The genuine answer is that the workers will rise up. If you want to be a pessimist, we could say the rich will be dragged down with us. But this doesn’t take into account the rapid increase of class consciousness and organizing that is already happening and only gaining momentum.
If you’re asking what the logic of the rich is, they couldn’t care less. “Power corrupts” has become a phrase, so perhaps people don’t think too deeply about it. I often hear people confused about the Epstein class, wondering how so much power ended up in the hands of so few depraved people. The truth is that we’re living I a system that not only rewards psychopathy, but nurtures it. Anybody under the delusion that they would behave any differently under the same conditions hasn’t thought deeply enough about how their environment shapes their thinking. The amount of power that the Epstein/ruling class has accumulated has corrupted them to the point that their plan is literally to violently force people to serve them. They already do this and have no problem ramping up the violence as needed to keep living like gods.
> Ruby might not be best suited for large code bases
Ruby/Rails powers some of the largest platforms on the planet - Shopify, GitHub, GitLab. Both have had something of a resurgence lately, too, with Ruby 4 and Rails 8 shipping recently, and people rediscovering that Rails is excellent for vibe coding.
I've been a Ruby developer for 10+ years and have never struggled to find work, and the communities feel very active and growing - so I'm honestly not sure what you mean by "what happened to Ruby". If you don't actively follow or participate in the community, I can imagine you wouldn't hear much about it day to day.
I don't pay attention to the JS world these days - what happened to JavaScript?
As I said, they were used, so I knew that a drive breaking was kind of an inevitability. As far as I'm aware there's no warranty, I certainly didn't pay for an extended one.
Good news though, since writing this I just started playing with dmesg and smartctl, it actually might be something with the SATA connector. At least those are still pretty cheap.
It makes sense, at the time you bought them there was no supply crunch plus being run in RAID. Would have been a decent deal.
Nowadays I feel like an underworld scrap goblin, all the old PVRs from family and friends are being cracked open for the HDDs. Time to slink off to my cave of spinning platters.
These smaller models are fine for Q&A type stuff but are basically unuseable for anything agentic like large file modifications, coding, second brain type stuff - they need so much handholding. I'd be interested to see a demo of what the larger versions can do on better hardware though.
Qwen3.5 27B works very well, to the point that if you use money on Claude 4.5 Haiku you could save hundreds of USD each day by running it yourself on a consumer GPU at home.
In some ways the handholding is the point. The way I used qwen2.5-coder in the past was as a rubber duck that happens to be able to type. You have to be in the loop with it, it's just a different style of agent use to what you might do with copilot or Claude.
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