On a side note, what is your take on AVIF vs WebP? I recently moved my site to 11ty and looking to re-encode several hundreds of images. I do want to keep the quality of the photos as much as I can, while reducing the network load.

WebP is pretty much equal to JPEGs via jpegli (for lossy compression). AVIF is better than WebP and jpegli JPEGs for lossy compression and supported pretty much everywhere now. AVIF is worse than WebP for lossless compression.

jpegli JPEGs will convert to lossy JPEG XL without generation loss when JPEG XL is more well supported.

I think there is a fundamental idea that the only way to measure success of companies is the monetary value to shareholders. US companies optimize for that and they cannot believe other countries/cultures would have a different value system.

Neurodivergent is not just one thing.

Are there people on the autism spectrum at leadership level? - Steve Jobs was considered to be one even though he was not formally diagnosed as one.

Are there people on ADD/ADHD spectrum at leadership levels - yes, I know of a few..

Are there people with sociopathic tendencies at leadership level - You can answer this one :)

I guess you have not been to LinkedIn in a while :)

The fact he did not even spot the actual problem is worrying. Did someone know that the button color was changed in the new version of the software?

I do not remember where I read this, but it has struck with me for the last 35+ years - "Poverty is a crime, but the poor are not guilty of it".

I have seen abject poverty growing up in India.. It is right in your face most of the times. I have friends from the other side of the street and pretty much, you live in very different realities.

Looking at the graph in the article, it starts falling off from 2010 and it is actually on a uptick in last year. A honest reading would be that internet has increased access to information and AI is obfuscating it again.

looks closer to that tick up starting exactly around 2022... if those notches after 2010 are 5-year marks.

As in, you witnessed 5 murders or 5 people you know got killed/happened near you etc?

If so, I do not know how to tell you that this sounds insane..

From what I am reading, that is not the final price.. that is the room price and they add a ton of fees to that price

I'll nitpick here and say that Russia's plan was more likely to topple the government and put a puppet in place and then leave, but they botched that.

> Russia wants to rule over Ukraine, not destroy it.

Can’t it be both? It’s hard to argue they aren’t trying to destroy it. It has been attempted in the past during the Holodomor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

The context of post-civil war stalinism and food/industrial policy was a little different from modern Russian empire-building.

Russia's end goal here is a cultural genocide.

Russia destroys its colonies. It wants to destroy ukraine. And it wants cultural genocide.

You know senior developers can also be off-shored, right?

Blowing away the junior -> senior pipeline would, on average, hit every country the same.

Though it raises an interesting point: if a country like India or China did make the investment in hiring, paying, and mentoring junior people but e.g. the US didn't, then you could see a massive shift in the global center of gravity around software expertise in 10 years (plus or minus).

Someone is going to be the best at planning for and investing in the future on this, and someone is going to maximally wishful thinking / short-term thinking this, and seductive-but-not-really-there vibe coding is probably going to be a major pivot point there.

This is such an important point. Not sure about India, which is still very market forces driven, but china can just force its employers to do whatever is of strategic importance. That’s long gone in the US. Market forces here will only ever optimize for short term game, shooting ourselves in the chest.