OmnipotentEntity
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- Comment on Adobe roofies all of their customers (Louis Rossmann's reaction) 3 weeks ago:
To add, let’s do some math!
Let s be the total annual salary of every employee using Adobe. Our goal is to find the productivity ratio r such that changing to Gimp and open source more generally is a net positive from the standpoint of productivity and labor.
s/r will be the total annual salary after changing over, because (for instance) if r = 0.8 then LTT will need to either hire or work his existing hires 1/0.8 times longer, giving (at best, ignoring overtime and so on) s/r as the new labor cost.
We then subtract the current labor cost to get the switching cost s/r - s, and if this is greater than $10,000 then the switch is not worth it.
For instance, let’s say LTT employs 1 person at $50k/year. He’s a bit of a skinflint. We solve for r and arrive at a ratio of 5/6 or 83.33%.
If we have a different world where LTT hires 10 people and pays each of them $100k, we solve for r and get about 99%.
In other words, the switch is worth it only if the labor cost is small, so the extra labor is not very expensive, or the difference between the two software is negligible.
- Comment on The Indie Chat & Recommendation Thread 4 weeks ago:
Cassette Beasts ;)
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- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 2 months ago:
A human made the graph
- Comment on AGDQ 2024 starts in less than two hours 5 months ago:
A pair of friends of mine’s game is being featured, and I’m pretty stoked about their game getting the exposure. Cassette Beasts, Monday at 13:18 UTC.
- Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI 5 months ago:
Yeah, you’re not wrong. I’m not saying it’s soon, there’s clearly a lot of work to be done in the space still, I’m just excited for unencumbered processor designs.
- Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI 5 months ago:
I would love to see it. But I’m far more excited for RISC-V desktops, truth be told.