I don't really think people understand there are all sorts of non-chatgpt users that pay OpenAI thousands of dollars PER DAY - (>100k customers like this). They're not going to publish the data, but agentic flows make ChatGPT look like a cereal box.
2000 - Yikes, why is everything all of a sudden made in China!?
2010 - I guess we don't have any options, there isn't a single one made in the USA, I guess we're doing this - let's hope there's no lead in it
2020 - OH CRAP WE CAN'T GET ANYTHING - WE SHOULD MANUFACTURE LOCALLY
2023 - OH we can get our Cheap Chinese Crap again built with slave labor
2024 - Global awareness that most things made in china are made with slave labor
2025 - Global TDS over tariffs to try to rebuild American manufactoring so we don't repeat the cycle and support slave labor and help create new American jobs.
Tariffs don't rebuild manufacturing capacity. All US citizens participate in a free market, as long as foreign labor is cheaper then American businesses have no incentive to participate in the economy. This happened when automotive assembly lines left for Mexico, when EUV lithography went to Taiwan, and to hundreds of other postwar industries that cannot support themselves without invasive and overreaching wartime subsidies.
Anyone can look at the graph and say for themselves that pivoting to manufacturing would kill the American economy as it has lived since the Reagan administration. It genuinely makes more sense for the US government to pay out-of-pocket for factories like China does, rather than applying tariffs that punish the economy for making smart and profitable decisions.
> All US citizens participate in a free market, as long as foreign labor is cheaper then American businesses have no incentive to participate in the economy.
You just said it right there, a great argument to make the tariffs match what is required to allow US Citizens to compete with global slave labor prices - OR block all products built with slave labor.
Sounds like a communist planned economy, to me. Why can't Americans vote with their dollar? Nobody should be forced to pay higher prices for everyday goods simply because American businesses are apathetic. It's the economy, stupid.
If we're going to play the "authoritarian economics" card, it makes much more sense to start building what you want now. The game of hot potato trying to make Intel worthy of Apple's business is a waste of American taxpayer dollars that could be going towards a nationalized fab that doesn't suck Satan's ballsack. It's a national embarrassment now that SMIC can beat American-owned fabs on transistor density and yield.
I feel like this is massively false. Our company gives everyone cursor. Every single person is submitting a PR daily that has 5-10 files and hundreds of lines changed.
We're implementing queues and pipelines and task engines and entire rest apis for new features in a single day.
Our company is pretty young blood startup, which does feed into this of course - however if this METR study was done at a place like "United HealthCare" those devs are going to resist because it's against their want to just sleep half the day and play Battlefield when they get home. If they actually got more productive, even for a second, their boss will expect it. No, these large companies only slow down - it's why they acquire new blood all the time.
If you use Python a bit, Alembic is a nice one - it's simple and Python is available nearly everywhere.
Alternatively if Liquibase is FSL it will technically be Apache in 2 years I think (not exactly sure how that works) but you could just go to the last non-FSL release and use that for 2 years.
I'm not exactly sure why people would need the most up to datest version of liquibase which just runs schema changes anyway. I used version 2 a bunch of years ago and it was just fine.
Fascism and authoritarianism are often mischaracterized as strictly left- or right-wing ideologies, but both extremes can manifest in ways reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984. The core of authoritarianism lies in control and conformity, not in a specific political alignment.
The far-right, often rooted in ethno-nationalism or white supremacy, mirrors 1984 by enforcing a rigid hierarchy where inclusion depends on immutable traits like race. If you don’t fit the prescribed identity, you’re inherently an “other,” excluded or dehumanized, much like the Party’s rigid caste system in Orwell’s dystopia.
Conversely, the far-left can embody 1984 through ideological conformity, punishing “wrong-think” with social or institutional ostracism. Questioning narratives—whether about COVID-19 origins, vaccine safety, or other politically charged topics—can mark you as an outsider, silenced or vilified for deviating from the approved orthodoxy.
The far-left often stifles open debate, dismissing dissent on contentious issues as misinformation or heresy, creating a culture where only sanctioned ideas prevail. The far-right, while sometimes more permissive of free speech, demands unwavering adherence to traditional values or legalism, where any challenge to authority or “law and order” is met with condemnation.
Both extremes weaponize conformity—whether through identity or ideology—to suppress individuality and enforce control, echoing the totalitarian essence of 1984. True freedom lies in rejecting these rigid dogmas and embracing open, principled discourse.
It's tiring how people from US are always super-concerned if something is right or left. Far or near. While usually completely failing to notice that the system they have is not even a two party system. It's two-halves-party system that's closer to single party system of China than it is to any modern multi-party democracy.
1984 itself summarizes it very succinctly - power itself is the goal. All the "left" or "right" coloring of it becomes noise compared to the primary motivation of all dictatorships - self perpetuating power.
I think he's making fun of historians that have really dumb reasons for declaring human culture is one way or another because of event X but it doesn't pass a sniff test. In this example, mirrors don't need to exist because people can look at other people (or more simply feel their own face). It was a 40% funny joke.
