@derek I lucked out and avoid cueing as a child, and my kids avoided it too. But I have to admit, English is a terrible language for phonics. So many words that are exceptions to the rules that kids encounter right away as they try to learn to read. But even so, phonics is still useful.
Reading about the situation with PFAS and how 3M knew it was being found in people's bodies as early as 1970s and knew it was toxic but buried the information.
How many more examples do we need of corporations doing things that are antithetical to life itself? It seems clear that no set of laws, regulatory pressure, or good people on the inside will ever stop it. The problem is in the very structure of these companies. They can't do the right thing. They're not designed to.
I landed on a web page for an oscope vendor about half an an hour ago, and they had their product images sloooowly creeping for some reason. After a couple of minutes, I felt nauseous and have continued to feel that way. What the heck? 🤢
@craigmaloney I don't want to hate on that person because that's just not good for me and not worth the energy, but geezus why go to the world to discuss how maybe you'll have to come out of retirement at *46* to work because you can't generate enough passive income to cover your lavish choices of expenses... Oh. Wait... He's advertising for the consulting business he's about to start, isn't he? Never mind... smh
@theruran I look forward to reading anything you might write. We are sorely in need of new ideas around these topics. At the moment, with few exceptions, the software commons seems to have been successfully enclosed by corp interests, which is why we keep seeing articles like the one above.
I'm not saying Corbet is saying that. It's just that these articles crop up relatively often, and yet... It seems precarity in open source is an essential feature of how it is currently being organized.
(I get it. I have bills to pay too, and I'm certainly not out there creating co-op foundation for those aspects of free software I want to see maintained.)
@roadriverrail I will try to separate my specific experience at InPhase from the larger industry. I think there were large challenges that could not be overcome:
1. Engineering and production challenges. 2. Having enough interested customers. 3. The world does not stand still.
It's hard to take a product from optical table operated by PhDs to a device that can be managed by non-experts.
(I'm going to untag @djsundog here, but he can pop in at this point if he is.)
@roadriverrail It just takes an unknown amount of time and money. I believe all the problems were solvable, but I have no idea if there was ever enough time or money to do so.
You also need customers willing to pay for expensive devices so that you can get to the point where you are making incremental improvements that drop prices and drive broader adoption.