People answer Calvin Trillin's prophetic op-ed from 2009 (3/n)
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/o...

Godspeed’s “The Dead Flag Blues” and “Blaise Bailey Finnegan III” played simultaneously

AI coding has revealed just how many people in our industry don’t appreciate that for any long lived code the cost of initial implementaion is absolutely dwarfed by the cost of maintenance. So much that for long lived projects we can consider: cost of code = cost of maintenance.

One challenge is that no Gundam protagonist is allowed to defeat enemies indefinitely without experiencing Consequences. This could be an obstacle… or it could be a mechanic

like, sure, you CAN dose your foot with two orders of magnitude more x-ray beam than is needed for the job, or you can bear the inconvenience of taking your shoe off to measure it

like when i look at the suite of chatbot products on the market, my mind goes to radium pills or these things en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fi...

like why would you spend any effort in any kind of institutional design around ONE particular configuration of a particular leaf-node technology

It is a handicap in politics to be the party that genuinely believes in governance and is broadly opposed to continued suffering of constituents, and yet there is no future for anything but degradation and misery if the Republican Party under Trump cannot be made to suffer consequences for its acts.

Staggering off-cycle overperformance by the opposition, now time to take all the enthusiasm of the base and watch it explosively drain out like it's an overstuffed tank of molasses on January 15, 1919

So we beat on, souls weighed down by gravity, borne back ceaselessly into the past

Following the example of “metroidvania” where a two-syllable title is mashed with the last three syllables of a five-syllable title, with this corpus you have to go with “kenjifortuna”