younger people even know Monty Python anymore - by my time, I think people had mostly forgotten about Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, even if 42 survived.

As a foreigner I hadn't known Monty Python when I started learning the language and reading the docs, and I haven't noticed any of those. I guess they came across as just noise.

The kids these days have factored 42 to 6,7 (said with some inflection and hand waving)

Did you come up with that? If so, bravo!

6-7? No, my kid says it about a thousand time a day. Then, for some unknown reason they follow it with 41! WTF! I've shouted 42! many times and have tried to inform the child of the significant cultural and scientific importance of 42. Which, IIRC, factors to 2,3,7.

67 and 41 are the TikTok / Gen Z speech.

67 stands for «whatever», «I don't care», or, cyclically, 67!

41 is an expression of shock or disbelief – «that's wild», «no way» and stuff like that.

> 41!

That’s a very big number!

Dude it is not cringe. It is silly.

Pretending to be a all serius grown ups language is cringe.

I agree but don’t forget that the average programmer nowadays is a strait-laced corporate entity, whose personality is Node.js stickers on a macbook, like everybody else in their team.

They forget that Perl and co. were written by people that had one too many tabs of LSD in the 70s, sporting long hair and a ponytail.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Larry Wall, a devout evangelical Christian and the child of a pastor, was not turning on, tuning in, or dropping out in the 1970s.

Nope

He's talking his book. Doesn't mean he's wrong, but Dwarkesh is now big enough that you should assume every big name there is talking their book.

Here's a world class scientist here not because we had a hole in the schedule or he happened to be in town, but to discuss this subject that he thought and felt about so deeply that he had to write a book about it. That's a feature not a bug.

"Here's a world class scientist here not because we had a hole in the schedule or he happened to be in town, but to discuss this subject that he " had invested himself so fully personally and financially that, should it fail, he would be ruined.

FTFY

ruined how?

Ego death.