If you need to hire 1 more developer at $100k to help maintain your data warehouse or pay $100k for Snowflake or BQ, its a no-brainer to use SaaS.
Also humans cost more than their salary: Recruiting, management, benefits, attrition, vacation, the risk that they are just not capable.
A human will also cost you more year over year (raises, promotions, etc), SaaS will typically cost you less year over year (optimizations, negotiations, competition, etc).
Opposite of “live small” usually means “each year bigger and better”, which kind of means geometric growth, which almost by definition seems unsustainable.
Does it? The opening poster specifically wrote: “we need to produce less, consume less” that is not just non-geometric growth but negative growth. So in this case the opposite of live small can simply be zero growth, or further exponential growth for a limited time and then zero growth or linear growth.
We were told 1 billion people was unsustainable a century ago, look where technology brought us. Not only we manage almost 10x more without mass starvation, but at the same time everyone is much, much richer than their great-grand-parents
> we manage almost 10x more without mass starvation
Really? We're going towards mass extinction right now. And I think it's pretty safe to say that the growth that allowed us to get here is what's killing us. I don't think we can say we managed, we just haven't paid for it yet.
Correct, though you could pipe to sed and trim leading spaces with relative ease:
sed 's/^ *//' <<EOF
Which I'd prefer anyways because it's less cryptic. I try to stay away from the obscure, rarely used notations because I'll always have to look it up in StackOverflow anytime I come back to it. These can be confusingly sharp edges.
True, but IDEs are currently severely limited by nature of textual sources (e.g. macros are notoriously tricky to deal with). It's much easier to start from a good model for IDE and derive textual reprentation and input method from that.
Would you use a PC without any of keyboard hotkeys?
I’m not fanatical about this, I would use it if I would be forced by circumstances. But I would not be happy about it.
And I still would try to educate/convince older colleagues that hotkeys make things quicker/easier/“reliabler”.
From your speculation of source of touchscreen hate, I see that you feel that tesla has superior car touchscreen experience. And I don't doubt that. But however good you can be with touchscreen, you can do even better if you also have bunch of physical buttons (in addition to touchscreen/must look then point device).
> Would you use a PC without any of keyboard hotkeys?
That's not a good analogy. The main interface to the car is not the controls/screen, it's the steering wheel and pedals. The controls and screen are interacted with only intermittently. There is more information available allowing for automating most of the controls, and voice control for the rest, meaning the screen is mostly just used for visualization and the occasional action.
Probably we are like linux users. In total, over whole globe, we make up quite a sizeable number, but in each geographic location we are still a rare breed (not enough to get the enough momentum).
