Ambition, with respect to wealth, can be a double-edged sword. One can imagine being both ambitious and allowing everyone to share in the benefits, and the act of participating in some advance as its own reward. Those that do gain some advantage often are hiding the tremendous work of others, gaining a grotesque share of the fortune for their being in the right place and time. To paraphrase a scene from Life of Brian, it is the (so-called) ambitious, often, who are the problem.
If anyone is interested in old Mac software and open source projects, I have an archived version of my old OS X listings. While most links are broken these days, it can be a handy for finding things for old Macs. I think the list ended when the App Store finally went online, around the time of Lion. http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/
> Inventing the automobile has clearly made humanity less fit. Should we stop driving?
Perhaps an apt analogy. One could argue that the lure of convenience of automobiles led to one of the worst decisions of the 20th century, to restructure society around automobiles, causing a self-perpetuating reliance feedback loop with many destructive side-effects (physical, environmental and cultural). We should pause a bit and not rush head-long into AI without trying to think the path forward through. It's a decision that we will all make together as a culture. There are many current troubles with AI already, even if they make no mistakes at all.
I did when I was a kid. Used to spend hours torturing insects. And I did think they probably felt pain in some way. I ended up well-adjusted, but kids are little psychopaths. These days I escort bugs out of the house if they are being bothersome, and otherwise just let them be their bad ol’ self.
This is tough to read but I feel sympathetic about the honest way you shared this.
I have heard this from others too. One of my most traumatic memories from childhood was seeing someone do something to one of my favorite kinds of animals that I will spare readers here the horror of imagining. It haunts me to this day. That colors my perspective.
Children have incomplete brain formation. I’m not sure it’s an excuse, but it’s context to understand. On the flip side, a parent would need to be helicoptering to an absurd extent to detect a child messing with something as small as most common insects (at least in most US places).
Eventually they’ll do a better job than us, so maybe why not. People are very bad at managing themselves and the world. Leave a final prompt to take care of the biosphere, clean up the environment, and manage the humans but let them live happily.
Very nice! though sometimes the recurring revenue figures seem to be questionable (one in particular that raised $250k on Kickstarter, where that's listed as its yearly income, but is it?).
Also, does that iOS book series really make $100M/year? Supposing that's right, it's extremely anamolous, and contributes the lion's share to the front page's total revenue figure of $11.75M/month. Perhaps best to keep that data point out? Not sure who could call that level of income a side project.
Side note: The website only shows 10 projects per category with no mechanism to see more.
Thanks. AI tools helped me pull this together in just a couple hours so there are some rough edges.
I used gpt-4o structured outputs to get the revenue numbers. That's some good feedback I can use to make the data extraction work better! I'll add some pagination as well.
Yes! A very exciting time. I had a Mac at home and used NeXT at school, and i was able to buy Rhapsody / Mac OS X Server 1.02 for half off as a student. I ran my own web server out of my apartment with it for years on a PowerMac 7500 (w/ a 604e upgraded CPU, back when you could do that with Macs). Handled fairly heavy traffic for the time without any complaints.
Different chips though, and different links. (Also, it’d be nice if we stopped linking directly to social media posts and instead used an intermediary that didn’t require access or accounts just to follow discussions here.)
