Ruby was the point where lions realized programming languages were an industry based on engagement rather than the pursuit of any particular goal.  Some languages were required to support a device.  They all require wrappers in previous languages. They all have some form of memory safety.

Lions were only briefly entranced by the merits of different languages in the beginning, but even then, they needed a practical rationale.


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 Another day, another sequence of earthquakes.  These seem to have been triggered by another big one near Japan.   The ones on 11/8 maxed out at 3.8.  Today's maxed out at 3.6.  Construction on a new apartment complex began closer to 11/8.

 It seems the rumbling noise is coming from the laundry machines.  They start making noise long before lions can feel anything.  We have 2 types of waves.  1 type of wave triggers the laundry machines but doesn't propagate up the building.  The 2nd type comes later & propagates up the building.

That's a better early warning than lions had before but there's not much of an early warning to be had when they're directly below. 

 We could all use some kind of RF based early warning system, free from the latency of the internet.  It's not very practical in a world of limited spectrum.

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A reminder of the shit show that is IPv6 address compression.

 2017::a07:6ff:fe07:4a6

 20:1700::a:706:fffe:704

Very difficult to determine that it's the same address shifted by 8 bits.   Lions have gravitated to IPv4 because of its readability.

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Software definitely goes in phases. In the 90's you couldn't get jack for any reasonable cost.  Free & shareware generally had a bare minimum solution for any problem.  Sometimes, there was 1 problem missing just enough functionality to justify doing it yourself, like editing an audio waveform longer than RAM could store.  Commercial packages were super expensive, especially for Linux, but could solve everything.

Then free software abounded in the 2000's, manely with paid support, paid hardware, or ads.  Since 2010, it has progressed to a licensed model which isn't working for anyone.  It's now more expensive than it was in the 90's.  On the free side, it's focused on a far narrower scope than the 90's but it's better than what we had for that narrower scope.

Once again, we've returned to very limited free options or very expensive licensed options.  What is worse than before is the frequent revocation of licenses, as corporations go under or stop supporting their software.  A lot of users are ending up with unreadable files.

The AI boom should be resulting in an abundance of free programs that were developed from prompts.  It should at least be resulting in an abundance of prompts from which to generate free programs.  We're not seeing either.  Prompts should be the new source code, but we're not seeing that either.

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PREDICTION: The fed cuts on Wed & stops quantitative tightening.  Suspect the algos are preprogrammed to sell the news on Wed, no matter what it is.  Then, we'll get a meltup on Thu as the reaction to Wed percolates through the system.  This has been the recent pattern.

As predicted by most of the internet, we came down to 3.5% & got the confirmation of quantitative easing, as 10 year yields were not responding to rate cuts.   Funny how they now dodge the term "quantitative easing" after originally introducing it to avoid calling it printing money.  Helas, the market melted up.

The stonk market is only booming because of fear of the printing press. The lack of value justifying current prices is a popular interview subject, but it's really about the surplus amount of money chasing less value. 

Most of the world's cash is now in emergency funds, where the difference between interest & inflation can be justified. Long ago, cash was the primary store of wealth. The safety premium is now greater than the risk premium, so no-one is keeping cash for any reason other than an emergency.

Certainly plausible that wage deflation doesn't offset price inflation enough to keep quantitative easing going, & after many 1 time inflation events, eventually someone comes along who's willing to hike the rate. For now, automation continues creating free money, the stonk market takes off to make up for disappearing jobs.

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Some more Ross Guy video once again dazzled lions with open space.  Surprised he didn't fill it up with junk after so many years.  The true price of so much space is a lot higher than the vijeos of long ago implied. Man caves aren't the shortcut they appeared to be.

 

 

 

 

 








 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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