Depressingly I don't actually know many people still doing any of this sort of work, on any platform.

Same, and I can't put my finger on the "why" either. Plus I keep hitting guard rails for the strangest reasons, like telling codex "Add code signing to this build pipeline, use the pipeline at ~/myotherproject as reference" and codex tells me "You should not copy other people's code signing keys, I can't help you with this"

Because bridge engineers can be sued if the bridge kills people

I wish we could sue developers who create unusably bad software wasting time of millions of people.

Would that be the same Cowboy Gibson who was mentioned in Hyperion?

Yes. A reference to the real author who’s work inspired the cyberpunk chapters.

Canada’s population has increased at an astonishing rate, I wonder if that affects the per capita numbers. If you have the same industry in 2011 and 2026 but population went from 35 million to 42 million, per capita the numbers look terrible

According to OECD [1], population growth outran capital, housing, and infrastructure. So it's kind of like they didn't have enough "slots" to plug all of these additional people into.

They don't claim this is to only or even primary cause of Canada's weak per-capita GDP growth though. As you would expect, there are many, many causes.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...

In my experience, the magic makes the easy parts easier and the hard parts harder

Finding high school kids with a similar "tech" background today seems really hard. Tech users, sure, chronic phone / game addicts are everywhere, but that tweaker spirit is rare

The craziest thing is, I don't actually know how many gigahertz either my PC or my macbook are. The megahertz race used to fierce!

It's essentially random at any given moment. If I peek, mine will say it's running anywhere between 700MHz and 3.4GHz. Sometimes I think it goes even faster, but only if it's weirdly cold at the time.

Judge orders the government. The government does not obey. Now what?

Country breaks down further since rule of law does not matter anymore.

Protests are next, mid term elections will be furious.

This is about eight years old. The python situation has mostly gotten worse since https://xkcd.com/1987/

python packaging / envs is solved now by uv. its not promising or used by people in the know like the last 2 trendy python package managers. i was a big time python hater since it was a pita to support as a devtools guy but now its trivial. uv just works, it won.

I'm not a python dev, but I see a bit of its ecosystem. How does uv compare with conda or venv? I thought JS had the monopoly on competing package managers.

What? It’s much much better now, you can just use uv. Yeah, it’s yet another package manager, but it does it well.

Or go up a rung or two on the abstraction ladder, and use mise to manage all the things (node, npm, python, etc).