The doesn’t answer the question.

Like most off the cuff Trump remarks - it made headlines for a while but nothing came of it, it’s not in Project 2025 and Musk fell out of favor with Trump for whatever reason. The combo of Musk and Trump was just dry kindling for the forest fire of baseless conspiracy theories with no founding in reality - like “omg, government incompetence lost the gold, Biden stole the gold after Trump didn’t lose in 2020” since Minchin told Trump what he saw in 2017 and Minchin posted interior photos of Knox with his wife at the time on social media. Since it disappeared from news after the remark and there is no one in current Trump admin who would pass up an opportunity for internet karma, a reasonable person can conclude it was just another bit of flooding the zone with information - credit where credit is due - several strategies executed by Trump that were outlined in Jacques Ellul seminal book - Propaganda.

no shared values exist to draw upon.

I don’t understand how you can claim the market system is structurally broken but the big company you like is “one of the good ones”.

I just think their branding is more appealing to you, combined with a more pessimistic view of companies you don’t use.

> Paying their employees above average wages

Their reasons for having higher wages are well-documented and they are equally self-serving.

> Stocking products that enhance their customers' lives instead of optimizing for profit margins and nothing else

They are one of the most aggressive profit seekers in existence! Often that presents publicly in their deals with supplier.

>Their reasons for having higher wages are well-documented and they are equally self-serving.

The bottom line is that they are paying their employees much more than their competitors would. You're going to pass that off as "self-serving"?

Their biggest competitor is owned by a family whose combined net worth is half a trillion dollars that derives from founding a megacorporation worth a trillion dollars....yet for some reason can't find the money to pay their employees a living wage, so they instruct their employees to go on government assistance.

> much more than their competitors would

They have a different business model than their competitors.

> You're going to pass that off as "self-serving"?

Yes. Their model allows a few employees to serve many customers in a high-volume system. They have advocated for minimum wage laws increases in the past to deter competitors who have different models.

> yet for some reason can't find the money to pay their employees a living wage

eye roll.

It's pretty easy to see the vast difference in attitudes of Costco employees versus Walmart, etc. It turns out that if you treat people like humans, they'll return the favor. Costco knows this and uses it to everyone's advantage.

If this is your idea of "appealing branding" then call it whatever you need to.

I'm glad the marketplace has created a provider you like.

So am I, at least for when it comes to groceries. I can't say the same for other domains.

Unfortunately, experience shows these rare gems are often one generation away from going to shit when the principled types retire and are replaced with backstabbing money grabbers who think the only way to win is in a race to the collective bottom, because "that's what everybody else is doing."

We expect xfce is much more efficient (it has more basic features) but is that the cause? Are you just subtracting out a big part from a higher baseline?

But we already know Ubuntu is the “worst” (most like modern windows, setup for media consumption, etc).

You can install Debian and it gives you all that you are familiar with from Ubuntu.

Freedom of speech is that you are allowed to express any viewpoint, not make any sounds with your mouth or disclose any information.

Vote with you wallet is not about civic function it’s about getting what you want from the market place.

And yes rich people get more goods and services.. which is why people want to be rich?

I would personally met the most spoiled brats dealing with big tech employees.

If this were true and you were their manager you would not have to deal with it. You could coach or remove them.

I don't think I get to remove employees for being from privileged families and having unrealistic expectations.

Please bro. Just one more particle collider. This one will solve science. The last one wasn’t big enough. Please keep it in desirable real estate though.

Each bigger one has in fact solved more of physics, after being built precisely because there was a good theoretical case for a higher energy collider being helpful.

I’m ignorant. It’s a meme about their optics being terrible after steam ran out for 90s science optimism.

As somebody slightly better informed (physics degree, following popular science): It really isn't looking great for something that could be found at a small multiple of current energies, but not at current energies.

This is how every scrolling list has been implemented since the 80s. We actually lost knowledge about how to build UI in the move to web

The biggest issue is that there is no native component support for that. So everyone implements their own and it is both brittle and introduces some issues like:

- "ctrl + f" search stops working as expected - the scrollbar has wrong dimensions - sometimes the content might jump (common web issue overall)

The reason why we lost it is because web supports wildly different types of layouts, so it is really hard to optimize the same way it is possible in native apps (they are much less flexible overall).

Right. This is one of my favorite examples of how badly bloated the web is, and how full of stupid decisions. Virtual scrolling means you're maintaining a window into content, not actually showing full content. Web browsers are perfectly fine showing tens of thousands of lines of text, or rows in a table, so if you need virtual scrolling for less, something already went badly wrong, and the product is likely to be a toy, not a tool (working definition: can it handle realistic amount of data people would use for productive work - i.e. 10k rows, not 10 rows).

Agreed - I've had this argument with people who've implemented virtual scroll on technical tools and now users can't Ctrl-F around, or get a real sense of where they are in the data. Want to count a particular string? Or eyeball as you scroll to get a feel for the shape of it?

More generally, it's one of the interesting things working in a non-big-tech company with non-public-facing software. So much of the received wisdom and culture in our field comes from places with incredible engineering talent but working at totally different scales with different constraints and requirements. Some of time the practices, tools, approaches advocated by big tech apply generally, and sometimes they do things a particular way because it's the least bad option given their constraints (which are not the same as our constraints).

There are good reasons why Amazon doesn't return a 10,000 row table when you search for a mobile phone case, but for [data ]scientists|analysts etc many of those reasons no longer apply, and the best UX might just be the massive table/grid of data.

Not sure what the answer is, other than keep talking to your users and watching them using your tools :)

Desktop GUI toolkits aren't less flexible on layout, they're often more flexible.

We lost it because the web was never designed for applications and the support it gives you for building GUIs is extremely basic beyond styling, verging on more primitive than Windows 3.1 - there are virtually no widgets, and the widgets that do exist have almost no features. So everyone rolls their own and it's really hard to do that well. In fact that's one of the big reasons everyone wrote apps for Windows back in the day despite the lockin, the value of the built-in widget toolkit was just that high. It's why web apps so often feel flaky and half baked compared to how desktop apps tend(ed) to feel - the widgets just don't get the investment that a shared GUI platform allows.