D. Schmudde

Quite enjoy this timeline from "commercial time" to "museum time." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle#/media/File:Hype-Cycle-General.png

Recently got to spend a bit of time driving this beautiful Symbolics machine at the @icm@mastodon.sdf.org. Don’t get too distracted by the Thinking Machines next to me. Or the cool DEC or the Unix ephemera. If you’re in Seattle, you gotta stop by. If you’re not, get online and login.

I had no idea that the #fairphone stacked up so well to the iPhone. Even as someone trying to pay attention to such things.

From the slide:

• Both rated A overall energy efficiency.
• Battery life: Fairphone 6 lasts 53h 52min, iPhone 17 lasts 41h.
• Drop resistance: Fairphone 6 is A, iPhone 17 is B.
• Water/dust resistance: Fairphone 6 is IP55, iPhone 17 is IP68. (iPhone wins here) Not to mention repairability (iFixit 10/10 vs 7/10), removable battery, longer software support (7 OS updates, 8 years patches), and cheaper ($699 vs $799). (via @sloweb@mastodon.uno )

@Illuminatus@mstdn.social this one is pretty spot on:

Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit.

~ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies