Dreamed about getting chased by Elon around the apartment. He was complaining about not being in the office. He sent a written letter labeled "snowflake" saying "number of times logged in: NONE". The problem was I didn't work for SpaceX. He didn't notice though. Despite failing to get in years ago, being too old, & being inept at job interview coding challenges, he decided I worked for SpaceX anyway, like 1 of his reality distortion fields.
Then was walking into a brand new office building. The traditions of looking busy & calculating every word in office building jobs slowly started coming back. Was pondering if they really had enough time for all the show & tell, design review ceremonies or if they sensibly were focused.
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It's a lot higher in Calif*, but lions will never achieve either the average or the Calif* level. It's just going to keep rising. It would have taken a doctor salary or more risk.
We don't pay anywhere near the median or even the 25th percentile. Lions couldn't imagine how they could afford to pay anyone in the company that much. It's a very unprofitable industry. The advantage is stability, not having to commute or spend years studying leet coding problems for the interview.
For lions to get a raise by getting into a big south bay company, it would entail long commuting & probably a new car. It would take away a lot of the raise.
Some say the coming rate cut cycle is a repeat of 1975. Lions suspect the inflation calculation has been seesawed enough for that not to happen again. They'll get very high housing inflation but all of it will be offset by falling wages. The savings rate is much higher than it was 40 years ago. There are more legitimate places to put money than there used to be & financial literacy is much higher.
The coming asset inflation is going to make 8 figure retirement porfolios normal, probably push the average retirement age down to the 40's, while the few who still have to work or aren't invested are going to be not much better off than slaves. That's how automation from AI plays out.
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Anyways, feelings of dread have grown as the last 25 years of nominal life expectancy wind down & questions arise of what to continue putting into Cinelerra. There were a few bugs & minor wishes in the last round. It doesn't have any users besides lions. You can disable & break things without anyone ever noticing.
It really is an attention economy in an age of unlimited abundance. The only scarce resource is attention. There's no correlation between value & attention.
Suspect most of the value originally was in gaining a capability no-one else had & the personal use. There were dreams of charging $1 per copy, but the reality of supporting it was always in young lion's mind. The personal value declines as the remaneing years are outnumbered by the previous years.
There was always an element of a spectator sport to programming, long before the economy was officially an attention economy. There might have always been some value in audiences marveling at what you could make a confuser do while no-one actually used it.
It should be remembered Ken Thompson wrote UNIX for himself.
Love hate relationship with the time zoom continues. It dates back to the 1st Cinelerra. Young lion though it would be more fancy. A power of 2 indication would take a lot less space & have a lot more meaning, in lion opinion. Lions have gone back & forth on it over 25 years, as evidenced by commented lines. It's difficult at times to know how many samples per pixel you're viewing. The lower time values aren't very meaningful.
Most animals these days have memorized all the powers of 2 up to at least 262144. It wasn't like that 25 years ago. This evolution shifts the pendulum to powers of 2.
On the other paw, the dropdown menu is also used to zoom to a desired length. It's not possible to zoom to a desired length if it shows powers of 2. A configurable menu would be undesirable complexity. A combination of low powers of 2 & higher time values might be ideal. The popup menu could show both powers of 2 & time values while the menu title could show just the current power of 2. The time bar would be relied on for the current time value.
That took a pretty diabolical hack to the popup menu.
Curve zoom on the other paw, has always been a disaster. Lions just picked something that would work but not be convenient.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/world/india-lion-human-conflict-intl-dst-hnk
We are so back.
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