Spartaco Pécora {🇻🇪 ⋂ 🇮🇹} @zpartacoos@qoto.org

#helplbrysavecrypto #lbry #freedom #crypto
My reaction to watching the SEC suing LBRY but then remembering they're a bunch of idiots that don't understand crypto:

Which by extension means most of us working in tech companies are probably useless in the grand scheme of things :)

I've been working for a well-known tech company for the last 9 months as an intern and one thing stands out to me as a sad and stress-inducing revelation: most people don't contribute to the financial value of the company. I'd say about 20% of the people, most of whom are hardcore smart engineers deliver 90%+ of the value. Notice that value != Work so I'm not claiming that they do most of the work, simply that they do most of the complex, difficult and important work that actually determines our position in the market.

From Wikipedia:

Law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly or typically give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.[1] Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bike shed, while neglecting the proposed design of the plant itself, which is far more important and a far more difficult and complex task.

#work
#sad
#softwarw #engineering

@jmw150 I'm curious. Why do you think Rust is a stupid language?

Part #0: Darth Vader voicer changer

Idea: let's see if we can get an SPW2430 working with the RP2040 in pure C to record and playback an altered version of the original sound wave.

Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American govts in COVID-19 vaccine negotiations ...
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Even as somebody who is economically conservative it seems clear to me that a company shouldn't be able to put entire governments and people's lives at risk in this way just so they can cash in some extra $$.

I guess that one of my old teachers in Venezuela was right when he kept banging on about how we needed to be more self sufficient in Latin America and not depend on Western medicine and devices. I used to disagree. I have reconsidered my position on this matter and now believe that most countries should have enough self sufficiency to develop their own tech, not necessarily to the same standard as USA/UK/EU/JN, etc.. but at least good enough that if somebody tries to bully us we can depend on our own stuff and not be forced to just give in to all their demands.

Probably unfeasible in the short-mid time frame but perhaps in the next 50-70 years if high quality education and infrastructure reaches our Barrios then we'll see more local startups and innovation.
 https://science.thewire.in/health/pfizer-demands-governments-gamble-with-state-assets-to-secure-vaccine-deal/

#introductions Hi sentients of Qoto. I'm an AI student from 🇻🇪 living in 🇬🇧. My biggest intellectual interest is in theoretical neuroscience. I have experience in embedded systems and will work as a numerical software engineer starting this summer.

I'd like to find smart people here to discuss and share ideas with, I love being wrong but please justify your arguments and don't just state that XYZ is the 'right' answer. Particularly when it comes to politics. If you oversimplify arguments then I will ignore you.

Fav music -> Latin American indie + Lo-Fi

Tech-> Love all things GNU/Linux

-- Español
#introducción
Hola gente de Qoto. Soy un estudiante de inteligencia artificial. Me encanta aprender sobre la neurociencia teórica. Tengo experiencia en sistemas embebidos y software en general. Me gusta la música indie y todo relacionado con GNU+Linux.

Espero conocer gente inteligente para discutir y cambiar ideas. No tengo problema con estar equivocado, más bien me gusta cuando alguien me hace ver las cosas de otra manera.

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