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It’s interpreted.

It is.

“Dumb” people who don’t demonstrate their stupidity loudly are of average intelligence.

“Mediocrity” (sort of) implies “middling”, etymologically, which is what most people are. Average.

Reminds me of some lyrics by the Foo Fighters, “There goes my hero; he’s ordinary.”

What’s the reasoning behind it?

We crave validation from others and ourselves by being considered “rare” or capable of creating “rarity” in an ocean of mediocrity and banality to justify our state, choices, and attitudes. We consider “rarity” as inherently valuable and a virtue to aspire to.

Helix for terminal has been fantastic; I like GUIs so for me Zed is my “S-Tier”.

Yes, Zed allows you to turn off the Agentic LLM integration off in settings.json:

{
  "disable_ai": true
}

Of course, you do. Accountability would be unthinkable.

You said there hadn’t been any protests in 50 years, Debbie Downer.

This one happened.

A little internet sleuthing will show lots more in your 5 decades of supposedly nothing.

The irony of you making that claim while one of the largest protests in history happened today…

We learn about the past to understand the present.

Americans have had a long tradition of organizing and resisting. The 40-hour workweek was bought with worker’s blood. The apathy of the American body politic is a relatively new attribute, historically. My opinion is that it metastasized in 1971.

~I was taught all of this in American public high school and public university. Howard Zinn was required reading.~

Let’s just go full boar bore hypothetical:

Is everyone in commercial software development finally saying, “Fuck it, we’ll run the shit ourselves”?

I’m an infrastructure and devops noob here; take my words with a grain of salt.

I need GPU clusters with ECC VRAM for research and found it’s cheaper to just have my own high-ish performance compute in my own office I paid for once than pay AWS/Azure/GCS/etc forever or at least everytime I want to train a custom DNN model. Sometimes I use Linode but it’s for monitoring. But I can run shit at will and I have data sovereignty.

Has the paradigm shifted back to developing and serving things in-house now that big tech vendor-lock/tie-ins have so many dark patterns that scalability isn’t cost-effective with them? Or is it just my own pipe dream?